[Ailist] Re: Diversity of Thinking, and other articles

[Marge Schiller]

Great Story!
I remember working with the CFO and his team from a major multinational.
When they were first introduced to MBTI the leader said "Oh that's  
what you call all those annoying people- extroverts!"
His comments moved the team into a discovery of complementary  
strengths and preferences.
What started as a destructive experience opened the door to wonderful  
conversations.
Marge
On Nov 29, 2008, at 4:27 AM, Leif Josefsson wrote:

> It is now almost 10 years ago now that I worked with IBM.  In  
> "Customer Room", an internal project aimed at Global Account Teams I  
> was one of the facilitators of a two day workshop. We worked with a  
> "Team,Task, Technology" methodology working with the whole team  
> during two days where the team worked with their mission and goals,  
> looked into who they were and then do training in using the Lotus  
> Notes application CustomerRoom helping they to collaborate as "One  
> IBM"
>
> One of the elements of the CustomerRoom program was the MBTI test,  
> used to illuminate and appreciate differences in type.
>
> A highlight was in the Peugeot/Citroen team in Paris where the  
> Client Executive suddenly understood why he his recruitement to o  
> his team was so succesful..  He was an IST.. type and had recruited  
> a couple of ENT.. in important positions.  "Now I now why we are so  
> good.  It's because we are different!"
>
> But what I really wanted to share here are some images from the  
> workshop with the IBM Account team working with the South African  
> State IT organisation.  This was in May 2000, and a most memorable  
> experience.  The team talked 7 different languages (portugese,  
> german, africaans, english, zulu + two other native languages) - and  
> were "proudly South African"
>
> As I had just come into contact with ideas around appreciative  
> thinking, I exchanged the traditional "What are your expectations  
> from these days"  with a pair interview "Tell about a memorable  
> moment where collaboration across borders at IBM meants  
> success...".  The pairs came back with wonderful stories about  
> business wins and successful projects.
> I asked the question...  "So if you at IBM uses your strengths and  
> diversities, who can win over you?"
> The answer was "No one"
> "In that case, would you be intererested in exploring a tool to help  
> you collaborate better?"
> Of course the answer to that was obvious.
>
> But back to the MBTI.....
> I documented the lineups we did and have kept the pictures from this  
> workshop as a precious memory.  Suddenly we see diversity in so many  
> other ways than just color or background.
>
> Greetings from winter dark Stockholm
>
> Leif
>
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Marge Schiller <margeschiller at yahoo.com 
> > wrote:
> Dear Teresa,
>
> About 30 years ago I was introduced to the Meyers Briggs Type  
> Indicator (MBTI)
> That instrument and the Jungian foundation upon which it was built   
> was my introduction to an appreciative inquiry into differences of  
> perception, sorting, priority setting and decision making.
>
> MBTI celebrates diverse preferences as applied to work and home.
>
> For 50 years I've been married to an Introverted Sensor Thinker  
> Judger (ISTJ)
> I'm an Extroverted Intuitive Thinker Perceiver (ENTP)
>
> Every day we are delighted and frustrated with how our different  
> ways of thinking, working and problem solving play themselves out.
>
> Life (when we let it) is a laboratory for valuing differences.
>
> Read "Gifts Differing" or some of the extensive MBTI literature and  
> you will get both theory and  case examples.
> Enjoy.
>
> Marge
>
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> On Nov 26, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Howard Ditkoff wrote:
>
> http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/wp-content/themes/179/aschool012008.html
>
> Most of the time when we think about diversity we remember sex,  
> gender ,
> and culture, though i am looking for articles were i can find the  
> value of
> diversity of thinking, working, problem solving and others.
>
> Also looking for articles on diversity and emotional intelligence  
> and AI.
>
> Can any one HELP?
>
> Teresa Chang Ramos
>
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