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Become a transformative leader by creating an inclusive environment at work The Contemporary Leader: The Value of Inclusion in Successful Leadership explains how to create and maintain an atmosphere of inclusion at work so you and your organization can benefit from diversity among your internal and external stakeholders. In the book, you'll learn why inclusion is best understood as an emotion that is achieved only with the right leadership, and how it is best realized when leaders recognize and celebrate the differences of perspectives that make us unique. Author Riza Kadilar explores how inclusion is created when your team members feel respected, valued, trusted, and safe, and when they feel they belong and can bring their best selves to their business and private lives.
The Contemporary Leader is perfect for managers, executives, directors, entrepreneurs, founders, and other business leaders. It's also a must-read for HR professionals, coaches, and mentors ready to reinvent their perspectives on inclusion and transform their companies to gain an enduring competitive advantage.
List of contents
Foreword ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction xiii
1 Why Inclusion and Why Now? 1 What Do We Mean by Inclusion? 3
To What Change Does Inclusion Owe Its Current Importance? 5
2 The Relationship Between the Concepts of Inclusion, Productivity, and Diversity 27 Performance and Productivity, and Inclusion 29
Diversity and Inclusion 32
Psychological Diversity 34
Diversity Fuelled by Our Backdrop Stories 38
3 Leadership and Inclusion 41 Leadership Paradigms 45
The Place of the Concept of Leadership in My Life 59
4 Factors Affecting Our Capacity for Inclusion 63 Making Our Emotions Functional 65
Empathy 75
Power and How We Use Our Own 89
Trusting and Feeling Safe 91
Unconscious Biases 101
Project Implicit: Unconscious Associations 103
Cognitive Dissonance 112
Our Privileges 126
What We Exclude 130
Belonging and Independence 132
Invisibility and Being Excluded 138
5 Inclusion in the Personal Development Journey 145 A Memory 148
Growth Mindset 151
Developing a Growth Mindset 153
Learned Optimism 161
6 Inclusion Development Model in the Institutional Context 167 Institutional Inclusion Barometer 173
Development Strategy for Institutional Inclusion Capacity 175
7 Final Words 195 So How Shall We Design Our Futures in Light of These Developments? 197
If We Were to Give Advice to Ourselves from the Future 199
8 Sources for Inspiration 203 From Japanese Culture 205
The Athena Doctrine 209
Resilience 212
Change Management, Gestalt, and Coaching 228
Mentoring 240
Situational Leadership 253
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 257
Advice for a Data Scientist 265
Index 275
About the author
RIZA KADILAR, PHD, MBA, is the President of EMCC Global (European Mentoring and Coaching Council). He has 30 years' experience as a senior executive in the European banking sector, is a sought-after speaker, and has acted as a visiting professor at leading universities. Kadilar offers mentoring and coaching services for C-level management, founders, and investors at startups, corporates, and financial institutions. He focuses particularly on growth and compliance issues and the creation of high-performing, inclusive leadership teams.
