7Becoming a Leveraging Difference Organization

By Martin N. Davidson & Heather R. Wishik

Multinational manufacturer Procter & Gamble’s business is innovation. … To build and foster a culture of innovation, P&G has entrenched diversity as a key principle in the workplace and leveraged the skilled immigrant talent pool…. In addition to creating a diverse employee mix internally, P&G is open to and prides itself on collaboration with external partners….

P&G can now identify promising ideas throughout the world and apply its own research and development, manufacturing, marketing, and purchasing capabilities to create better and cheaper products faster…. P&G’s leaders turned difference into advantage….1

How does an organization become like this? How ...

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