Productive inclusion - 10 SMART skills to become better people!

Productive inclusion is a way to create a professional environment that makes everybody feel like they are equally treated and have equal access to resources and opportunities, with a focus on marginalized people, those coming from vulnerable families, disadvantageous economic conditions, refugees, minorities, etc. As managers, we need to create an inclusive environment and a system that recognizes and rewards people who bring in unique talents and perspectives. In this episode, I interview ASB professor Yi-Ren Wang and discuss how everyone of us are all psychologists by nature. We are always trying to assign reasons for people’s behaviors. That’s similar to what psychologists do. But the difference is that psychologists spend significant time trying to understand behaviors with reliable evidence while the rest of us take shortcuts and make most of the time, the wrong assumptions. Make sure to download the book: “The Job Is Easy, People Are Not! 10 SMART Skills to become better people! by Loredana Padurean

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As one of the founding “nailers” behind Asia School of Business, Prof. Loredana Padurean has established herself as a disruptive and original thinker. In The Job Is Easy, The People Are Not! book that she published, she brings a series of ten refreshingly honest and candid conversations with everyday professionals in the Asia School of Business and MIT Sloan community, on the Top 10 Smart Skills for becoming better people and more effective managers, that include, among others: emotional maturity, validation, followership, cognitive readiness, multiple perspectives, productive inclusion, etc.