 So today what we're going to be doing is going through and answer the questions that you have all put into the internet about leadership building teams startups Entrepreneurship and business in general So let me just dig into one of these Let's see. I have not seen these before so I'm just going to open one of these up and see what the question is so Anonymous internet user writes how to effectively manage change in a business This is a Real simple question with a real hard answer Change management is never easy one of the main reasons is because Human beings in general do not like change and they tend to resist it at every turn Even if it's in their best interest or it's something they've even asked for in the past so if you're trying to Implement a change in your business bring about a new initiative change the culture in your business This is especially important and prevalent when you're talking about mergers and acquisitions of big companies Think back over the last 20 years. There's a couple of mergers and acquisitions that went really well There's a lot more that didn't go well and there's a lot written about those I won't go into the details or name any names But mergers and acquisitions can be really tough because that's a really big change management problem The most important thing With change management implementing any kind of change whether in a business or a non-profit or even your personal life is one You need to have a really clear vision That you can communicate to other people of the outcome you're trying to bring What is the good that this change is going to bring about in the world? And then why is it important that everyone comes along with you on this journey? What is their individual role? In helping to bring about this good in the world That's the first part The second part is as we mentioned human beings don't like change. So the bigger your organization is The more you're gonna have to go talk to people and understand how this change is going to impact them Your frontline managers your frontline employees are almost certainly gonna be the ones who are impacted boast by whatever change You're going to make it's really important to understand How things need to be implemented at their level In order for the change to be successful all the way back up to your level in the company for example one of the things that's really important is Everybody in any job has inputs and outputs someone's bringing inputs to them Some and they're giving outputs to someone else. I call them in the gazintas and the gazadas when You don't think about how those inputs and outputs are going to be affected for those employees And how they're especially other outputs are going to be affected because that output is an input to someone else So it's really important one have a clear vision of what it is You're trying to achieve and why it's really important that everybody get on board to Understand who's going to be impacted the most go talk to them and understand how you can aim minimize that impact or be Make that impact most effective for them and see Understand the gazintas and gazadas when these changes occur How are those inputs and outputs going to change and how is it going to change? The way they need to do their jobs to make the whole organization successful All right, let's do another one of these get one from the bottom Now I haven't seen these so these answers may not be as fully concise or Organized as you might like but I'm giving you I'm giving you what I think Right at right as soon as I read it. So Okay, Google Google searcher asks How can diversity drive creativity and innovation in companies? The short answer is how can it not? We ran into this in the Air Force a lot This is a question I had to answer a lot when I was an instructor in the Air Force and Teaching leadership and command principles because in the Air Force in the military We go to a lot of great lengths to make sure that everything is standardized everybody's dressed the same everybody has the same equipment Everybody's in the right place on time on target kind of thing and having standard procedures Tactics equipment all that goes a long way towards doing that and that's great when everything is predictable That's great when you want everything to go according to a plan when you need to think outside the box When you're faced with a problem that what you've done in the past Isn't helping with that problem We need Solutions to that problem that don't come from where we came from in the past that that aren't necessarily based on our previous Experiences because that's not serving as well So in any organization we want to have diversity because people come with different backgrounds different experiences different perspectives Again that can create conflict in an organization, but it pays a lot of dividends Once we hit that situation we go my experience has not served me well to solve this problem in front of me