Business chemistry: practical magic for crafting powerful work relationships Ebook

Peoples working styles differ in significant ways – from diplomacy to directness, and from conceptual to concrete – just to name a few.  Yet most organizations fail to tap into the potential of cognitive diversity in the workplace, and inadvertently marginalize or neglect to nurture certain types – a problem thats exacerbated with continued hiring, development, and promotion of specific traits leading to an overly homogenous culture. But cognitive diversity itself can pose challenges.  When you bring different working styles together, you end up with a collection of individuals who do not think or behave the same way, often leading to misunderstanding and frustration at the individual level, and inefficiency and ineffectiveness at the organizational level.              In order to help business professionals and leaders activate this potential, Deloitte created Business Chemistry, a system which applies advanced analytics  to observable business behaviors in order to identify four primary working styles and associated strategies to engage with each.  Business Chemistry explains, 1) how to recognize each of the four different styles, 2) the unique strengths of these styles and the value they can bring to teams and organizations, 3) the distinct needs of each style and how to provide conditions in which their strengths can be cultivated, and 4) how to incorporate these styles together into an integrated whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.