HARNESSING THE POWER OF INCLUSION

Abstract

The author, Leader to Leader’s editor-in-chief, begins by discussing the career deliberations she worked through after graduating from college. After relating her decision making during that period, she notes that “since that time I have focused on leadership and communication, especially that focused in the direction of a positive future for all, which of course is dependent on including all of the stakeholders.” In further discussing the inclusion theme in this article, she writes that it “opens the door to our “Working Together” to create value and growth for all the stakeholders and the greater good, which I welcome you to read more about in our article in this issue about people working together to design and build the Boeing 777 in the early 1990s.” She also explains that “the 777 is the first digitally designed and digitally premanufactured commercial jet.” In addition, it is the “long-range pioneer and largest twin jet airplane, designed as such so as to replace three- and four-engine jets and thus continue progress toward more environmentally sustainable airplanes.” Furthermore, it “was created because of, not in spite of, a focus on inclusion, on working together.”