Who are you?

Who are you?

Simple question, but identity can have many elements.

Imagine you lead a business where lack of collaboration and trust is a constant struggle.

“Who are you?” is a great question to ask and answer to support trust and collaboration.

A live example I heard very recently.

Imagine some of these identity-related factors are at play for a business leader:

• You have well over 50 nationalities in a staff of only a few hundred.
• Your business operates in a country that did not exist in the current form until the last few decades and has a sense of transience and impermanence socially.
• At the same time, the country and region have grown economically so fast that each person has multiple and fast-changing personal identity-related factors, such as nationality, ethnicity, gender, religion, even tribe and religious faction.
• Your business is owned by a multi-national that is from a massively different culture almost on the opposite side of the world.
• The business itself is the product of a global takeover within the last five years or so and your main office comes from the “taken over” side of the business.