Training

I'm in New York in training all week. Class goes from 8am to 6pm with working lunches. It's an interesting class with a very broad cross-section of people from my company of 50,000 people. The class is half leadership development and have business training, but from a very right-brain approach. We look at the idea of questions and conversations, the creation of new solutions and Blue Ocean Strategies, instead of just focusing on left-brain problem solving. The goal is to get a broad-cross section of people working together on various issues within the company in order to cross-pollinate and deal with some of the silos. and barriers we have organizationally. Midway through the week we conduct a two day business simulation, competing against the other four groups. I'm pretty sure I can get some side-bets going on this thing. We get to interact quite a bit with very high level Senior Management throughout the week, with the 5 of us on my team sitting down with the President of Xerox, Ursula Burns, on Friday to walk through some of what we've accomplished throughout the class.

Xerox is a company that prides itself in diversity, and looking around the class it's very representative of that core value. In an industry filed with white males, we are only a small segment of this class. It's also interesting having about 25% of the class is from outside the US.