Rocío Lorenzo: How diversity makes teams more innovative
Rocío Lorenzo: Você quer uma empresa mais inovadora? Contrate mais mulheres
BCG's Rocío Lorenzo advises telecommunication and media companies on their strategy and how to transform their businesses in times of digital disruption. Full bio
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was not something I had to worry about.
não era algo com se preocupar.
generation had to fight for.
anterior à minha teve que lutar.
we were 50-50, male-female,
éramos 50% mulheres e 50% homens,
naturally over time, right?
com o passar do tempo, né?
working as a management consultant
como consultora na Europa e EUA,
I was the only woman in the room
eu era a única mulher na sala
out of political correctness,
devido ao politicamente correto,
por ser a coisa certa a fazer,
their most immediate, pressing goals:
e a atingir seus objetivos mais urgentes:
delivering the new product,
criar um novo produto,
pelos quais são avaliados.
working with diverse teams
com equipes diversas
a little bit more effort at the beginning,
more creative ideas.
ideias novas e mais criativas.
really more innovative,
são mais inovadoras?
than something to comply with?
mais do que uma obrigação?
with the Technical University of Munich.
com a Universidade Técnica de Munique.
in Germany, Austria and Switzerland,
na Alemanha, Áustria e Suíça,
around the world.
basically two things:
apenas duas coisas:
and how diverse they are.
e o quanto são diversas?
of revenues they've made
in the last three years,
nos últimos três anos,
how many creative ideas they have,
quantas ideias criativas tinham,
translate into products and services
se transformavam em produtos e serviços
more successful today and tomorrow.
bem-sucedida hoje e no futuro.
we looked at six different factors:
consideramos seis fatores diferentes:
age and gender, amongst others.
gênero, entre outros.
with those questions,
para aplicar essas perguntas,
we would expect as a result.
para os resultados.
thought, or saw a real possibility,
via uma grande chance
was rather on the cautious side,
algum tipo de conexão
some kind of link
very open leadership style
de liderança bem aberto
and safely and contribute.
de forma segura e colaborativa.
the data came in,
the most skeptical amongst us.
are simply more innovative, period.
simplesmente eram mais inovadoras.
is the chicken or the egg question,
e da galinha é compreensível,
really more innovative
a more diverse leadership,
is correlation versus causation,
de correlação contra causalidade,
that are more diverse
that are more innovative
that it works both ways,
que funciona das duas formas,
and innovation driving diversity.
e inovação gerando diversidade.
about the reactions in the media.
Boosts Innovation"
cargos geram inovação"
as bad publicity, right?
from senior executives
começaram a nos contatar
about gender diversity.
sobre a diversidade de gênero.
those discussions by asking,
in your organization today?"
atual da sua empresa?"
but we're not that bad."
mas não somos tão ruins".
in our board who is a woman."
in being proud about it,
razão de sentir orgulho,
on the board who is a woman,
publicly listed companies.
have an all-male board,
largest publicly listed companies
empresas publicamente listadas
important insight.
nos conselhos, sozinhas,
to have an impact on innovation,
de gênero ter um impacto na inovação,
than 20 percent women in leadership.
de mulheres na liderança.
the sample into three groups,
a amostra em três grupos,
more than 20 percent women in leadership,
20% de mulheres na liderança
in innovation revenue
na renda de inovação
shows that you do need critical mass
que é preciso de uma massa crítica
JP Morgan or Apple
JP Morgan ou a Apple
already achieved that threshold.
for that point of view,
and look at the numbers,
who are college graduates
que terminou a faculdade
of professional experience
de experiência profissional
in which to fish for female leaders
de achar mulheres líderes
more or less in parallel, right?
ou menos em paralelo.
at what happened in reality.
no que aconteceu de verdade.
female generation in history,
de mulheres da história,
in significant numbers.
significativos na liderança.
translate into leadership.
não se transforma em liderança.
and we need to do better.
women in leadership
de mulheres na liderança
that are making progress there
que estão progredindo
company, as an example.
19 percent women in leadership,
de mulheres na liderança,
in any other area of business
em qualquer área de negócios
of 25 percent for 2017,
about developing leaders
sobre o desenvolvimento de líderes
women in leadership for 2022.
de mulheres na liderança até 2022.
that are taken every day
a serem tomadas todos os dias
por muitos de nós:
to develop and promote.
os projetos de mulheres,
send the most powerful change signal
o mais poderoso sinal de mudanças
to be a diversity advocate.
to change the face of leadership,
é mudar a cara da liderança,
marcar como tarefa cumprida,
complied with something
is making their organization
by embracing diverse talent,
e o talento diverso, estamos
true opportunity for everyone.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Rocío Lorenzo - Management consultant, diversity researcherBCG's Rocío Lorenzo advises telecommunication and media companies on their strategy and how to transform their businesses in times of digital disruption.
Why you should listen
Rocío Lorenzo is a Partner and Managing Director at The Boston Consulting Group, based in Munich.
For the last fifteen years, Lorenzo has worked extensively in telecommunications and media, advising senior executives across Europe and the US on strategy development, growth programs and large scale transformations. She leads the telecommunications growth topic worldwide. In 2015 Rocío was named one of 25 female business leaders by Handelsblatt, HuffPost and Edition F. She is the author of several studies on diversity, including "The Mix that Matters: Innovation through Diversity," and she leads the Women@BCG Initiative in Munich.
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