Ideagen Global - Catalyze Magazine - April 2023
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all the content, events, articles, and collaboration that we do. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale. Ideagen's monthly Catalyze Magazine is back in 2023 with our April edition. Inside, view conversations we found impactful so far this year! This months covers features speakers: Kim Smith, Chetna Singh, Peggy Pelonis, Angelos Pangratis, Esteban Olivares, Gautam Mukunda, and Dave Grimaldi!
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all the content, events, articles, and collaboration that we do. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale.
Ideagen's monthly Catalyze Magazine is back in 2023 with our April edition. Inside, view conversations we found impactful so far this year!
This months covers features speakers: Kim Smith, Chetna Singh, Peggy Pelonis, Angelos Pangratis, Esteban Olivares, Gautam Mukunda, and Dave Grimaldi!
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K I M S M I T H ,<br />
G L O B A L D I R E C T O R<br />
A M A Z O N<br />
George Sifakis: What do you believe is the<br />
key to a successful team?.<br />
Kim Smith: Well, I think there are a few things. One, trust is the most<br />
critical. Having trust among the individuals working toward a common goal<br />
is so important, and that trust comes in many ways. The two most critical<br />
forms are, 'Can I trust you to bring out the best of what I need to be so that we<br />
can work together and get the compound interest of much more than what we<br />
would have achieved if it was just us individually?' Then 'can I trust myself to<br />
be able to show up as authentically, open, and as trusting as you need me to<br />
be so that, again, our compound value is much better than it would have been<br />
if we were separate?<br />
First and foremost, part of being authentic with myself and the teams that I've<br />
worked with in the past is being very upfront about what success looks like<br />
but allowing openness and giving people the roots and the wings to be able to<br />
choose the path to get to that way of success. It's having perspective and<br />
respect. It's a healthy respect for diversity of thought, neurological diversity,<br />
diversity of leadership, diversity of style, and diversity of experience. All<br />
those things matter, and being open enough to accept everything that<br />
someone can bring to the table so they can be their best selves, even if it's not<br />
something you completely understand or maybe even agree with, is pivotal.<br />
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