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5. Mediator. Mediators focus on the borderlands, intentionally leading at the juncture where similarities and differences meet. When Ingrid Srinath became the chief executive of Child Rights and You, a large nonprofit in India, she set aside her, in her words, "impatient and unreasonable" leadership style to become a mediator. On shell pearl jewelry behalf of a sweeping change initiative, she asked people throughout the organization to "bring their differences into the room." People representing diverse geographic regions, ethnic and religious groups, genders and castes participated in deep and honest discussions about the organization's future direction. By tapping group differences and acting on commonalities, Ingrid successfully brought all CRY's groups along on the change journey.

6. Inventor. Inventors systematically cross-cut, mix and weave multiple boundaries in the service of organizational innovation, renewal and transformation. Whereas the mediator role looks to reconcile and integrate existing boundaries, inventors seek to cultured pearl jewelry open up current boundaries to change. One project manager at a U.S.-based financial services firm successfully harnessed the tensions within a geographically dispersed team to develop and launch a new service simultaneously across the Americas, Europe and Asia, all within six months. She composed a team that crisscrossed the organization representing a range of organization levels and functions, regions and nationalities and demographic characteristics, as well as suppliers and a customer panel. "The more my teams are capable of remaining open to disparate views, areas of expertise, and diverse experience, the greater is our transformative potential for innovative solutions," she said.

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