Through interaction with one another and with other systems, organizational reality is constructed - both organizational aspirations and the perceived limitations. Diversity is an asset. The broadest based solutions are informed by ideas from the margins - the geographically dispersed, the culturally diverse, the organizational fringes and the unindoctrinated. Work crosses cultures. Regardless whether you are bridging organizational or global cultures, new skills and new ways of interacting are necessary.
Research is participative.
The purpose of research is not to document what was or what is, but what will be. Thus, it must have participant involvement and must immediately utilize new learnings to inform the practices of those participants. Active experimentation leverages learning. Collaboration is a requirement. As consultants, we become part of the system, bringing our own professional expertise to the milieu.