The Power of Diverse Teams

The Case for Diversity

A study at the University of MI – the professor’s quote:

“I stumbled on a counterintuitive finding,” he writes about his experiment. “Diverse groups of problem solvers—groups of people with diverse tools—consistently outperformed groups of the best and the brightest. If I formed two groups, one random (and therefore diverse) and one consisting of the best individual performers, the first group almost always did better. In my model, diversity trumped ability.”