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Boards Need To Up Their Game In Terms Of Cognitive Diversity

The Horizons Tracker

Diversity has long been recognized in terms of its importance to things like innovation and creativity, with research from MIT showing how cognitive diversity improves the profitability of organizations. Such diversity can have costs, however, as paper from Wharton illustrates. Constructive disagreement. Struggling to diversify.

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How to Make a Team of Stars Work

Harvard Business Review

This proprietary model analyzes six critical team competencies: Balance: How well a team understands the importance of diversity of skills and strengths and is willing to incorporate them. Teams low in diversity often succumb to groupthink; they agree with each other too quickly and fail to consider novel courses of action.

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