Diverse Backgrounds and Personalities Can Strengthen Groups
From research done at the Stanford Business School:
"In a recent article disentangling what researchers have learned over the past 50 years, Margaret A. Neale finds that diversity across dimensions, such as functional expertise, education, or personality, can increase performance by enhancing creativity or group problem-solving. In contrast, more visible diversity, such as race, gender, or age, can have negative effects on a group—at least initially. However, says Neale, fault lines that emerge as a result of such demographic factors can be parlayed to a group’s advantage too."
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