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HBR Guide to Unlocking Creativity
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HBR Guide to Unlocking Creativity

by Harvard Business Review
June 2023
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
3h 56m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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CHAPTER 15

Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter

by David Rock and Heidi Grant

In recent years, a body of research has revealed a nuanced benefit of workplace diversity: Nonhomogeneous teams are simply smarter. Working with people who are different from you may challenge your brain to overcome its stale ways of thinking and sharpen its performance and creativity. Let’s dig into why diverse teams are smarter.

They Focus More on Facts

People from diverse backgrounds might actually alter the behavior of a group’s social majority in ways that lead to improved and more accurate group thinking. In a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, scientists assigned 200 people to six-person mock jury panels whose members were either all ...

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ISBN: 9781647825072