The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy

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How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do in order to make society more integrated and just? What if diversity can also improve the bottom line of businesses and other organizations facing complex

Scott E. Page is the Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Michigan and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies and Diversity and Complexity (both Princeton). He has been a featured speaker at Davos as well as at organizations such as Google, Bloomberg, BlackRock, Boeing, and NASA.

"Winner of the 2018 Gold Medal in Women / Minorities in Business, Axiom Business Book Awards" "Shortlisted for the 2019 CMI Management Book of the Year in "Aspiring Leaders," Chartered Management Institute" "Scott Page . . . makes a very pragmatic, even clinical, case for diversity. He presents evidence on how 'cognitive diversity'--people perceiving, analysing and solving problems in different ways--can benefit the bottom line of any organization." * Nature Astronomy * "The evidence is well presented by Page, who reiterates with his convincing analysis the importance of genuine inclusion."---Hashi Mohamed, Prospect "This very clear and compelling book will help people consider specifically what shape their challenges and problems take and what kind of diversity will help address them."---Diane Coyle, The Enlightened Economist "Scott Page's model of diversity--less a glorious rainbow of superficial attributes, more a toolkit crammed with different skills and perspectives--is a powerful way to appreciate the problem with homogeneity."---Tim Harford, Financial Times