What is the true value of diversity?

Join this week’s episode of Global Denmark Podcast; as Thomas Mulhern speaks with Scott Page who is a leading academic, social scientist, author and Professor at the University of Michigan. Listen as together they explore; compositional diversity and diversity bonus by digging into Scott’s book, The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge

Economy.

Episode Takeaways

• Current situation in States [2:15]
• Diversity bonus [6:19]
• The Model Thinker Book [11:57]
• The crowd’s prediction [12:57]
• Cognitive diversity [18:51]
• Identity diversity [20:34]
• Cognitive biases as a mitigating factor [31:18]
• Diverse teams compared to homogeneous teams [36:45]
• Homogeneous in terms of cognitive diversity and identity diversity [37:36]
• Business case due to changed nature of work [44:28]
• Lessons to and from Denmark, and closing comments [53:06]