Diversity and inclusion

Your team will benefit from diversity in all aspects that you can amalgamate. Diversity in age, gender, organizational level, geographic origin, socioeconomic means, faith (and lack thereof), educational background, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, circadian rhythms, and more will make your team more effective and valuable.

Advanced analytics and AI teams are made up of a wide range of personalities, from the introverted to the highly extroverted, from the careful and thoughtful to the impulsive and innovative. Analytics teams benefit greatly from the varied perspectives that a wide spectrum of individuals bring to the collaborative environment.

Perhaps you have seen teams where the leader hires mostly people that think, act, and look like themselves. In extreme cases, this is called conative cloning and it can lead to myopic thinking and a narrow focus when approaching challenges and the resulting solutions. If you think of hiring as a continuum...