Creating diverse teams

A lot of science from different fields of study shows that diversity is a key part of innovation – you need people to spark each other’s creativity, and that comes from thinking differently. For example, workers at companies embracing two-dimensional diversity are 45% more likely to see an increase in market share from the previous year and 70% more likely to report that their company entered a new market (reference: Harvard Business Review, December 2013, by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Melinda Marshall, and Laura Sherbin).

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To understand this in greater detail, you can visit the following links:

https://hbr.org/2013/12/how-diversity-can-drive-innovation

https://vbn.aau.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/203812913/Diverstity_RP_2011.pdf

And, when we talk about diversity, we mean it in every possible way – diversity in gender, age, nationality, ethnicity, background, field of study, profession, and more.

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