Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter - Issue #94

Did you know that diverse management teams show 35% better results? This survey result and more scientific evidence in this article shows that enriching your employee pool with representatives of different genders, races, and nationalities is key for boosting your company’s joint intellectual potential. Creating a more diverse workplace will help to keep your team members’ biases in check and make them question their assumptions. Considering the perspective of an outsider may seem counterintuitive, but the payoff can be huge.

Our new book The Human Touch is now available in English. I will let others do the promo ;-)

Peter Hinssen, serial entrepreneur, CEO of Nexxworks and author of The Day After Tomorrow

Robert-Jan van Berckel, People Partner Northern Europe, Google

Spoiler alert, the quantum leap for a decade of success was not technology. It lay in the connections between people, within and beyond our companies. 

A return to this great chart on media consumption and COVID-19 by generation. Overall, Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, and Boomers all increased their time looking at media in 2020. But he channels were widely different.