In reply to Kunal Bhatia’s comment on “Steve Jurvetson”
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Steve Jurvetson
@dfjsteve · Partner, DFJ
@kunalslab @ellenchisa More on the value of cognitive diversity... being more important than ability on certain teams — a lot of this was reinforced at a Management 2.0 brainstorming offsite http://www.flickr.com/photos/jur... where I wrote:
Four tenets jump to mind if we consider the Wisdom of Crowds as an emergent phenomenon, operating at a higher level of abstraction:
1) team (thinking style) diversity is more important than individual ability
2) disagreement is more important than consensus
3) and the voting policies and selection mechanisms that you put in place are more important than the coherence or even the comprehensibility about what you do.
4) The role of upper management is to tune the parameters of communication
I first started thinking about this in 2005 at the Santa Fe Institute: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jur... where Scott Page shared an interesting rejoinder:
"People in diverse groups are less happy. Their views are challenged, and they feel like the outcomes were manipulated. Based on their experiences, they will self-report that it was not better than when they were on a homogenous team."
More for the curious:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jur...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jur...
http://seedmagazine.com/content/...
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