How diversity makes teams more innovative | Rocío Lorenzo | TED

Are diverse companies really more innovative? Rocío Lorenzo and her team surveyed 171 companies to find out -- and the answer was a clear yes. In a talk that will help you build a better, more robust company, Lorenzo dives into the data and explains how your company can start producing fresher, more creative *ideas* by treating diversity as a competitive advantage.

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[Zerofrust]

I saw the title and i clicked just to see the ratings and comments lol

[almostkungfumaster]

Want a more innovative company, hire creative people.

[worf]

Isn't that literally the definition of sexism? Hiring someone because of their gender?

[MasterV]

Or hire people based on their intelligence and creativity...

[UnderScorePT]

Why didn't I think of this before?!?!?!
My brothel is really not doing well with all the men I hired...

[Heskeylyfe]

How about hire people that are qualified for the position, regardless of gender...

[lamcho]

The like/dislike ratio and the rational top comments, give me hope about humanity. It really shows that most of TED audience are rational thinkers. This really made my day a bit happier.

[jj]

We want more female plumbers, garbage collectors, cops, soldiers and masons!!

Edit: I almost forgot miners of course...

[Sheeshening]

So the result of the study was that innovation revenue correlated with 6 factor diversity. And you use that to tell companies that hiring more women would be beneficial? Well damn, either you didn't give us some very essential data here or your conclusion seems far fetched at best.

[PsychyCraft]

Yeah, diversity does matter, when it's diversity of ideas, experience, areas of knowledge, etc.

[DrMattPhillips]

Encouraging hiring based on something not within someone's control like gender rather than traits that are within applicants control like skill, efficiency and creativity. That makes sense.

[vikipoyta]

I´ve heard you can also pay them less. It´s a huge win.

[vma]

Want a more innovative company? Hire more innovative people and provide an appropriate workspace and conditions to breed creativity and innovation

[titob]

My University has the link to this video as one of the resources for my Managing People and Teams subject 🤢

I'm studying an MBA - it is sad that critical thinking is leaving the Universities

[Sandsack]

I only click at these videos to laugh at the like/dislike ratio

[mwildish]

Is it that diversity creates innovation or the most innovative companies are the ones hiring the younger and more diverse employees?

[ludvigthebirb]

forcing diverty solves nothing, one should hire workers based on skill and experience, not just because there is not equel amount of any gender and ethnicity or something like that

[Yung-scramble]

Very interesting, what I am curious about is how they were able to measure the amount of diversity in each company as there are so many criteria such as gender, race, religion and more. I feel like it would be nearly impossible to measure the amount of diversity especially for bigger companies with thousands of workers. For example maybe 50% of a companies workers are female and 50% male. This would indicate a high level of gender diversity but when you throw in other types of diversity as well it makes things more confusing.

[OBtheamazing]

She said that they did not know how much was causation or correlation.

That means more innovative companies can be more diverse for a multitude of reasons. Maybe bigger companies tend to be more innovative and bigger companies have more diversity. You don't know. So you can't say what ever you want because of a correlation

[brmbltbr]

If a company wants more innovation, it'll neither hire more women, nor more men, it'll hire more smart people, just as always, so probably not the person who made this mindless statement.