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Creating a Thriving Culture

Our podcast, Thriving in Business and Life, features colleagues, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they share insights and valuable techniques from their new book. (Program begins immediately after a short ad from one of our sponsors.)

Our ongoing written blog, below, provides a forum for our latest thoughts and for your comments and ideas. Please join us in creating an ongoing conversation about the approaches you've experienced that help create a thriving culture at work, in your community, or at home.

Mining the Genius of Inclusion

It might seem obvious that diverse groups are more intelligent than homogeneous groups and numerous studies support this notion. So why do we so regularly turn to our same "go-to" people over and over again? Simple answer, it's more comfortable and because we believe doing so provides more consistent results. The challenge? Consistency isn't always what's needed. A variety of studies indicate that diverse groups actually solve problems better and have better predicative abili