The Hidden Factor: Why Thinking Differently Is Your Greatest Asset

1 Individual Diversity and Collective Performance / 2 Why Now? The Rise of Diversity / 3 Diversity Squared / 4 The Wisdom of Crowds / 5 The Diversity Prediction Theorem Times Three / 6 The Weighting Is the Hardest Part / 7 Foxes and Hedgehogs—Can I Be Diverse? / 8 Fermi’s Barbers—Estimating and Predicting / 9 Problem Solving / 10 Diverse Perspectives / 11 Heuristics and the Adjacent Possible / 12 Diversity Trumps Ability / 13 Digging Holes and Splicing Genes / 14 Ability and Diversity / 15 Combining and Recombining Heuristics / 16 Beware of False Prophets—No Free Lunch / 17 Crowdsourcing and the Limits of Diversity / 18 Experimentation, Variation, and Six Sigma / 19 Diversity and Robustness / 20 Inescapable Benefits of Diversity / 21 The Historical Value of Diversity / 22 Homophily, Incentives, and Groupthink / 23 The Problem of Diverse Preferences / 24 The Team. The Team. The Team