Diversity — India's multiplication factor

India has 22 scheduled languages, 6 major religions, and hundreds of ethnic groups. This is not a problem to manage. It is a source of range. Different perspectives produce different solutions. Groups that think the same way can only solve problems the same way. Diversity increases the number of approaches available.

• Research by Scott Page shows that cognitively diverse teams outperform teams of individually high performers on complex problems.
• The next time you work in a group, notice how different backgrounds produce different ideas. That is the mechanism.