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Diversity. India's multiplication factor.
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Diversity
India's multiplication factor
The range of languages, faiths, and backgrounds living in one country.
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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.
SourceCensus of India linguistic and religious data
Page, The Diversity Bonus (2017)
Page, The Diversity Bonus (2017)
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