Having spent the last five years, working with the advice of some of the leading organizations in the world, the authors came to the conclusion that the board should be a much more diverse - not only demographically, but also in terms of origin, skills and interests of its members. However, they caution that put fresh faces on the boards does not guarantee that benefits will arise: diversity can also lead to a deadlock. The thing is, people often feel threatened or annoyed by colleagues who are very different from themselves, and it is difficult to accept, much less evaluate those colleagues. In this article, they describe the costs and benefits of diversity and provide seven recommendations to effectively diversify the board - or the senior team -. In any industry, "Hide
by Jean-Francois Manzoni, Paul Strebel, Jean-Louis Barsoux Source: Rotman School of Management, 4 pages. Publication Date: 01 May 2011. Prod. #: ROT143-PDF-ENG
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