Cognitive diversity is the best way to create the highest collective intelligence

To create the best collaboration in a work group, organizations should strike the right balance of different cognitive styles among the participants, according to a new study.

In the study, researchers found that participants had to have just the right mix of cognitive diversity to create the highest collective intelligence.

The ideal mix follows “the Goldilocks principle: Not too little (diversity), and not too much. You want it just right,” says coauthor Anita Williams Woolley, associate professor of organizational behavior and theory in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.

 
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