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Monday, January 25, 2016

Twitter Board Diversity

@sacca Chris. Will you please recommend my name for the Board position? https://t.co/DDzVT7gbSE
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) January 26, 2016

@jack @ev @biz Applying for your Board position! @twitter @fredwilson @bijan https://t.co/DDzVT7gbSE @sacca
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) January 26, 2016

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FourSquare: What Has Become Of You

I get asked, so to be clear: I'm not joining the Twitter board. Looking forward to who does. At this point, change can only be good.
— Chris Sacca (@sacca) January 24, 2016

I would be shocked if the two new Twitter board members being discussed don't include at least one woman and a person of color.
— Chris Sacca (@sacca) January 24, 2016

Btw, I don't want board diversity for mere political correctness. Diversity is better for the business and I like making money.
— Chris Sacca (@sacca) January 24, 2016

Frankly, white men are a shrinking audience. You want to impact the next billion users? You need to deeply understand women and POC.
— Chris Sacca (@sacca) January 24, 2016

Tweets like this bring out the racists, almost always hiding behind anonymous screen names and pictures. Fear makes people into assholes.
— Chris Sacca (@sacca) January 24, 2016

@sacca Research proves this again & again: diversity makes us smarter & more innovative. https://t.co/v0nMiEIwf0
— Maria Chong (@mariachong) January 24, 2016

.@VegasCashFlow @sacca Why "surgically"? Was non-diversity implemented surgically? The idea of merit, of "brightest & best" is a silly myth.
— Maria Chong (@mariachong) January 25, 2016

How Diversity Makes Us Smarter

Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working

Decades of research by organizational scientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists and demographers show that socially diverse groups (that is, those with a diversity of race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation) are more innovative than homogeneous groups. ...... It seems obvious that a group of people with diverse individual expertise would be better than a homogeneous group at solving complex, nonroutine problems. It is less obvious that social diversity should work in the same way—yet the science shows that it does. ...... This is not only because people with different backgrounds bring new information. Simply interacting with individuals who are different forces group members to prepare better, to anticipate alternative viewpoints and to expect that reaching consensus will take effort............. The first thing to acknowledge about diversity is that it can be difficult. ....... you would not think of building a new car without engineers, designers and quality-control experts—but what about social diversity? What good comes from diversity of race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation? Research has shown that social diversity in a group can cause discomfort, rougher interactions, a lack of trust, greater perceived interpersonal conflict, lower communication, less cohesion, more concern about disrespect, and other problems. So what is the upside? ........ The fact is that if you want to build teams or organizations capable of innovating, you need diversity. ..... Diversity can improve the bottom line of companies and lead to unfettered discoveries and breakthrough innovations. Even simply being exposed to diversity can change the way you think. This is not just wishful thinking: it is the conclusion I draw from decades of research from organizational scientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists and demographers. ....... People who are different from one another in race, gender and other dimensions bring unique information and experiences to bear on the task at hand. A male and a female engineer might have perspectives as different from one another as an engineer and a physicist—and that is a good thing. ....... on average, “female representation in top management leads to an increase of $42 million in firm value.” They also measured the firms' “innovation intensity” through the ratio of research and development expenses to assets. They found that companies that prioritized innovation saw greater financial gains when women were part of the top leadership ranks. ........
Racial diversity can deliver the same kinds of benefits.
...... For innovation-focused banks, increases in racial diversity were clearly related to enhanced financial performance. ...... companies with one or more women on the board delivered higher average returns on equity, lower gearing (that is, net debt to equity) and better average growth.
......... Large data-set studies have an obvious limitation: they only show that diversity is correlated with better performance, not that it causes better performance. Research on racial diversity in small groups, however, makes it possible to draw some causal conclusions. Again, the findings are clear: for groups that value innovation and new ideas, diversity helps. ........ The groups with racial diversity significantly outperformed the groups with no racial diversity. Being with similar others leads us to think we all hold the same information and share the same perspective. This perspective, which stopped the all-white groups from effectively processing the information, is what hinders creativity and innovation. ....... When a black person presented a dissenting perspective to a group of whites, the perspective was perceived as more novel and led to broader thinking and consideration of alternatives than when a white person introduced that same dissenting perspective. The lesson: when we hear dissent from someone who is different from us, it provokes more thought than when it comes from someone who looks like us. ......... Democrats who were told that a fellow Democrat disagreed with them prepared less well for the discussion than Democrats who were told that a Republican disagreed with them. Republicans showed the same pattern. When disagreement comes from a socially different person, we are prompted to work harder. Diversity jolts us into cognitive action in ways that homogeneity simply does not. ......... papers written by diverse groups receive more citations and have higher impact factors than papers written by people from the same ethnic group. Moreover, they found that stronger papers were associated with a greater number of author addresses; geographical diversity, and a larger number of references, is a reflection of more intellectual diversity.
......... Diversity is not only about bringing different perspectives to the table. Simply adding social diversity to a group makes people believe that differences of perspective might exist among them and that belief makes people change their behavior. ............
people work harder in diverse environments both cognitively and socially. They might not like it, but the hard work can lead to better outcomes.
........ diverse juries were better at considering case facts, made fewer errors recalling relevant information and displayed a greater openness to discussing the role of race in the case ........ This is how diversity works: by promoting hard work and creativity; by encouraging the consideration of alternatives even before any interpersonal interaction takes place. The pain associated with diversity can be thought of as the pain of exercise. You have to push yourself to grow your muscles.