Roger L. Martin - MBA Depot

We are not taught how to take advantage of a diverse thought—diverse in the sense that your thought conflicts with mine—rather than saying, “I have an idea. Yours is different than mine. I must make sure mine triumphs,” which is generally what we’re taught to do, to advocate for our point of view. We’re not going to get where we need to be on diversity until such time as we make the most of diverse voices instead of the least. Right now, we make the least of them. And that’s often why if you have 20 people and there are two or three who are thinking differently, they’re likely to feel that they’re being squashed. We have been on a path of reductionism—and this idea that you can prove things.