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Is Easy or Difficult Collaboration More Productive? The Answer May Surprise You

Is Easy or Difficult Collaboration More Productive? The Answer May Surprise You

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Andrea Kramer co-authored this bylined article on how social diversity improves the collaboration process, because in a diverse group “we pay more attention, and we care more about getting it right … Collaboration in the presence of social diversity may be more difficult than collaboration in the presence of similarity, but it produces greater team productivity—and a better bottom line.”