A New Way to Combat Bias at Work
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HBR IdeaCast
JOAN WILLIAMS: It is an important modifier, because if you bring diverse people onto a team who don’t share a whole set of cultural assumptions, for example, that can, without, and you don’t manage them in a way that communicates that everyone has been chosen for a specific skillset, and is valued for a specific skillset, and that the team will be judged on how well they deliver as a team, then the divergences among the diverse people you’ve hired who don’t share that set of assumptions, that can lead to conflict and corrosion in performance.