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14. Why Do Most Ideas Fail to Scale?

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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The Advantages of Diversity in Recruitment and Hiring

Diversity is both observable characteristics, like gender and race, for example. It's also unobservable characteristics like your social economic status of how you were raised. When people look at me, what they see is a white man. They don't see underneath that, this is a person that has very different experience as than many other white men in the academy. And i believe organizations are much more productive because of that.

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