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Monday, April 09, 2007

More Difference

I previously reviewed Scott E Page's book on problem-solving diversity: The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools and Societies. A rare analytic look at the topic.

Tim Sullivan correspondent at Princeton University Press sends me some new mentions of the book, thought-provoking pieces, also here is the prologue to the book, a good introduction.

" ... First is a lecture Scott did at Ohio State; it's (unfortunately) a Real Player file. It runs about 45 minutes total and Scott starts at 6:10. The second is a podcast from the Invisible Hand, where Scott fields some interesting questions from Chris Gondek. Finally, Michael Mauboussin, the strategy wizard at Legg Mason, writes about how Scott's book gets into the mechanism of the "wisdom of crowds" and "blink" phenomena ... "

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