Dr. Mark Khater

Diversity isn't a matter of being politically correct.

Diversity is incredibly important for humanity, right?

It's a necessity.

And one of the things that you – I'm actually writing a paper about this – is what's happening now is something that I like to call silent coordination failure.

We're all actually over-coordinated and over-correlated before we get into the meeting because we've all passed the exact same information to the exact same model.

We've all reached the same conclusion.

Probably a lot of us have exactly similar education.

And we all enter the meeting thinking that my opinion is not correlated to yours.

We haven't pre-coordinated.

And suddenly we're sitting in meetings and we're all agreeing about everything.

And ultimately, if we all agree, that's great.

We're highly aligned.

But if we're all highly aligned on the wrong page, it's catastrophic.

And if it means committing resources, and if it means committing time, and if it means that we have to wait to find out results, then those results are going to cost us a lot.

They'll be incredibly catastrophic, and it's going to cost you twice as much paddling back.

And it's concepts like this that we actually need to start introducing into our education systems.

We need to actually start looking at diversity properly.

Not just the diversity on the surface of color and race and religion, all that's wonderful, and gender and all that's an absolute necessity, but also the diversity in opinions.

Are we all working from a single model?

Are we all agreeing on things too quickly?