Idea of the Week: Monoculture and Business

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It is interesting to study the effects of <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/monoculture" target="_blank">monoculture</a> in <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/business" target="_blank">business</a>. If you hire Ivy-league elite-university graduates you are effectively creating a monoculture that won’t allow for the creation of divergent opinions and strategies within your company. That can lead to grave mistakes (if somebody says X and everybody agrees) and less creativity. Ensuring diversity of backgrounds within your company seems to be a smart strategy for the manager.