Why Misfits Are the Best for Innovation

Not exactly a comment on the article, rather my own findings on the same subject:

- There is research that shows that the most successful teams are those with the greatest intellectual diversity, assuming there is an unhindered exchange of information between team members. If team members feel inhibited from sharing ideas, or critiquing the ideas of others, diversity doesn't improve outcomes.

- There is also evidence that challenging problems in a field are more likely to be solved by people from outside the field. This seems to be driven by the fact that each field has particular problem solving techniques, and problems that are difficult to solve using a given set of techniques may yield more readily to techniques from other fields.

Back in the days recruiters of big corps would search for anomalies in resumes, because people with such anomalies were considered more creative or innovative.

Today they simply create anomalies themselves.

They put people into one team, that wouldn't join forces on their own.

This is ridiculous?