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How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people thinkWhat if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it can also improve the bottom line? It can. The Diversity Bonus shows how and why. Scott Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose ideas and advice are sought after by corporations, nonprofits, universities, and governments, makes a clear and compelling practical case for diversity and inclusion. He presents overwhelming evidence that teams that include different kinds of thinkers outperform homogenous groups on complex tasks, producing what he calls "diversity bonuses." These bonuses include improved problem solving, increased innovation, and more accurate predictions-all of which lead to better results. Drawing on research in economics, psychology, computer science, and many other fields, The Diversity Bonus also tells the stories of businesses and organizations that have tapped the power of diversity to solve complex problems. The result changes the way we think about diversity at work-and far beyond.

Diversity in the workplace. --- Teams in the workplace. --- Personnel management. --- Knowledge economy. --- Accuracy and precision. --- Advertising. --- Affirmative action. --- African Americans. --- Americans. --- Analogy. --- Analytics. --- Asian Americans. --- Asset management. --- Biology. --- Board of directors. --- Boeing. --- Business case. --- Calculation. --- Career. --- Categorization. --- Causality. --- Classroom. --- Collaboration. --- Collective intelligence. --- Competition. --- Computer scientist. --- Cross-functional team. --- Customer. --- Decision-making. --- Demography. --- Economist. --- Effectiveness. --- Empirical evidence. --- Employment. --- Engineering. --- Ensemble learning. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Estimation. --- Explanation. --- Finding. --- Fluid and crystallized intelligence. --- Forecasting. --- Fortune 500. --- Gender diversity. --- Grutter v. Bollinger. --- Harvard University. --- Heuristic. --- Hidden Figures. --- Human resources. --- Income. --- Inference. --- Institution. --- Intelligence analysis. --- Intersectionality. --- Knowledge base. --- Larry Page. --- Majority minority. --- Marketing. --- Mathematician. --- Mathematics. --- Meritocracy. --- Microsoft. --- Mission statement. --- National Science Foundation. --- Netflix. --- New York University. --- Obesity. --- Organization. --- Organizational culture. --- Participant. --- Percentage. --- Philosopher. --- Political science. --- Prediction. --- Predictive modelling. --- Probability. --- Problem solving. --- Product design. --- Profession. --- Quality control. --- Quartile. --- Race (human categorization). --- Restaurant. --- Result. --- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. --- Rule of thumb. --- Scientist. --- Sexual orientation. --- Social issue. --- Social science. --- State of the World (book series). --- Supply chain. --- Team composition. --- Technology. --- Theorem. --- Tool. --- Trade-off. --- Tradecraft. --- University of Michigan. --- Wealth. --- Weighting. --- Workforce. --- Workplace.

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Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their crowds of visitors. The fashions they set were taken up and imitated by ordinary citizens. In this illustrated book, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill explores the rich potential of the houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum to offer new insights into Roman social life. Exposing misconceptions derived from contemporary culture, he shows the close interconnection of spheres we take as discrete: public and private, family and outsiders, work and leisure. Combining archaeological evidence with Roman texts and comparative material from other cultures, Wallace-Hadrill raises a range of new questions. How did the organization of space and the use of decoration help to structure social encounters between owner and visitor, man and woman, master and slave? What sort of "households" did the inhabitants of the Roman house form? How did the world of work relate to that of entertainment and leisure? How widely did the luxuries of the rich spread among the houses of craftsmen and shopkeepers? Through analysis of the remains of over two hundred houses, Wallace-Hadrill reveals the remarkably dynamic social environment of early imperial Italy, and the vital part that houses came to play in defining what it meant "to live as a Roman."

Material culture --- Architecture, Domestic --- Architecture, Domestic --- Material culture --- Herculaneum (Extinct city) --- Herculaneum (Extinct city) --- Pompeii (Extinct city) --- Pompeii (Extinct city) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Social life and customs. --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Social life and customs. --- Abdication. --- Aedicula. --- Alleius Nigidius Maius. --- Allusion. --- Ancillae. --- Antechamber. --- Apartment. --- Archetype. --- Architectural plan. --- Aristocracy. --- Art group. --- Author. --- Biography. --- Building. --- Cabinetry. --- City-state. --- Civil society. --- Clothing. --- Commius. --- Consideration. --- Contemporary society. --- Count. --- Credential. --- Cultural capital. --- Cultural history. --- Designer. --- Dowry. --- Dwelling. --- Dynasty. --- Economy. --- Edward Gorey. --- Ephesus. --- Etiquette. --- Exedra. --- Extended family. --- Floriculture. --- Freedman. --- Herculaneum. --- House plan. --- House. --- Household. --- Housing. --- Infrastructure. --- Insula (building). --- Interior design. --- Legatee. --- Literature. --- Living Space. --- Lodging. --- Magnificence (history of ideas). --- Mattress. --- Nobility. --- Occupancy. --- Opus sectile. --- Osteria. --- Ostia (Rome). --- Ownership. --- Parlour. --- Pergamon. --- Periodical literature. --- Peristyle. --- Pinacotheca. --- Political economy. --- Pompeii. --- Population density. --- Portico. --- Poster. --- Preservationist. --- Promiscuity. --- Pronoun. --- Proportion (architecture). --- Publication. --- Quartile. --- Residence. --- Residential area. --- Ruler. --- Show house. --- Social class. --- Social integration. --- Social position. --- Social relation. --- Social science. --- Social status. --- Society. --- Sociology. --- Studio apartment. --- Taberna. --- Tablinum. --- Tacitus. --- Tenement. --- Tibullus. --- Triclinium. --- Trimalchio. --- Ulpian. --- Usage. --- Vault (architecture). --- Vestibule (architecture). --- Vitruvius. --- Wallpaper. --- Workforce.