A Business Case for Diversity

For my Diversity Event, I went to "A Business Case for Diversity". The speaker talked about diversity in the workplace and how it can improve performance. The speaker told us of a study that had been done on two different groups. The first group was of a non-diverse background and had high IQs. The second group was a diverse group witch had normal IQs. They presented these groups with a problem and they had to try and work together to solve it. The results were that the more diverse group with lower IQs actually did better than the non-diverse, high IQ group. This isn't that surprising when you think about it though. Each person in the diverse group has a much different outlook on solving the problem because of their different experiences and culture. The non-diverse group is only looking at the problem from one point of view. This event helped me understand just how important diversity is to the workplace, and how it can even improve performance.

Twitter

For the past couple of weeks Ive been using Twitter. I already had a twitter account, but I never really used it. Since getting this new account I have been using it a lot more lately. On Twitter, people usually post less important things going on in their lives. In this way Twitter seems slightly different from Facebook which I use more frequently. Although some people do post less important things on Facebook sometimes, but not as often.

On Facebook you probably wont be able to be friends with celebrities that you like. On Twitter however you can follow anyone you want to. Its cool to see what your favorite celebrities do in a normal day. Thats one thing Twitter has going for it that Facebook doesnt. Overall though I do prefer Facebook to Twitter because there is so many extra things you can do on Facebook. I will continue to use both though.

Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/#!/djbeletti