{"id":1368,"date":"2009-02-03T17:16:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T23:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2009-02-04T10:47:32","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T16:47:32","slug":"new-stuff-tuesday-february-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1368","title":{"rendered":"New Stuff Tuesday &#8211; February 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/difference.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"The Difference\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Difference<\/strong>:<br \/>\nHow the Power of Diversity Creates Better<br \/>\nGroups, Firms, Schools &amp; Societies<br \/>\nBy Scott Page<br \/>\nHF5549.5 .M5 P34 2007<br \/>\n<strong>New Book Island<\/strong>, 2nd floor<\/p>\n<p>One of the main buzzwords in society for the past decades: <strong>diversity<\/strong>. Having a variety of people from different backgrounds, whether it be tied to race, gender, sexual orientation or other characteristics, has been the goal for everyone &#8211; businesses, governments, universities, all organizations. The issue has pretty much gone undisputed (or argued to no avail) and accepted. This week&#8217;s featured book delves into the question of why and does it really matter? The short answer: yes.<\/p>\n<p>Page, professor at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umich.edu\">University of Michigan<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santefe.edu\">Sante Fe Institute<\/a>, tackles the issue of the individual versus the group. He explores how the collective working together will overpower the individual with a superior intellect (and not by use of force). Drawing on his groundbreaking research, the author explains diversity differently and demonstrates just <strong>how<\/strong> it generates benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools &amp; Societies By Scott Page HF5549.5 .M5 P34 2007 New Book Island, 2nd floor One of the main buzzwords in society for the past decades: diversity. Having a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1368\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[178,352,1218,167191,185,1649],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-stuff-tuesdays","tag-books","tag-business","tag-diversity","tag-education","tag-new-stuff","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}