Marvin Zonis:
While one of the world’s most important technology experts talks here of ‘societies’, everything he says refers equally powerfully to firms. If a leader wishes her firm to generate creativity, she must focus on creating a diverse workforce that celebrates individual differences while creating a firm wide culture that encourages those differences to be articulated and to be welcomed.
Nicholas Negroponte:
“The only thing we know about creativity is it comes from differences. That’s where it comes from. If you have no differences, you’re not going to have a creative society. In fact, the societies that are the least creative are the most homogeneous. The societies like this country [the U.S.] that are overwhelmingly heterogenous are where a lot of the new ideas come from.”
In 1985, Nicholas Negroponte founded the MIT Media Lab, a think tank and lab to study new approaches to human-computer interaction. He served as its Director until 2000. He is the author of the best seller, Being Digital.
Quotation from Corporate Board Member, fourth quarter 2019.