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When working in a team setting, what are the benefits of diversity within the group? What are the drawbacks? If you were tasked with pulling together a small group of colleagues to work on a project with a tight deadline, who would you choose and why?

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When working in a team setting, diversity offers some very significant benefits to the overall probability of the team achieving its desired results in a satisfactory fashion. Individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds will be able to produce ideas about a given situation from different perspectives based on their cultural experiences, which will increase the pool of ideas that the team has to draw upon in order to find ...

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