A leader who built teams at Amazon and Microsoft argues for diversity beyond gender and ethnicity, calling instead for a "symphony of talent" that mixes backgrounds, perspectives, and even quirks like cat ownership to spark different ways of thinking.
I built multiple teams at Amazon and then another set of teams at Microsoft. And during that time, I would look for people not just that were gender diverse and ethnically diverse, of course, do that, but then I would look much deeper. I used to call it a symphony of talent. Like, I want a little bit of everyone. I'm not looking to have an all-women team or an all-women panel, though I've been asked to do those, but I actually shy away from those because I want diversity of thought. Not going to mean I don't want any, what, white male team members. Sometimes we over-index on diversity, and it ends up building not diverse teams at all. We end up being mono— homogeneous in a new way. And so I think it's really important when you're building these types of teams to think, how do I get a symphony of talent? How do we get a little bit of everyone? And everyone, I mean, people who own cats and dogs because they think differently. Um, and I'm a cat owner.
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