Pierre Nanterme Quotes

I'm a big fan of having a team with different thoughts and backgrounds and experiences; that makes for a better enterprise and better decision-making.

If you aren't committed to diversity of thought, you have no business launching a startup.

You need to listen to the people experiencing the problems, and their ideas need to crowd out the words of the 'can't be done-ers.'

If you have got diversity on your board, then you are going to have new ideas come to the table.

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.

And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

If you are not diverse, you are saying, 'I don't want to be successful.'

You have to have more people who don't look like you in the writers room. I try to have some people who don't look like me in my writers room. I think it's important to have a group of voices, of people who can dissent.

If you are not diverse and you are not listening to all voices and have your ear to the ground, you're not going to make the best decisions.

Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.

I think people with varying experiences need to be creating.

I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant.

In an age of exponential change, we need the power of diverse thinking, and we cannot afford to leave any talent untapped.

Diversity is not a politically correct idea. Diversity in a boardroom or in a Parliament means that you just have different minds, different life experience, different ways of thinking about patients or customers or voters so that when you bring that intellect, you look at opportunity and risk, and then you have it in much better balance.

There is a huge business case for diversity. You will be making products for people you don't understand, you don't interact with. If you don't have an inclusive, diverse workforce, it makes you myopic.

We know that diversity can sometimes be more uncomfortable because things are less familiar - but it gets the best results.

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you.

We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.

You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decision.

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came from individuals with different perspectives coming together.

We know from our business with clients around the world that when companies bring together people of different genders, races, cultures, and perspectives, we are smarter, more creative, more innovative, and more relevant.