You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
I really believe that the raw ingredient of any creative business is the set of experiences that the team has, the set of skills. I think a simple fact is that if you have a different set of experiences based on how you grew up or how other people perceive you, or if you have a different set of skills, that will produce a better company.
In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.
I set out to have a diverse staff on the 'Bernie Mac Show.'
My executive board, my management, my friends, are so ethnically diverse.
Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.
Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
The world is diverse, and having a professional team that mirrors the world is going to be more helpful for us.
I can't be a manager, because I think it's too tough managing 30 players thinking in different ways.
We found we were able to create better, customer-centric product features more quickly with a more diverse product team.
Having a female point of view in the room - when you get into a discussion about behavior - who would say what and how they would interact with one another. In certain situations, women are going to have a different opinion on that than men. It made for a really balanced conversation in the room.
