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organizational diversity   News & Events  “If external stimuli
were guiding trades, the stock market would be easy to figure
out. But it’s not.” — Brian Uzzi, the Richard L. Thomas
Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change  Brian Uzzi
Synchronicity pays   By <a href=""> Kellogg Insight </a>
3/15/2011 - Long-standing problems are quite often solved
simultaneously by various people working alone. Take, for
example, naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace,
who separately proposed the theory of evolution by natural
selection. Or French physicist Edme Mariotte who independently
landed on what is now known as Boyle’s law of gases, without
knowing that Robert Boyle had just done the same. Robert King
Merton, the grandfather of social science, called it the concept
of multiples. Most discoveries and inventions, he said, are made
by multiple independent individuals unintentionall