From the course: Dream Teams: Working Together without Falling Apart (Blinkist Summary)

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Diversity is beneficial

Diversity is beneficial

From the course: Dream Teams: Working Together without Falling Apart (Blinkist Summary)

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Diversity is beneficial

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- Blink number one; Dream-teams benefit from diversity of background, gender and opinion. In 1974, the FBI was trying its hardest to serve a subpoena to a mafia boss based out of Newark, New Jersey. In those days, the law was pretty clear; only if the subpoena was given directly and personally to somebody, it wasn't necessary for them to obey it and appear in court. So the mafia boss came up with what he thought was a winning strategy. He surrounded himself with bodyguards. No subpoena wielding FBI agent was going to get close to him. In the end, it was a young female agent, Chris Jung, who came up with a plan. She'd go undercover to the wedding of the mafia boss' daughter. She'd make out that she was one of the wedding guests, and deliver the subpoena to the boss herself as he welcomed the guests. She was able to succeed because she was a woman in a male-dominated profession and so managed to achieve her goal…

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