Anti-patternv1

Cognitive-homogeneity-as-efficiency anti-pattern: selecting

Cognitive-homogeneity-as-efficiency anti-pattern: selecting team members who think alike to reduce friction, which produces efficient consensus at the cost of the cognitive diversity that catches blind spots and generates novel solutions

Why This Is an Anti-Pattern

Inverts collective-cognition-exceeds-individual (Collective-cognition-exceeds-individual pattern: the).

Source Lessons

L-1606

Cognitive diversity strengthens team thinking

Teams composed of people who think differently — who hold different mental models, different heuristics, and different interpretive frameworks — produce better collective outcomes than teams of similar thinkers, but only when psychological safety allows the differences to surface.

Connections

Exemplifies (1)

AxiomAn organization's communication structure determines the

Inverts (1)

PatternCollective-cognition-exceeds-individual pattern: the

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