DIRECT FROM DAVOS->I JUST LEARNED WHO IS GETTING HIRED FOR THE NEW JOBS GENERATED BY SILICON VALLEY AND IT IS NOT AMERICANS
Just look at Silicon Valley. It crackles with ideas and experimentation.
Diversity is a major reason for Silicon Valley’s creativity. It’s engineers and entrepreneurs come from all over the world. Each brings a different perspective. And when those diverse ways of seeing and thinking come together, they spark creativity.
Diversity fosters new ideas. New ideas generate the experimentation needed to make the most of the fourth industrial revolution.
And diversity is something leaders can do much about.
Recently, a New York Times reporter asked the president of Y Combinator— major Silicon Valley startup funder—if any one school stood out as a source of graduates with sparkling new ideas. He said there is one. It is the University of Waterloo.
That’s Canada’s University of Waterloo.
Why does Silicon Valley look to it as a great source of brilliant minds and brilliant ideas?
It has high intellectual standards, of course. And it values entrepreneurship. But diversity is its indispensable ingredient.
Their students come from everywhere. Fully half the graduate engineering students are international.
And the University of Waterloo’s domestic students are drawn from Canada’s student population—one of the most diverse in the world.
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http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2016/01/20/canadian-opportunity-address-right-honourable-justin-trudeau-prime-minister-canada#sthash.QspgTbhB.dpuf
Just look at Silicon Valley. It crackles with ideas and experimentation.
Diversity is a major reason for Silicon Valley’s creativity. It’s engineers and entrepreneurs come from all over the world. Each brings a different perspective. And when those diverse ways of seeing and thinking come together, they spark creativity.
Diversity fosters new ideas. New ideas generate the experimentation needed to make the most of the fourth industrial revolution.
And diversity is something leaders can do much about.
Recently, a New York Times reporter asked the president of Y Combinator— major Silicon Valley startup funder—if any one school stood out as a source of graduates with sparkling new ideas. He said there is one. It is the University of Waterloo.
That’s Canada’s University of Waterloo.
Why does Silicon Valley look to it as a great source of brilliant minds and brilliant ideas?
It has high intellectual standards, of course. And it values entrepreneurship. But diversity is its indispensable ingredient.
Their students come from everywhere. Fully half the graduate engineering students are international.
And the University of Waterloo’s domestic students are drawn from Canada’s student population—one of the most diverse in the world.
HERE IS THE REST
http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2016/01/20/canadian-opportunity-address-right-honourable-justin-trudeau-prime-minister-canada#sthash.QspgTbhB.dpuf