Rare Breeds at Work: Creating a Culture of Innovation & Belonging

At the beginning of 2020, Dominic Cummings, chief advisor for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wrote a blog post in which he called for the hiring of more “weirdos and misfits with odd skills” to work in the UK government. Britain, he said, needed people with “genuine cognitive diversity,” not just polished Oxford and Cambridge grads from the right families, to figure out…