Team Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Organizations (33 page)

4: THE POWER OF DIFFERENCE

  
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When we speak of left- and right-brained people, we may not be speaking literally. A two-year study of the brain scans of more than one thousand people ages seven to twenty-nine was conducted as recently as 2103 by Dr. Jeff Anderson, the director of the fMRI Neurosurgical Mapping Service at the University of Utah, and his colleagues. The result? They found no evidence of left- and right-brained people. So we may be talking only of personality types here, not brain hemisphere dominance. Time will tell. In the meantime, our concern is that people do seem to come in either creative or empirical types.

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