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When all your intake is drawn from the same source, creativity can give way to conformity. Looking in unusual places could turn up talent to help agencies break the mould, Rory Sutherland argues.

We rightly idolise Doyle Dane Bernbach's Bill Bernbach for the innovative way he managed his business, but are we overlooking the revolutionary way in which he staffed it? It was packed with people who had been outsiders - drawn, in particular, from two largely untapped ethnic groups.

In 1953, only 92 of the 5,000 listed in the Who's Who in (US) Advertising had visibly Jewish names. Few were Italian. The handful of non-WASP agencies - Grey, for instance - were ...

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