When you have a group of people who've had a different professional training, a different professional experience, they not only have a different knowledge base, but they have a different perspective on everything.

Golesworthy’s remark underscores the value of interdisciplinary teams. He distinguishes between “knowledge base” (what people know) and “perspective” (how they frame problems, notice risks, and imagine solutions). The point is that diversity of professional formation—engineering, medicine, design, operations, etc.—doesn’t merely add more facts to a discussion; it changes the assumptions and mental models brought to it. In practice, such differences can reduce blind spots, challenge groupthink, and produce more robust decisions, especially in complex, high-stakes settings where a single discipline’s habits may miss crucial constraints or opportunities.