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It's OK to Give Shareholders Access to Outside Directors

Harvard Business Review

While it is common in Western Europe for non-executive directors to meet with shareholders to discuss strategy, governance, executive compensation, risk, and other matters within the board''s purview, U.S. However, non-executive directors will often have a slightly different take.

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Three Tips For Overcoming Your Blind Spots

Harvard Business Review

As we move through life, we all keep a running record, at least at some level in our memory banks, of what worked, what didn’t, and why. To overcome “groupthink” start with hiring. Fighting groupthink should start at the hiring stage. To cure hindsight bias, keep a diary. On the contrary.

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Want to Build Resilience? Kill the Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Confronting this ambiguity, the pilots appear to have reverted to rote training procedures that likely made the situation worse: they banked into a climb designed to avoid further danger, which also slowed the plane's airspeed and sent it into a stall. Each of these safety features, however, also increases the complexity of the whole.