Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

And to do this, you need to develop and practice outsight (versus insight). Reach out to three people in your company you always wanted to get to know and ask them for lunch or coffee. Contrary to popular opinion, Ibarra argues that you have to act your way into a new type of leadership thinking instead of thinking your way into it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

This kind of intellectual diversity is more likely to be present when individuals on the team come from different disciplines, backgrounds, and areas of expertise. Organizational Development Book. Ask each person a few directed questions: What’s your work history, both at this company and in previous jobs? Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Most professionals build their network over time through proximity — people from your business school study group, or colleagues from your current company or past jobs. First, if your network has become too narrow, you limit your options in case of a career change, or a downturn in your company or industry.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Companies were split into divisions, each with their own leadership. Even Brian admits that holacracy isn’t for everyone (I’m still not sure I would want to work in a company that adopted it), but I think every manager could benefit from a better understanding of the problems that it is trying to solve.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

In his research, West found that companies today behave more like whales and machines. The good news is that there's no reason companies can't be more like communities. After all, companies are social networks too. Conformity creates groupthink, stifling innovation and organizational resilience. Communities or machines?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

This proprietary model analyzes six critical team competencies: Balance: How well a team understands the importance of diversity of skills and strengths and is willing to incorporate them. Teams low in diversity often succumb to groupthink; they agree with each other too quickly and fail to consider novel courses of action.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

companies, the guidelines contain helpful (although not entirely novel or innovative) recommendations such as compensating outside directors with stock, giving non-executive directors unfettered access to management, and discouraging the practice of earnings guidance. Intended to strengthen corporate governance at U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Ed Gadsden, former chief diversity officer at Pfizer, once asked his sponsor, the legal scholar and federal judge Leon Higginbotham, why he took such an interest in him, aside from the fact they were both African American. Using your power is about developing others, helping them achieve their leadership potential. Fill in your gaps.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Pepsi never earned that particular mission and therefore consumers saw little need to reward the company for its efforts. McDonald’s has a great business in India, where beef is taboo and the company must cater to strict vegetarian diets. This can only be done by applying a third principle: we must balance cohesiveness with diversity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

And yet federally funded research and development — creativity, institutionalized — is down 20% as a share of America's GDP since the late 1980s. And that was just from one company's private R&D engine, Xerox's PARC. A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. Take a walk.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Many companies have strong jock cultures, particularly in their sales departments. And in any company, it’s natural for cliques to develop, and for people with similar interests to band together—whether the groups consist of people who do yoga at lunchtime, gossip about reality TV shows, or knit.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. Is your company globalizing R&D?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Indeed, being data-driven has joined the ranks of “innovative”, “diverse”, and “socially responsible” as the one of most laudable features of organizational culture, at least if we go by company websites. Instead, celebrate critical thinking, curiosity, and the deeper desire to question things.

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