Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Reach out to three people in your company you always wanted to get to know and ask them for lunch or coffee. Here are three ways to do things at your office tomorrow : Sign up for one new project, task-force, professional association or extracurricular professional activity that takes you a bit outside your usual area of expertise.

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Groupthink Learning-by-Doing Trends Diversity 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2018

Amazon came under fire last week after its board opposed a shareholder proposal to increase the diversity of the board. Companies like Microsoft and Costco use this type of process for their board selection, as increasing diversity of candidate slates is an important step for increasing diversity of the board overall.

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Diversity Proposal Groupthink CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2017

Last month, in an unprecedented show of solidarity, 150 CEOs from the world’s leading companies banded together to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace and, through an online platform, shared best practices for doing so. That’s obviously good for business.

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Ryan Stephenson Groupthink Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Companies were split into divisions, each with their own leadership. Today, a few organizations – like Medium, David Allen Consultants, and Zappos – are adopting a radically different, approach to management: holacracy. Authority flowed downwards and your rank determined your responsibility. What’s your mission?

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Groupthink Agility Diversity Information 8

Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

A manager only listens to team members who agree with them, neglecting diverse opinions that could offer a new perspective. Groupthink In an environment where conformity is valued over critical thinking, leaders may disregard their own views or skepticism to avoid conflict.

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Dunning Consensus Groupthink Charisma 86

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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CEO Groupthink Sharpe Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

boards of directors should engage with their companies'' shareholders. firms have historically given the CEO and other management members exclusive responsibility for communicating with investors. companies have started demanding direct access to non-management board members in order to assess the quality of board stewardship.

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Groupthink Banking CEO Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Several years ago, a large, global company asked me to help improve their employee engagement. But inclusiveness is about more than gender, racial or cultural diversity. This doesn’t mean groupthink. Communication Employee retention Leadership Leading teams Managing yourself' Create a shared identity.

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Groupthink Diversity Survey Team 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

How did the stars at that firm manage to shine brightly together, while those at the other merely twinkled on their own? 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. You and Your Team.

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Team How To Efficiency Groupthink 8

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. You’re nothing like me, Ed,” Higginbotham told him. According to our research, a third of U.S. Fill in your gaps.

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How To Diversity Groupthink Career 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. The Indian firms we studied promote diversity in their R&D management by hiring external talent to build and oversee their global innovation network. At the same time, these companies are using foreign expertise to bolster their core business as well.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

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. People who judge prefer having closure, with all loose ends tied up, when managing tasks and making decisions. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series).

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Diversity Ries Creativity Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Diversity is the crucial element for group creativity. Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. Assembling and managing diverse teams is hard work.

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Diversity Creativity Team Groupthink 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

It is no doubt a sign of progress that a significant proportion of organizations and managers today appear to feel guilty when they admit that they are making big management decisions in an intuitive rather than evidence-based way. And, as with any cultural transformation, managers are a critical agent of change.

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Team Groupthink Training Diversity 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Many companies have strong jock cultures, particularly in their sales departments. Many managers prefer to hire former athletes, figuring that someone who’s put in years of (sometimes painful) hard work to become a high-performer in a competitive sport will show the persistence needed to succeed in non-athletic pursuits, too.

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Sports Groupthink Follow-up Team 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

No wonder so many managers choose to avoid advertizing openings. An extensively cited 2010 study found that 42% of hires happened at companies that didn’t report a vacancy. It can also increase the diversity of the people you hire, which has been shown to increase a firm’s competitive advantage.

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Tools Groupthink Advertising Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Complexity is a clear and present danger to both firms and the global financial system: it makes both much harder to manage, govern, audit, regulate and support effectively in times of crisis. This in turn made hoarding money, not lending it, the sanest thing for the banks to do after the crash.).

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Banking Crisis Hedge System 8