HR Digest

MAY 11, 2019

Leaders at PricewaterhouseCoopers, for example, go through awareness training. For companies seeking to implement a workplace-wide awareness training, however, it is important to find out the kinds of unconscious bias and their influence on a person or group’s behavior. Let’s take an example: That last piece of pie in the office.

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Examples: A CEO ignores market research that suggests a new product will not be well-received because he or she firmly believes it’s a good idea. Examples: A project leader believes their team can complete a complex project in two months, whereas realistic estimates suggest six.

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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

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

JUNE 10, 2014

Several years ago, a large, global company asked me to help improve their employee engagement. This doesn’t mean groupthink. For example, a leader who can’t spot the emotional angst on an excluded employee’s face will not be able to chance her behavior to make him feel more included. Create a shared identity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

boards of directors should engage with their companies'' shareholders. companies have started demanding direct access to non-management board members in order to assess the quality of board stewardship. I recently participated in a stimulating roundtable discussion on how U.S. In recent years, institutional shareholders in U.S.

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Groupthink Banking CEO Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Bain & Company’s Michael Mankins, Alan Bird, and James Root illustrate all sorts of wonderful examples in the article “Making Star Teams out of Star Players.” And then there are great sports examples, including Kyle Busch’s amazing six-man NASCAR pit crew. You can and should create an A-team.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

I conducted a business war game for a company in the food industry. For example: Imagine it’s the future and you’re saying “I wish we’d thought about X.” My favorite: Call the water company and tell them you won’t pay your bill. You can evaluate those ideas by embracing critical thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Simply put, if you’re already inclined to believe that the French are rude, you will find the examples on your trip to Paris to validate your thesis. To overcome “groupthink” start with hiring. Companies like developing their own culture. Fighting groupthink should start at the hiring stage.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Chief information officers are expected to see deeply into the future and generate IT predictions that companies can build their strategies around. An Asian view of technology, for example, may reveal ideas and trends that haven't migrated across the seas yet. What impact will terahertz frequencies have on communication technologies?

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CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

In my case, I have four vocations: I’m a corporate strategist at a Fortune 500 company, US Navy Reserve officer, author of several books, and record producer. ” In other words, they didn’t want to hear the groupthink. For example, one of my clients wanted to understand what Chinese citizens were saying to each other.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. It is commonly believed that emerging market companies tap Western R&D talent in order to 'move up the value chain.' At the same time, these companies are using foreign expertise to bolster their core business as well. Is your company globalizing R&D?

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ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 8, 2017

While the company has been in business since 2007, our management team had some of the same objections that I initially mentioned. As you can imagine, it resulted in a hot mess of groupthink…complete with vanilla platitudes that can only result from trying to be everything to everyone. 4 – Collaborate to edit and refine.

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Process Groupthink Company Document 52

Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 7, 2019

Sonnenberg, who serves on several boards and consults for companies you would know and respect, writes about issues important to your success. For example, if you believe you’re going to be successful , you’re going to view your prospects differently than if you think people like me never stand a chance. Nothing syrupy here.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

For example, a group needs both expertise in relevant subjects and fresh eyes that can see beyond the established ways of doing things. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, for example, divides thinking preferences into four categories: Extroverted or introverted. For example: What was your best team experience? Assess your team.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

The research , conducted by academic Emily Heaphy and consultant Marcial Losada, examined the effectiveness of 60 strategic-business-unit leadership teams at a large information-processing company. Second, certainly, negative feedback guards against complacency and groupthink. to 1 — by their own example.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

But a comprehensive framework for achieving quality decision-making throughout an organization is still rare — almost three-quarters of companies have no formal corporate-wide approach to making major, complex decisions. For example, one of the company’s refineries needed upgrading to remain competitive in the refining business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

An extensively cited 2010 study found that 42% of hires happened at companies that didn’t report a vacancy. Here’s an example. To avoid the groupthink trap, set the vote cell font color to white, thus obscuring the votes from other team members. No wonder so many managers choose to avoid advertizing openings.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

We recruited our sample from the 36 companies in the S&P500 that have at least 40% women board directors. We interviewed 15 CEOs and one board member who served as the “nomination and governance chair” from these companies. The companies in the sample had an average of 49.8% women on their boards.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

And we don't just adjust perceptions of our own safety, but of others' as well: for example, motorists have been found to pass more closely to bicyclists wearing helmets than those that don't, betting (incorrectly) that helmets make cyclists safer than they actually do.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2019

For example; Knowledge may change as times change, right? For example, nobody in college told you that money and power can be dangerous if you let them become your primary focus. For example, be careful what kind of company you keep. Bad company corrupts good morals. Groupthink is a real thing.

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Cooper Groupthink Leadership Styles Servant Leader 50

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. But consider the example of American Express and its long-running Open Forum initiative. McDonald’s has a great business in India, where beef is taboo and the company must cater to strict vegetarian diets.

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