Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

A S a McKinsey & Company article stated in late March 2020: “What leaders need during a crisis is not a predefined response plan but behaviors and mindsets that will prevent them from overreacting to yesterday’s developments and help them look ahead.”.

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Groupthink In an environment where conformity is valued over critical thinking, leaders may disregard their own views or skepticism to avoid conflict. Also, strategies of successful companies are considered essential for one’s own company even though circumstances may differ substantially.

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Dunning Consensus Groupthink Charisma 86

Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

He helped to build some of Silicon Valley’s greatest companies including Google, Apple, and Intuit and to create over a trillion dollars in market value. Without him, the company would not be where it was today.” The goal of consensus leads to “groupthink” and inferior decisions. Lead Based on First Principles.

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Mark Sanborn

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Groupthink: The Consensus Conundrum The Trap: The desire for group harmony can lead to unchallenged decision-making and potentially flawed outcomes. Be Ready to Pivot: Embrace the courage to discontinue projects when necessary.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Rather, you want to make your company successful AND you want ethics, justice, relationships, and results. To deal with your position going viral within the company? Suppose, though, you understand the importance of economic performance but aren’t willing to do whatever it takes or embrace the notion the ends justify the means.

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Groupthink Ethics Brainstorming Discount 150

LDRLB

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The idea is that if someone is a good fit for your company culture, you can train them on the skills they need. Thus, began a series of books, articles, and interviews with company founders and human resource officers about how they added a “culture fit” interview to the stages of their hiring process.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In trying to sell investors on his company Babble, Rufus Griscom described the hurdles he faced in his own business. When I led with the factors that could kill the company, the response from the board was the exact opposite: oh, these things aren’t so bad.” Dealing with Groupthink. Cohesion in a group doesn’t cause groupthink.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

Dan Sanker states that ironically, in order to remain “competitive” companies will have to become more collaborative. Rather than engaging in an endless tug-of-war over the dwindling crumbs in a finite market, collaborative companies find ways to make the pie bigger, or create whole new pies , expanding everyone’s market and revenue.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

This is why the Imposter Syndrome bedevils us more and more as we rise higher in an organization or move out farther away from organizational groupthink into entrepreneurship to take on more accountability and (potentially) make more costly mistakes. Find Dana on Twitter at @DanaTheus. Bernd Geropp provided How I learned to delegate.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Done intentionally and constructively, not self-destructively, giving your actions one last loving look before moving forward is a good thing—for you, your colleagues, company, community, and workplace culture. Groupthink says it’s brash extroverts that make the company thrive. Go ahead—second guess yourself.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The idea is that if someone is a good fit for your company culture, you can train them on the skills they need. Thus, began a series of books, articles, and interviews with company founders and human resource officers about how they added a “culture fit” interview to the stages of their hiring process.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 27, 2022

The report highlights that while welcome progress has been made on the ethnic and gender diversity of organizations, and especially in leadership roles, they can still succumb to groupthink when people share excessively similar backgrounds and perspectives. ” The best decisions. . ” The best decisions.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2014

The trick for managers is to cultivate belongingness and uniqueness simultaneously, focusing on diverse talents and experiences without stereotyping or alienating employees, or making them reluctant to share ideas that set them apart and lead to groupthink. . Inclusive leaders are humble. Related articles.

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HR Digest

MAY 11, 2019

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. A form of groupthink which prevents individuals from thinking independently. Bandwagon Bias. It is often linked to authority bias.

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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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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 7, 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 Books Trends 50

The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

As I argued in the last post , if you want the company to do the right thing, make sure you have a set of numbers to back it up. The Cambridge dictionary online defines a revenue forecast as “a calculation of the amount of money that a company will receive from sales during a particular period.”. Bad management?

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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. It’s very easy to get caught up in groupthink. Senators, and headed worldwide communications at Campbell Soup Company. Like I said, something good for the soul. Nothing syrupy here.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

But even if the story is full of inaccuracies, and if we put the company’s alleged harshness to one side, Amazon’s approach offers indispensable guidance for companies both large and small when they are deciding how to make group decisions. In short, Amazon discourages conformity and combats groupthink.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

It's fashionable to decry groupthink and it's supposed to be the cause of most bad ideas, but in fact groupthink is necessary to get a team to work together enthusiastically for a common goal. The problem is not groupthink; the problem is bad inputs. Here, it's helpful to understand a little about group dynamics. Very early.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

of corporate board seats at Fortune 1000 companies are held by women (up 1% from the prior year). New research shows that firms with at least one woman director are significantly less likely to restate quarterly or annual earnings than are companies with an all-male slate of directors—40% less likely, researchers say.”

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Let's look at other established entities - like big companies. This isn't a mandate for or against either party; it was a mandate for an economic revolution to get rid of big government and make one that works for the people. Is the government capable of re-inventing itself? Of innovating? In the [.].

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

This is the opposite of groupthink, the creativity-killing phenomenon of too much agreement and too similar perspectives that often paralyzes otherwise great teams. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

A first step in building this kind of culture involves a hiring approach in which companies actively seek those individuals inclined to speak up when ethical challenges surface. Assertive individuals are the ones who can prevent such groupthink by standing up to the pressures of conformity even (or especially) when doing so carries risk.

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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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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

MAY 14, 2018

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. Difference of thought and perspective is what makes companies great. But Amazon’s board recommended voting against the proposal.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Companies that want to help their employees become better stewards of cybersecurity need to go beyond regular trainings on password security and other basic protocols. Shore up your company’s first line of defense. This helps teams avoid tunnel vision and groupthink, and gets them thinking more creatively. Insight Center.

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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. Rebecca Knight.

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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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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. I suggested a strengths-based approach to the problem: a search for “hot spots” in the organization where people were highly engaged and performing well. Create a shared identity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

To overcome “groupthink” start with hiring. Companies like developing their own culture. Fighting groupthink should start at the hiring stage. He tucks the scraps in a drawer, let’s them settle for a year or so, and then pulls them out for a reading over coffee and dessert. It’s pretty funny stuff.

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Tips Groupthink Janis Self-aware 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Although leaders are concerned with collective success, most organizations—from sports teams to universities to global companies—still focus on rewarding individual performance. The majority of Fortune 500 companies reward the most productive individuals, not the most effective groups or indispensable group members.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2013

Many companies are engaging in corporate challenges, such as bike to work day, wellness competitions, community service events, and other activities to help build a sense of teamwork and togetherness. Best practice companies also communicate widely about corporate goals and priorities to unify everyone.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

I conducted a business war game for a company in the food industry. My favorite: Call the water company and tell them you won’t pay your bill. A petrochemicals company planned to disrupt a century-old distribution channel. The company didn’t have a death wish, and its strategists weren’t deficient.

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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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