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Scott Adams Racist Rant: 5 Lessons for Every HR Professional & Business Leader

Modern Servant Leader

First, a lack of diversity in your employee base will result in groupthink. The reality is he created his own groupthink. Second, diversity extends well beyond the workplace. But diversity, good diversity, comes from executives and leaders who consume diverse information of all forms and well beyond the office.

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How to Turn a Wrong Into a Right

Frank Sonnenberg Online

Surround yourself with a diverse set of views and opinions. Determine whether a decision is based on sound rationale or is being swayed by groupthink. Plus, it provides an opportunity to learn from it, make a course correction, and move on. Here are 15 ways to get a dose of reality: Listen don’t just talk. Ignoring them is not.

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Five highlights from the 2023 CMI President’s Dinner

Chartered Management Institute

We’ve seen toxic cultures allowed to flourish in large and high-profile organisations, erratic leadership behaviours, groupthink and boardrooms struggling to maintain control. To ensure that CMI’s Chartered offer reaches a more diverse cohort of people and more organisations. In 2023, many fell below those standards.

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How to Make a Team of Stars Work

Harvard Business Review

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. Of course they do, if you structure and lead them properly. Do you have enough diversity of skills and strengths? You and Your Team.

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You Don’t Need to Adopt Holacracy to Get Some of Its Benefits

Harvard Business Review

Holacracy, inspired by Agile software development , is optimized for adaptation, making these types of adjustments as a matter of course. How do you balance cohesion and diversity? What’s really important is to balance cohesion and diversity. Wal-Mart and Sears. What if the next great entrepreneur already works for you?

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Ten Things You're Not Allowed to Say at Davos

Harvard Business Review

Davos, of course, is far from a forum for the latter. That model of global growth, of course, was the one made prominent by none other than the WEF throughout the noughties. Hence, the atmosphere of groupthink. This great crisis is in our economy — and so it might be of our society, culture, and polity.

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How to Choose the Right Protégé

Harvard Business Review

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. Of course, this investment more than pays for itself in terms of what the protégé returns. Fill in your gaps.

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