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. At the Center for Talent Innovation, we wanted to look into these suspicions.

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Ryan Stephenson Groupthink Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Four strategies were at the core of this transformation: build relationships, establish shared purpose, create shared consciousness, and foster diversity. (1) Conformity creates groupthink, stifling innovation and organizational resilience. 1) Build relationships. In network terms, relationships are connections between nodes.

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Agility Diversity Groupthink Efficiency 15

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

MARCH 27, 2012

Get out of the office and into unfamiliar environments. In a recent piece in The New Yorker exploring the flaws inherent in the groupthink of brainstorming sessions, Jonah Lehrer cited research into the process of free association by psychology professor Charlan Nemeth of the University of California at Berekely. Take a walk.

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Creativity Groupthink Stress GDP 16

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. Fill in your gaps.

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How To Diversity Groupthink Career 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

However, in competitive environments such as work and sports, the classic findings flip : competence is prized over character. Because self-interest can make it hard to truly gain awareness, it helps to make important ethical decisions with a group of people with diverse goals, interests, and motivations. Make it a group effort.

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Meyer Ethics Self-aware Morale 8

Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

Collaborate: The Art of We is a practical guide to going beyond democratic or cooperative work to creating truly collaborative work environments as a growth strategy. It’s teamwork that keeps people with a diverse set of skills, knowledge, information, and perspectives working together effectively and efficiently to achieve their common goal.

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Cooper Groupthink Diversity Teamwork 285

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

To tackle this, organizations must learn to improve the "cognitive diversity" of their people and teams — getting people to think more broadly and diversely about the systems they inhabit. One of the pioneers in this effort is, counterintuitively, the U.S.

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Banking Crisis Hedge System 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Its genius is that rather than try to specify every single feature of our biology, it provides us with rules for adaptation—first, for chemical gradients in the womb and later for the outside environment. Effective corporate genomes perform the same function, establishing core principles that can adapt to local environments.

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Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8