Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

Transpersonal Leadership is a concept that my colleagues and I at LeaderShape Global have been developing for over 10 years. The next area to consider is the crucial importance of distributed Leadership, which follows naturally from the transpersonal perspective. Anybody can travel the path to Transpersonal Leadership.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 30, 2023

What is even better than a really good book about leadership? Since the first edition's publishing, Ibarra explains that the world has changed and so must one's leadership skills and style. Since the first edition's publishing, Ibarra explains that the world has changed and so must one's leadership skills and style.

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Mark Sanborn

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Leadership, especially at the C-level, is a journey of high-stakes decisions and complex challenges. Embrace Diverse Opinions: Consult individuals with different perspectives, including team members and external advisors. Foster Healthy Debate: Cultivate an environment where diverse viewpoints are valued and encouraged.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 8, 2013

In addition to the well-known dangers of groupthink, when leaders exclude Others , they also exclude the varied perspectives and ideas that could help the leaders make better and more imaginative decisions. Consider, for example, that 89% of the American public say that they are comfortable with women in senior leadership roles.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 29, 2019

At its worst, hiring for culture fit can become a barrier to achieving diversity in your organization. When it comes to diversity, culture fit doesn’t automatically mean the hiring process will be discriminatory. That’s a recipe for a leadership disaster. But there’s a problem with the idea of hiring for culture fit as well.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Devil’s advocates are also good at preventing groupthink , the tendency for a group to coalesce around the opinion of the most powerful person in the room. Power in Diversity. This rather simple change drastically improved meetings and employee engagement. This, in turn, secures an organization’s success for the long term.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 29, 2019

At its worst, hiring for culture fit can become a barrier to achieving diversity in your organization. When it comes to diversity, culture fit doesn’t automatically mean the hiring process will be discriminatory. That’s a recipe for a leadership disaster. But there’s a problem with the idea of hiring for culture fit as well.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Dealing with Groupthink. Cohesion in a group doesn’t cause groupthink. If you’re going to build a strong culture, it’s paramount to make diversity one of your core values.” Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *. It’s better to ask children to be helpers than ask them to help.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

An important aspect of leadership is to turn around and see who is following you. That is simply not representative of our highly diverse society.” Groupthink says it’s brash extroverts that make the company thrive. If those who follow you all look and behave just like you, something is wrong.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2014

Make employees feel more included at work, says Catalyst’s new global report, Inclusive Leadership: The View From Six Countries , which surveyed over 1,500 employees from Australia, China (Shanghai), Germany, India, Mexico and the United States. Awakened Leadership through Personal Coaching. . Inclusive leaders are humble.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 25, 2019

The idea of gathering + listening to information that comes from a wide variety (scanning and diversity); allowing-allotting the team to avoid discussing application or synthesis for as long as possible. Your decisions are better with a diversity of challenges, multiple levels of agreement, plus disagreement out of equilibrium.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 18, 2012

This “team of rivals” was able to provide a variety of perspectives and create a tension over the solutions that avoided the traditional, yes-man saturated groupthink sessions that marked so many other president’s cabinets.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Contrary to popular opinion, Ibarra argues that you have to act your way into a new type of leadership thinking instead of thinking your way into it. Doing things -- rather than simply thinking about them -- will increase your outsight on what leadership is all about," explains Ibarra. What do they do especially well?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

In articles in both the New York Times and The New Yorker earlier this year, the concept of brainstorming as introduced in the 1940's by Alex Osborn has been attacked as ineffective and linked to the concept of " Groupthink.". Suffice it to say, we dislike consensus-based "Groupthink" as much as the next person. Here's our advice: 1.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 18, 2012

This “team of rivals” was able to provide a variety of perspectives and create a tension over the solutions that avoided the traditional, yes-man saturated groupthink sessions that marked so many other president’s cabinets. Leadership burkus creativity lincoln' David Burkus is the editor of LDRLB.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Contrary to popular opinion, Ibarra argues that you have to act your way into a new type of leadership thinking instead of thinking your way into it. Doing things -- rather than simply thinking about them -- will increase your outsight on what leadership is all about," explains Ibarra. What do they do especially well?

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Scroll for more Shortcut to start of content The public expects institutions and big businesses to show high standards of leadership and management. We’ve seen toxic cultures allowed to flourish in large and high-profile organisations, erratic leadership behaviours, groupthink and boardrooms struggling to maintain control.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

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. How to Have a Fresh Perspective Counterfeit Leadership Failing Doesn’t Make You a Failure If you like this article, subscribe to our blog so that you don’t miss a single post.

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Leadership is not an easy task, and even the best leaders are susceptible to errors in thinking that can hinder decision-making and, ultimately, organizational success. Recognizing and avoiding these pitfalls can significantly enhance leadership effectiveness. Also know as “throwing good money after bad money.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

And new models of leadership are emerging from some unlikely places. 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. Is it possible?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Companies were split into divisions, each with their own leadership. Frank and honest leadership is usually enough. How do you balance cohesion and diversity? What’s really important is to balance cohesion and diversity. Authority flowed downwards and your rank determined your responsibility. What’s yours?

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

This is what “inclusive leadership” really looks like. But inclusiveness is about more than gender, racial or cultural diversity. This doesn’t mean groupthink. Inclusive leadership also requires an emotional skill-set: the ability to recognize emotion, to understand what’s being felt and why, and to use emotion effectively.

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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. Using your power is about developing others, helping them achieve their leadership potential. Fill in your gaps.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

In addition, shareholders don’t necessarily want directors and management to speak “with one voice” (another commonly cited reason for assigning shareholder engagement to the CEO) and value diversity of views that may suggest a board is looking at important matters holistically and has not succumbed to groupthink.

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 23, 2017

There are close parallels here to good leadership and change. Great teams have members with diverse perspectives and experiences. But after a while, even the best ones can descend into groupthink and lose their creative edge. And we look forward to finding new places to discover and explore. Disruption for the Good.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Others, perhaps driven by their own narcissism, pick people who are like them, which kills diversity and breeds groupthink. We are finding that typical top leadership teams are heavy on results and light on relationships and process. Alternatively, they just assemble the smartest folks they can find.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In fact, when Coach Meyer informed the university leadership about Smith’s firing, the report said he “conveyed his regret in firing Bruce’s grandson, not his disappointment of Smith’s behavior.” It stated that Smith’s grandfather, Earle Bruce, was a long-time mentor of Meyer. Make it a group effort.

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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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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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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

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. Diverse Group. Diversity is the power behind collaboration. Without diversity groupthink sets in. Leadership. Common Purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Third, diverse of points of view are lacking. Groupthink sets in, and teams tend to keep pursuing the same strategy, whether it’s working or not. My new leadership team hadn’t anticipated this effect. Leadership Leading teams' Second, the sports metaphors run out of explanatory steam very fast. Productivity soared.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

It can also increase the diversity of the people you hire, which has been shown to increase a firm’s competitive advantage. To avoid the groupthink trap, set the vote cell font color to white, thus obscuring the votes from other team members. Don’t fret about the exact relevance of these fields to your particular opening.

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