Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Five Highlights from the 2023 CMI President's Dinner Words CMI Insights / Photography Amanda Forman The evidence about good and bad management; the new CMI president; and all the 2023 award-winners. Bad management harms society: fact “Bad management is bad – on every level,” said CMI’s chief executive Ann Francke OBE in her opening comments.

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Learning-by-Doing Leadership Styles Education Training 105

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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Diversity Groupthink Open-book Bond 287

LDRLB

OCTOBER 29, 2019

At its worst, hiring for culture fit can become a barrier to achieving diversity in your organization. At its best, it’s still a way for hiring managers to get a little lazy and choose candidates they “click” with over more qualified options. That’s a recipe for a leadership disaster.

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Groupthink Diversity Self-aware Human Resources 87

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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How To Groupthink Uncertainty Learning-by-Doing 118

LDRLB

OCTOBER 29, 2019

At its worst, hiring for culture fit can become a barrier to achieving diversity in your organization. At its best, it’s still a way for hiring managers to get a little lazy and choose candidates they “click” with over more qualified options. That’s a recipe for a leadership disaster.

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Groupthink Diversity Self-aware Human Resources 60

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Biases can be managed and minimized but total elimination is highly unlikely given the brain thing that’s going on. 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.” Bias mistake #2: Believing that training eliminates bias.

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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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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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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. He speaks, consults and serves on the faculty of management at Oral Roberts University’s College of Business.

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 23, 2017

There are close parallels here to good leadership and change. Manage time differently. 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.

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Groupthink Open-book Creativity Team 130

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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Team Groupthink Creativity Diversity 79

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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Groupthink Learning-by-Doing Books Trends 50

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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Groupthink Brainstorming Osborne Consensus 15

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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Groupthink Learning-by-Doing Trends Diversity 50

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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Diversity Creativity Team Groupthink 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Companies were split into divisions, each with their own leadership. Today, a few organizations – like Medium, David Allen Consultants, and Zappos – are adopting a radically different, approach to management: holacracy. If these two diverge too much, then management loses legitimacy and trust.

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Groupthink Agility Diversity Information 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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CEO Groupthink Sharpe Committee 8

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

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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Ryan Stephenson Groupthink Politics 8

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. According to our research, a third of U.S. Fill in your gaps.

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How To Diversity Groupthink Career 8

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. Buffer , a social media firm, uses them to create virtual teams and pilot novel organizational structures that eschew managers and formal roles. Insight Center. The Future of Collaboration.

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Team Groupthink Emotional Intelligence Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Many managers prefer to hire former athletes, figuring that someone who’s put in years of (sometimes painful) hard work to become a high-performer in a competitive sport will show the persistence needed to succeed in non-athletic pursuits, too. Third, diverse of points of view are lacking. Leadership Leading teams'

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Sports Groupthink Follow-up Team 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

No wonder so many managers choose to avoid advertizing openings. It can also increase the diversity of the people you hire, which has been shown to increase a firm’s competitive advantage. In 2009, I was hiring aides for a senior IT management job. But hiring like this, by word of mouth, is a mistake.

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Tools Groupthink Advertising Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

A sizable literature in management and psychology helps us understand how people become susceptible to moral biases and make choices that are inconsistent with their values and the values of their organizations. The report suggests loyalty may have been one reason why Meyer did not want to believe or address Smith’s alleged abuse.

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Meyer Ethics Self-aware Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

It is no doubt a sign of progress that a significant proportion of organizations and managers today appear to feel guilty when they admit that they are making big management decisions in an intuitive rather than evidence-based way. And, as with any cultural transformation, managers are a critical agent of change.

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