Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2016

2) Manage paradoxes. Effective leadership is an oscillating mix of head and heart: managing both facts and feelings as well as logic and emotion. 3) Encourage healthy debate and diversity of thought , opinion, and perspective. 3) Encourage healthy debate and diversity of thought , opinion, and perspective. Isaac Newton.

Diversity 150

Diversity Groupthink Leadership Follow-up 150

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

Today, a few organizations – like Medium, David Allen Consultants, and Zappos – are adopting a radically different, approach to management: holacracy. For all of the sturm und drang surrounding the idea, as we talked I realized a lot of holacracy is just codifying many of the informal elements of good management.

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Groupthink Agility Diversity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

firms have historically given the CEO and other management members exclusive responsibility for communicating with investors. companies have started demanding direct access to non-management board members in order to assess the quality of board stewardship. In recent years, institutional shareholders in U.S.

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Groupthink Banking CEO Diversity 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. Leading teams Collaboration Technology'

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Team Groupthink Emotional Intelligence Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Asia's largest IT service provider has built what it calls a global Co-Innovation Network (COIN), which includes technology partnerships with startups and VC firms in Silicon Valley as well as academic tie-ups with leading American universities such as MIT, Georgia Tech, and Stanford.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

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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Team Groupthink Training Diversity 11