Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Embrace Diverse Perspectives Surround yourself with individuals who see the world differently. Embrace the idea that diverse cognitive styles, such as those of the operator, strategist, rainmaker, visionary, tech futurist, and orchestrator, are all crucial for a balanced and effective team.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 27, 2022

Diversity has long been recognized in terms of its importance to things like innovation and creativity, with research from MIT showing how cognitive diversity improves the profitability of organizations. Such diversity can have costs, however, as paper from Wharton illustrates. Constructive disagreement. Struggling to diversify.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

A Transpersonal Leader operates beyond their own ego and personal drivers and balances the needs of all the organization’s stakeholders. To explain further, in a crisis, using diverse perspectives enables the unthinkable to be brought to the table, it avoids groupthink and enables more effective solutions.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Dealing with Groupthink. Cohesion in a group doesn’t cause groupthink. There’s a fine line between having a strong culture and operating like a cult.” If you’re going to build a strong culture, it’s paramount to make diversity one of your core values.” When what they need to do is look for advice that challenges them. “If

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Eighteen months earlier, he’d made arguably the worst decision he ever made, to support an ill-conceived covert operation to unseat Fidel Castro, known today as the Bay of Pigs fiasco. The whole idea was to solicit diverse viewpoints, stimulate debate, explore options, probe assumptions, and let the best plan win on its merits.

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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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