Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2016

3) Encourage healthy debate and diversity of thought , opinion, and perspective. Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. Diversity creates dissent, and you need that. Discourage groupthink and don’t shoot the messenger. Neither takes precedence over the other because both elements are needed for success.

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Mark Sanborn

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Embrace Diverse Opinions: Consult individuals with different perspectives, including team members and external advisors. Groupthink: The Consensus Conundrum The Trap: The desire for group harmony can lead to unchallenged decision-making and potentially flawed outcomes.

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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. But there’s a problem with the idea of hiring for culture fit as well. That’s a recipe for a leadership disaster.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The optimism bias and pessimism bias, which are prevalent in many businesses and organizations, are just two of over one hundred of these dangerous judgment errors. 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.

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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. But there’s a problem with the idea of hiring for culture fit as well. That’s a recipe for a leadership disaster.

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Groupthink Diversity Self-aware Human Resources 60

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 3, 2018

The A side features those strengths that are most coveted by organizations and teams and that make you valuable. Or, if on the other hand you build trust by prioritizing people and a collaborative culture, you might overemphasize getting everyone to agree, which can discourage differing opinions and lead to Groupthink.

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Leadership Groupthink Leadership Styles Fashion 153

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. Connect – Bring people together to find commonalities and connection to the organization. Antonym Pair: Connect – Enact. What is it?

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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.” To keep this process constructive, organizations must prioritize their values. It’s better to ask children to be helpers than ask them to help.

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Groupthink Creativity Innovation Learning-by-Doing 150

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

To do that, you should: Redefine your job to make time for more strategic work and more work outside your function, unit and even organization. And to do this, you need to develop and practice outsight (versus insight). Diversify your network so that you connect to and learn from a bigger range of stakeholders.

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Groupthink Learning-by-Doing Trends Diversity 50

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

To do that, you should: Redefine your job to make time for more strategic work and more work outside your function, unit and even organization. And to do this, you need to develop and practice outsight (versus insight). Diversify your network so that you connect to and learn from a bigger range of stakeholders.

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Groupthink Learning-by-Doing Books Trends 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2018

Amazon came under fire last week after its board opposed a shareholder proposal to increase the diversity of the board. Companies like Microsoft and Costco use this type of process for their board selection, as increasing diversity of candidate slates is an important step for increasing diversity of the board overall.

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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. The response, at most organizations, is no response. But as Tim Ryan, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

When Alfred Sloan conceived the modern corporation at General Motors, he based it on hierarchical military organizations. Today, a few organizations – like Medium, David Allen Consultants, and Zappos – are adopting a radically different, approach to management: holacracy. That’s a real problem.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But organizations today need to be big and fast. Can organizations be both agile and scalable? But what about organizations? To get bigger and faster, organizations need to be reconceived as networks. Perhaps the most whale-like organization in the world. In nature, there's a tradeoff between size and speed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

I suggested a strengths-based approach to the problem: a search for “hot spots” in the organization where people were highly engaged and performing well. By understanding what was working, we could harness and replicate these factors across the greater organization. This doesn’t mean groupthink. Create a shared identity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

This proprietary model analyzes six critical team competencies: Balance: How well a team understands the importance of diversity of skills and strengths and is willing to incorporate them. Openness: How much a team values engaging with the broader organization and the outside world and builds the connections do so. You and Your Team.

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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. As leaders move up the ladder, they’re increasingly removed from the action on the front lines of the organization.

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How To Diversity Groupthink Career 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The school summarized its decision in a revealing 23-page investigation report , which serves as a useful case study for the way organizations, leaders, and individuals fall victim to moral biases — rationalizations for behaving unethically usually due to one’s self-interest. How Can Organizations and Leaders Tackle Moral Biases?

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Meyer Ethics Self-aware Morale 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. To that end, a number of organizations are using p ersonality profiling to build their teams. Alternatively, they just assemble the smartest folks they can find. Leading teams Collaboration Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

If an organization was built for one purpose, but finds itself advancing the polar opposite, the total inverse, might it be it fair to say it's not just lost its way — but that it's been subverted, commandeered, pirated? Hence, the atmosphere of groupthink. Davos, of course, is far from a forum for the latter.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Having extensively interacted with the leaders of these organizations, we find that Indian firms have developed several best practices around how to implement polycentric innovation effectively: Cultivate a polycentric mindset to make global innovation work. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

This kind of intellectual diversity is more likely to be present when individuals on the team come from different disciplines, backgrounds, and areas of expertise. Its members need the freedom to decide how to achieve goals while also having the discipline to work in alignment with the organization’s strategy.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

We also surveyed 20 of their board members about their reactions to serving on a more gender diverse board. The Champions said that in their experience, most CEOs and board members fail to take the actions needed to increase gender diversity because of fear of change or risk of failure. I want them to be known for their skills.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

Running an open recruitment process – one where the position is openly advertised – can be overwhelming, especially if you don’t have at your disposal an HR department that’s organized to handle the process. This is often the case in small businesses, volunteer organizations, and some government branches.

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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. This puts the organization on a death path. Second, the sports metaphors run out of explanatory steam very fast. Fourth, this all adds up to an exclusionary vibe.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Organizations also have a measure of risk homeostasis, expressed through their culture. People who are naturally more risk-averse or more risk tolerant than the culture of their organizations find themselves pressured, often covertly, to "get in line" or "get packing.".

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Banking Crisis Hedge System 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Now consider the Business Innovation Factory (BIF) , an organization that seeks to bring cutting edge innovation techniques to social initiatives, many of which are similar to those Pepsi Refresh sought to promote. OK, you might say, it’s not fair to compare a large, for-profit enterprise with a mission-driven organization.

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