HR Digest

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you’ve ever agreed to a decision at work even when you believe it to be the worst move your company could make, you need to learn how to avoid groupthink. But what is groupthink? Image credit – Freepik What is Groupthink? Understanding what groupthink is and taking measures to avoid it is essential in any workplace.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2019

Not only does this foster groupthink, but it most often creates a toxic us versus them mentality “often leading to the demonization of the ‘other’ and contributing to discrimination and sometimes violence.” “The more often we her something, the more familiar it becomes, and familiarity breeds trust.” We Want to Belong.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For most of us we are not like the conceptual innovators that formulate a big idea early on in life and act on it. We are probably more like the experimental innovators that move through idea after idea, learning and evolving as they go. Dealing with Groupthink. Cohesion in a group doesn’t cause groupthink.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

This is why the Imposter Syndrome bedevils us more and more as we rise higher in an organization or move out farther away from organizational groupthink into entrepreneurship to take on more accountability and (potentially) make more costly mistakes. Find Dana on Twitter at @DanaTheus. Bernd Geropp provided How I learned to delegate.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 13, 2022

Of course, the researchers accept that teams are not always ideal, and there are various aspects of team dynamics that can hinder us, whether it’s groupthink or uneven power balances.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Daisy Hooper , CMI’s head of policy and innovation, appeared in BusinessGreen last week, pointing out the key role for apprenticeships in the transition to a low-carbon economy. She also offers advice in The Times on how to overcome “groupthink,” where leaders remain unchallenged and team members withhold their views. Play clip ].

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2022

Three research-backed strategies to keep innovative ideas flowing.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

These are questions that require you to challenge groupthink, conventional wisdom, and your own biases. For example, you can make more money but will have less free time; you can fix the bottom line but will have to lay off workers; you can liberate a country but will cause damage and death.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Is groupthink a habit in our team, or are we frequently seeking out new and different ways of solving our problems? Can I share my own perspectives? Is it possible for me to share a creative idea or a point of view that differs from the remainder of the group?

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Talent Anarchy 1

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Innovation is often a product of the intersection—the place where different perspectives, different heuristics, and different experiences crash into each other. Disagreement is not only natural between people, it is also valuable. It’s the engine that drives robust social processes such as decision-making and problem-solving.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2014

In China, employee perceptions of inclusion accounted for 78% of innovation and 71% of team citizenship. In Mexico, they accounted for 51% of innovation and 60% of team citizenship. In India, they accounted for 62% of innovation and 43% of team citizenship. Inclusive leaders are humble.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Of innovating? This isn't a mandate for or against either party; it was a mandate for an economic revolution to get rid of big government and make one that works for the people. Is the government capable of re-inventing itself? Let's look at other established entities - like big companies. In the [.].

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

The goal of consensus leads to “groupthink” and inferior decisions. Innovation Is Where the Crazy People Have Stature. The manager's job is to run a decision-making process that ensures all perspectives get heard and considered, and, if necessary, to break ties and make the decision. Lead Based on First Principles.

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HR Digest

MAY 11, 2019

The tendency to favor innovative ideas coming from authority figures within innovation teams. A form of groupthink which prevents individuals from thinking independently. Pro-Innovation Bias. New ideas and innovations are seen as inherently good, regardless of the potential negative impacts. Authority Bias.

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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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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. ” The best decisions.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The authors believe that while these results may seem a dangerous example of groupthink in action, this conformity to the group norms may actually have played a part in human survival. ” Adaptive conformity. “Looking to other people, and how they approach a justice dilemma, can—although not always—be a useful thing.”

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Jonah Lehrer's article, "GroupThink" in The New Yorker , January 30, 2012 states that brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. But there is a problem with brainstorming. It doesn't work. Scientific advances have lead to a situation where all the remaining problems are incredibly hard.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). Innovation Book. When groups simply get together and start throwing out ideas, they actually come up with fewer ideas overall and fewer novel, actionable ideas than the individuals in that group would have come up with had they worked alone. Further Reading. Harvard Business Review.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In prior blog posts, we have described how Western multinationals such as Xerox and GE are embracing polycentric innovation by sourcing more R&D capabilities from emerging markets such as India and China and integrating them into a synergistic global innovation network. Integrate with local innovation ecosystems.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. One strategy that can significantly help teams avoid the dangers of Groupthink and successfully respond to emerging threats and opportunities is to create structured debates.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2017

To drive home the urgency, the coalition’s website, CEOAction.com , directs visitors to research showing that diverse teams and inclusive leaders unleash innovation, eradicate groupthink, and spur market growth. At the Center for Talent Innovation, we wanted to look into these suspicions. But as Tim Ryan, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

Private R&D spending has also tailed off since then, when it brought us breakthrough innovations like laser printing, the Ethernet, the graphical user interface, and the mouse. And that's because some of the best paths to encourage innovation are surprisingly simple. But I think the declinism is overwrought.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2012

These formed after reading a great article by Susan Cain in the New York Times called "The Rise of the New Groupthink." There is one large exception to this rule: groups that come together digitally, rather than in the real world, are often very creative, innovative, and productive. How can this be?

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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. Scroll for more Shortcut to start of content The public expects institutions and big businesses to show high standards of leadership and management.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2011

In business, this is a sure recipe for groupthink. The box of "Chief Innovation Officer" or any other title. Dan Burrier is Chief Innovation Officer at Ogilvy & Mather, North America, but his business card is blank, except for an email address: dan.burrier@ogilvy.com. A colleague of mine, Rob Mathias who runs our D.C.

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking. Groupthink In an environment where conformity is valued over critical thinking, leaders may disregard their own views or skepticism to avoid conflict. Also know as “throwing good money after bad money.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

But overreliance on these firms leads to industry groupthink, and complexity-theory research tells us that it's impossible to predict the behavior of a large system (such as the world of tech innovation) beyond the next few moves.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Large cities have higher income, lower crime rates, and more rapid innovation. Yet inside this massive structure is a surprising amount of innovation in the area of organizational design and decision-making. Conformity creates groupthink, stifling innovation and organizational resilience. The reason is networks.

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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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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. In our consulting work, we use a personality test to see whether teams have people playing five key roles necessary for performance: results, relationships, process, innovation, and pragmatism.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Thus, constructive dissent needs to be explicitly valued in organizations to avoid groupthink and bad decision-making. To create a culture where constructive feedback and innovation flourishes, leaders should also encourage their employees to pursue organizational goals rather than simply follow organizational norms.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

” In other words, they didn’t want to hear the groupthink. Discover Real Innovations. And most of my asset manager clients were looking for something different: “Give me a contrarian perspective.” For example, one of my clients wanted to understand what Chinese citizens were saying to each other.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In earlier research , the Center for Talent Innovation explored the importance of finding the right sponsor. Just as companies need a diverse workforce to remain attuned to the needs of new and emerging markets and to develop innovative products that compete in a rapidly evolving marketplace, sponsors need protégés who mirror those markets.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Susan Cain Crown Publishers (2012) How and why our location on “the introvert-extrovert spectrum” influences most (if not all) of our decisions and opinions Throughout most of her book, Susan Cain takes a balanced approach to the immensely difficult task of examining the [.].

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

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. Turning a critic into a passionate advocate and supporter is a great goal in innovation. Diversity is the crucial element for group creativity.

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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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