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How SWOT Analysis Harms Leaders

Lead Change Blog

For example, consider Saraj, a technology startup founder. Groupthink. One particularly big problem is known as groupthink , where groups tend to coalesce around the opinions of a powerful leader. To me, it was a clear example of groupthink, ignoring the elephant in the room. Overconfidence.

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Get Savvy

Leading Blog

Perhaps what if different today is our ability to so quickly and persuasively disseminate it through technology. Just as we have technology glitches so too do we have human glitches in the way we process information.” Again, it’s not the technologies, it the people who use them. They are us. We Want to Belong.

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

Smart use of technology can aid organisational change via @MediaplanetUK with ‏@profhamel. Unleashing Creativity And Avoiding Groupthink by Michelle M Smith via @octanner. NYT: The Year of Conquering Negative Thinking by Lesley Alderman. The Best Leadership Books of 2016. The Best Leaders Are Great Coaches by @LollyDaskal.

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July 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

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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10 Ways to Keep “Post-truth” From Crippling Your Leadership

Lead Change Blog

In an increasingly connected, technologically savvy, and fast-paced world, difference is the new normal. Discourage groupthink and don’t shoot the messenger. Paul Block, CEO of Merisant, observes, “People with different lifestyles and different backgrounds challenge each other more. Diversity creates dissent, and you need that.

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Work Together or Fail Alone

Coaching Tip

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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Why You Should Care About The Revenue Forecast

The Idolbuster

Product development is always needed to make a new technology robust enough to work consistently in customer hands. He was a Scorpion , a “visionary” who felt that the technology should sell itself. But “ready for customers” is exactly what the CEO wanted to hear.