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Want to build high-performing teams?

Coaching Tip

The trick for managers is to cultivate belongingness and uniqueness simultaneously, focusing on diverse talents and experiences without stereotyping or alienating employees, or making them reluctant to share ideas that set them apart and lead to groupthink. . Catalyst Take on Women Leaders in 2013. Inclusive leaders are humble.

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What Amazon’s Board Is Getting Wrong About Diversity and Hiring

Harvard Business Review

In a paper that’s currently under review, my colleagues and I researched who was interviewed for the 35 head coaching positions the NFL has seen open over the last five years (2013–2017). Of the coaches who have been hired over this period, 29 have been white men and six have been black men.

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Four Keys to Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business Review

Also see psychologist Maria Konnikova’s 2013 Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. He was convinced that this otherwise entirely pleasant socializing and socialization led invariably to a kind of groupthink among the community of experts. His logic was simple. We all prize it.