Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Relying on SWOT to inform your strategic plans without accounting for cognitive biases results in appalling oversights that ruin profitable businesses and bring down high-flying careers. Groupthink. One particularly big problem is known as groupthink , where groups tend to coalesce around the opinions of a powerful leader.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

This article offers two high-impact strategies to ensure that despite virtual or hybrid configurations, important connections don’t coast to a stop. Dana explains: “ While many of us experience challenges with the Imposter Syndrome earlier in our careers, high stakes jobs bring on imposter feelings with ferocity.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Ibarra is the Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning at INSEAD , and author of, Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Ibarra's book includes many useful self-assessments.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Ibarra is the Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning at INSEAD , and author of, Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Ibarra''s book includes many useful self-assessments. Thanks to the book''s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Championed for many years by pioneering researchers such as Ellen Langer and Jon Kabat-Zinn , mindfulness is a mental orientation and set of strategies for focusing one’s mind on here-and-now experiences, such as abdominal muscle movements during respiration or chirping of birds outside one’s window.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

First, if your network has become too narrow, you limit your options in case of a career change, or a downturn in your company or industry. Additionally, you’re more prone to groupthink if you’re not exposed to diverse perspectives and points of view. To diversify your own network, here are four strategies you can follow.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 7, 2019

It’s very easy to get caught up in groupthink. First, they isolate themselves in closed-door meetings and pontificate their strategy. Rodger Dean Duncan is the bestselling author of LeaderSHOP: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice From Today’s Top Thought Leaders. Follow their lead at your peril. Be your own person.

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