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Are You Ready for Recovery?

Leading Blog

To explain further, in a crisis, using diverse perspectives enables the unthinkable to be brought to the table, it avoids groupthink and enables more effective solutions. This allows them to take a pause, stand back and allow the distributed responsibilities to be exercised by teams that they have assembled, using all these capacities.

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Why Work Is Lonely

Harvard Business Review

It portrays a smiling executive team around a long table. I have a name for this cocktail of deference, conformity and passive aggression that chokes people and teams. Early in my career, I was sympathetic to that analysis. It is different from “groupthink.” The chairman is asking, “All in favor?” Everyone’s hand is up.