Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

HBR: Why We Keep Hiring Narcissistic CEOs. Smart use of technology can aid organisational change via @MediaplanetUK with ‏@profhamel. Unleashing Creativity And Avoiding Groupthink by Michelle M Smith via @octanner. The Key Traits that Separate CEOs from other Senior Executives via @ChiefExecGrp Chief Executive magazine.

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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. Jon Mertz of Thin Difference shared CEO activism needs a modern-day blueprint.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2016

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

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The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

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

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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. For example, a senior executive in a traditional financial services organization recognized that the organization needed to embrace new technologies in order to engage with Millennials.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

firms have historically given the CEO and other management members exclusive responsibility for communicating with investors. One seasoned director at the meeting I attended argued that only the CEO should speak for the company because outside directors may inadvertently divulge material, non-public (insider) information.

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