Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A team is a small number of people who are committed to working together to achieve the desired goal. Working together includes talking, sharing ideas, debating issues, collaborating, making decisions, establishing goals, providing feedback, and celebrating success. Do all team members embrace the team’s mission, goals, and values?

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2017

In my view, the #1 killer element is groupthink. That phenomenon, first described by Jerry B Harvey in his article ‘The Abilene Paradox’, highlighted his views on consensus inertia. Ensure your team consensus is real, rather than imagined, by regularly reflecting on the values that underpin your declared purpose. What to do now?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

Setting goals (another tool) is aspirational, but making decisions actually drives action. For comparison, goal-setting best practices helped managers achieve expected results only 30% of the time.) Most business decisions are collaborative, which mean groupthink and consensus work to compound our individual biases.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Networks, on the other hand, become more versatile and creative. As General Stan McChrystal, one of the leaders of the military's move to networks, said in a recent TED Talk : "Instead of giving orders, you're now building consensus and you're building a sense of shared purpose.". (3) The reason is networks. 4) Encourage dissent.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Diversity is the crucial element for group creativity. This is the opposite of groupthink, the creativity-killing phenomenon of too much agreement and too similar perspectives that often paralyzes otherwise great teams. That tension essential to creativity is tough to manage, requiring deft leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Inventive thinking in a team setting is fueled by a blend of talents, skills, and traits that rarely all exist in a single person—such as an ability to see problems through fresh eyes, a knack for understanding a frustrated customer’s complaints, or a flair for turning a creative idea into a profitable innova­tion.

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