Consensus Groupthink Innovation Management 
Mark Sanborn
SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking. A manager only listens to team members who agree with them, neglecting diverse opinions that could offer a new perspective. A manager ignores potential issues with a new initiative because they don’t want to be the only one questioning it.
Talent Anarchy 1
JULY 18, 2017
He’s a wildly popular professor of management and psychology at Wharton, has written two great books ( Give and Take and Originals ), recently co-wrote a new book with Sheryl Sandberg called Option B , and his Ted Talks have been viewed by more than 9 million people. It’s certainly deadly to innovation.
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Leading Blog
MAY 8, 2019
The best coach for any team is the manager who leads that team. Being a good coach is essential to being a good manager and leader. Coaching is no longer a specialty; you cannot be a good manager without being a good coach.”. Your Title Makes You A Manager, Your People Make You A Leader. Best Idea, Not Consensus.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 25, 2012
In articles in both the New York Times and The New Yorker earlier this year, the concept of brainstorming as introduced in the 1940's by Alex Osborn has been attacked as ineffective and linked to the concept of " Groupthink.". Suffice it to say, we dislike consensus-based "Groupthink" as much as the next person.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 11, 2012
Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. This is the opposite of groupthink, the creativity-killing phenomenon of too much agreement and too similar perspectives that often paralyzes otherwise great teams.
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. In some rare cases, individuals are able to push back against team consensus and help organizations recognize and proactively respond to changes in the competitive landscape.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 21, 2015
A choir can’t perform well if it’s made up of all sopranos; similarly, on an innovative team, you won’t achieve good results with people whose strengths and styles are all the same. People who judge prefer having closure, with all loose ends tied up, when managing tasks and making decisions. Judging or perceiving.
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