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.

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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

The good news is that there are ways to consistently make better decisions by using practices and technologies based on behavioral economics. Most business decisions are collaborative, which mean groupthink and consensus work to compound our individual biases. A final reason is technology. So what can be done?

Kahneman 8

Kahneman Groupthink Tools Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

A good producer should be someone who knows how to create a vision, recruit personnel, establish a timeline, raise money, and deliver products. Taken together, all of us establish a “consensus” view on the markets. ” In other words, they didn’t want to hear the groupthink. Discover Real Innovations.

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Career Groupthink Banking Video 8

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. Consensus comes quickly, and only later, when we fail and wonder why, do we realize that the easy agreements and shared conclusions doomed us from the start.

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Diversity Creativity Team Groupthink 14