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JANUARY 31, 2017

Unleashing Creativity And Avoiding Groupthink by Michelle M Smith via @octanner. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Smart use of technology can aid organisational change via @MediaplanetUK with ‏@profhamel. The Best Leadership Books of 2016. See more on Twitter. * * *.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you’ve ever agreed to a decision at work even when you believe it to be the worst move your company could make, you need to learn how to avoid groupthink. But what is groupthink? Image credit – Freepik What is Groupthink? Understanding what groupthink is and taking measures to avoid it is essential in any workplace.

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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.". We have no issue with the importance of the creative individual to generate focused and powerful ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

Creativity is the most essential skill for navigating an increasingly complex world — or so said 1,500 CEOs across 60 countries in a recent survey by IBM. And yet federally funded research and development — creativity, institutionalized — is down 20% as a share of America's GDP since the late 1980s.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

They are creative, persistent, and resourceful. These events give people a chance to take a step back from their day-to-day work for a moment and think creatively to solve some kind of problem, which is what “hacking” is all about. This helps teams avoid tunnel vision and groupthink, and gets them thinking more creatively.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

You see it in business, in sports, in creative endeavors from movies to magazines. The underlying premise is that it’s not enough to just hire the right people — those with strong values, great potential, and high competence — and develop them as individuals. What made the difference? You and Your Team. Leading Teams.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. Reliance MediaWorks. and the U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

It’s not uncommon to meet a lawyer who’d like to work in renewable energy, or an app developer who’d like to write a novel, or an editor who fantasizes about becoming a landscape designer. Subsidize Your Skill Development. ” In other words, they didn’t want to hear the groupthink. Here’s how.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Networks, on the other hand, become more versatile and creative. They developed a new model that enabled the military to use its size — and its extended network of relationships — as an advantage rather than an impediment. Conformity creates groupthink, stifling innovation and organizational resilience.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

Most business decisions are collaborative, which mean groupthink and consensus work to compound our individual biases. During product development of Cloverpop , our cloud solution for applying behavioral economics to decision making, we performed hundreds of experiments with tens of thousands of decision makers. So what can be done?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2017

You can get trapped in a version of groupthink, with a single set of shared relationships. Your joint creativity and decision making will begin to suffer from insularity, and it’s the more junior member of the duo — you — who’s most likely to be found wanting if performance lags. Protect your career options.

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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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ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 8, 2017

As you can imagine, it resulted in a hot mess of groupthink…complete with vanilla platitudes that can only result from trying to be everything to everyone. Especially when members of your values discovery group are skeptical about the potential impact of spending time on core value development, you must set clear expectations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

Creative, doable alternatives from which to choose the one likely to achieve the most of what you want. However, as anyone who has ever seen groupthink in action knows, any number of otherwise intelligent people can come to agree on nonsense. Conversely, autocratic leaders can simply impose their will.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

It’s the creative part of the collaboration process, in which members of the group move beyond the “same kind of thinking” to come up with new ideas that bring true value to the collaborative effort. Without diversity groupthink sets in. Brainstorming. Diverse Group. Diversity is the power behind collaboration.

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