Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2017

In my view, the #1 killer element is groupthink. He believed, as I do, that groupthink erodes values; stifles critical thinking, limits creativity; enables undue influence of direction; and, allows inequity of action. So what is that profound issue, that killer component? However, that seems all too often not to happen.

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Abilene Paradox Groupthink Consensus Restructuring 272

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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Groupthink Brainstorming Osborne Consensus 15

RapidStart Leadership

MAY 23, 2017

There are close parallels here to good leadership and change. You have to constantly try new things to see what might work better, stimulate more creativity, or create new opportunities. Sometimes just a physical change of location can stimulate creativity and change perspective. Everything seems fresh and full of opportunity.

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Groupthink Open-book Creativity Team 130

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

The research , conducted by academic Emily Heaphy and consultant Marcial Losada, examined the effectiveness of 60 strategic-business-unit leadership teams at a large information-processing company. Second, certainly, negative feedback guards against complacency and groupthink. But the real question is — in what proportion?

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360-Degree Feedback Groupthink Construction Self-aware 14

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. They are welcome to look at values from other organizations that they believe have a similar culture to get the creative juices flowing. 9 – Live your values everyday.

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Process Groupthink Company Document 52

Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

Willing Participation. 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. Leadership. Brainstorming. Diverse Group.

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Cooper Groupthink Diversity Teamwork 285