RapidStart Leadership
MAY 25, 2017
The friction of ideas and concepts rubbing against each other can produce a spark of creativity that you can’t get in a consensus environment. When everyone focuses on agreeing and trying to please, you’ll soon find yourself on the Bus to Abilene , a special kind of purgatory for specialists in groupthink. Patton Click To Tweet.
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
On average, creative geniuses weren’t qualitatively better in their fields than their peers. The best judges of creative ideas are fellow creators. Procrastination can improve our creativity. They move before the market can support their idea. Dealing with Groupthink. Cohesion in a group doesn’t cause groupthink.
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Leading Blog
MARCH 13, 2012
Rather than engaging in an endless tug-of-war over the dwindling crumbs in a finite market, collaborative companies find ways to make the pie bigger, or create whole new pies , expanding everyone’s market and revenue. Without diversity groupthink sets in. Brainstorming. Diverse Group. Diversity is the power behind collaboration.
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. Everyone is just like us — say, marketers or engineers. We've all been on these teams.
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.
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. One strategy that can significantly help teams avoid the dangers of Groupthink and successfully respond to emerging threats and opportunities is to create structured debates.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. In recent years, Indian firms such as Dr Reddy's have also started globalizing their R&D footprint by moving into Western markets. Reliance MediaWorks. and the U.K.
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