Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

This is why the Imposter Syndrome bedevils us more and more as we rise higher in an organization or move out farther away from organizational groupthink into entrepreneurship to take on more accountability and (potentially) make more costly mistakes. Creativity/Inspiration. Find Dana on Twitter at @DanaTheus. Engagement.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

Smart use of technology can aid organisational change via @MediaplanetUK with ‏@profhamel. Unleashing Creativity And Avoiding Groupthink by Michelle M Smith via @octanner. NYT: The Year of Conquering Negative Thinking by Lesley Alderman. The Best Leadership Books of 2016. The Best Leaders Are Great Coaches by @LollyDaskal.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Jonah Lehrer's article, "GroupThink" in The New Yorker , January 30, 2012 states that brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. Exposure to unfamilar perspectives can foster creativity. The most creative spaces are those which hurl us together. But there is a problem with brainstorming.

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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 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. For example, a senior executive in a traditional financial services organization recognized that the organization needed to embrace new technologies in order to engage with Millennials.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

They are creative, persistent, and resourceful. They think in digital terms and have the curiosity and drive to figure out how technology works. Hackers also know a thing or two about the limits of technology. This helps teams avoid tunnel vision and groupthink, and gets them thinking more creatively.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2012

These formed after reading a great article by Susan Cain in the New York Times called "The Rise of the New Groupthink." There is one large exception to this rule: groups that come together digitally, rather than in the real world, are often very creative, innovative, and productive. How can this be?

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