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. What to do now?

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Abilene Paradox Groupthink Consensus Restructuring 272

Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

Willing Participation. Without diversity groupthink sets in. Leadership. People need to be able to talk to one another freely and regularly. Groups that do not have this kind of interaction are nothing more than loose collections of individuals working on their own tasks, toward their own ends. Diverse Group.

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Cooper Groupthink Diversity Teamwork 285

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.". Suffice it to say, we dislike consensus-based "Groupthink" as much as the next person. Here's our advice: 1.

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Groupthink Brainstorming Osborne Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

However, I find it extremely troubling that these luminaries — particularly the participating institutional investors — see such a limited role for non-executive directors to engage directly with shareholders on “governance and key shareholder issues,” leaving the job largely to the CEO. ” (Emphasis added.).

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CEO Groupthink Sharpe Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

As an executive coach and physician, I often sing the praises of mindfulness approaches and recommend them to clients to manage stress, avoid burnout, enhance leadership capacity, and steady their minds when in the midst of making important business decisions, career transitions, and personal life changes. The groupthink risk.

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Stress Self-aware Groupthink Ethics 8

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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Process Groupthink Company Document 52