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. Taken together, all of us establish a “consensus” view on the markets.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Leaders of color who have developed young talent are 30% more satisfied with their career progress than those who haven’t built that base of support. The more diverse your team, the more likely you’ll have the toolkits necessary to solve the challenges outside your experience — and the less prone you’ll be to the perils of groupthink.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Ask what you’d do if you were entrepreneurs preparing to enter your market de novo. The problem was that their strategy development and internal reviews, like those in many companies, didn’t account for competitive dynamics. Strategy development and internal reviews often focus on precedents, trends, and due diligence.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

And yet federally funded research and development — creativity, institutionalized — is down 20% as a share of America's GDP since the late 1980s. 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. Take a walk.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Additionally, you’re more prone to groupthink if you’re not exposed to diverse perspectives and points of view. 85% of your closest contacts are fellow marketers), it’s time to think consciously about how to diversify. If your network is weighted more than 70% in any direction (e.g.,

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 7, 2019

In it, he interviewed me about my approach to personal development. I reached out to him to learn more about his approach to personal development. Sonnenberg: Did you ever notice that when you’re in the market for a new car, you seem to notice car ads more than usual? It’s very easy to get caught up in groupthink.

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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. Either way, you can end up without the bandwidth to seek out your own projects or skill development. Research what your next move could be and find ways to develop relationships with other leaders. Protect your career options.

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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. Diverse Group. Diversity is the power behind collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

All too often, when marketers talk about their “social strategy,” they really mean a digital marketing strategy implemented on social platforms, rather than using social dynamics to benefit their business. Pepsi actually lost market share and fell to number three in the cola wars for the first time in modern history.

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