HR Digest

MAY 11, 2019

It is a product of our encounters from childhood to adulthood – both what you experienced yourself and saw others experiencing around you – and cannot be unlearned. A form of groupthink which prevents individuals from thinking independently. From a survival standpoint, bias serves a purpose. Bandwagon Bias. Conformity Bias.

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Groupthink Loyalty Ethics Training 102

The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

Research created an elaborate robotic system to streamline the user experience for one of the flagship product lines. After a few experiments, they pronounced it ready to ship to customers, and did not need to go through a formal development process. I cringed when I heard the story.

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Biotechnology Groupthink CFO Stress 41

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We’ve seen toxic cultures allowed to flourish in large and high-profile organisations, erratic leadership behaviours, groupthink and boardrooms struggling to maintain control. It’s no coincidence that the UK is suffering from low productivity and stalled growth. In 2023, many fell below those standards.

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Learning-by-Doing Leadership Styles Education Training 105

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Sometimes these events are related to the product or business, but they can also be focused around something else entirely. This helps teams avoid tunnel vision and groupthink, and gets them thinking more creatively. They also keep internal security and product teams coordinating closely as new products and features are developed.

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Training Software Groupthink Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

A mission is why an enterprise exists, its purpose over and above delivering a bundle of products and services. Holacracy, inspired by Agile software development , is optimized for adaptation, making these types of adjustments as a matter of course. These days, every enterprise needs to develop a culture of change.

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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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Creativity Groupthink Stress GDP 16

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. ” In other words, they didn’t want to hear the groupthink. Here’s how.

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Career Groupthink Banking Video 8

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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How To Diversity Groupthink Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

Most business decisions are collaborative, which mean groupthink and consensus work to compound our individual biases. During product development of Cloverpop , our cloud solution for applying behavioral economics to decision making, we performed hundreds of experiments with tens of thousands of decision makers.

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Kahneman Groupthink Tools Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. Reliance MediaWorks.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

And in any company, it’s natural for cliques to develop, and for people with similar interests to band together—whether the groups consist of people who do yoga at lunchtime, gossip about reality TV shows, or knit. Groupthink sets in, and teams tend to keep pursuing the same strategy, whether it’s working or not. Productivity soared.

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Sports Groupthink Follow-up Team 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The most productive creative teams often exhibit characteristics that seem contradictory. Organizational Development Book. Diversity of thought and perspective can protect your team from groupthink and can spark creative abrasion , a process in which potential solutions are generated, explored, and altered through debate and discourse.

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Diversity Ries Creativity Groupthink 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