Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

That being your motivation, how do you step in the opposite direction—away from peer pressure, business norms, groupthink, and the power of conformity—to share a perspective that’s contrary to both expected and rewarded workplace behavior? Do you have a support system to nurture you along the way regardless of the outcome?

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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. At the same time, experts fret that our public school system doesn't foster enough creativity in our future workforce. But I think the declinism is overwrought. Take a walk.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Bio-mechanical systems get more efficient as they get bigger, but they also slow down and become less adaptive. So do social systems like cities and communities. They developed a new model that enabled the military to use its size — and its extended network of relationships — as an advantage rather than an impediment.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Even as someone who has studied alternative management movements , I’ve been skeptical about holacracy, which eschews the standard “org chart” for a system of interlocking “circles.” These days, every enterprise needs to develop a culture of change. Who would they talk to? How would they be received?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

The underlying premise is that it’s not enough to just hire the right people — those with strong values, great potential, and high competence — and develop them as individuals. Teams low in diversity often succumb to groupthink; they agree with each other too quickly and fail to consider novel courses of action.

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Team How To Efficiency Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

They have a healthy mistrust of computer systems and they understand that no software is immune to bugs (and that even without bugs, software will still have security vulnerabilities). This helps teams avoid tunnel vision and groupthink, and gets them thinking more creatively. Sponsored by Varonis.

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Training Software Groupthink Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

In a study of 500 managers and executives, we found that only 2% regularly apply best practices when making decisions, and few companies have systems in place to measure and improve decision making over time. Most business decisions are collaborative, which mean groupthink and consensus work to compound our individual biases.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

What if a round peg develops sharp corners, or a round hole expands over time? With the right processes in place to hire and develop talent, you can retain your high performers without sacrificing your culture. These three strategies can help you create a positive environment and develop employees who prosper within it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

A first pass at the problem resulted in a proposal to install a unit called a flexi-coker — a major system capable of refining a range of crude oil types and minimizing the ultra-heavy coke residual. However, as anyone who has ever seen groupthink in action knows, any number of otherwise intelligent people can come to agree on nonsense.

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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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