Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

And, when you diversify your network , Ibarra explains that you will be using networking as an essential leadership tool by: Sensing trends and seeing opportunities Building ties to opinion leaders and talent in diverse areas Working collaboratively across boundaries to create more value Avoiding groupthink Generating breakthrough ideas Obtaining career (..)

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FEBRUARY 7, 2015

And, when you diversify your network , Ibarra explains that you will be using networking as an essential leadership tool by: Sensing trends and seeing opportunities Building ties to opinion leaders and talent in diverse areas Working collaboratively across boundaries to create more value Avoiding groupthink Generating breakthrough ideas Obtaining career (..)

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2018

Amazon came under fire last week after its board opposed a shareholder proposal to increase the diversity of the board. Companies like Microsoft and Costco use this type of process for their board selection, as increasing diversity of candidate slates is an important step for increasing diversity of the board overall.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Four strategies were at the core of this transformation: build relationships, establish shared purpose, create shared consciousness, and foster diversity. (1) Conformity creates groupthink, stifling innovation and organizational resilience. Back then, the goal was size not speed, and the challenge was coordination not complexity.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Ed Gadsden, former chief diversity officer at Pfizer, once asked his sponsor, the legal scholar and federal judge Leon Higginbotham, why he took such an interest in him, aside from the fact they were both African American. You’re nothing like me, Ed,” Higginbotham told him. Fill in your gaps. Limit yourself to a select few.

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 23, 2017

If your goals involve growth, that’s not the way of the future. Great teams have members with diverse perspectives and experiences. But after a while, even the best ones can descend into groupthink and lose their creative edge. If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. Lao Tzu Click To Tweet.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Resolving that tension involves balancing individuals’ agendas and the goals of the group. Others, perhaps driven by their own narcissism, pick people who are like them, which kills diversity and breeds groupthink. Alternatively, they just assemble the smartest folks they can find.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Because self-interest can make it hard to truly gain awareness, it helps to make important ethical decisions with a group of people with diverse goals, interests, and motivations. To avoid groupthink regarding ethical challenges, organizations should have people in the decision-making process who represent a broad host of stakeholders.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

This kind of intellectual diversity is more likely to be present when individuals on the team come from different disciplines, backgrounds, and areas of expertise. Its members need the freedom to decide how to achieve goals while also having the discipline to work in alignment with the organization’s strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Diversity is the crucial element for group creativity. Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. Assembling and managing diverse teams is hard work.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Indeed, being data-driven has joined the ranks of “innovative”, “diverse”, and “socially responsible” as the one of most laudable features of organizational culture, at least if we go by company websites. Instead, celebrate critical thinking, curiosity, and the deeper desire to question things.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

We also surveyed 20 of their board members about their reactions to serving on a more gender diverse board. The Champions said that in their experience, most CEOs and board members fail to take the actions needed to increase gender diversity because of fear of change or risk of failure. I want them to be known for their skills.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

Collaboration is distinct from cooperation in that “although both cooperating parties may achieve a common goal, they do not necessarily enhance each other’s capacity. Plan for Achieving the Goal. Diverse Group. Diversity is the power behind collaboration. Without diversity groupthink sets in. Brainstorming.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

To tackle this, organizations must learn to improve the "cognitive diversity" of their people and teams — getting people to think more broadly and diversely about the systems they inhabit. One of the pioneers in this effort is, counterintuitively, the U.S.

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