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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Groupthink Learning-by-Doing Trends Diversity 50

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 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. According to our research, a third of U.S. Fill in your gaps.

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How To Diversity Groupthink Career 8

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. How tools are changing the way we manage, learn, and get things done. Insight Center.

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 23, 2017

If your goals involve growth, that’s not the way of the future. Manage time differently. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

A sizable literature in management and psychology helps us understand how people become susceptible to moral biases and make choices that are inconsistent with their values and the values of their organizations. Make it a group effort.

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Meyer Ethics Self-aware Morale 8

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. Excerpted from.

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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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Diversity Creativity Team Groupthink 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

It is no doubt a sign of progress that a significant proportion of organizations and managers today appear to feel guilty when they admit that they are making big management decisions in an intuitive rather than evidence-based way. And, as with any cultural transformation, managers are a critical agent of change.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Complexity is a clear and present danger to both firms and the global financial system: it makes both much harder to manage, govern, audit, regulate and support effectively in times of crisis. This in turn made hoarding money, not lending it, the sanest thing for the banks to do after the crash.).

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