Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 30, 2023

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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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 8, 2013

In addition to the well-known dangers of groupthink, when leaders exclude Others , they also exclude the varied perspectives and ideas that could help the leaders make better and more imaginative decisions. Meet with the diversity manager to ask how you can contribute toward the organization’s diversity goals.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 29, 2019

At its worst, hiring for culture fit can become a barrier to achieving diversity in your organization. At its best, it’s still a way for hiring managers to get a little lazy and choose candidates they “click” with over more qualified options. That leads to more and more new hires who look more and more like existing employees.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 3, 2018

Or, if on the other hand you build trust by prioritizing people and a collaborative culture, you might overemphasize getting everyone to agree, which can discourage differing opinions and lead to Groupthink. Leadership shouldn't be a solitary venture and neither should exploring how to manage your own strengths and weaknesses.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 25, 2019

The idea of gathering + listening to information that comes from a wide variety (scanning and diversity); allowing-allotting the team to avoid discussing application or synthesis for as long as possible. Your decisions are better with a diversity of challenges, multiple levels of agreement, plus disagreement out of equilibrium.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 18, 2012

This “team of rivals” was able to provide a variety of perspectives and create a tension over the solutions that avoided the traditional, yes-man saturated groupthink sessions that marked so many other president’s cabinets. He speaks, consults and serves on the faculty of management at Oral Roberts University’s College of Business.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Biases can be managed and minimized but total elimination is highly unlikely given the brain thing that’s going on. That is simply not representative of our highly diverse society.” Groupthink says it’s brash extroverts that make the company thrive. Bias mistake #2: Believing that training eliminates bias.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2014

The trick for managers is to cultivate belongingness and uniqueness simultaneously, focusing on diverse talents and experiences without stereotyping or alienating employees, or making them reluctant to share ideas that set them apart and lead to groupthink. . Inclusive leaders are humble.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

In articles in both the New York Times and The New Yorker earlier this year, the concept of brainstorming as introduced in the 1940's by Alex Osborn has been attacked as ineffective and linked to the concept of " Groupthink.". Suffice it to say, we dislike consensus-based "Groupthink" as much as the next person. Here's our advice: 1.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 18, 2012

This “team of rivals” was able to provide a variety of perspectives and create a tension over the solutions that avoided the traditional, yes-man saturated groupthink sessions that marked so many other president’s cabinets. David Burkus is the editor of LDRLB. Leadership burkus creativity lincoln'

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Herminia Ibarra Leadership Leadership Books' Ibarra is the Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning at INSEAD , and author of, Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Thanks to the book''s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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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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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Five Highlights from the 2023 CMI President's Dinner Words CMI Insights / Photography Amanda Forman The evidence about good and bad management; the new CMI president; and all the 2023 award-winners. Bad management harms society: fact “Bad management is bad – on every level,” said CMI’s chief executive Ann Francke OBE in her opening comments.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Surround yourself with a diverse set of views and opinions. Determine whether a decision is based on sound rationale or is being swayed by groupthink. How to Get a Dose of Reality It’s always healthy to practice some uncertainty and park your ego at the door by thinking, “Perhaps I’m wrong about this.”

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

A manager only listens to team members who agree with them, neglecting diverse opinions that could offer a new perspective. Groupthink In an environment where conformity is valued over critical thinking, leaders may disregard their own views or skepticism to avoid conflict.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Today, a few organizations – like Medium, David Allen Consultants, and Zappos – are adopting a radically different, approach to management: holacracy. For all of the sturm und drang surrounding the idea, as we talked I realized a lot of holacracy is just codifying many of the informal elements of good management.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

For that, he leaves a huge legacy in management. Yale psychologist Irving Janis used the debacle to coin the term “groupthink,” which refers to a psychological drive for consensus at any cost that suppresses dissent and appraisal of alternatives. Crisis management Decision making Government'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2017

Last month, in an unprecedented show of solidarity, 150 CEOs from the world’s leading companies banded together to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace and, through an online platform, shared best practices for doing so.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

companies, the guidelines contain helpful (although not entirely novel or innovative) recommendations such as compensating outside directors with stock, giving non-executive directors unfettered access to management, and discouraging the practice of earnings guidance. Intended to strengthen corporate governance at U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

firms have historically given the CEO and other management members exclusive responsibility for communicating with investors. companies have started demanding direct access to non-management board members in order to assess the quality of board stewardship. In recent years, institutional shareholders in U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

How did the stars at that firm manage to shine brightly together, while those at the other merely twinkled on their own? This proprietary model analyzes six critical team competencies: Balance: How well a team understands the importance of diversity of skills and strengths and is willing to incorporate them. You and Your Team.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

But inclusiveness is about more than gender, racial or cultural diversity. This doesn’t mean groupthink. Communication Employee retention Leadership Leading teams Managing yourself' Too often the term is used as a buzzword, read through the lens of demographics. Create a shared identity.

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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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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

A manager only listens to team members who agree with them, neglecting diverse opinions that could offer a new perspective. Groupthink In an environment where conformity is valued over critical thinking, leaders may disregard their own views or skepticism to avoid conflict.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Others, perhaps driven by their own narcissism, pick people who are like them, which kills diversity and breeds groupthink. Buffer , a social media firm, uses them to create virtual teams and pilot novel organizational structures that eschew managers and formal roles. Insight Center. The Future of Collaboration.

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 23, 2017

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. This encouraged serendipitous interactions between people who might not otherwise meet, and that led to bursts of unexpected creativity.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. The Indian firms we studied promote diversity in their R&D management by hiring external talent to build and oversee their global innovation network. Tata Motors appointed Tim Leverthon, who previously led R&D at BMW, as head of its global R&D.

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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. People who judge prefer having closure, with all loose ends tied up, when managing tasks and making decisions. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series).

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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

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

MAY 4, 2015

No wonder so many managers choose to avoid advertizing openings. It can also increase the diversity of the people you hire, which has been shown to increase a firm’s competitive advantage. In 2009, I was hiring aides for a senior IT management job. But hiring like this, by word of mouth, is a mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Many managers prefer to hire former athletes, figuring that someone who’s put in years of (sometimes painful) hard work to become a high-performer in a competitive sport will show the persistence needed to succeed in non-athletic pursuits, too. Third, diverse of points of view are lacking. The experience has stayed with me, however.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

The research of decision scientists reveals that our best strategy for tackling these problems is to harness cognitive diversity, because groups do better than individuals, including those with the highest IQs. Diversity, as Scott Page puts it, trumps ability. Managers need to be mindful of the numerous contributors to path dependence.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

The research of decision scientists reveals that our best strategy for tackling these problems is to harness cognitive diversity, because groups do better than individuals, including those with the highest IQs. Diversity, as Scott Page puts it, trumps ability. Managers need to be mindful of the numerous contributors to path dependence.

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