Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

” Some are huge project teams, like the 600 Apple engineers who successfully developed the revolutionary OS X operating system in just two years (compared with the five years it took 10,000 Microsoft engineers to develop, and eventually retract, Microsoft’s Windows Vista). You and Your Team. Leading Teams.

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Team How To Efficiency Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, which helps it attract world-class engineers who share its mission. Without cohesion, there is no common purpose, but without diversity groupthink will set in and eventually that purpose will lose relevance.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Agility Diversity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

This helps teams avoid tunnel vision and groupthink, and gets them thinking more creatively. If vulnerabilities are found and fixed, they should work with the software architects, designers, and engineers to help them avoid making similar mistakes in the future.

Training 8

Training Software Groupthink Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Additionally, you’re more prone to groupthink if you’re not exposed to diverse perspectives and points of view. ” He had spent a decade at a large technology company, rising to become an engineering director. But it occurred to him that his entire professional network consisted of people from that company.

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Industry Venture Capitalist Bond Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Groupthink sets in, and teams tend to keep pursuing the same strategy, whether it’s working or not. In fact, a few years ago I took many dozens engineers from foreign countries to Yankee Stadium. Second, the sports metaphors run out of explanatory steam very fast. Third, diverse of points of view are lacking. I was mediocre.)

Sports 9

Sports Groupthink Follow-up Team 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

And that was just from one company's private R&D engine, Xerox's PARC. In a recent piece in The New Yorker exploring the flaws inherent in the groupthink of brainstorming sessions, Jonah Lehrer cited research into the process of free association by psychology professor Charlan Nemeth of the University of California at Berekely.

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Creativity Groupthink Stress GDP 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. Suzlon's head of technology is John O'Halloran, a former Cummins Engine executive who now leads Suzlon's 500-strong global R&D team out of Hamburg. Cultural differences can severely hamper cooperation between Western and Eastern engineers. and the U.K.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

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. The sound engineer who used to work as a stage director might bring expertise to the management of the creative process.

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Diversity Ries Creativity Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

As details of the engineered design matured, the estimated cost escalated, nearly doubling to $2 billion. However, as anyone who has ever seen groupthink in action knows, any number of otherwise intelligent people can come to agree on nonsense. Conversely, autocratic leaders can simply impose their will.

Organization 8

Organization Uncertainty Proposal Quality 8