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Scott Adams Racist Rant: 5 Lessons for Every HR Professional & Business Leader

Modern Servant Leader

First, a lack of diversity in your employee base will result in groupthink. The reality is he created his own groupthink. Obviously, Mr. Adams did not show ethical or moral behaviors in his actions and what he said or did. So again, to recap, a lack of diversity results in groupthink. Next you have Virtuous.

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Are You Ready for Recovery?

Leading Blog

This means they are making decisions in full consciousness of their sense of purpose, ethics, and values. To explain further, in a crisis, using diverse perspectives enables the unthinkable to be brought to the table, it avoids groupthink and enables more effective solutions.

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10 Ways to Keep “Post-truth” From Crippling Your Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Ethics are judged on a sliding scale…If we add up truths and lies we’ve told and find more of the former than the latter, we classify ourselves honest…Conceding that his magazine soft-pedaled criticism of advertisers, one publisher concluded, ‘I guess you could say we’re 75 percent honest, which isn’t bad.’”. 2) Manage paradoxes. easy to do.

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Leading for Others

Great Leadership By Dan

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. Most are decent and ethical people. To be clear, most leaders are not consciously racist or bigoted. to include Others.

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Race Against Bias: Are we aware of our own unconscious bias?

HR Digest

A form of groupthink which prevents individuals from thinking independently. For example, when a group to which you own loyalty to seems to be making an ethical decision, you try to balance your loyalty to the group by acting against your own ethical integrity. Bandwagon Bias. It is often linked to authority bias.

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Decision Making Antonyms and Story Telling

Mike Cardus

Once you chose an action, we will debate the merits of the work and fail to recognize alternative options that may be better or worse; framing the process of synthesis as one of curiosity – wander through ideas; also, using groupthink for progress, mixed with breaking these teams up and challenging the ideas in new mixed teams.

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6 Traits That Predict Ethical Behavior at Work

Harvard Business Review

Trust and openness are crucial elements of an ethical organizational culture. Only when employees are able to voice the problems they see can ethical lapses be discussed and resolved. Moral attentiveness: This describes the extent to which individuals are aware of the various ethical dilemmas at hand. You and Your Team Series.

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