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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. Those who are driven by their ego, for example, will take center stage and proclaim to have the answers, ignoring or side-lining the experts who could give a more realistic assessment of a situation, managing people’s expectations.

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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.

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

HR Digest

Numerous studies since the 1980s confirm that unconscious bias is in play in every aspect of the modern workplace – in client relations, mentoring and sponsorship, performance management, recruitment and retention, promotion, and the allocation of job assignments. A form of groupthink which prevents individuals from thinking independently.

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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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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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Urban Meyer, Ohio State Football, and How Leaders Ignore Unethical Behavior

Harvard Business Review

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. All organizations, leaders, and individuals at times fall victim to faulty forms of ethical reasoning. Gain awareness.

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There Are Risks to Mindfulness at Work

Harvard Business Review

Dan Harris, a well-known ABC News correspondent, published a best-selling book called Ten Percent Happier , which describes his journey to discovering mindful meditation as optimal management for his very publicly shared anxiety disorder. The groupthink risk. Here are a couple of my concerns: The avoidance risk.

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