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

HR Digest

It is a product of our encounters from childhood to adulthood – both what you experienced yourself and saw others experiencing around you – and cannot be unlearned. A form of groupthink which prevents individuals from thinking independently. From a survival standpoint, bias serves a purpose. Bandwagon Bias. Conformity Bias.

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Ten Things You're Not Allowed to Say at Davos

Harvard Business Review

Hence, your incentives are largely just the same as everybody else at Davos: to perpetuate stale concepts like "profit," "product," and "output," the tired, toxic practices of "strategy," "finance," and "marketing." Hence, the atmosphere of groupthink. Your Mom tends to tell you what you want to hear. It's about the left-brained stuff.

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