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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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Decision Making Antonyms and Story Telling

Mike Cardus

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. The team creates a series of one-word criteria. For each antonym pair ask the teams to work through the story matrix below.

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

Lead Change Blog

1) Hold yourself and those on your team accountable for full truthfulness instead of what author Ralph Keyes calls “ledger-book” morality. Discourage groupthink and don’t shoot the messenger. 10 things to do to keep “post-truth” from crippling your leadership. 2) Manage paradoxes. Diversity creates dissent, and you need that.

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

HR Digest

The tendency to favor innovative ideas coming from authority figures within innovation teams. A form of groupthink which prevents individuals from thinking independently. Ask yourself: Are you favoring ideas just because other teams do them too? Authority Bias. Take yourself into account. Ambiguity Bias. Bandwagon Bias.

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

Harvard Business Review

Reading the report with that lens can help leaders better understand the biases that get in the way of ethical conduct and ethical organizations. That’s the percentage of games the team has won under Meyer as head coach since he joined Ohio State in 2012. Performance over principles.

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