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July 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

This is why the Imposter Syndrome bedevils us more and more as we rise higher in an organization or move out farther away from organizational groupthink into entrepreneurship to take on more accountability and (potentially) make more costly mistakes. Find Dana on Twitter at @DanaTheus. Bernd Geropp provided How I learned to delegate.

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Boards Need To Up Their Game In Terms Of Cognitive Diversity

The Horizons Tracker

The report highlights that while welcome progress has been made on the ethnic and gender diversity of organizations, and especially in leadership roles, they can still succumb to groupthink when people share excessively similar backgrounds and perspectives. ” The best decisions. Struggling to diversify.

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10 Common Thinking Errors Leaders Make

Mark Sanborn

Groupthink In an environment where conformity is valued over critical thinking, leaders may disregard their own views or skepticism to avoid conflict. A startup founder thinks they can singlehandedly manage all aspects of the business, from marketing to finance, without expert help.

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Start Networking with People Outside Your Industry

Harvard Business Review

Additionally, you’re more prone to groupthink if you’re not exposed to diverse perspectives and points of view. If you work in finance, it’s true that making friends with a filmmaker is less likely to add to your bottom line than spending time with someone in your own industry. But you have to play the long game.

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How to Make a Team of Stars Work

Harvard Business Review

Teams low in diversity often succumb to groupthink; they agree with each other too quickly and fail to consider novel courses of action. For example, teams low on efficiency turn into debating societies that can’t prioritize or make decisions and miss deadlines as a result. You and Your Team. Leading Teams.

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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.

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