Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
A team is a small number of people who are committed to working together to achieve the desired goal. Working together includes talking, sharing ideas, debating issues, collaborating, making decisions, establishing goals, providing feedback, and celebrating success. Do all team members embrace the team’s mission, goals, and values?
Lead Change Blog
OCTOBER 23, 2017
In my view, the #1 killer element is groupthink. He believed, as I do, that groupthink erodes values; stifles critical thinking, limits creativity; enables undue influence of direction; and, allows inequity of action. So what is that profound issue, that killer component? However, that seems all too often not to happen.
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Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
Sadly, despite our good intentions, that’s an unreachable goal. Our unconscious assumptions influence, shape, and bias what data we take in, how we process that data, and how we act on it. Groupthink says it’s brash extroverts that make the company thrive. We can’t avoid being biased—our brains push us in that direction.
Great Leadership By Dan
AUGUST 8, 2013
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. Meet with the diversity manager to ask how you can contribute toward the organization’s diversity goals. Who else has a seat?
Frank Sonnenberg Online
MARCH 7, 2019
Sure, I have some goals. It’s very easy to get caught up in groupthink. They can strip you of your confidence and influence you to lower your standards or compromise your values. When you were a kid your parents influenced your behavior. By Rodger Dean Duncan PhD with Frank Sonnenberg. Some of them I even expect to reach.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 25, 2015
A key element of creativity is bringing existing knowledge to bear on a new problem or goal. The more people who can engage with that problem or goal, the more knowledge that is available to work on it. The second issue, though, is well within your ability to change. This process maximizes the contribution of the group.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 23, 2011
It's fashionable to decry groupthink and it's supposed to be the cause of most bad ideas, but in fact groupthink is necessary to get a team to work together enthusiastically for a common goal. The problem is not groupthink; the problem is bad inputs. Here, it's helpful to understand a little about group dynamics.
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