Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Embrace the idea that diverse cognitive styles, such as those of the operator, strategist, rainmaker, visionary, tech futurist, and orchestrator, are all crucial for a balanced and effective team. This will help you see situations from multiple angles and prevent groupthink. Self-awareness is key in distinguishing between the two.
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?
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 5, 2012
This change first developed inside the special operations community whose leaders faced the reality of being out-paced by a new type of networked challenger in Al Qaeda, and therefore focused on building the density and diversity of their own friendly network. Conformity creates groupthink, stifling innovation and organizational resilience.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 19, 2017
You can get trapped in a version of groupthink, with a single set of shared relationships. Finally, being the favorite can derail your goals for professional advancement. See More Videos > See More Videos > Next, if you get too attached to your boss, your objectivity and ability to think independently may fade.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
Today's armed forces confront circumstances of enormous ambiguity — theatres of operation with many different kinds of actors — NGOs, civilians, partners, media organizations, civilian leaders, refugees, and insurgents alike are mixed together, without a "front line."
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