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The #1 Killer of Change

Lead Change Blog

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. What to do now?

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A Checklist for Making Faster, Better Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Setting goals (another tool) is aspirational, but making decisions actually drives action. For comparison, goal-setting best practices helped managers achieve expected results only 30% of the time.) Most business decisions are collaborative, which mean groupthink and consensus work to compound our individual biases.

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Want to Build Resilience? Kill the Complexity

Harvard Business Review

This, in turn, amplifies uncertainty when things go wrong, making crises harder to correct: Is that flashing alert signaling a genuine emergency? Is it a false alarm? Or is it the result of some complex interaction nobody has ever seen before?