Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Steve writes: “ Leaders and great managers are keenly aware how to motivate and bring out the best in others, regardless of their experience. Karin Hurt and David Dye of Let’s Grow Leaders provided How to Stay Productive as You Return to the Office. Bernd Geropp provided How I learned to delegate. Development.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Biases can be managed and minimized but total elimination is highly unlikely given the brain thing that’s going on. Groupthink says it’s brash extroverts that make the company thrive. Check with others for their perspective as it is often hard for us to see our own biases. Bias mistake #2: Believing that training eliminates bias.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

Those who are driven by their ego, for example, will take center stage and proclaim to have the answers, ignoring or side-lining the experts who could give a more realistic assessment of a situation, managing people’s expectations. Grant, John Knights, and Greg Young co-authored Leading Beyond The Ego : How to Become a Transpersonal Leader.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

How Will Leadership Change in the Cognitive Era? 4 New Entrepreneur Problems You’re Going to Face and How to Road-Map Them by @SusanSolovic. Five tips for hiring (and holding on to) young people via Management Today @MT_editorial. How & Why to Be a Continuous Learning Leader by Anne Perschel @bizshrink.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 3, 2018

How your B side will impact your team depends on your leadership style. If you’re the type who focuses on possibilities and inspiring creativity in others, you may also be so impractical that your team is left scratching their heads about how to execute on anything. S o what to do when you can’t escape your B side?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 30, 2019

You need to de-bias the systems that run the organisation, such as recruitment, pay, procurement, talent management and marketing. When we think about how to reduce unconscious bias in organisations, we often think about systems and processes. And you need to lead inclusively.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

The best coach for any team is the manager who leads that team. Being a good coach is essential to being a good manager and leader. Coaching is no longer a specialty; you cannot be a good manager without being a good coach.”. Your Title Makes You A Manager, Your People Make You A Leader. Manage the Aberrant Genius.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 29, 2019

At its best, it’s still a way for hiring managers to get a little lazy and choose candidates they “click” with over more qualified options. But when you ask most managers (and even employees) what it means to find someone who “fits the culture” you’ll likely get a lot of variations of the “beer test.”

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 29, 2019

At its best, it’s still a way for hiring managers to get a little lazy and choose candidates they “click” with over more qualified options. But when you ask most managers (and even employees) what it means to find someone who “fits the culture” you’ll likely get a lot of variations of the “beer test.”

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 25, 2019

Working to understand how to make sense of what we learned followed some good practices in decision-making. How to use antonyms for decision-making contrasts. How will you see it? Discussions and working through decision-making. Antonyms to contrast decision making stories.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Jonah Lehrer's article, "GroupThink" in The New Yorker , January 30, 2012 states that brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. How to become a Network Linchpin. But there is a problem with brainstorming. It doesn't work.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

How to Get a Dose of Reality It’s always healthy to practice some uncertainty and park your ego at the door by thinking, “Perhaps I’m wrong about this.” Determine whether a decision is based on sound rationale or is being swayed by groupthink. The post How to Turn a Wrong Into a Right appeared first on Frank Sonnenberg Online.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

First, few people get training in how to be creative in their education. Resolving the first issue requires getting your employees to learn more about the way they think… a tall order for managers. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). The second issue, though, is well within your ability to change. Further Reading.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Five Highlights from the 2023 CMI President's Dinner Words CMI Insights / Photography Amanda Forman The evidence about good and bad management; the new CMI president; and all the 2023 award-winners. Bad management harms society: fact “Bad management is bad – on every level,” said CMI’s chief executive Ann Francke OBE in her opening comments.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

managers and nearly half of UK managers say they want to sponsor a “producer,” a go-getter who hits deadlines and offers 24/7 support. Loyalty is even more important, with 37% of male managers and 36% of female managers saying that this is the key attribute in a protégé. According to our research, a third of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

How did the stars at that firm manage to shine brightly together, while those at the other merely twinkled on their own? Teams low in diversity often succumb to groupthink; they agree with each other too quickly and fail to consider novel courses of action. You and Your Team. Leading Teams. Boost your group’s performance.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

DECEMBER 14, 2021

How to Have a Fresh Perspective. Groupthink: What Makes You Think Others Know Better? Please leave a comment and tell us what you think or share it with someone who can benefit from the information. Additional Reading: Protect Yourself from Bad Information. Honesty: The Plain and Simple Truth. 23 Ways to Spot a Hypocrite.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

It’s all part of a plan for President Kennedy to make the most critical decision in his life—how to respond in the Cuban Missile Crisis. For that, he leaves a huge legacy in management. How often do we see leaders learn from their mistakes this profoundly? Crisis management Decision making Government'

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

A manager only listens to team members who agree with them, neglecting diverse opinions that could offer a new perspective. Groupthink In an environment where conformity is valued over critical thinking, leaders may disregard their own views or skepticism to avoid conflict. Also know as “throwing good money after bad money.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2017

To drive home the urgency, the coalition’s website, CEOAction.com , directs visitors to research showing that diverse teams and inclusive leaders unleash innovation, eradicate groupthink, and spur market growth. But as Tim Ryan, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

firms have historically given the CEO and other management members exclusive responsibility for communicating with investors. companies have started demanding direct access to non-management board members in order to assess the quality of board stewardship. In recent years, institutional shareholders in U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

A good producer should be someone who knows how to create a vision, recruit personnel, establish a timeline, raise money, and deliver products. How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition. And most of my asset manager clients were looking for something different: “Give me a contrarian perspective.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The best way to train employees to defend against hackers is to teach them how to think like one. This helps teams avoid tunnel vision and groupthink, and gets them thinking more creatively. The first step is getting smart about what it actually means to be a “hacker.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

To find out, I turned to my ongoing Top Pricer Tournament , in which 884 people — managers, consultants, professors, students — make pricing strategy decisions for a generic business competing against other generic businesses. How to Create an Exponential Mindset. How badly will it hurt? You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Also see psychologist Maria Konnikova’s 2013 Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. He was convinced that this otherwise entirely pleasant socializing and socialization led invariably to a kind of groupthink among the community of experts. Managing uncertainty Strategy The Future of Management'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

So here's some advice on how to make the best of this role and do a better job of seeing the future. But overreliance on these firms leads to industry groupthink, and complexity-theory research tells us that it's impossible to predict the behavior of a large system (such as the world of tech innovation) beyond the next few moves.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Having extensively interacted with the leaders of these organizations, we find that Indian firms have developed several best practices around how to implement polycentric innovation effectively: Cultivate a polycentric mindset to make global innovation work. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 7, 2019

It’s very easy to get caught up in groupthink. Sonnenberg: I’ve spent as much time thinking about how to communicate as what I’m going to say. People have different preferences for how they like to receive information. My bestselling book is CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP: How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2017

What Great Managers Do. Exceptional managers find and capitalize on their employees' unique strengths. Learn how they do it with this 6 minute video slide deck. You can get trapped in a version of groupthink, with a single set of shared relationships. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

This is the opposite of groupthink, the creativity-killing phenomenon of too much agreement and too similar perspectives that often paralyzes otherwise great teams. Assembling and managing diverse teams is hard work. That tension essential to creativity is tough to manage, requiring deft leadership. How to get started?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

However, when other team members pointed out the double standard in expectations, I realized that I had let the situation go on for too long, inadvertently placing our managers in a no-win situation. How to Take Control of Fit. Because they were such strong performers and clients liked working with them, I tolerated their behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Its members need the freedom to decide how to achieve goals while also having the discipline to work in alignment with the organization’s strategy. People who judge prefer having closure, with all loose ends tied up, when managing tasks and making decisions. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). Excerpted from.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

I’ve often seen recruitment calls receiving too little interest, or, worse, paper CVs piling up on a desk, with no clear plan on how to deal with them. No wonder so many managers choose to avoid advertizing openings. In 2009, I was hiring aides for a senior IT management job. Here’s an example.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

It happened during the Kennedy Administration's Bay of Pigs fiasco when " groupthink " carried the day. Only you know how to answer the question, "Is this worth it?" When great debacles get dissected, very often the underlying tension of why the issue went wrong was that no one spoke up. When the costs of silence are too high.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Complexity is a clear and present danger to both firms and the global financial system: it makes both much harder to manage, govern, audit, regulate and support effectively in times of crisis. This in turn made hoarding money, not lending it, the sanest thing for the banks to do after the crash.).

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s hard to believe in our youth, but time reveals how little ‘d’ democratic failure can be. It stalks all of us sometimes, and it finds us often in life unless we figure out how to thrive and how to avoid the land mines. Groupthink is a real thing. It takes wisdom to figure that out. You listen. You make notes.

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