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Harvard Business
MARCH 7, 2022
Three research-backed strategies to keep innovative ideas flowing. Collaboration and teams Cognitive bias Innovation Experimentation Disruptive innovation Decision making and problem solving Digital Article
Mills Scofield
NOVEMBER 11, 2010
Of innovating? Netflix Menasha Innovation Culture Innovation Incumbentitis Incumbent IBM Groupthink Ford AppleWell, we've just been through quite an election - out with the ‘old', in with the new - well, somewhat, there were several incumbents re-elected. This isn't a mandate for or against either party; it was a mandate for an economic revolution to get rid of big government and make one that works for the people.
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First Friday Book Synopsis
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Susan Cain Crown Publishers (2012) How and why our location on “the introvert-extrovert spectrum” influences most (if not all) of our decisions and opinions Throughout most of her book, Susan Cain takes a balanced approach to the immensely difficult task of examining the [.]. Bob's blog entries Albert Einstein Andrew Carnegie being or at least seeming “cool C.A.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 25, 2012
In articles in both the New York Times and The New Yorker earlier this year, the concept of brainstorming as introduced in the 1940's by Alex Osborn has been attacked as ineffective and linked to the concept of " Groupthink.". Suffice it to say, we dislike consensus-based "Groupthink" as much as the next person. We are strong advocates of collaboration in innovation, and believe that the proper use of brainstorming techniques is a powerful tool in the collaborative approach.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 25, 2015
Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). Innovation Book. There are two reasons most of us aren’t very good at creative problem solving. First, few people get training in how to be creative in their education. Second, few people understand group dynamics well enough to harness their power to help groups maximize their creativity. Resolving the first issue requires getting your employees to learn more about the way they think… a tall order for managers.
Mike Cardus
JULY 26, 2020
Groupthink: over time, people working together will tend to think the same way, believe the same conclusions and results. Re-checking the information, using different personnel is necessary to avoid stuckness-thinking and groupthink.
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
For most of us we are not like the conceptual innovators that formulate a big idea early on in life and act on it. We are probably more like the experimental innovators that move through idea after idea, learning and evolving as they go. While experimental innovation can require years or decades to accumulate the requisite knowledge and skill.” Dealing with Groupthink. Cohesion in a group doesn’t cause groupthink. Creativity & Innovation
Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
For instance, they’d suggest an innovative marketing strategy to promote their new product without much regard for anything else. They would also highlight the risks that came with every innovative suggestion, such as penalties by regulators for overhyping medical claims. The optimistic team members often called out the pessimists for derailing innovation and being too hard to please.
Lead Change Blog
JULY 6, 2021
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. Sean Glaze of Great Results Team Building shared How Great Leaders Get Team Members and Employees to Contribute Ideas for Improvement and Innovation. Welcome to the July 2021 Leadership Development Carnival!
Coaching Tip
MAY 7, 2014
In China, employee perceptions of inclusion accounted for 78% of innovation and 71% of team citizenship. In Mexico, they accounted for 51% of innovation and 60% of team citizenship. In India, they accounted for 62% of innovation and 43% of team citizenship. In Australia, Germany and the United States, they accounted for 19% to 22% of innovation, and 29% to 41% of team citizenship.
Leading Blog
MARCH 20, 2019
Not only does this foster groupthink, but it most often creates a toxic us versus them mentality “often leading to the demonization of the ‘other’ and contributing to discrimination and sometimes violence.” F AKE NEWS is not a new phenomenon. From the beginning of time, people have played loose with the truth in order to get what they want. Trust too, has waxed and waned over the millennia. It’s not new. People have always had to be on the lookout for fake news.
Leading Blog
JANUARY 31, 2017
Here's Why Emotions Are The Secret Sauce Of Innovation by @HessEdward. Seven Attributes of the Most Innovative Cultures by Gordon Redding via @INSEADKnowledge. Unleashing Creativity And Avoiding Groupthink by Michelle M Smith via @octanner. Here are a selection of tweets from January 2017 that you might have missed: Don’t you love the beginning of a new year? by @mark_sanborn. Do team values unite or divide your team? JesseLynStoner.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
In prior blog posts, we have described how Western multinationals such as Xerox and GE are embracing polycentric innovation by sourcing more R&D capabilities from emerging markets such as India and China and integrating them into a synergistic global innovation network. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink.
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Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
These are questions that require you to challenge groupthink, conventional wisdom, and your own biases. Sesno currently serves as director of George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs, and is the creator of Planet Forward, an innovative forum seeking solutions to daunting challenges such as global hunger. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.
Leading Blog
MARCH 13, 2012
Without diversity groupthink sets in. It is diversity that gives a team the unique perspectives needed to create truly innovative solutions. Dan Sanker states that ironically, in order to remain “competitive” companies will have to become more collaborative. Collaborate: The Art of We is a practical guide to going beyond democratic or cooperative work to creating truly collaborative work environments as a growth strategy.
Leading Blog
MAY 8, 2019
The goal of consensus leads to “groupthink” and inferior decisions. Innovation Is Where the Crazy People Have Stature. B ILL CAMPBELL was one of the most influential background players in Silicon Valley. He helped to build some of Silicon Valley’s greatest companies including Google, Apple, and Intuit and to create over a trillion dollars in market value.
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. Business Coaching Failure Skills Success Work life building social capital chance encounters innovation laboratory architecture network linchpin scientific research work groups
Talent Anarchy
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Innovation is often a product of the intersection—the place where different perspectives, different heuristics, and different experiences crash into each other. We don’t want to fight tooth and nail over every topic that comes up (we’re not trying to be Congress after all), but we also don’t want to be wallowing in groupthink and dishonesty. In Jason’s most recent post , he mentioned the importance of setting rules for conflict.
HR Digest
MAY 11, 2019
The tendency to favor innovative ideas coming from authority figures within innovation teams. A form of groupthink which prevents individuals from thinking independently. Pro-Innovation Bias. New ideas and innovations are seen as inherently good, regardless of the potential negative impacts. Unconscious bias is hard-wired into our brains. It’s a survival mechanism, so basic and below our conscious radar.
ExactHire
MARCH 8, 2017
As you can imagine, it resulted in a hot mess of groupthink…complete with vanilla platitudes that can only result from trying to be everything to everyone. They should avoid one-word overused “no duh” adjectives like “innovation” or “integrity.”
Harvard Business Review
MAY 11, 2012
Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. This is the opposite of groupthink, the creativity-killing phenomenon of too much agreement and too similar perspectives that often paralyzes otherwise great teams. Turning a critic into a passionate advocate and supporter is a great goal in innovation. Creativity Innovation Managing people
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Indeed, being data-driven has joined the ranks of “innovative”, “diverse”, and “socially responsible” as the one of most laudable features of organizational culture, at least if we go by company websites. For example, Amazon encourages disagreements to avoid groupthink and leverage the benefits of cognitive diversity. Inti St Clair/Getty Images.
Harvard Business
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. At the Center for Talent Innovation, we wanted to look into these suspicions.
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 27, 2016
Thus, constructive dissent needs to be explicitly valued in organizations to avoid groupthink and bad decision-making. To create a culture where constructive feedback and innovation flourishes, leaders should also encourage their employees to pursue organizational goals rather than simply follow organizational norms. In 1968, The Ohio State Buckeyes football team started one of the most cherished traditions in American sports.
Harvard Business
JULY 28, 2016
companies, the guidelines contain helpful (although not entirely novel or innovative) recommendations such as compensating outside directors with stock, giving non-executive directors unfettered access to management, and discouraging the practice of earnings guidance. Marion Barraud for HBR.
Harvard Business
APRIL 25, 2017
” In other words, they didn’t want to hear the groupthink. Discover Real Innovations. It’s not uncommon to meet a lawyer who’d like to work in renewable energy, or an app developer who’d like to write a novel, or an editor who fantasizes about becoming a landscape designer. Maybe you also dream about switching to a career that’s drastically different from your current job.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 10, 2015
Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. Groupthink happens because of basic social and interpersonal dynamics that include a wish for group harmony, pressures for conformity, increased commitment to ill-advised or outdated strategies, and punishment of dissenters.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 21, 2015
A choir can’t perform well if it’s made up of all sopranos; similarly, on an innovative team, you won’t achieve good results with people whose strengths and styles are all the same. An innovative team needs to be both playful and professional, and it needs to be able to plan out a project carefully while also accepting that projects don’t always go as planned—and being willing to improvise when unexpected events arise.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 24, 2011
In business, this is a sure recipe for groupthink. The box of "Chief Innovation Officer" or any other title. Dan Burrier is Chief Innovation Officer at Ogilvy & Mather, North America, but his business card is blank, except for an email address: dan.burrier@ogilvy.com. Collaboration Creativity InnovationThis post is part of the HBR Insight Center Making Collaboration Work.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 18, 2015
In short, Amazon discourages conformity and combats groupthink. Conflict and innovation are thought to march hand-in-hand. To the extent that a company takes self-conscious steps to elicit creativity and honest critique from its own people, it is likely to avoid groupthink and to do far better than it otherwise would – and to make more effective decisions than companies that overvalue harmony and do not focus explicitly on how to produce informed judgments.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 19, 2012
These formed after reading a great article by Susan Cain in the New York Times called "The Rise of the New Groupthink." There is one large exception to this rule: groups that come together digitally, rather than in the real world, are often very creative, innovative, and productive. Some recent reading crystallized two hypotheses that have been rattling around in my head for a while now: Digital crowds work better than real-world ones For some things, nothing works except solitude.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 19, 2015
Others, perhaps driven by their own narcissism, pick people who are like them, which kills diversity and breeds groupthink. In our consulting work, we use a personality test to see whether teams have people playing five key roles necessary for performance: results, relationships, process, innovation, and pragmatism. It’s just plain hard to get people working together the way you’d like.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 27, 2012
Private R&D spending has also tailed off since then, when it brought us breakthrough innovations like laser printing, the Ethernet, the graphical user interface, and the mouse. And that's because some of the best paths to encourage innovation are surprisingly simple. But each of us as individuals can also work to optimize our innovative capacities. But innovation needs to be informed and sometimes provoked by the unpredictable hurly-burly of messy, surprising real life.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 25, 2011
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. Events such as TED and the BIL conference where innovators, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs congregate can be mind-bending.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 5, 2012
Large cities have higher income, lower crime rates, and more rapid innovation. Yet inside this massive structure is a surprising amount of innovation in the area of organizational design and decision-making. Conformity creates groupthink, stifling innovation and organizational resilience. In nature, there's a tradeoff between size and speed. Whales are slow. Birds are fast. But organizations today need to be big and fast. Is it possible?
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 3, 2011
It happened during the Kennedy Administration's Bay of Pigs fiasco when " groupthink " carried the day. Minority viewpoints have been proven to aid the quality of decision making in juries, by teams, and for the purpose of innovation. Nilofer Merchant is a corporate advisor and speaker on innovation methods. It was said of Abbot Agatho that for three years he carried a stone in his mouth until he learned to be silent.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 4, 2014
Now consider the Business Innovation Factory (BIF) , an organization that seeks to bring cutting edge innovation techniques to social initiatives, many of which are similar to those Pepsi Refresh sought to promote. Its founder, Saul Kaplan , is a self-professed innovation junkie. It is now a cult favorite in the innovation world. While such orthodoxy can instill discipline and obedience, it squelches innovation and the ability to adapt to changing contexts.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
In earlier research , the Center for Talent Innovation explored the importance of finding the right sponsor. Just as companies need a diverse workforce to remain attuned to the needs of new and emerging markets and to develop innovative products that compete in a rapidly evolving marketplace, sponsors need protégés who mirror those markets.
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