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JULY 18, 2017

Among the things he discussed in his keynote was how to combat groupthink. Groupthink may be the most dangerous force running rampant within organizations today. It’s certainly deadly to innovation. To combat Groupthink requires divergent thinking. It will make you smarter and better. What work might just go away?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

Do team values unite or divide your team? Here's Why Emotions Are The Secret Sauce Of Innovation by ‏@HessEdward. Seven Attributes of the Most Innovative Cultures by Gordon Redding via @INSEADKnowledge. Team Building: Let The Big Dogs Bark First from @JohnBaldoni. by @mark_sanborn. JesseLynStoner.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2019

This is the subject of Savvy: Navigating Fake Companies, Fake Leaders, and Fake News in the Post-Truth Era by the husband and wife team Shiv B. As Jonathan Swift wrote in 1710, “Falsehood flies and the truth comes limping after.” We believe what we want to believe. Singh and Rohini Luthra. The stark reality is that we have entered.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you’ve ever agreed to a decision at work even when you believe it to be the worst move your company could make, you need to learn how to avoid groupthink. But what is groupthink? Image credit – Freepik What is Groupthink? Understanding what groupthink is and taking measures to avoid it is essential in any workplace.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

He was simply known as “coach” in part because he was a coach of the Columbia University football team from 1974 to 1979, but mostly for his business mentoring. Campbell worked with individuals, but he coached teams. Coaching is the best way to mold effective people into powerful teams.” Campbell coached people to coach teams.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Daisy Hooper , CMI’s head of policy and innovation, appeared in BusinessGreen last week, pointing out the key role for apprenticeships in the transition to a low-carbon economy. She also offers advice in The Times on how to overcome “groupthink,” where leaders remain unchallenged and team members withhold their views.

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Talent Anarchy 1

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Many teams (and many leaders) don’t know how to do it well so they either do it poorly, or more commonly, they avoid serious disagreement at all costs. Innovation is often a product of the intersection—the place where different perspectives, different heuristics, and different experiences crash into each other.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

These are questions that require you to challenge groupthink, conventional wisdom, and your own biases. As any good military commander relentlessly asks about the “end state,” what “mission accomplished” really looks like, you should ask what success means to you, to your team and what it will take to get there. Who will it help?

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 27, 2022

Diversity has long been recognized in terms of its importance to things like innovation and creativity, with research from MIT showing how cognitive diversity improves the profitability of organizations. Whilst there are clear advantages to diversity, if a team is too diverse, the costs involved in coordinating the team outweigh the gains.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2022

Three research-backed strategies to keep innovative ideas flowing.

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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. Ask yourself: Are you favoring ideas just because other teams do them too? Pro-Innovation Bias. Authority Bias. Ambiguity Bias.

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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. Here's our advice: 1.

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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. In some rare cases, individuals are able to push back against team consensus and help organizations recognize and proactively respond to changes in the competitive landscape.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). Innovation Book. When groups simply get together and start throwing out ideas, they actually come up with fewer ideas overall and fewer novel, actionable ideas than the individuals in that group would have come up with had they worked alone. Further Reading. Harvard Business Review.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

To do that, it’s critical to select the right team members — people who are likely to gel, particularly when the pressure is on. Even the most successful leaders, such as Sir Russell Coutts , who led Oracle Team USA to win America’s Cup in boat racing, admit that this is “one of the hardest things to do.”

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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. Integrate with local innovation ecosystems.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We’ve seen toxic cultures allowed to flourish in large and high-profile organisations, erratic leadership behaviours, groupthink and boardrooms struggling to maintain control. I think my team will be really pleased as well. It needs to be a joint effort with your team and for you to be an effective manager.

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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. At the Center for Talent Innovation, we wanted to look into these suspicions. But as Tim Ryan, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

In 1968, The Ohio State Buckeyes football team started one of the most cherished traditions in American sports. According to team legend, a member of the coaching staff proposed an idea to motivate the players. When Jim Tressel was hired to coach the team, he completely revamped how players earned a buckeye.

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking. A manager only listens to team members who agree with them, neglecting diverse opinions that could offer a new perspective. Examples: A project leader believes their team can complete a complex project in two months, whereas realistic estimates suggest six.

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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. These globally dispersed teams were constantly connected and became the epicenter for creating shared consciousness.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Consider how much more effective — and less overworked — you are as a leader if you have an A-team to turn to whenever a crisis looms, a deadline threatens, or a massive opportunity knocks. In earlier research , the Center for Talent Innovation explored the importance of finding the right sponsor. Fill in your gaps.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

You and Your Team Series. ” In other words, they didn’t want to hear the groupthink. Discover Real Innovations. While I was in Cuba making an album, one of my clients observed about the dancing musicians, “I’ve never been around people who have so much fun at work.” Career Transitions. Jane Heifetz.

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Harvard Business Review

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. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills. Insight Center. Sponsored by Splunk.

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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. We've all been on these teams. We've all been on these teams. Assembling and managing diverse teams is hard work. How to get started?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Inventive thinking in a team setting is fueled by a blend of talents, skills, and traits that rarely all exist in a single person—such as an ability to see problems through fresh eyes, a knack for understanding a frustrated customer’s complaints, or a flair for turning a creative idea into a profitable innova­tion.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 8, 2017

While the company has been in business since 2007, our management team had some of the same objections that I initially mentioned. 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. 4 – Collaborate to edit and refine.

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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. 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.

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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. Everyone needs to be working from the same script, clearly understanding roles and responsibilities, and they need to have the same understanding of what success looks like. Diverse Group.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

The story suggests Amazon places immense importance on defining team players not as people who go along with the group’s consensus, or who support the status quo, but instead as those who add new ideas and perspectives. In short, Amazon discourages conformity and combats groupthink. Disruptive thinking is welcome.

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