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Advancing Gender Diversity in Boardrooms: Success Strategies

N2Growth Blog

Studies indicate that gender-balanced teams are more likely to develop creative strategies. Enhanced Corporate Governance: Diverse boards and leadership teams enhance corporate governance by reducing groupthink and ensuring a wider range of opinions are considered.

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7 Ways for Leaders to Deal With Bias

Lead Change Blog

Psychologist Daniel Kahneman calls it “System 1” thinking, an “effortless, often unconscious process that infers and invents causes and intentions, neglects ambiguity, suppresses doubt, and uses similarity rather than probability.” Anchoring : the tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information offered when making decisions.

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Is the Time Right For You to Speak Out?

Lead Change Blog

That being your motivation, how do you step in the opposite direction—away from peer pressure, business norms, groupthink, and the power of conformity—to share a perspective that’s contrary to both expected and rewarded workplace behavior? Do you have a support system to nurture you along the way regardless of the outcome?

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10 Ways to Keep “Post-truth” From Crippling Your Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Facts are concrete realities verifiable by observation, consistency with the rules of a symbol system such as 2+2=4, or applying objective standards of value such as ‘stealing is wrong.’ Discourage groupthink and don’t shoot the messenger. ~Malcolm Forbes. 5) Be transparent. Diversity creates dissent, and you need that.

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Decision Making Antonyms and Story Telling

Mike Cardus

Once you chose an action, we will debate the merits of the work and fail to recognize alternative options that may be better or worse; framing the process of synthesis as one of curiosity – wander through ideas; also, using groupthink for progress, mixed with breaking these teams up and challenging the ideas in new mixed teams.