Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Senior managers follow, apparently slavishly, structural change, without a clear vision to underpin it. 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.

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Abilene Paradox Groupthink Consensus Restructuring 272

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. Whilst both are important, leadership is the cornerstone, without which all the diversity initiatives in the world will be in vain. And you need to lead inclusively.

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Diversity Groupthink Policies Environment 231

Frank Sonnenberg Online

JANUARY 9, 2024

There’s a very fine line between staying silent to inhumanity, and being an active participant. Groupthink: What Makes You Think Others Know Better? Where were their parents? And where were all the people who knew full well what was happening? Is There a Difference Between Right and Wrong? Where Do Bullies Learn to Be So Mean?

Due Diligence 101

Due Diligence Groupthink Follow-up Comparison 101

RapidStart Leadership

MAY 23, 2017

There are close parallels here to good leadership and change. Manage time differently. But after a while, even the best ones can descend into groupthink and lose their creative edge. As a group, pick something everyone can enjoy and participate in, and let off a little steam. Disruption for the Good. Shuffle the team.

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Groupthink Open-book Creativity Team 130

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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Groupthink Brainstorming Osborne Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

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. Intended to strengthen corporate governance at U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Groupthink Sharpe Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Dan Harris, a well-known ABC News correspondent, published a best-selling book called Ten Percent Happier , which describes his journey to discovering mindful meditation as optimal management for his very publicly shared anxiety disorder. The groupthink risk. Many participants came to dread the exercise.

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Stress Self-aware Groupthink Ethics 8