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

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2016

10 things to do to keep “post-truth” from crippling your leadership. 2) Manage paradoxes. Effective leadership is an oscillating mix of head and heart: managing both facts and feelings as well as logic and emotion. Discourage groupthink and don’t shoot the messenger. Malcolm Forbes. 5) Be transparent. easy to do.

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Diversity Groupthink Leadership Follow-up 150

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 10, 2017

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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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 25, 2019

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.

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Groupthink Mentor Diversity Project 97

The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

Research created an elaborate robotic system to streamline the user experience for one of the flagship product lines. The President and CFO were hungry for revenue growth, and via a process that sounds a lot like groupthink, the executive team convinced themselves that “we should be able to make $10M on this product this year.”

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Biotechnology Groupthink CFO Stress 41

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Companies were split into divisions, each with their own leadership. Today, a few organizations – like Medium, David Allen Consultants, and Zappos – are adopting a radically different, approach to management: holacracy. Authority flowed downwards and your rank determined your responsibility. What’s your mission?

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Groupthink Agility Diversity Retail 8

RapidStart Leadership

MAY 23, 2017

There are close parallels here to good leadership and change. Leading effectively isn’t just building a system and then letting it run. Manage time differently. But after a while, even the best ones can descend into groupthink and lose their creative edge. Everything seems fresh and full of opportunity. Shuffle the team.

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