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. Devil’s advocates are also good at preventing groupthink , the tendency for a group to coalesce around the opinion of the most powerful person in the room. Being Different Isn’t a Bad Thing.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

The goal of consensus leads to “groupthink” and inferior decisions. Define the “first principles” for the situation, the immutable truths that are the foundation for the company or product, and help guide the decision from those principles. The purpose of a company is to bring a product vision to life.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 27, 2022

The report highlights that while welcome progress has been made on the ethnic and gender diversity of organizations, and especially in leadership roles, they can still succumb to groupthink when people share excessively similar backgrounds and perspectives. ” The best decisions.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2014

Make employees feel more included at work, says Catalyst’s new global report, Inclusive Leadership: The View From Six Countries , which surveyed over 1,500 employees from Australia, China (Shanghai), Germany, India, Mexico and the United States. Awakened Leadership through Personal Coaching. . Inclusive leaders are humble.

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Team Groupthink Innovation Report 123

The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

Research created an elaborate robotic system to streamline the user experience for one of the flagship product lines. Product development is always needed to make a new technology robust enough to work consistently in customer hands. I cringed when I heard the story. The rest of the company scrambled to fill the $10M revenue hole.

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Biotechnology Groupthink CFO Stress 41

RapidStart Leadership

MAY 25, 2017

That’s Colin Powell’s approach to leadership. When everyone focuses on agreeing and trying to please, you’ll soon find yourself on the Bus to Abilene , a special kind of purgatory for specialists in groupthink. That productive dialogue you are seeking will be difficult to achieve without it. I’m not paying you to agree with me.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Scroll for more Shortcut to start of content The public expects institutions and big businesses to show high standards of leadership and management. We’ve seen toxic cultures allowed to flourish in large and high-profile organisations, erratic leadership behaviours, groupthink and boardrooms struggling to maintain control.

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Learning-by-Doing Leadership Styles Education Training 105

Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Leadership is not an easy task, and even the best leaders are susceptible to errors in thinking that can hinder decision-making and, ultimately, organizational success. Recognizing and avoiding these pitfalls can significantly enhance leadership effectiveness. This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking.

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Dunning Consensus Groupthink Charisma 86

Frank Sonnenberg Online

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Even worse, some organizations fund research only if the findings say positive things about them or their products. Groupthink: What Makes You Think Others Know Better? In addition, some organizations retain “experts” to write favorable articles on topics of their choosing. Think of it as a fake review.) 23 Ways to Spot a Hypocrite.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

DECEMBER 3, 2019

You search the Internet, obtain advice from friends and family, read product reviews, hear the news on TV, and the list goes on. Groupthink: What Makes You Think Others Know Better? The good news is that you can do something about it. You Can’t Believe Everything You Hear (or Read). You are bombarded with information every day.

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Information Groupthink Due Diligence Advice 108

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Companies were split into divisions, each with their own leadership. A mission is why an enterprise exists, its purpose over and above delivering a bundle of products and services. Frank and honest leadership is usually enough. Authority flowed downwards and your rank determined your responsibility.

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 23, 2017

There are close parallels here to good leadership and change. There are lots of ways to put a fresh spin your meetings that may actually make them more productive. But after a while, even the best ones can descend into groupthink and lose their creative edge. And we look forward to finding new places to discover and explore.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The majority of Fortune 500 companies reward the most productive individuals, not the most effective groups or indispensable group members. Given that group membership is such a deeply rooted part of human nature and organizational success, a central element of leadership is the management of group identities.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Consider how organizations assess leadership potential, and it becomes clear why developing a posse of protégés establishes you as “leadership material”: Helping junior people evolve into major producers for the firm is what leaders do. Using your power is about developing others, helping them achieve their leadership potential.

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How To Diversity Groupthink Career 8

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.

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Diversity Creativity Team Groupthink 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Groupthink sets in, and teams tend to keep pursuing the same strategy, whether it’s working or not. Productivity soared. When a few thousand people increase their productivity by 30%, it has a meaningful impact. My new leadership team hadn’t anticipated this effect. Leadership Leading teams'

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ExactHire - Leadership

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. However, to start them down a productive path, clarify the following: They are to list actual core values, not aspirational values.

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