Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 24, 2013

Commiserating creates false teams. Authenticity Change confidence Fear and Courage bandwagons groupthink leadership opportunities opportunity risks' Knowing “everyone’s in the same boat” paralyzes instincts to adjust the sails. Misery with company is miserable. Solve problems instead. This can’t be fixed.” “The guy’s a jerk.”

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2017

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. They define appropriate standards of behavior for all team members and expose contrary action. What to do now?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 3, 2018

The A side features those strengths that are most coveted by organizations and teams and that make you valuable. Perhaps you generate momentum, or rather you draw teams together. How your B side will impact your team depends on your leadership style. Your team likely already sees them anyway.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2019

VIDEO: How to turn a group of strangers into a team by @AmyCEdmondson. Winston Churchill, Groupthink, and the Dardanelles by @michaelaroberto. 3 Steps For Dusting Off Your Leadership in the New Year by Linda Fisher Thornton @leadingincontxt. How to Hold a Remarkably Effective Team Huddle by @LetsGrowLeaders.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

In this post, I will briefly expand these ideas and then focus on a specific emotion from a communication and leadership point of view: Anxiety. In a team this can be detrimental, it means this team member’s expertise is unavailable for the group. So what can you as a leader do when dealing with an anxious team member?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

Transpersonal Leadership is a concept that my colleagues and I at LeaderShape Global have been developing for over 10 years. The next area to consider is the crucial importance of distributed Leadership, which follows naturally from the transpersonal perspective. Anybody can travel the path to Transpersonal Leadership.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 26, 2020

You and the team can figure these issues out or work through them with little to no outside help. Soon the organization loses trust in leadership. Groupthink: over time, people working together will tend to think the same way, believe the same conclusions and results. Abnormal Problems = AKA Cul-de-sac problems.

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Talent Anarchy 1

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. Here’s a definition of it from Psychology Today : Groupthink occurs when a group values harmony and coherence over accurate analysis and critical evaluation.

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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. In Mexico, they accounted for 51% of innovation and 60% of team citizenship.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2016

10 things to do to keep “post-truth” from crippling your leadership. 1) Hold yourself and those on your team accountable for full truthfulness instead of what author Ralph Keyes calls “ledger-book” morality. Effective leadership is an oscillating mix of head and heart: managing both facts and feelings as well as logic and emotion.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

How many arguments have broken out in your team just because someone was handing out suggestions on the fly without giving it much thought? If you’ve seen these two issues come up repeatedly, it’s highly likely that you and your team are plagued by two common cognitive biases, the optimism bias , and the pessimism bias.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

Do team values unite or divide your team? How Would You Answer This Question About Your Leadership? How Will Leadership Change in the Cognitive Era? The Ten Behaviors of Strong Personal Leadership by Scott Eblin @EblinGroup. 2 Self-Leadership Hacks for Positivity by @AlanDUtley. by @mark_sanborn.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 18, 2012

This “team of rivals” was able to provide a variety of perspectives and create a tension over the solutions that avoided the traditional, yes-man saturated groupthink sessions that marked so many other president’s cabinets. We tend to think of creatives as artists, musicians and writers.

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Mark Sanborn

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Leadership, especially at the C-level, is a journey of high-stakes decisions and complex challenges. Embrace Diverse Opinions: Consult individuals with different perspectives, including team members and external advisors. Solicit External Insights: Engage experts and team members to provide fresh perspectives and challenge assumptions.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 30, 2019

Whilst both are important, leadership is the cornerstone, without which all the diversity initiatives in the world will be in vain. Diversity is about the mix of people on your team or in your organisation. While policies can help with this to some degree, the work of including people is mostly done through leadership.

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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

Here , you can read how Amey, which provides the transport sector with decarbonisation solutions, is using management apprenticeships to give employees the soft skills they need for leadership roles in engineering. Assessing Leadership and Management in Local Government report , published in partnership with the Social Market Foundation.

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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. Computers are programmed no matter how human they seem. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *. Singh and Rohini Luthra.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 27, 2022

Whilst there are clear advantages to diversity, if a team is too diverse, the costs involved in coordinating the team outweigh the gains. The study revealed that there was a particular advantage accrued when organizations assembled teams with high levels of what they refer to as ‘across team diversity’.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 10, 2017

Over time, he quit adding introverts to his team and weeded out those who had joined the team before he took over. He loved having a team of outgoing individuals who didn’t hesitate to share their opinions, even if they had to talk over each other to do so. Include contrarians on every team and listen to what they have to say.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 18, 2012

This “team of rivals” was able to provide a variety of perspectives and create a tension over the solutions that avoided the traditional, yes-man saturated groupthink sessions that marked so many other president’s cabinets. Leadership burkus creativity lincoln' David Burkus is the editor of LDRLB.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 8, 2013

In addition to the well-known dangers of groupthink, when leaders exclude Others , they also exclude the varied perspectives and ideas that could help the leaders make better and more imaginative decisions. Consider, for example, that 89% of the American public say that they are comfortable with women in senior leadership roles.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 29, 2019

That’s a recipe for a leadership disaster. As a manager, you want a team of people who are diverse and who know how to leverage friction and disagreement toward better decision making and away from groupthink. You want someone who pushes back on you, even in the interview, but who does so respectfully.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 25, 2019

The idea of gathering + listening to information that comes from a wide variety (scanning and diversity); allowing-allotting the team to avoid discussing application or synthesis for as long as possible. The team creates a series of one-word criteria. For each antonym pair ask the teams to work through the story matrix below.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

An important aspect of leadership is to turn around and see who is following you. Groupthink says it’s brash extroverts that make the company thrive. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt notes that our minds “unite us into teams, divide us against other teams, and blind us to the truth.”.

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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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LDRLB

OCTOBER 29, 2019

That’s a recipe for a leadership disaster. As a manager, you want a team of people who are diverse and who know how to leverage friction and disagreement toward better decision making and away from groupthink. You want someone who pushes back on you, even in the interview, but who does so respectfully.

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The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

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.” He was a Scorpion , a “visionary” who felt that the technology should sell itself.

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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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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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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. To be clear, there are some things you need your team to be together on all the time. I’m paying you to think.

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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. His teaches leaders and teams how to be extraordinary.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

This strategy was integral to the way he led his team, and, as a result, the group was performing exceptionally well. This is what “inclusive leadership” really looks like. Inclusive leaders also create a sense of shared identity and purpose within their teams. This doesn’t mean groupthink. Create a shared identity.

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 23, 2017

There are close parallels here to good leadership and change. Get input from your team on where you might adjust, and be open to their ideas. The change will add depth to your team and build a greater appreciation for how everyone contributes to team success. Shuffle the team. Disruption for the Good.

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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. But as Tim Ryan, U.S. That’s obviously good for business.

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