HR Digest

MAY 11, 2019

It is a product of our encounters from childhood to adulthood – both what you experienced yourself and saw others experiencing around you – and cannot be unlearned. Whatever you as a manager, say will carry more weight than others’ concept, idea or opinion. A form of groupthink which prevents individuals from thinking independently.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Jonah Lehrer's article, "GroupThink" in The New Yorker , January 30, 2012 states that brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. But there is a problem with brainstorming. It doesn't work. Scientific advances have lead to a situation where all the remaining problems are incredibly hard.

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Brainstorming Groupthink Engineering Creativity 99

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. Bad management? I cringed when I heard the story. Sounds like it.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Five Highlights from the 2023 CMI President's Dinner Words CMI Insights / Photography Amanda Forman The evidence about good and bad management; the new CMI president; and all the 2023 award-winners. Bad management harms society: fact “Bad management is bad – on every level,” said CMI’s chief executive Ann Francke OBE in her opening comments.

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Learning-by-Doing Leadership Styles Education Training 105

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. One strategy that can significantly help teams avoid the dangers of Groupthink and successfully respond to emerging threats and opportunities is to create structured debates.

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Examples: A CEO ignores market research that suggests a new product will not be well-received because he or she firmly believes it’s a good idea. A manager only listens to team members who agree with them, neglecting diverse opinions that could offer a new perspective. Also know as “throwing good money after bad money.”

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Today, a few organizations – like Medium, David Allen Consultants, and Zappos – are adopting a radically different, approach to management: holacracy. For all of the sturm und drang surrounding the idea, as we talked I realized a lot of holacracy is just codifying many of the informal elements of good management.

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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

JULY 3, 2013

That is, companies can and should create and value camaraderie as a competitive advantage for recruiting top employees, retaining employees, and improving engagement, creativity, and productivity. So, managers and employees need to foster collaboration, trust, personal relationships, fun, and support. Managing people'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

Managers make about three billion decisions each year, and almost all of them can be made better. The stakes for doing so are real: decisions are the most powerful tool managers have for getting things done. For comparison, goal-setting best practices helped managers achieve expected results only 30% of the time.)

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Sometimes these events are related to the product or business, but they can also be focused around something else entirely. This helps teams avoid tunnel vision and groupthink, and gets them thinking more creatively. They also keep internal security and product teams coordinating closely as new products and features are developed.

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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

APRIL 25, 2017

A good producer should be someone who knows how to create a vision, recruit personnel, establish a timeline, raise money, and deliver products. And most of my asset manager clients were looking for something different: “Give me a contrarian perspective.”

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 23, 2017

There are lots of ways to put a fresh spin your meetings that may actually make them more productive. Manage time differently. But after a while, even the best ones can descend into groupthink and lose their creative edge. Take a look at these 10 unusual ideas for shaking up your meeting routine. Rearrange the deck chairs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

managers and nearly half of UK managers say they want to sponsor a “producer,” a go-getter who hits deadlines and offers 24/7 support. Loyalty is even more important, with 37% of male managers and 36% of female managers saying that this is the key attribute in a protégé. According to our research, a third of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. Reliance MediaWorks.

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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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ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 8, 2017

Sometimes, senior management doesn’t think core values are a big deal because they think every employee already knows how they are supposed to act to succeed. While the company has been in business since 2007, our management team had some of the same objections that I initially mentioned. Performance management process?

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Process Groupthink Company Document 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Many managers prefer to hire former athletes, figuring that someone who’s put in years of (sometimes painful) hard work to become a high-performer in a competitive sport will show the persistence needed to succeed in non-athletic pursuits, too. Groupthink sets in, and teams tend to keep pursuing the same strategy, whether it’s working or not.

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Sports Groupthink Follow-up Team 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The most productive creative teams often exhibit characteristics that seem contradictory. People who judge prefer having closure, with all loose ends tied up, when managing tasks and making decisions. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). Judging or perceiving. Preferences can also change in different contexts.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Recent market updates, a technical deconstruction of various trends, then product frameworks — all in quick succession. We don't get to optimize all products, go after all markets, or add all programs. It happened during the Kennedy Administration's Bay of Pigs fiasco when " groupthink " carried the day.

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Merton Groupthink CFO Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

And groups are just as vulnerable as individuals to the number one enemy of productive thinking: path dependence. Managers need to be mindful of the numerous contributors to path dependence. In exploring the problem of groupthink, the research of Charlan Nemeth reveals how easily “majority thinking” squeezes out “minority thinking.”

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Productivity Products Brainstorming Diversity 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

And groups are just as vulnerable as individuals to the number one enemy of productive thinking: path dependence. Managers need to be mindful of the numerous contributors to path dependence. In exploring the problem of groupthink, the research of Charlan Nemeth reveals how easily “majority thinking” squeezes out “minority thinking.”

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Productivity Products Brainstorming Diversity 12