Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Groupthink is a real thing. Being in charge is an opportunity to do good, to serve others in your organization and community. Dan took his leadership and technology experience to work on and in the Sparklab startup business accelerator as well as lead change management and profit building initiatives for mid-market companies.

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Cooper Groupthink Leadership Styles Servant Leader 50

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. In some rare cases, individuals are able to push back against team consensus and help organizations recognize and proactively respond to changes in the competitive landscape.

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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

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. The response, at most organizations, is no response. But as Tim Ryan, U.S.

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Ryan Stephenson Groupthink Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

When Alfred Sloan conceived the modern corporation at General Motors, he based it on hierarchical military organizations. Today, a few organizations – like Medium, David Allen Consultants, and Zappos – are adopting a radically different, approach to management: holacracy. That’s a real problem.

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Groupthink Agility Diversity Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

All too often, when marketers talk about their “social strategy,” they really mean a digital marketing strategy implemented on social platforms, rather than using social dynamics to benefit their business. Pepsi actually lost market share and fell to number three in the cola wars for the first time in modern history.

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Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

Taken together, all of us establish a “consensus” view on the markets. ” In other words, they didn’t want to hear the groupthink. In order to generate funds to help musicians in the city, I could have created a typical nonprofit organization that solicits people for money.

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Career Groupthink Banking Video 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Recent market updates, a technical deconstruction of various trends, then product frameworks — all in quick succession. Do I know something that will benefit the organization? In complex organizations and complex times, we face complex choices. I was thinking about that story by Thomas Merton during a recent board meeting.

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Merton Groupthink CFO Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

While both had top people, one was dramatically more successful in the market. Openness: How much a team values engaging with the broader organization and the outside world and builds the connections do so. How did the stars at that firm manage to shine brightly together, while those at the other merely twinkled on their own?

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Team How To Efficiency Groupthink 8

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. A loyal protégé is well-attuned to the buzz and vigilant about keeping her sponsor apprised.

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How To Diversity Groupthink Career 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. In recent years, Indian firms such as Dr Reddy's have also started globalizing their R&D footprint by moving into Western markets.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

If an organization was built for one purpose, but finds itself advancing the polar opposite, the total inverse, might it be it fair to say it's not just lost its way — but that it's been subverted, commandeered, pirated? Hence, the atmosphere of groupthink. Davos, of course, is far from a forum for the latter.

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Ethics Globalization Groupthink Incentives 15