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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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

A mission is why an enterprise exists, its purpose over and above delivering a bundle of products and services. In each case, the market leader had a chance to invest or partner with the upstart that eventually disrupted them. Wal-Mart and Sears. Netflix and Blockbuster. Google and Yahoo.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Agility Diversity Information 8

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.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

If innovation is stimulated by identifying under-served markets and then figuring out a service or product to fill the void, then here are a few low-to-no-cost suggestions for reinvigoration. But each of us as individuals can also work to optimize our innovative capacities. Reduce stress, but don't relax too much. Take a walk.

Creativity 16

Creativity Groupthink Stress GDP 16

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. Taken together, all of us establish a “consensus” view on the markets. ” In other words, they didn’t want to hear the groupthink.

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Career Groupthink Banking Video 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Hence, your incentives are largely just the same as everybody else at Davos: to perpetuate stale concepts like "profit," "product," and "output," the tired, toxic practices of "strategy," "finance," and "marketing." Hence, the atmosphere of groupthink. Your Mom tends to tell you what you want to hear.

Ethics 15

Ethics Globalization Groupthink Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Just as companies need a diverse workforce to remain attuned to the needs of new and emerging markets and to develop innovative products that compete in a rapidly evolving marketplace, sponsors need protégés who mirror those markets. Fill in your gaps.

How To 8

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

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