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.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Bio-mechanical systems get more efficient as they get bigger, but they also slow down and become less adaptive. So do social systems like cities and communities. Conformity creates groupthink, stifling innovation and organizational resilience. People even walk faster in bigger cities. The reason is networks.

Agility 15

Agility Diversity Groupthink Efficiency 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Even as someone who has studied alternative management movements , I’ve been skeptical about holacracy, which eschews the standard “org chart” for a system of interlocking “circles.” In hierarchical organizations — whatever their failings — leaders can change direction and combat groupthink.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Agility Diversity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

” Some are huge project teams, like the 600 Apple engineers who successfully developed the revolutionary OS X operating system in just two years (compared with the five years it took 10,000 Microsoft engineers to develop, and eventually retract, Microsoft’s Windows Vista). You and Your Team. Leading Teams.

Team 8

Team How To Efficiency Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Suzlon recently completed its acquisition of Germany-based REpower Systems, gaining access to cutting-edge expertise in aerodynamics and electronics. To best leverage worldwide creative talent, Reliance MediaWorks operates a global network of creative centers located in Burbank, San Francisco, London, Tokyo, and across India.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Researchers find echoes of this story in other contexts all the time — circumstances where adding safety-enhancements to systems actually makes crisis situations more dangerous, not less so. Imagine further that, if you choose incorrectly, you will push the system into an unrecoverable catastrophe.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Hedge System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

A first pass at the problem resulted in a proposal to install a unit called a flexi-coker — a major system capable of refining a range of crude oil types and minimizing the ultra-heavy coke residual. And in operations, where decisions are made almost daily, the result was, in effect, continuous improvement.

Organization 8

Organization Uncertainty Proposal Quality 8