Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

For years, I puzzled over the huge performance gaps I often saw between teams that, on paper, looked as if they would be equally effective. And what was the secret to both evaluating and enhancing team , rather than individual or organizational, dynamics? What made the difference? You also have to help them work together.

Team 8

Team How To Efficiency Groupthink 8

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We’ve seen toxic cultures allowed to flourish in large and high-profile organisations, erratic leadership behaviours, groupthink and boardrooms struggling to maintain control. I think my team will be really pleased as well. It needs to be a joint effort with your team and for you to be an effective manager.

Learning-by-Doing 105

Learning-by-Doing Leadership Styles Education Training 105

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Eighteen months earlier, he’d made arguably the worst decision he ever made, to support an ill-conceived covert operation to unseat Fidel Castro, known today as the Bay of Pigs fiasco. The team should be broken into sub-groups that would work on alternatives and then reconvene.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Janis Consensus After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

This change first developed inside the special operations community whose leaders faced the reality of being out-paced by a new type of networked challenger in Al Qaeda, and therefore focused on building the density and diversity of their own friendly network. Conformity creates groupthink, stifling innovation and organizational resilience.

Agility 15

Agility Diversity Groupthink Efficiency 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

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. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. You can't run your global R&D operations from headquarters in Mumbai.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2017

You can get trapped in a version of groupthink, with a single set of shared relationships. Preserve your role as a team player, instead of acting like the boss’s messenger or sharing confidential information you’re suddenly privy to. Never oversell your clout. Preserve — or reinvigorate — your objectivity.

Groupthink 13

Groupthink Video Learning-by-Doing Career 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

To revisit the issue, the team tasked with the review turned to DQ concepts. The team then analyzed what would happen if certain variables like feedstock crude oil price, wholesale gasoline prices, and project duration deviated more than had been expected originally. Doable alternatives, excluding the flexi-coker, were explored.

Organization 8

Organization Uncertainty Proposal Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

To tackle this, organizations must learn to improve the "cognitive diversity" of their people and teams — getting people to think more broadly and diversely about the systems they inhabit. One of the pioneers in this effort is, counterintuitively, the U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Hedge System 8