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July 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

This is why the Imposter Syndrome bedevils us more and more as we rise higher in an organization or move out farther away from organizational groupthink into entrepreneurship to take on more accountability and (potentially) make more costly mistakes. Find Dana on Twitter at @DanaTheus. Bernd Geropp provided How I learned to delegate.

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How Structured Debate Helps Your Team Grow

Harvard Business Review

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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You Don’t Need to Adopt Holacracy to Get Some of Its Benefits

Harvard Business Review

One of the greatest challenges of managing an enterprise today is that technology cycles often outpace planning cycles , so firms find themselves constantly having to adjust. Without cohesion, there is no common purpose, but without diversity groupthink will set in and eventually that purpose will lose relevance.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Four Keys to Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business Review

He was convinced that this otherwise entirely pleasant socializing and socialization led invariably to a kind of groupthink among the community of experts. Yet how do you actually do it, when life and livelihood generally depend on operating inside a box? We all prize it. Study History.

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What Great Social Media Campaigns Get Right

Harvard Business Review

The web did not invent community-driven brands – just think of Harley Davidson — but technology has surely made the strategy more popular. Pepsi Refresh failed because it had no relevance to the brand’s operations or heritage. Given AmEx’s operations, consumer base, and resources, it’s well positioned to do so.

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