Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2017

In my view, the #1 killer element is groupthink. He believed, as I do, that groupthink erodes values; stifles critical thinking, limits creativity; enables undue influence of direction; and, allows inequity of action. So what is that profound issue, that killer component? However, that seems all too often not to happen.

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Abilene Paradox Groupthink Consensus Restructuring 272

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

He was convinced that this otherwise entirely pleasant socializing and socialization led invariably to a kind of groupthink among the community of experts. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures.

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Groupthink Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

I knew it all too well, the fear of being myself at work—or more precisely, the uncertainty about which self to be. It is different from “groupthink.” As a group norm, we reinforce it by endorsing “constructive” cultures that denigrate dissent as a lesser form of participation than enthusiasm.

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Politics Groupthink Commitment Price 12