Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 30, 2019

This creates a culture where disagreement and debate is welcome, and guards against blind spots and groupthink. Stephen Frost is co-author of Building An Inclusive Organization: Leveraging the Power ofa Diverse Workforce , and the CEO of the leadership consultancy Frost Included specializing in diversity and inclusion.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

This phenomenon is driven by excessive egos that want power, prestige, recognition, and reward. To explain further, in a crisis, using diverse perspectives enables the unthinkable to be brought to the table, it avoids groupthink and enables more effective solutions.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you’ve ever agreed to a decision at work even when you believe it to be the worst move your company could make, you need to learn how to avoid groupthink. But what is groupthink? Image credit – Freepik What is Groupthink? Understanding what groupthink is and taking measures to avoid it is essential in any workplace.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 10, 2017

Author Malcolm Gladwell calls it “the power of thinking without thinking.”. Groupthink : the psychological phenomenon for alignment that occurs within a group of people because of the desire for, and/or pressure to, have harmony or conformity. 5 Common Workplace Cognitive Biases.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Diana Peterson-More shared The Power of Apology: It’s Not If, Rather How. 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.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Management apprenticeships offer a powerful way to prepare managers. She also offers advice in The Times on how to overcome “groupthink,” where leaders remain unchallenged and team members withhold their views. Play clip ]. The New Statesman featured CMI’s newly-published Local Heroes?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

APRIL 25, 2012

Groupthink is powerful: a little unethical conduct here, a white lie there — justification is available for every integrity-compromised action. Business is a powerful force in our world — and becoming more powerful. Are you staying true to your integrity by staying put?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

These are questions that require you to challenge groupthink, conventional wisdom, and your own biases. For example, you can make more money but will have less free time; you can fix the bottom line but will have to lay off workers; you can liberate a country but will cause damage and death.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

Coaching is the best way to mold effective people into powerful teams.” The goal of consensus leads to “groupthink” and inferior decisions. There are things we all care about as people—love, family, money, attention, power, meaning, purpose—that are factors in any business situation. Campbell coached people to coach teams.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

When it comes to the powerful ideas in our heads and the core values in our hearts, we censor ourselves.” Dealing with Groupthink. Cohesion in a group doesn’t cause groupthink. T HERE ARE SO FEW originals in life. “We It’s better to ask children to be helpers than ask them to help. It speaks to their identity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

In articles in both the New York Times and The New Yorker earlier this year, the concept of brainstorming as introduced in the 1940's by Alex Osborn has been attacked as ineffective and linked to the concept of " Groupthink.". We have no issue with the importance of the creative individual to generate focused and powerful ideas.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Groupthink says it’s brash extroverts that make the company thrive. In that space is our power to choose our response. Suppose our startup is wildly successful, and meetings there are loud, raucous affairs where people talk all over one another. As such, we may view the modest, reserved applicant as unqualified.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 25, 2019

Once you chose an action, we will debate the merits of the work and fail to recognize alternative options that may be better or worse; framing the process of synthesis as one of curiosity – wander through ideas; also, using groupthink for progress, mixed with breaking these teams up and challenging the ideas in new mixed teams.

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Management Craft

JULY 30, 2012

Groupthink - this is behind many of the political ads, I think. Groupthink is a disproportionate amount of connection). As a manager, you can impact many of these catalysts and reduce their power and impact. At the heart of control issues are confidence issues. A lack of love - when people feel unimportant and unloved.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Jonah Lehrer's article, "GroupThink" in The New Yorker , January 30, 2012 states that brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. Debate, rather than brainstorming, may be less pleasant but it will always be more productive.because the power of dissent is the power of surprise.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Second, few people understand group dynamics well enough to harness their power to help groups maximize their creativity. There are two reasons most of us aren’t very good at creative problem solving. First, few people get training in how to be creative in their education.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Susan Cain Crown Publishers (2012) How and why our location on “the introvert-extrovert spectrum” influences most (if not all) of our decisions and opinions Throughout most of her book, Susan Cain takes a balanced approach to the immensely difficult task of examining the [.].

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JANUARY 9, 2024

When I was young, my mother told me what it was like to grow up in Berlin when Hitler and the Nazi party came to power. Groupthink: What Makes You Think Others Know Better? They personified the worst of humanity. It is unfathomable how one person caused so much misery. But he didn’t act alone. Neighbors snitched on neighbors.

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 25, 2017

When everyone focuses on agreeing and trying to please, you’ll soon find yourself on the Bus to Abilene , a special kind of purgatory for specialists in groupthink. Like the spark in the combustion chamber, the end result has to be a powerful force in a single direction. . - Patton Click To Tweet.

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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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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

That being your motivation, how do you step in the opposite direction—away from peer pressure, business norms, groupthink, and the power of conformity—to share a perspective that’s contrary to both expected and rewarded workplace behavior? Risk-taking is hard to adopt among leaders,” says Julie J.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2012

These formed after reading a great article by Susan Cain in the New York Times called "The Rise of the New Groupthink." The column is a preview of her new book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking (the title alone assures that I will buy it).

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

DECEMBER 3, 2019

After all, the food that you consume impacts your energy, strength, brain power, and overall health. Groupthink: What Makes You Think Others Know Better? An opinion is not a fact. If you’re like most people these days, you’re careful about what you put into your body. You are what you eat AND the information that you digest.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2017

To drive home the urgency, the coalition’s website, CEOAction.com , directs visitors to research showing that diverse teams and inclusive leaders unleash innovation, eradicate groupthink, and spur market growth. But as Tim Ryan, U.S. That’s obviously good for business.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Cases in point: If you worship wealth, power, and fame, you’ll make judgments based on status, position, and material possessions. Groupthink: What Makes You Think Others Know Better? Don’t allow filters to distort your thinking, influence your feelings, or impact your behavior. How Do You See the World? You Get What You Expect.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Thus, constructive dissent needs to be explicitly valued in organizations to avoid groupthink and bad decision-making. The ease with which people categorize the social world into groups speaks to our nature, and provides a powerful potential tool for leaders. Thus, great leaders must become entrepreneurs of identity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

This helps teams avoid tunnel vision and groupthink, and gets them thinking more creatively. When you break down the silos that exist across teams in so many companies today, it helps build community and create a shared purpose , which are powerful defenses when it comes to cybersecurity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2013

A recent story in the Fairfield County Gazette in Ohio highlighted the power of workplace friendship for brain cancer patient Tracy Lee. Sure, there can be bumps: professional jealousy, groupthink, negative cliques, split loyalties, loss of work time to socializing, and broken friendships. Fostering friendships takes proactive effort.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

The most powerful and influential folks at Davos — the titans of the global economy — probably won't do anything to heal the world, for the simple reason that because, as things stand, they "profit" most from its suffering. Hence, the atmosphere of groupthink. If power corrupts, concentrations of power corrode.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

It only morphs the fear of speaking truth to power into the fear of speaking truth in power. It is different from “groupthink.” It would be easier to find and speak with our own voice. It took me a few years to realize that I was offering a wishful lie. Time does not summon courage.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

The stakes for doing so are real: decisions are the most powerful tool managers have for getting things done. Most business decisions are collaborative, which mean groupthink and consensus work to compound our individual biases. Managers make about three billion decisions each year, and almost all of them can be made better.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition. ” In other words, they didn’t want to hear the groupthink. .” That my clients have a phenomenal experience only helps me drive revenue at work, so my corporate and recording careers are mutually beneficial. You and Your Team Series. Career Transitions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Enhance Your Power of Observation. I also recommend the essay “The Power of Patience” in the current issue of Harvard Magazine. He was convinced that this otherwise entirely pleasant socializing and socialization led invariably to a kind of groupthink among the community of experts. Art historian Jennifer L.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The reason most multinational leadership is predominantly white and male is that those in power tend to sponsor those who remind them of themselves or those with whom they have much in common. Using your power is about developing others, helping them achieve their leadership potential. Avoid the mini-me syndrome. Fill in your gaps.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 29, 2013

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Iain McGilchrist Yale University Press (2009) “How do we understand the world, if there are different versions of it to reconcile?” Note: The terms “master” and “emissary” as well as their correlations with the nature and extent of the “divided [.].

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2017

First, your teammates can start to resent you because of your proximity to power. You can get trapped in a version of groupthink, with a single set of shared relationships. .” While it’s great to get extra attention and have your work recognized, there’s often a price to pay for being the favorite.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

Diversity is the power behind collaboration. Without diversity groupthink sets in. Everyone needs to be working from the same script, clearly understanding roles and responsibilities, and they need to have the same understanding of what success looks like. Diverse Group.

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