Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Karin Hurt and David Dye of Let’s Grow Leaders provided How to Stay Productive as You Return to the Office. Productivity. Communication.

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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. But there is a problem with brainstorming. It doesn't work. Scientific advances have lead to a situation where all the remaining problems are incredibly hard.

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Brainstorming Groupthink Engineering Creativity 99

The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

Research created an elaborate robotic system to streamline the user experience for one of the flagship product lines. Product development is always needed to make a new technology robust enough to work consistently in customer hands. He was a Scorpion , a “visionary” who felt that the technology should sell itself.

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Biotechnology Groupthink CFO Stress 41

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. For example, a senior executive in a traditional financial services organization recognized that the organization needed to embrace new technologies in order to engage with Millennials.

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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

They think in digital terms and have the curiosity and drive to figure out how technology works. Hackers also know a thing or two about the limits of technology. Sometimes these events are related to the product or business, but they can also be focused around something else entirely. They view every problem as an opportunity.

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Training Software Groupthink Learning-by-Doing 8

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." There is one large exception to this rule: groups that come together digitally, rather than in the real world, are often very creative, innovative, and productive. How can this be?

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Brainstorming Groupthink Focus Group Power 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

The good news is that there are ways to consistently make better decisions by using practices and technologies based on behavioral economics. Most business decisions are collaborative, which mean groupthink and consensus work to compound our individual biases. A final reason is technology. So what can be done?

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Kahneman Groupthink Tools Software 8