Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

For instance, they’d suggest an innovative marketing strategy to promote their new product without much regard for anything else. Given these characteristics, naturally, the pessimists would tear the optimistic marketing strategy and other ideas to pieces. Sometimes they would even see problems that weren’t there.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

These are questions that require you to challenge groupthink, conventional wisdom, and your own biases. Intent listening will help you determine whether you’re on track or whether the strategy is flawed and needs to be rethought. Trade-off questions openly, sometimes defiantly, ask about winners and losers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2022

Three research-backed strategies to keep innovative ideas flowing.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 3, 2018

Or, if on the other hand you build trust by prioritizing people and a collaborative culture, you might overemphasize getting everyone to agree, which can discourage differing opinions and lead to Groupthink. The great thing about this strategy is that by making yourself vulnerable, you are building trust with others.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Delaying progress enable them to spend more time considering different ways to accomplish it, rather than ‘seizing and freezing’ on one particular strategy.” Dealing with Groupthink. Cohesion in a group doesn’t cause groupthink. Being original doesn’t mean being first. “It It just means being different and better.”

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

This article offers two high-impact strategies to ensure that despite virtual or hybrid configurations, important connections don’t coast to a stop. Julie Winkle Giulioni shared Remote Relationships: How Far Can You Coast ? Julie explains: “ Relationships require attention, intention, and investment. Even more so from afar.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Ibarra is the Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning at INSEAD , and author of, Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Ibarra's book includes many useful self-assessments.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Ibarra is the Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning at INSEAD , and author of, Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Ibarra''s book includes many useful self-assessments. Thanks to the book''s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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HR Digest

MAY 11, 2019

A form of groupthink which prevents individuals from thinking independently. If we fixate on an initial piece of information to make subsequent judgment during decision-making, we become emotionally attached to it for the stability of forming a conclusion. Bandwagon Bias. It is often linked to authority bias. Conformity Bias.

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Rapid BI

MAY 20, 2011

Brainstorming often gets a bad press, with the popular belief being that it fosters groupthink and generally hinders the creative process. New research shines a new light on the value of brainstorming however, especially a bit later in the creative process when ideas have already been generated.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

” This test requires strategies for considering as many distinct solutions as possible. For example, a common test of creativity is the “alternative uses” test. People are asked questions like, “How many different uses can you find for a brick?”

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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. However, counting on individual bravery and heroism is not a good strategy for team leaders or team members who want to ensure solid decision-making processes and outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

It's fashionable to decry groupthink and it's supposed to be the cause of most bad ideas, but in fact groupthink is necessary to get a team to work together enthusiastically for a common goal. The problem is not groupthink; the problem is bad inputs. Here, it's helpful to understand a little about group dynamics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to setting strategy, which is more effective: one great thinker or a wise crowd? To find out, I turned to my ongoing Top Pricer Tournament , in which 884 people — managers, consultants, professors, students — make pricing strategy decisions for a generic business competing against other generic businesses.

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Groupthink In an environment where conformity is valued over critical thinking, leaders may disregard their own views or skepticism to avoid conflict. Examples: A CEO assumes that their enthusiasm for a new corporate strategy is shared by all employees. Also know as “throwing good money after bad money.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

While it is common in Western Europe for non-executive directors to meet with shareholders to discuss strategy, governance, executive compensation, risk, and other matters within the board''s purview, U.S. Now, take the board''s role on strategy. I recently participated in a stimulating roundtable discussion on how U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Championed for many years by pioneering researchers such as Ellen Langer and Jon Kabat-Zinn , mindfulness is a mental orientation and set of strategies for focusing one’s mind on here-and-now experiences, such as abdominal muscle movements during respiration or chirping of birds outside one’s window.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

While strategy is often seen as a cerebral, rational exercise, the truth is that to a great extent your mission drives your strategy. Without cohesion, there is no common purpose, but without diversity groupthink will set in and eventually that purpose will lose relevance. What’s your mission?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

This strategy was integral to the way he led his team, and, as a result, the group was performing exceptionally well. This doesn’t mean groupthink. An assertive, high-ranking (and potentially intimidating) leader of the business unit in which she worked sat with her and asked her to walk him through her perspective on an issue.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

In addition, shareholders don’t necessarily want directors and management to speak “with one voice” (another commonly cited reason for assigning shareholder engagement to the CEO) and value diversity of views that may suggest a board is looking at important matters holistically and has not succumbed to groupthink.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Chief information officers are expected to see deeply into the future and generate IT predictions that companies can build their strategies around. There are plenty of coaches and consultants who will gladly hire on as a CIO's personal psychic, but becoming a true believer is a dangerous strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Again, we’re cherry-picking from a body of data, in this instance to confirm a theory about why something that has already happened (the 2008 financial crash, the re-election of Barack Obama, the decision to hire a senior executive or implement a business strategy) played out as it did. On the contrary. It’s pretty funny stuff.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Additionally, you’re more prone to groupthink if you’re not exposed to diverse perspectives and points of view. To diversify your own network, here are four strategies you can follow. Inventory your existing connections. First, take an inventory of your current network. Who are the 5-10 people you spend the most time with?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Four strategies were at the core of this transformation: build relationships, establish shared purpose, create shared consciousness, and foster diversity. (1) Conformity creates groupthink, stifling innovation and organizational resilience. 1) Build relationships. In network terms, relationships are connections between nodes.

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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. Managing uncertainty Strategy The Future of Management' I had a colleague once, a distinguished China scholar, who eschewed conferences and professional gatherings. We all prize it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Hence, your incentives are largely just the same as everybody else at Davos: to perpetuate stale concepts like "profit," "product," and "output," the tired, toxic practices of "strategy," "finance," and "marketing." Hence, the atmosphere of groupthink. Your Mom tends to tell you what you want to hear.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

They have been tapping into the sophisticated technical and scientific talent available in Western economies as part of their strategy to access international markets and build global brands. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. in close partnership with the University of Warwick.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 7, 2019

It’s very easy to get caught up in groupthink. First, they isolate themselves in closed-door meetings and pontificate their strategy. For example, if you believe you’re going to be successful , you’re going to view your prospects differently than if you think people like me never stand a chance. Follow their lead at your peril.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Groupthink sets in, and teams tend to keep pursuing the same strategy, whether it’s working or not. Second, the sports metaphors run out of explanatory steam very fast. How many times can you say “We need to keep pushing the ball up-court”? Third, diverse of points of view are lacking. Different types of people are not welcome.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

These three strategies can help you create a positive environment and develop employees who prosper within it. While there are no right or wrong types, having too many people with similar personalities tends to lead to problems and groupthink. Implement personality tests to discover purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Its members need the freedom to decide how to achieve goals while also having the discipline to work in alignment with the organization’s strategy. For example, a group needs both expertise in relevant subjects and fresh eyes that can see beyond the established ways of doing things. Assess your team.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

However, as anyone who has ever seen groupthink in action knows, any number of otherwise intelligent people can come to agree on nonsense. The result: far fewer failed strategies, far less wasted capital in investment decisions, and — to everyone’s great relief — fewer blame games and witch hunts.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

Collaborate: The Art of We is a practical guide to going beyond democratic or cooperative work to creating truly collaborative work environments as a growth strategy. Without diversity groupthink sets in. Dan Sanker states that ironically, in order to remain “competitive” companies will have to become more collaborative. Diverse Group.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Groupthink is a real thing. Though written millennia ago, most of it sounds like something you would say this very day to someone you were counseling to keep them from making a big and costly mistake. For example, be careful what kind of company you keep. Bad company corrupts good morals. Did your mother ever tell you that?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

The web did not invent community-driven brands – just think of Harley Davidson — but technology has surely made the strategy more popular. For marketers to succeed in the social arena, strategies need to be grounded in network science , not conjecture. Marketing Strategy' Yet that’s exactly the problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

The research of decision scientists reveals that our best strategy for tackling these problems is to harness cognitive diversity, because groups do better than individuals, including those with the highest IQs. A constricted path also occurs when a strong counter-position is tabled without being challenged.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

The research of decision scientists reveals that our best strategy for tackling these problems is to harness cognitive diversity, because groups do better than individuals, including those with the highest IQs. A constricted path also occurs when a strong counter-position is tabled without being challenged.

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