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.

Groupthink 97

Groupthink Mentor Diversity Project 97

Management Craft

JULY 30, 2012

Like the team that bands together to complain about a manager who is implementing new accountability systems (this really happened) and saying that she is mean and unfit to manage. Groupthink - this is behind many of the political ads, I think. Groupthink is a disproportionate amount of connection). You get the idea.

Groupthink 63

Groupthink Politics Resistance Team 63

LDRLB

MAY 19, 2010

According to Weber, the attributes of modern bureaucracy include its impersonality, concentration of the means of administration, a leveling effect on social and economic differences and implementation of a system of authority that is practically indestructible. Max Weber himself remarked that ideal bureaucracy is difficult to attain.

Bureaucracy 68

Bureaucracy Groupthink Efficiency Document 68

The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

Research created an elaborate robotic system to streamline the user experience for one of the flagship product lines. The President and CFO were hungry for revenue growth, and via a process that sounds a lot like groupthink, the executive team convinced themselves that “we should be able to make $10M on this product this year.”

Biotechnology 41

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. 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.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

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? Do you have a support system to nurture you along the way regardless of the outcome?

Groupthink 150

Groupthink Ethics Brainstorming Discount 150

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Will they integrate with current Business Intelligence systems? But overreliance on these firms leads to industry groupthink, and complexity-theory research tells us that it's impossible to predict the behavior of a large system (such as the world of tech innovation) beyond the next few moves.

CIO 14

CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

At the same time, experts fret that our public school system doesn't foster enough creativity in our future workforce. Private R&D spending has also tailed off since then, when it brought us breakthrough innovations like laser printing, the Ethernet, the graphical user interface, and the mouse. But I think the declinism is overwrought.

Creativity 16

Creativity Groupthink Stress GDP 16

RapidStart Leadership

MAY 23, 2017

Leading effectively isn’t just building a system and then letting it run. But after a while, even the best ones can descend into groupthink and lose their creative edge. It’s important to have clear systems and procedures for getting things done. Everything seems fresh and full of opportunity. Disruption for the Good.

Groupthink 130

Groupthink Open-book Creativity Team 130

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Even as someone who has studied alternative management movements , I’ve been skeptical about holacracy, which eschews the standard “org chart” for a system of interlocking “circles.” In hierarchical organizations — whatever their failings — leaders can change direction and combat groupthink.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Agility Diversity Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Bio-mechanical systems get more efficient as they get bigger, but they also slow down and become less adaptive. So do social systems like cities and communities. Conformity creates groupthink, stifling innovation and organizational resilience. People even walk faster in bigger cities. The reason is networks.

Agility 15

Agility Groupthink Diversity Efficiency 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

They have a healthy mistrust of computer systems and they understand that no software is immune to bugs (and that even without bugs, software will still have security vulnerabilities). This helps teams avoid tunnel vision and groupthink, and gets them thinking more creatively. Sponsored by Varonis.

Training 8

Training Software Groupthink Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

In a study of 500 managers and executives, we found that only 2% regularly apply best practices when making decisions, and few companies have systems in place to measure and improve decision making over time. Most business decisions are collaborative, which mean groupthink and consensus work to compound our individual biases.

Kahneman 8

Kahneman Groupthink Tools Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

” Some are huge project teams, like the 600 Apple engineers who successfully developed the revolutionary OS X operating system in just two years (compared with the five years it took 10,000 Microsoft engineers to develop, and eventually retract, Microsoft’s Windows Vista). You and Your Team. Leading Teams.

Team 8

Team How To Efficiency Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Suzlon recently completed its acquisition of Germany-based REpower Systems, gaining access to cutting-edge expertise in aerodynamics and electronics. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. Reliance MediaWorks.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Researchers find echoes of this story in other contexts all the time — circumstances where adding safety-enhancements to systems actually makes crisis situations more dangerous, not less so. Imagine further that, if you choose incorrectly, you will push the system into an unrecoverable catastrophe.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis System Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

While there are no right or wrong types, having too many people with similar personalities tends to lead to problems and groupthink. The structure of a team shifts, and a longtime player no longer fits the mold of the new organization or the system of a new coach. This situation occurs frequently in professional sports.

Company 8

Company Committee Long-term Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

The application form I created had countless fields for indicating proficiency in tens of programming languages and IT systems. To avoid the groupthink trap, set the vote cell font color to white, thus obscuring the votes from other team members. In 2009, I was hiring aides for a senior IT management job.

Tools 8

Tools Groupthink Advertising Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

A first pass at the problem resulted in a proposal to install a unit called a flexi-coker — a major system capable of refining a range of crude oil types and minimizing the ultra-heavy coke residual. However, as anyone who has ever seen groupthink in action knows, any number of otherwise intelligent people can come to agree on nonsense.

Organization 8

Organization Uncertainty Proposal Groupthink 8

ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 8, 2017

As you can imagine, it resulted in a hot mess of groupthink…complete with vanilla platitudes that can only result from trying to be everything to everyone. Weave values into your jobs portal or applicant tracking system. And not surprisingly, the trite single-word adjectives we selected were quickly forgotten.

Process 52

Process Groupthink Company Document 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Complex problems are characterized by confusing systems of causal interactions; untangling these requires multiple different points of view. Path dependence is the tendency for things (such as events, belief systems, personalities, evolution, and conversations) to unfold in ways that are constrained by the parameters of the path they are on.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Brainstorming Diversity 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Complex problems are characterized by confusing systems of causal interactions; untangling these requires multiple different points of view. Path dependence is the tendency for things (such as events, belief systems, personalities, evolution, and conversations) to unfold in ways that are constrained by the parameters of the path they are on.

Productivity 12

Productivity Products Brainstorming Diversity 12