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Are You Ready for Recovery?

Leading Blog

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. A transpersonal leader has travelled a road where these attributes have been developed, alongside a honed appreciation of how to improve judgment and decision making.

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Create Better, Collaborate Better

Harvard Business Review

On the phone recently, trying to extend a pre-existing reservation with a hotel and an online travel service in advance of the Coachella music festival: xxxxx.Com: "We don't show that room available. In business, this is a sure recipe for groupthink. You'll have to call the property directly.".

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The Trouble with a “Jock Culture” at the Office

Harvard Business Review

Groupthink sets in, and teams tend to keep pursuing the same strategy, whether it’s working or not. In my experience turning around the formerly jock-oriented company, the more I traveled around this business, the more I learned how much its formerly cliquish insularity had been hurting its overall performance.

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