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Board of Directors: Steering Towards Organizational Excellence

N2Growth Blog

Companies that invest in board development programs equip their directors with the knowledge and skills necessary to excel, creating an environment where clear expectations, ethical guidelines, and open communication channels unite board members under a shared purpose.

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Inclusive Leadership in 2025: A Strategic Imperative for Growth

N2Growth Blog

At N2Growth, we believe that fostering an inclusive environment is not just ethically sound— it’s a critical driver of innovation and sustainable growth. This means actively promoting gender balance, ethnic diversity, and inclusivity in all talent management processes.

Diversity 312
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Are You Ready for Recovery?

Leading Blog

This means they are making decisions in full consciousness of their sense of purpose, ethics, and values. Those who are driven by their ego, for example, will take center stage and proclaim to have the answers, ignoring or side-lining the experts who could give a more realistic assessment of a situation, managing people’s expectations.

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Leading for Others

Great Leadership By Dan

In addition to the well-known dangers of groupthink, when leaders exclude Others , they also exclude the varied perspectives and ideas that could help the leaders make better and more imaginative decisions. Most are decent and ethical people. To be clear, most leaders are not consciously racist or bigoted. to include Others.

Diversity 287
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10 Ways to Keep “Post-truth” From Crippling Your Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Ethics are judged on a sliding scale…If we add up truths and lies we’ve told and find more of the former than the latter, we classify ourselves honest…Conceding that his magazine soft-pedaled criticism of advertisers, one publisher concluded, ‘I guess you could say we’re 75 percent honest, which isn’t bad.’”. 2) Manage paradoxes.

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Race Against Bias: Are we aware of our own unconscious bias?

HR Digest

Numerous studies since the 1980s confirm that unconscious bias is in play in every aspect of the modern workplace – in client relations, mentoring and sponsorship, performance management, recruitment and retention, promotion, and the allocation of job assignments. A form of groupthink which prevents individuals from thinking independently.

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Decision Making Antonyms and Story Telling

Mike Cardus

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.