Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

These are questions that require you to challenge groupthink, conventional wisdom, and your own biases. For example, you can make more money but will have less free time; you can fix the bottom line but will have to lay off workers; you can liberate a country but will cause damage and death.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

This is why the Imposter Syndrome bedevils us more and more as we rise higher in an organization or move out farther away from organizational groupthink into entrepreneurship to take on more accountability and (potentially) make more costly mistakes. Find Dana on Twitter at @DanaTheus. Bernd Geropp provided How I learned to delegate.

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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. They would also highlight the risks that came with every innovative suggestion, such as penalties by regulators for overhyping medical claims. Being Different Isn’t a Bad Thing. Power in Diversity.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 26, 2020

Groupthink: over time, people working together will tend to think the same way, believe the same conclusions and results. Re-checking the information, using different personnel is necessary to avoid stuckness-thinking and groupthink. This group mindset leads to stuck thinking.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you’ve ever agreed to a decision at work even when you believe it to be the worst move your company could make, you need to learn how to avoid groupthink. But what is groupthink? Image credit – Freepik What is Groupthink? Understanding what groupthink is and taking measures to avoid it is essential in any workplace.

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Talent Anarchy 1

JULY 18, 2017

Among the things he discussed in his keynote was how to combat groupthink. Groupthink may be the most dangerous force running rampant within organizations today. It’s certainly deadly to innovation. To combat Groupthink requires divergent thinking. It will make you smarter and better.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

The goal of consensus leads to “groupthink” and inferior decisions. Innovation Is Where the Crazy People Have Stature. The manager's job is to run a decision-making process that ensures all perspectives get heard and considered, and, if necessary, to break ties and make the decision. Lead Based on First Principles.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For most of us we are not like the conceptual innovators that formulate a big idea early on in life and act on it. We are probably more like the experimental innovators that move through idea after idea, learning and evolving as they go. Dealing with Groupthink. Cohesion in a group doesn’t cause groupthink.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

Here's Why Emotions Are The Secret Sauce Of Innovation by ‏@HessEdward. Seven Attributes of the Most Innovative Cultures by Gordon Redding via @INSEADKnowledge. Unleashing Creativity And Avoiding Groupthink by Michelle M Smith via @octanner. The Ten Behaviors of Strong Personal Leadership by Scott Eblin @EblinGroup.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Of innovating? This isn't a mandate for or against either party; it was a mandate for an economic revolution to get rid of big government and make one that works for the people. Is the government capable of re-inventing itself? Let's look at other established entities - like big companies. In the [.].

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

If you didn’t care about getting a promotion, would you succumb to groupthink or dissent? GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski If you could get another good job at the drop of a hat, how would you work differently? Would you speak your mind or bite your tongue? If your ego didn’t get in the way, […]

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Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2014

In China, employee perceptions of inclusion accounted for 78% of innovation and 71% of team citizenship. In Mexico, they accounted for 51% of innovation and 60% of team citizenship. In India, they accounted for 62% of innovation and 43% of team citizenship. Inclusive leaders are humble.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 13, 2022

Of course, the researchers accept that teams are not always ideal, and there are various aspects of team dynamics that can hinder us, whether it’s groupthink or uneven power balances.

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Talent Anarchy 1

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Innovation is often a product of the intersection—the place where different perspectives, different heuristics, and different experiences crash into each other. Disagreement is not only natural between people, it is also valuable. It’s the engine that drives robust social processes such as decision-making and problem-solving.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Is groupthink a habit in our team, or are we frequently seeking out new and different ways of solving our problems? Can I share my own perspectives? Is it possible for me to share a creative idea or a point of view that differs from the remainder of the group?

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HR Digest

JULY 21, 2024

This sharing of ideas could help them open up to each other and innovate without the pressure of an immediate goal. During slower work periods, encourage employees to come together and discuss the ideas they want to try out and how they would go about it.

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HR Digest

MAY 11, 2019

The tendency to favor innovative ideas coming from authority figures within innovation teams. A form of groupthink which prevents individuals from thinking independently. Pro-Innovation Bias. New ideas and innovations are seen as inherently good, regardless of the potential negative impacts. Authority Bias.

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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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Experience to Lead

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Consider the case of smartphone manufacturers rushing to innovate. Leaders who actively seek diverse input whether from team members, external advisors or by playing devils advocate themselves are less likely to fall prey to groupthink or narrow perspectives. How does cognitive reflection help make better decisions?

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 27, 2022

Diversity has long been recognized in terms of its importance to things like innovation and creativity, with research from MIT showing how cognitive diversity improves the profitability of organizations. Such diversity can have costs, however, as paper from Wharton illustrates. ” The best decisions.

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking. Groupthink In an environment where conformity is valued over critical thinking, leaders may disregard their own views or skepticism to avoid conflict. Also know as “throwing good money after bad money.”

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

If you’ve been working in innovation for at least some time, you’re probably sick and tired of hearing people talk about “thinking outside the box”, or the need to create “outside the box innovations”. How are outside the box innovations born? How are outside the box innovations born? Creating outside the box innovations.

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CO2

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Without it, communication falters, innovation stalls, and team members struggle to perform at their best. This is essential for open dialogue, learning, and innovation. When leaders create environments where failure is treated as an opportunity to grow, teams feel empowered to push boundaries and innovate.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 28, 2018

If collaboration becomes a form of groupthink or censorship, watch out. Collaboration, as a concept, can be used by those seeking control of a culture for their own purposes.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The authors believe that while these results may seem a dangerous example of groupthink in action, this conformity to the group norms may actually have played a part in human survival. ” Adaptive conformity. “Looking to other people, and how they approach a justice dilemma, can—although not always—be a useful thing.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

In articles in both the New York Times and The New Yorker earlier this year, the concept of brainstorming as introduced in the 1940's by Alex Osborn has been attacked as ineffective and linked to the concept of " Groupthink.". Suffice it to say, we dislike consensus-based "Groupthink" as much as the next person. Here's our advice: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2022

Three research-backed strategies to keep innovative ideas flowing.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We’ve seen toxic cultures allowed to flourish in large and high-profile organisations, erratic leadership behaviours, groupthink and boardrooms struggling to maintain control. Scroll for more Shortcut to start of content The public expects institutions and big businesses to show high standards of leadership and management.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Daisy Hooper , CMI’s head of policy and innovation, appeared in BusinessGreen last week, pointing out the key role for apprenticeships in the transition to a low-carbon economy. She also offers advice in The Times on how to overcome “groupthink,” where leaders remain unchallenged and team members withhold their views. Play clip ].

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking. Groupthink In an environment where conformity is valued over critical thinking, leaders may disregard their own views or skepticism to avoid conflict. Also know as “throwing good money after bad money.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In prior blog posts, we have described how Western multinationals such as Xerox and GE are embracing polycentric innovation by sourcing more R&D capabilities from emerging markets such as India and China and integrating them into a synergistic global innovation network. Integrate with local innovation ecosystems.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. Turning a critic into a passionate advocate and supporter is a great goal in innovation. Diversity is the crucial element for group creativity.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Susan Cain Crown Publishers (2012) How and why our location on “the introvert-extrovert spectrum” influences most (if not all) of our decisions and opinions Throughout most of her book, Susan Cain takes a balanced approach to the immensely difficult task of examining the [.].

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

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. And that's because some of the best paths to encourage innovation are surprisingly simple. But I think the declinism is overwrought.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). Innovation Book. When groups simply get together and start throwing out ideas, they actually come up with fewer ideas overall and fewer novel, actionable ideas than the individuals in that group would have come up with had they worked alone. Further Reading. Harvard Business Review.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2011

In business, this is a sure recipe for groupthink. The box of "Chief Innovation Officer" or any other title. Dan Burrier is Chief Innovation Officer at Ogilvy & Mather, North America, but his business card is blank, except for an email address: dan.burrier@ogilvy.com. A colleague of mine, Rob Mathias who runs our D.C.

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