Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

How Would You Answer This Question About Your Leadership? How Will Leadership Change in the Cognitive Era? The Ten Behaviors of Strong Personal Leadership by Scott Eblin @EblinGroup. Here's Why Emotions Are The Secret Sauce Of Innovation by ‏@HessEdward. 2 Self-Leadership Hacks for Positivity by @AlanDUtley.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 26, 2020

Soon the organization loses trust in leadership. 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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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

The goal of consensus leads to “groupthink” and inferior decisions. Innovation Is Where the Crazy People Have Stature. That to create effective teams, you need to understand and pay attention to these human values. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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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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Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2014

Make employees feel more included at work, says Catalyst’s new global report, Inclusive Leadership: The View From Six Countries , which surveyed over 1,500 employees from Australia, China (Shanghai), Germany, India, Mexico and the United States. In Mexico, they accounted for 51% of innovation and 60% of team citizenship.

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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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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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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. Moreover, we found no evidence to suggest that diverse directors avoid serving in board leadership roles. ” The best decisions.

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Leadership is not an easy task, and even the best leaders are susceptible to errors in thinking that can hinder decision-making and, ultimately, organizational success. Recognizing and avoiding these pitfalls can significantly enhance leadership effectiveness. This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking.

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Experience to Lead

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Consider the case of smartphone manufacturers rushing to innovate. By taking a deep breath, stepping back and consulting a checklist before making major decisions, leaders can incorporate the principle of pause and reflect into their day-to-day leadership practices. How does cognitive reflection help make better decisions?

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CO2

OCTOBER 16, 2024

As the dynamics of work evolve, so must our leadership strategies. Without it, communication falters, innovation stalls, and team members struggle to perform at their best. This is essential for open dialogue, learning, and innovation. But trust isn’t solely earned through competence; it’s built through vulnerability.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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

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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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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Leadership is not an easy task, and even the best leaders are susceptible to errors in thinking that can hinder decision-making and, ultimately, organizational success. Recognizing and avoiding these pitfalls can significantly enhance leadership effectiveness. This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking.

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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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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Welcome to the July 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. You may have a leadership dysfunction problem. Communication. Creativity/Inspiration.

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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. This is the opposite of groupthink, the creativity-killing phenomenon of too much agreement and too similar perspectives that often paralyzes otherwise great teams.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

And new models of leadership are emerging from some unlikely places. Large cities have higher income, lower crime rates, and more rapid innovation. Yet inside this massive structure is a surprising amount of innovation in the area of organizational design and decision-making. Is it possible? There's some good news.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Indeed, being data-driven has joined the ranks of “innovative”, “diverse”, and “socially responsible” as the one of most laudable features of organizational culture, at least if we go by company websites. Instead, celebrate critical thinking, curiosity, and the deeper desire to question things.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Given that group membership is such a deeply rooted part of human nature and organizational success, a central element of leadership is the management of group identities. This social relationship between leaders and followers is at the heart of transformational leadership.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In earlier research , the Center for Talent Innovation explored the importance of finding the right sponsor. The reason most multinational leadership is predominantly white and male is that those in power tend to sponsor those who remind them of themselves or those with whom they have much in common. Avoid the mini-me syndrome.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Others, perhaps driven by their own narcissism, pick people who are like them, which kills diversity and breeds groupthink. In our consulting work, we use a personality test to see whether teams have people playing five key roles necessary for performance: results, relationships, process, innovation, and pragmatism.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

companies, the guidelines contain helpful (although not entirely novel or innovative) recommendations such as compensating outside directors with stock, giving non-executive directors unfettered access to management, and discouraging the practice of earnings guidance. Intended to strengthen corporate governance at U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2017

To drive home the urgency, the coalition’s website, CEOAction.com , directs visitors to research showing that diverse teams and inclusive leaders unleash innovation, eradicate groupthink, and spur market growth. At the Center for Talent Innovation, we wanted to look into these suspicions. But as Tim Ryan, U.S.

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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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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. They should avoid one-word overused “no duh” adjectives like “innovation” or “integrity.” At ExactHire, our team focused on short phrases.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

At N2Growth, we recognize that diverse leadership teams drive better outcomes. Data supports this point: boards composed of individuals with varied experiences, ethnic backgrounds, and gender identities are more likely to generate innovative ideas and deliver superior financial results.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

A robust board evaluation framework strengthens oversight, prompts forward-thinking strategies, and ultimately, serves as a catalyst for high-performance leadership. Evaluations also mitigate the risks of groupthink by identifying issues that may otherwise remain undetected and by ensuring a consistent infusion of fresh perspectives.

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