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.

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Groupthink Newsletter Article Transportation 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. In recent years, Indian firms such as Dr Reddy's have also started globalizing their R&D footprint by moving into Western markets.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 14

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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Diversity Creativity Team Groupthink 15

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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Creativity Groupthink Stress GDP 19

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Recent market updates, a technical deconstruction of various trends, then product frameworks — all in quick succession. We don't get to optimize all products, go after all markets, or add all programs. It happened during the Kennedy Administration's Bay of Pigs fiasco when " groupthink " carried the day.

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Merton Groupthink CFO Cost 16

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.

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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In earlier research , the Center for Talent Innovation explored the importance of finding the right sponsor. Just as companies need a diverse workforce to remain attuned to the needs of new and emerging markets and to develop innovative products that compete in a rapidly evolving marketplace, sponsors need protégés who mirror those markets.

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How To Groupthink Diversity Career 10

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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Ryan Stephenson Groupthink Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

Taken together, all of us establish a “consensus” view on the markets. ” In other words, they didn’t want to hear the groupthink. Discover Real Innovations. And most of my asset manager clients were looking for something different: “Give me a contrarian perspective.”

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Career Groupthink Banking Video 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

All too often, when marketers talk about their “social strategy,” they really mean a digital marketing strategy implemented on social platforms, rather than using social dynamics to benefit their business. Pepsi actually lost market share and fell to number three in the cola wars for the first time in modern history.

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Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 10

Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

Rather than engaging in an endless tug-of-war over the dwindling crumbs in a finite market, collaborative companies find ways to make the pie bigger, or create whole new pies , expanding everyone’s market and revenue. Without diversity groupthink sets in. Diverse Group. Diversity is the power behind collaboration.

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