Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Chances are you have heard the phrase “groupthink” and if so you have a justifiably negative feeling about the idea. The word and idea of groupthink was popularized in the early 1970’s based on a […]. The post The Difference Between Groupthink and Teamthink appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2017

In my view, the #1 killer element is groupthink. He believed, as I do, that groupthink erodes values; stifles critical thinking, limits creativity; enables undue influence of direction; and, allows inequity of action. So what is that profound issue, that killer component? However, that seems all too often not to happen.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

→ Read More: Why Good Teams Make Bad Decisions The post Why Good Teams Make Bad Decisions appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership. Team Effectiveness Groupthink High Performance Teams Team decision making Teamwork' More importantly, if you are currently a member of.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It’s groupthink. I N this interview, Jobs explains the dynamics of a team that pushes to excel—to be above average—excellent. There are some team leaders who would argue that a great team is all smiles and agreement. But that only produces stasis or marginal improvement at best.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2019

Winston Churchill, Groupthink, and the Dardanelles by @michaelaroberto. 3 Steps For Dusting Off Your Leadership in the New Year by Linda Fisher Thornton @leadingincontxt. How To Avoid the 3 Blows From a Leadership Shortcut by @WScottCochrane. Transition to Leadership: Well Begun is Half Done from @wallybock.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 17, 2015

There is a big difference between groupthink and what I call teamthink. The post The Difference Between GroupThink and TeamThink – Remarkable TV Live appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning. This is a further expansion of the ideas in this article. Listen to the audio […].

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Nurturing a Culture of Ethical Leadership on the Board Ethical leadership is the foundation of organizational integrity, starting with the board of directors. Invest in Ethical Leadership Training: Ongoing education ensures that directors have the tools to lead with integrity.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

Transpersonal Leadership is a concept that my colleagues and I at LeaderShape Global have been developing for over 10 years. The next area to consider is the crucial importance of distributed Leadership, which follows naturally from the transpersonal perspective. Anybody can travel the path to Transpersonal Leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Practical Advice to Deal with a Blind Spot and Make it Work For You How do you become aware of a blind spot in your leadership? Construct a Balanced Team Ensure you have a mix of at least four different types to cover various approaches to leadership and problem-solving. After all, that’s the point of a blind spot, right?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2024

In today’s dynamic business landscape, the significance of gender diversity within corporate boards and leadership echelons has rightfully garnered widespread acclaim. The Way Forward: Harnessing the Power of Diversity The inclusion of women in boardrooms and leadership roles isn’t just beneficial— it’s transformative.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

They use an effective leadership style to direct, engage, and empower team members. That can result in groupthink. Effective team leaders present a compelling case for the team’s mission and use a discussing style to get all the team members to buy into a set of specific goals, plans, and values. Speak up.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 8, 2013

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. Consider, for example, that 89% of the American public say that they are comfortable with women in senior leadership roles.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 3, 2018

How your B side will impact your team depends on your leadership style. Or, if on the other hand you build trust by prioritizing people and a collaborative culture, you might overemphasize getting everyone to agree, which can discourage differing opinions and lead to Groupthink. S o what to do when you can’t escape your B side?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2019

Not only does this foster groupthink, but it most often creates a toxic us versus them mentality “often leading to the demonization of the ‘other’ and contributing to discrimination and sometimes violence.” “The more often we her something, the more familiar it becomes, and familiarity breeds trust.” We Want to Belong.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Recently, the significance of gender diversity in corporate boardrooms and leadership has gained widespread recognition. The impact of women’s presence in boardrooms and leadership positions is difficult to measure accurately as it requires considerable time to determine the real outcomes.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

In this post, I will briefly expand these ideas and then focus on a specific emotion from a communication and leadership point of view: Anxiety. When several team members don’t speak freely, groupthink rears its head, sometimes even with catastrophic implications. Self-Determination Theory and the basic psychological need for safety.

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QAspire

APRIL 8, 2013

Great Quotes Improvement & Development In 100 Words Leadership Managing Career Self Growth conformance conformity Differentiation groupthink' Interesting Stuff: There is a new magazine on personal branding titled “ Me Inc. ”

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 30, 2019

Whilst both are important, leadership is the cornerstone, without which all the diversity initiatives in the world will be in vain. While policies can help with this to some degree, the work of including people is mostly done through leadership. And you need to lead inclusively. As a result, those businesses will thrive as well.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2016

10 things to do to keep “post-truth” from crippling your leadership. Effective leadership is an oscillating mix of head and heart: managing both facts and feelings as well as logic and emotion. Discourage groupthink and don’t shoot the messenger. 2) Manage paradoxes. Diversity creates dissent, and you need that. easy to do.

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 25, 2017

That’s Colin Powell’s approach to leadership. When everyone focuses on agreeing and trying to please, you’ll soon find yourself on the Bus to Abilene , a special kind of purgatory for specialists in groupthink. I’m not paying you to agree with me. I’m paying you to think. They want the opposite. They want dialogue, a clash of ideas.

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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. 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. * * *. Lead Based on First Principles.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 10, 2017

Groupthink : the psychological phenomenon for alignment that occurs within a group of people because of the desire for, and/or pressure to, have harmony or conformity. Anchoring : the tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information offered when making decisions.

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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. Here’s a definition of it from Psychology Today : Groupthink occurs when a group values harmony and coherence over accurate analysis and critical evaluation.

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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. 2 Self-Leadership Hacks for Positivity by @AlanDUtley. The Secret Ingredient for Extraordinary Leadership by Jane Perdue @thehrgoddess.

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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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Modern Servant Leader

MARCH 2, 2023

First, a lack of diversity in your employee base will result in groupthink. The reality is he created his own groupthink. As you will see, there’s many principles in servant leadership that will hopefully avoid you having to deal with such terrible issues as racists in your organization. Servant leaders are thorough.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 18, 2012

This “team of rivals” was able to provide a variety of perspectives and create a tension over the solutions that avoided the traditional, yes-man saturated groupthink sessions that marked so many other president’s cabinets.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 8, 2022

The problem, as the authors explain in the book, Trillion Dollar Coach, wasn’t that he didn’t want people to get along, but that an easy consensus often leads to groupthink and inferior decisions. GUEST POST from Greg Satell “I hate consensus,” legendary Silicon Valley coach Bill Campbell used to growl.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Dealing with Groupthink. Cohesion in a group doesn’t cause groupthink. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *. It’s better to ask children to be helpers than ask them to help. It speaks to their identity. There’s a fine line between having a strong culture and operating like a cult.”

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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. Awakened Leadership through Personal Coaching. . Inclusive leaders are humble.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

An important aspect of leadership is to turn around and see who is following you. Groupthink says it’s brash extroverts that make the company thrive. If those who follow you all look and behave just like you, something is wrong. That is simply not representative of our highly diverse society.”

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Devil’s advocates are also good at preventing groupthink , the tendency for a group to coalesce around the opinion of the most powerful person in the room. This rather simple change drastically improved meetings and employee engagement.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Conform to groupthink. Some folks request permission to do things even though they have the freedom to choose for themselves. Afraid to say “no.” Some people get sucked into commitments because they’re uncomfortable saying “no.”. Some folks change their opinions to bend to peer pressure. Look for acceptance. Join the bandwagon.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

That being your motivation, how do you step in the opposite direction—away from peer pressure, business norms, groupthink, and the power of conformity—to share a perspective that’s contrary to both expected and rewarded workplace behavior?

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 16, 2020

Make Good Choices Groupthink: What Makes You Think Others Know Better? Please leave a comment and tell us what you think or share it with someone who can benefit from the information. Additional Reading: It’s Your Life to Live. Do You Compare Yourself to Others? Dilemma: Have to vs. Want To.

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