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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Dunning Consensus Groupthink Charisma 100

Mark Sanborn

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Leadership, especially at the C-level, is a journey of high-stakes decisions and complex challenges. In Practice: A CFO might confidently project revenue figures while neglecting market uncertainties and potential disruptions. What are the cognitive challenges leaders at the highest levels face?

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Groupthink CFO Uncertainty Consensus 67

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.

Dunning 52

Dunning Consensus Groupthink Charisma 52

Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Here , you can read how Amey, which provides the transport sector with decarbonisation solutions, is using management apprenticeships to give employees the soft skills they need for leadership roles in engineering. Assessing Leadership and Management in Local Government report , published in partnership with the Social Market Foundation.

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Groupthink Newsletter Article Transportation 52

Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 7, 2019

FrankSonnenbergOnline was named one of the “Best 21st Century Leadership Blogs” and is among the most frequently shared items on the Internet. Sonnenberg: Did you ever notice that when you’re in the market for a new car, you seem to notice car ads more than usual? It’s very easy to get caught up in groupthink.

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Advice Learning-by-Doing Blog Morale 82

The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

I heard a cautionary tale from “George” the former VP of marketing at a mid-sized biotechnology company about how a bogus forecast helped propagate a disaster. Marketing then back calculated the number of units, service contracts, and consumables that would need to be sold to make the forecast.

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Biotechnology Groupthink CFO Stress 41

Mark Sanborn

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Leadership, especially at the C-level, is a journey of high-stakes decisions and complex challenges. In Practice: A CFO might confidently project revenue figures while neglecting market uncertainties and potential disruptions. What are the cognitive challenges leaders at the highest levels face?

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Groupthink CFO Uncertainty Consensus 40

Chartered Management Institute

JUNE 5, 2024

Start with authenticity “For me,” Catherine adds, “it’s important that those in positions of leadership can be their authentic selves. Matt founded the Pride in Leadership network , which helps to connect LGBTQIA+ leaders to each other and improves the visibility of role models for future leaders. It’s about being yourself.”

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Management Diversity Groupthink Article 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

This is the opposite of groupthink, the creativity-killing phenomenon of too much agreement and too similar perspectives that often paralyzes otherwise great teams. Everyone is just like us — say, marketers or engineers. That tension essential to creativity is tough to manage, requiring deft leadership. How to get started?

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Diversity Creativity Team Groupthink 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Consider how organizations assess leadership potential, and it becomes clear why developing a posse of protégés establishes you as “leadership material”: Helping junior people evolve into major producers for the firm is what leaders do. Using your power is about developing others, helping them achieve their leadership potential.

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How To Groupthink Diversity Career 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Companies were split into divisions, each with their own leadership. Frank and honest leadership is usually enough. In each case, the market leader had a chance to invest or partner with the upstart that eventually disrupted them. Authority flowed downwards and your rank determined your responsibility. Wal-Mart and Sears.

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Groupthink Agility Diversity Retail 8

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. But as Tim Ryan, U.S.

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Ryan Stephenson Groupthink Politics 8

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. Leadership. Diverse Group.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2019

New technologies and new leadership styles are needed to succeed and win. Groupthink is a real thing. Dan took his leadership and technology experience to work on and in the Sparklab startup business accelerator as well as lead change management and profit building initiatives for mid-market companies.

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