Group dynamics can lead otherwise sensible individuals to make (or agree to) decisions they might not come to on their own. Executives need to be on the lookout for group biases and their undesirable results. Here are four common manifestations of the “group effect” and some suggestions for countering them.
Content: Article
Authors: Paul Rogers, Todd Senturia
Source: Bain & Company
Subject: Organizational Behavior
Authors: Paul Rogers, Todd Senturia
Source: Bain & Company
Subject: Organizational Behavior
Related Content
- “Let’s just go with it.”: The perils of decision neglect
[Archive.org URL] - A Contrarian Approach to Decision-Making [Archive.org URL]
- Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much? [Archive.org URL]
- Are You Ready to Decide? [Archive.org URL]
- Baba Shiv: How to Make Better Decisions [Archive.org URL]
- Building Business Decision-Makers [Archive.org URL]
- Closing the Decision Quality Gap [Archive.org URL]
- Conquering Complexity With Simple Rules [Archive.org URL]
- Contingent Capitalism: Planning and Decision Making in Emerging Markets [Archive.org URL]
- Creating an Environment for Good Decision Making [Archive.org URL]
- Cutting Your Losses: How to Avoid the Sunk Cost Trap [Archive.org URL]
- Daniel Kahneman [Archive.org URL]
- Daniel Kahneman: Beware the ‘inside view’ [Archive.org URL]
- Daniel Kahneman’s Strategy for How Your Firm Can Think Smarter [Archive.org URL]
- Debugging Executive Decision Making [Archive.org URL]
- Deciding How to Decide [Archive.org URL]
- Decision Effectiveness Quiz [Archive.org URL]
- Decision Making Tools [Archive.org URL]
- Decision Quality: Improving Value from Capital Allocation [Archive.org URL]
- Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light? [Archive.org URL]
- Early-Stage Research on Decision-Making Styles [Archive.org URL]
- Four Blueprints for Ensemble Decision-Making [Archive.org URL]
- Getting Out of Embed: The Role of Social Context in Decision Making [Archive.org URL]
- Group Decision-Making Effectiveness: The Effect of Conflict [Archive.org URL]
- High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest [Archive.org URL]
- How Americans Are Living Dangerously [Archive.org URL]
- How CFOs can Keep Strategic Decisions on Track [Archive.org URL]
- How to Make Better Forecasts and Decisions: Avoid Face-to-face Meetings [Archive.org URL]
- How to Test Your Decision-Making Instincts [Archive.org URL]
- Instinct Can Beat Analytical Thinking [Archive.org URL]
- Jonathan Bendor: A Toolkit for Solving Problems [Archive.org URL]
- Leadership and Decision Making [Archive.org URL]
- Let’s Get Persian [Archive.org URL]
- Making Better Decisions over Time [Archive.org URL]
- Making Difficult Decisions in Turbulent Times [Archive.org URL]
- Money Changes Everything [Archive.org URL]
- Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating [Archive.org URL]
- Options Development is Crucial to Good Decision Making [Archive.org URL]
- Outside Looking In: Maximize Project Success Rates with Premortem Strategy [Archive.org URL]
- Peter Drucker on Making Decisions [Archive.org URL]
- Philip Meissner, Olivier Sibony, Torsten Wulf [Archive.org URL]
- Quote of the week: Why brainstorming is a bad idea [Archive.org URL]
- Roskin on Decision Making [Archive.org URL]
- Sometimes, Even The Best Leaders Just Go With It [Archive.org URL]
- Strategic Decisions: When Can You Trust Your Gut? [Archive.org URL]
- Team Decision Making in Complex, Time-Sensitive Environments [Archive.org URL]
- The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Money Changes People [Archive.org URL]
- The Art of Making Quality Decisions [Archive.org URL]
- The Benefits—and Limits—of Decision Models [Archive.org URL]
- The Business of Managing Decisions [Archive.org URL]
- The Decision-Making Flaw in Powerful People [Archive.org URL]
- The Downside of Deliberating: Why You May Not Want to Think it Over [Archive.org URL]
- The Five Steps to Better Decisions [Archive.org URL]
- The Five Traps of High-Stakes Decision Making [Archive.org URL]
- The Four Rs of High-Stakes Decision Making [Archive.org URL]
- The Secret Ingredient to Enterprise Decision Making [Archive.org URL]
- The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing [Archive.org URL]
- The Unconscious Executive [Archive.org URL]
- Think Again: First Instincts Aren’t All They’re Cracked Up to Be [Archive.org URL]
- Too Conscious to Decide? [Archive.org URL]
- What If Your Gut Is (Gasp!) Wrong? [Archive.org URL]
- What the C-suite Should Know About Analytics [Archive.org URL]
- Where High-Stakes Decision-Making Goes Wrong [Archive.org URL]
- Whether to bet, reserve options or insure: Making certain choices in an uncertain world [Archive.org URL]
- Why Making the Decisions the Right Way is More Important Than Making The Right Decisions [Archive.org URL]
- Worry and Ignorance [Archive.org URL]
- 30+ Tips for Effective Team Building [Archive.org URL]
- A First-Time Manager’s Guide to Leading Virtual Teams [Archive.org URL]
- A Partnership’s Foundation: The Common Mission [Archive.org URL]
- Better Decisions Through Diversity: Heterogeneity Can Boost Group Performance [Archive.org URL]
- Business Leaders Ignore Power Struggles at Their Organization’s Risk [Archive.org URL]
- Five Tips for Taking Your Team to the Cloud [Archive.org URL]
- Great Leaders Understand the Fundamentals [Archive.org URL]
- How to Accelerate Learning on Your Team [Archive.org URL]
- How to Give Your Team Feedback [Archive.org URL]
- How to Manage Remote Direct Reports [Archive.org URL]
- How to Manage Virtual Teams [Archive.org URL]
- How to Run a Great Virtual Meeting [Archive.org URL]
- Leadership Ensembles: Orchestrating the Global Company [Archive.org URL]
- Managing Confrontation in Multicultural Teams [Archive.org URL]
- Map Your Team’s Cultural Differences [Archive.org URL]
- Need a work partner? Ditch the extrovert, go with a neurotic. [Archive.org URL]
- Personality Tests Can Help Balance a Team [Archive.org URL]
- Putting the Force Multiplier to Work [Archive.org URL]
- Secrets of Virtual Success [Archive.org URL]
- Simple Rules and Management Teams [Archive.org URL]
- The Real Reason Your Multinational Team Has Trouble Communicating [Archive.org URL]
- The Right Role for Top Teams [Archive.org URL]
- Thomas Malone on Building Smarter Teams [Archive.org URL]
- Three Symptoms of a Vulnerable Team [Archive.org URL]
- To Make a Team More Effective, Find Their Commonalities [Archive.org URL]
- What Anonymous Feedback Will (and Won’t) Tell You [Archive.org URL]
- What Makes a Great Leadership Team? [Archive.org URL]
- What Strong Teams Have in Common [Archive.org URL]
- Your People’s Brains Need Face Time [Archive.org URL]
Like this content? Why not share it?
There Are No Comments
Click to Add the First »
Click to Add the First »