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Articles about groupthink (0-19 of 19)
- 10 Simple (but Not Easy) Steps To Turning A Company Around, Particularly After A Recession
By: Ann Andrews | - So you were hit hard during the recession. BUT YOU ARE STILL IN BUSINESS! Well done.
The past 12 months have served up a few bigger challenges than in a normal business cycle, but history is peppered with businesses that survive challenging times and even businesses that are created during challenging times.
If you have staff then you have a huge opportunity, because company turn-arounds are actually not difficult - updating systems and processes is easy; updating ...
Tags: Human resources, personnel, team, motivation, business, manager, people, goals, resistance, communication,
- Realizing The Importance Of The I In Team
By: Jim Sirbasku | - The clever phrase "there is no I in TEAM" is used in conference rooms throughout the corporate world. Businesses spend a great deal of time and money on team building training, seminars, and workshops. Companies are aware that in order for business to be successful people must learn to work as a team, but the phrase about the absence of "I" in team may be a problem. That phrase implies that there is no individuality brought to team situations, and that individuals with different viewpoints must ...
Tags: employee assessments, team building, team analysis, team development
- Poor Management Leads To Failure
By: Jim Sirbasku | - Ineffective managers contribute to the decline of productivity in the workplace worldwide. Their contributions include the dreaded 80-hour work week, discouragement of initiative and creative thinking, opposition to risk-taking, massive turnover, and the ultimate failure of many organizations.
This scenario is repeated, often in scandalously public ways, year after year. One astonishing collapse of a poorly run company earlier this decade included a customer service vice-presiden ...
Tags: management styles, productivity, effective managers, business leadership
- Think About Interview With Fantasy/science Fiction Author
By: durgesh | - Barry Maher is the author of Legend, a book that has attainted cult status in many science fiction circles.Legend is the dark urban fantasys answer to Dune. The novel will electrify readers, challenging their views on such societal concepts as groupthink and religion.
After reading Legend, I had the opportunity to ask Barry Maher about his novel, his work as a consultant, and whether hell consider returning to the world of speculative fiction.
Tags: Entertainment
- Current Labor Markets Affect Strategic Planning
By: Jim Sirbasku | - The famous mantra "failing to plan is planning to fail" may seem irrelevant to most, but in fact it may be one of the most important for businesses to understand. Strategic workforce planning is a process that ensures that your business has the right people in the right jobs at the right time to achieve maximum results. Strategically planning will enable companies to understand their current situations and take advantage of labor market forecasts.
To effectively plan, businesses n ...
Tags: strategic workforce planning, demographics, labor market, business planning
- Team Building In Business - What Is A Team?
By: Kate Tammemagi | - The concept of Team is vital to success in Business, and Team Building is part of every Manager's role. By building high performing Teams an organisation can harness the power of many individuals to achieve even greater heights. A good Team has benefits both for the Company, and for the individual members of the Team. Belonging to a winning Team is one of the most satisfying and motivating factors inside and outside of work. Team Building is an important part of working life. But what exactly IS ...
Tags: defining team, what is a team, team building, work together, tea
- Is Ours A Herd Morality?
By: JOHN HARDY | - Do you know the difference between right and wrong? This is the question we ask our teenagers, ad nausea. This is the litmus test for deciding if the criminal is bad or mad. The question itself presupposes that we human beings have an innate sense of right and wrong. It further assumes that what is deemed to be right and wrong is incontrovertible, that they are universal constants which transcend culture and context.
Even though the most primitive of tribes, such as aboriginals ...
Tags: herd mentality, morality, groupthink, free will, destiny, indiviudality, thinking for oneself
- The Challenge That Groupthink Presents To The Company
By: JOHN HARDY | - Several years ago, I attended a Tai Chi seminar in Florida, during which we learned a long and complicated series of movements, called a form. We were in a group of about twenty, all of us novices learning the form. The members of the group were all from different parts of the North America. Few of us had met before. Our only connection was a shared interest in Tai Chi.
The master would demonstrate the form from an elevated platform, in this case a park bench, and we would attemp ...
Tags: trance, tribal, mind control, free will, society, herd mentality, groupthink
- The Benefits Of Running Your Web Applications In A Cloud
By: G Klingsheim | - It wasn’t so long ago that being told you had “your head in a cloud” wasn’t any kind of compliment. For computer and IT folks, it is now. As “cloud computing” becomes the Buzzword Of The Millennium (until the next one) it is going through the usual growing pains—defining itself, redefining how companies use applications, being misunderstood and, sometimes, being adopted too quickly.
New developments, in everything from computing to garde ...
Tags: cloud computing, cloud hosting, head in the clouds
- Housing Bubble - Why Should Anyone Care?
By: Lawrence Roberts | - Why should anyone care about financial bubbles in general and the housing bubble in particular? The first and most obvious reason is that the financial fallout is stressful. Many people lost a great deal of money. Beyond that, the housing bubble had enormous impact on the health of individuals, families and entire communities.
People buying into a financial mania too late, particularly in a residential housing market, will probably end up in foreclosure and most likely in a bankru ...
Tags: housing, real estate, buying real estate, housing bubble, real estate bubble, house for sale
- Lead Your Team To Victory: The Do's And Don'ts Of Effective Group Influence
By: Alan Vengel | - Much of our work today depends on our ability to influence groups of people we lead or work with on projects. Groups are made up of many personalities, mindsets, motives, and agendas - some explicit and others hidden - so having a specific strategy for influencing teams can mean the difference between success and failure.
To successfully lead a group or team, consider the following do's and don'ts. These tips will help you to be an effective influencer and to prepare for the uniqu ...
Tags: influence, team building, group dynamics, brainstorming, inclusiveness, common ground
- How To Be A Successful Female Bodybuilder
By: Elle Nash | - I'm going to share with you how to be a successful female bodybuilder. This is a very tough sport that isn't for the mentally weak. You have to have an unshakable determination to be successful in this. You're going to have good days and bad days. A lot of people quit on those bad days, but you need to just keep moving forward no matter how bad you feel or how grim the outlook is. That is what I've had to go through in this process. I've learned a lot as I've gone forward, but the biggest lesson ...
Tags: Muscles, Fitness, Exercise, Muscle Building
- Out Of Tunic?
By: Mark Errington | - I earn my living from the fashion industry, and as such, I have gotten pretty good at tuning out the fashion doubters.
You know the type - if it's menswear then they dismiss trends with a simple "it looks a bit gay" and if womenswear happens to be their target du jour then they hit you with the alternating "makes your legs look fat"/"it clings in the wrong places".
I hate to say it, but when it comes to current fashion, it looks like they might have got one right. ...
Tags: fashion, tunic dress, empire line, leggings, Queen of Suburbia, trends
- Team Building Through Communication
By: Robert F. Abbott | - To build a team, think first of communication and cohesiveness. Think of how communication leads to cohesiveness, and how cohesiveness leads to better team building. In this article, we'll explore those connections, so you can make the most of your team.
Starting with the cohesiveness factor, we know that leaders within the armed forces, in every nation and throughout history, work hard to build cohesion within their military organizations. Boot camps, for example, use the princip ...
Tags: team building, teams, communication, cohesiveness
- Parking Options, A Review By Jack Latona And Steve Mccrea
By: Jake Solochek | - The Future of Parking in Broward County
November 2001
A guide for the development of a County Parking Policy. A report to the Transportation Planning and Air Quality Divisions of the Broward County Department of Planning and Environmental Protection
Parking garages can be beautiful.
Before you begin - a word about the format.
One unique feature of this report is that, as befits an organization looking to create the future, it ...
Tags: parking, fort lauderdale, options
- Excerpt From The Art Of Managing: 4 Stages Of Group Development In Team Functioning
By: Jane Treber Macken | - Understanding the four stages of group development is important for effective team functioning.
In Stage One, team members are dependent and want to feel included. They will make mental notes of their first impressions of others. For example, Sam comes into a room and spreads papers all around a lot of space. Some people may see him as controlling and desiring a lot of space. Others may see him as a hard worker who really has it together; he has everything he needs. Depending on w ...
Tags: business, effective business management, team building
- Dynamic Teambuilding In Four Simple Steps
By: Freelance Writer | - As our society continues to become more fluid and dynamic, so does the need to work closely with one another in team settings. The ages of living day-by-day in quite isolation and solitude are no more. With the ever increasing amount of globalization and specialization in our workplaces, individuals are now forced to work with all sorts of different groups in both their professional and personal lives. However, when we first join a new group of individuals, it often takes a great deal of time be ...
Tags: Dynamic, Teambuilding, in, Four, Simple, Steps
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