Wiser: : Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter

Wiser: A book review by Bob Mofrris

March 10, 2015

Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter Cass R. Sunstein and Reid Hastie Harvard Business Review Press 2014) How to separate, implement, and optimize the divergent and convergent stages of every problem-solving process As I began to read this…

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Valuable Lessons to Be Learned from Cass Sunsein and Reid Hastie

March 5, 2015

In one of Tom Davenport’s recent books, Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right, he and co-author Brooke Manville offer “an antidote for the Great Man theory of decision making and organizational performance”:…

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Cass Sunstein visits The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

February 26, 2015

It will be a sad day for me when Jon Stewart is no longer with The Daily Show (except in spirit) but at least he will continue to be involved in activities that amuse as well as inform those who…

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Don’t Let a Group Dynamic Quash Critical Thinking

February 12, 2015

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * People often censor themselves when working in groups because they…

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