{"id":216,"date":"2009-01-21T08:38:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T00:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=216"},"modified":"2009-01-21T08:38:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T00:38:49","slug":"breaking-groupthink-helps-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Breaking groupthink helps decision making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a recent McKinsey Quarterly comes this interesting tidbit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A recent survey by McKinsey asked about decision-making practices and compared them with decision outcomes. Decisions that were made after a company&#8217;s executives sought out contradictory evidence and opinion were more likely to turn out well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By getting away from the groupthink that pervades many decision making processes &#8211; and seeking out opinions from a diverse range of people &#8211; you get better outcomes. The takeway from this?\u00a0 Broaden your thinking, embrace different mindsets and seek out fresh trains of thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a recent McKinsey Quarterly comes this interesting tidbit: A recent survey by McKinsey asked about decision-making practices and compared them with decision outcomes. Decisions that were made after a company&#8217;s executives sought out contradictory evidence and opinion were more likely to turn out well. By getting away from the groupthink that pervades many decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}