Decision discipline is rare. As you move up the leadership ranks, the higher the cost of undisciplined decisions hampered by biases like groupthink. Cognitive diversity is a powerful leadership tool to discipline our decision processes. It brings all available data and workforce talents together to find new paths forward. It helps limit groupthink, makes us more innovative and our organizations less disruptable. The best way I know to benefit from cognitive diversity is to engage an outside facilitator to make it concrete.
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