From Safe to Strategic: Breaking Free from Team Thinking Traps
Common-Knowledge Effect at work
You take your team on a strategic retreat. The team members are all highly engaged and motivated. You enjoy the sounds of heated debates.
The walls are covered with colorful stickers. You're eagerly anticipating the birth of breakthrough insights.
But then the team presents you with their ideas, and you hear nothing groundbreaking – only old platitudes and dusty, rusty ideas you’ve already discussed many times.
You’re not the first leader to experience this kind of disappointment. To solve the problem, you need to alter how your team thinks.
Two Heads Aren’t Better Than One
"Politeness is the poison of collaboration." Edwin Land
My LinkedIn followers know how many strategic cognitive biases can hinder us from thinking clearly. I make posts on the topic every Sunday.
However, when a group of people debates a strategy, the Common-Knowledge Effect reinforces these biases.
The definition: Common-knowledge effect is a decision-making bias where teams overemphasize the …