How To Overcome the Bias We Have Toward Our Own Ideas

Autor(en)
Fabian J. Sting, Christoph Fuchs, Maik Schlickel, Oliver Alexy
Abstrakt

Research in innovation suggests that most ideators overvalue their ideas. Unsurprisingly, this tendency is positively correlated with status. Less obviously, line employees working in teams are also likely to overvalue ideas they come up with. Both biases are related to social identity, but they do not reinforce each other (a manager in a team is not more overconfident than a manager working alone). To deal effectively with the bias, separate ideation from idea assessment and cut the solo employee with an idea a bit more slack than you would managers and employee teams.

Organisation(en)
Externe Organisation(en)
Universität zu Köln, Technische Universität München, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Nobilia
Journal
Harvard Business Review
ISSN
0017-8012
Publikationsdatum
05-2019
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
502019 Marketing
Schlagwörter
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/9ea32954-def7-47c9-8afc-737e967a6d05