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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus.

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Never be swayed by consensus that calls you to compromise your values, rather be guided by doing the right thing. Most people don’t have to agree with you 100% of the time, but they do need to trust you 100% of the time. Trust cannot exist where leaders are fickle, inconsistent, indecisive, or display a lack of character.

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Visa Restrictions Will Worsen The Post-Covid Recession

The Horizons Tracker

At the start of this year I wrote about a recently published paper from Harvard Business School bemoaning the strangling effect of the American political system on economic growth and prosperity. Despite the consensus that change is required, however, the lack of political cooperation on the matter results in little real progress being made.

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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-05-13

Tanveer Naseer

ScottEblin has some tips on what to do [link] # communication # Interesting model by @ RedBaronUSA on how to build team consensus in organizations [link] # Check out @ mikemyatt ‘s take on the importance of valuing those white spaces in # leadership [link] # Thanks Paul!

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Why Polling Is Always Political

Harvard Business Review

Serious marketers, innovators and quants can't find a better — or more controversial — case study in the problems and pathologies of predictive analytics than America's down-to-the-wire presidential campaign. Do pollsters allow measurable political or partisan biases to taint their methodologies ?

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Peak Globalization

Harvard Business Review

The international political consensus of the universal economic benefits of globalization that defined much of the 20th and early 21st centuries is breaking down. Not since the Soviet Union has the US faced a challenger of such economic, political, military and ideological might. Let's deal with the first two.

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Workplace Democracy – A Genie in A Bottle | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

However, the theory is that many companies who take the time to reach decisions through voting and consensus are better positioned to carry out a decision quickly having gained commitment from everyone involved. American politics) are (again, imho) far from perfect. Reply Susan Mazza May 12, 2010 at 6:20 pm Thought provoking Gwyn.

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