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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. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality.

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Leadership and Product Management

Lead on Purpose

Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases). Their success depends on their ability to build consensus and inspire the other team members to do great things.

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Top Quotes from the Art of Management 2010 | RoundtableTalk

Roundtable Talk

The more mature you get, the better you get at managing ego.” “In Management is not a science, it is an art.” Collaboration does not = consensus.” “The know which ideas you’re going to kill.” .” “If your product or service sucks; social media, marketing or management won’t save you.” Ctrl.Alt.Del.

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Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision? Five Keys to.

Kevin Eikenberry

A consensus decision – a decision where the leader themselves isn’t making the decision, but truly the full group comes to the decision collectively. Duncan Brodie Reply Sonja Froyen January 26, 2011 at 11:05 am Sometimes leaders forfeit their role in a consensus decision. I completely agree with your other three points!

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Wake Up and Smell Your Strategy

LDRLB

Not until February 2010 was there a full recall of 8.5 Toyota’s 100 year plan had weekly strategic meetings after high level of consensus was gained from the core of Japanese managers with life-time contracts. Toyota’s strategic process involved consensus in Japan not consensus worldwide.

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Overcoming Leadership Myopia

Michael Lee Stallard

Gradually over time, America has become overly obsessed about managing tasks. When managers invest time to develop connections with and among people they become real leaders who people want to follow. They would be wise to put processes in place to measure managers on employee engagement (i.e. What can be done?

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Five myths about leadership

Lead on Purpose

John Maxwell — author of the book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership — does a masterful job of explaining the leadership principle of influence through the five myths about leadership: The Management Myth: Management focuses on maintaining systems and processes.