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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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Wake Up and Smell Your Strategy

LDRLB

Overconfidence in strategic planning has led to financial crisis, botched and illegal wars, and missed opportunities in business, politics, sports, and life. Not until February 2010 was there a full recall of 8.5 Toyota’s strategic process involved consensus in Japan not consensus worldwide.

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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. link] #FollowFriday 24-09-2010 Mike Myatt « A Dime a Dozen Small Business, Tech and Talk [.] Most people don’t have to agree with you 100% of the time, but they do need to trust you 100% of the time.

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Wake Up and Smell the Strategy

LDRLB

Overconfidence in strategic planning has led to financial crisis, botched and illegal wars, and missed opportunities in business, politics, sports, and life. Not until February 2010 was there a full recall of 8.5 The real world is global, not local Toyota’s strategic process involved consensus in Japan not consensus worldwide.

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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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What Has the Eurozone Learned from the Financial Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

But the real tragedy happened later: a timid recovery during 2010-11 was followed by a second recession starting in the third quarter of 2011, from which Europe did not start recovering until 2015. But one cannot forget that policy in the Euro area is complex and subject to political constraints.

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Why We Didn’t Learn Enough From the Financial Crisis

Harvard Business Review

By giving us a Great Recession in place of a Great Depression, they made it much harder to assemble a political consensus for truly dramatic change. The bailout of the big banks in late 2008, while hugely unpopular with the general populace, has garnered near-unanimous support from the economics profession. in the early 1930s.

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