You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 30, 2014

When under tight deadlines or in crises, there often just isn’t time for lengthy debate or consensus building. Note: This is a refreshed version of a post originally published in 2011. When the leader has more knowledge around a certain issue and it just makes sense for him or her to make a decision for everyone. What do you think?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

With a consensus that the worst of the lingering recession is behind us, those who are employed are feeling more secure, and there's optimism about future job growth. Walmart, for instance, is concerned about its customers' finances, while high-end retailer Saks Fifth Avenue is selling luxury items at full-price and recently reported a 5.8%

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Averaged the numbers to create group consensus. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Design by 12GrainStudio Leadership Solutions Focus in Practice Wednesday, November 03rd, 2010 Posted by: mike Working with a leadership team of 5 people including the COO of the organization.

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Contribute to team consensus decisions. They do pose some extra challenges for the meeting leader, especially the difficulty in reading nonverbals to understand intent, optimize participation, or achieve consensus. That means laying out advantages and disadvantages, risks and rewards, costs and benefits, etc. Do you agree?

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

I have often heard Ed Zander, the CEO of Motorola, teach his high-potential leaders the value of encouraging participation, while also being clear that every decision should not be made by a vote or through achieving consensus. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

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. Yet the place where the crisis had originated, the U.S., avoided the second recession and continued its recovery. What went wrong?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

When outraged Vancouverites turned to blogs and Facebook to identify participants in the Stanley Cup riots, many celebrated sites like Vancouver 2011 Riot Pics and Vancouver 2011 Criminal List as examples of putting social media to concrete and constructive use. Is it whenever the information is posted publicly?

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Collaboration does not = consensus.” “The “Management is not a science, it is an art.” Nilofer Merchant @Nilofer / Consultant and champion of collaboration / In a nutshell: Leaders need to involve their people. The future is not created, it is co-created.” “We We are great at creating ideas and suck at deciding which one to activate.”

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Consensus building is one of this particular leaders core strengths and they have done everything they can to win over the hostile player. Well, maybe your colleague came in full guns blazing (like many newly promoted folks do) and this person is right to have her nose out of joint.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

According to a recent New York Times article , Barra is known inside GM as a “consensus builder who calls her staff together on a moment’s notice to brainstorm on pressing issues.”. She had “an ability with people” and a track record of bringing new models to market faster and at lower cost.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

The other half might have been open to the idea that law firms needed a strategy, but completely opposed to having anything other than a consensus-built, senior partner-friendly mechanism for making strategic choices, which almost by definition is doomed to fail. Just keep billing those hours!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

A study published in 2011 examined CEOs in the top-100 best hospitals in USNWR in three key medical specialties: cancer, digestive disorders, and cardiovascular care. There seems to be a widening consensus that training physicians for leadership matters. Might there be a general message here?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

Meeting Consensus. The finalists have the opportunity to further develop their entries between now and the final deadline of September 5, 2011. It's the Culture, Stupid! Hos Atlassian Maintains an Open Information Culture. Story by John Rotenstein. Shift Changes the Way Cemex Works. Story by Arturo San Vicente. Hack by Sean Schofield.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

It sets in when people collaborate on the wrong things or when collaboration efforts get bogged down in endless discussions and consensus decision-making in which no one is clearly accountable. As we discuss in our next HBR article (coming in July 2011), collaborative leadership is a poorly understood yet crucial new leadership skill.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

There is a general consensus that U.S. Between 1992 and 2011, the mobile units have made more than 115 trips serving over 16,000 amputees. healthcare needs major reform. Can reverse innovation — innovations originating from poor countries — provide one important answer? Most definitely. In the U.S., Finally, Dr.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

The 2011 Ford Explorer, for example, is using EcoBoost engine technology to improve fuel efficiency by 25%. Three key aspects of Ford's sustainability strategy strike me as critical, and show the company's real leadership: It's based on hard science.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

A recent study found that SSOs published more than 200,000 standards between 1975 and 2011. Many have supermajority voting that essentially requires their diverse members to reach consensus. There are hundreds of them (almost 1,000 by one count) around the world, competing with each other for membership and influence.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

After the toppling of Dictator Ben Ali in January 2011, whose stifling reign lasted nearly a quarter century, the country faced a rocky start to a new ruling order. This dialogue reached a consensus among political parties stipulating that the incumbent Islamists hand over power to a technocratic transitional government.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

On September 17, 2011, Occupy Wall Street took over Zuccotti Park, in the heart of the financial district in Lower Manhattan. As Nocera pointed out, “Occupy protesters were purposely — even proudly — rudderless, eschewing leadership in favor of broad, and thus vague, consensus.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

There is little consensus as to whether firms that find themselves spun off from other companies – either as new, standalone companies, or under the stewardship of new parent companies – perform better or worse than they did before.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5 Between 2003, when the Iraq war began and the conflict in Afghanistan was two years old, the Army’s volume of mental health care visits tripled, from 1.1 million to 3.3

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

At the same time, as material consumption in emerging economies rises, we also face the fact that, as of the end of 2011, the Earth now contains seven billion people ; by 2050, that global population is projected to reach nine billion. align social and environmental objectives with financial goals (81%). engage in effective dialogue (75%).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A 2015 Institute of Medicine report, “Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress,” demonstrates broad consensus that measuring the quality of people’s health and the care they receive is critical to improving performance of the health care system and patients’ health outcomes.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Using consensus-building and partnership words. Steve Woodruff December 15, 2009 at 5:52 pm I think you’ll probably find a dichotomy of opinions on this topic, my friend, but HONESTLY, I always hope that any excess bloviation on my part never encroaches on a half-full emphasis. Jeff Hurt December 18, 2009 at 10:24 am Terry: Great tips!

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Building Personal Strength

JULY 10, 2011

The current scientific consensus about how the brain works is widely published and discussed. Copyright 2011. Recent advances in sensing technology and computers have created breakthroughs. We can now watch the brain in action without physically probing into the brain. This has led to advances in medicine and psychology. Coates, Ph.D.,

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

In situations where consensus cannot be reached, they have an uncanny ability to cut to the chase and make informed decisions. This is in direct contrast to mediocre leaders who surround themselves with yes-people who, by their very nature, are unable to contribute positively to the bottom line!

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 30, 2010

If not, and you want to be a more effective leader for your team at work in 2011, select one or more of these 70 New Years resolutions for leaders: 1. Summarize group consensus after each decision point during a meeting 18. Okay, so youve found your New Years resolution for your personal life. Dont micromanage 2. Be visible 15.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 26, 2010

▼ 2010 (108) ► December (9) 70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders A Maxim For Leaders For 2011 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategi. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

— and come to a consensus-based decision. They can then gauge the effectiveness of key decisions — should we continue using Google AdWords given there was no drop in sales when we didn't? Collaboration functionality embedded in reports offers the ability to not only access sanctioned reports, but to manage decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

We have the interactivity of social networks like Facebook and Pinterest , the consensus-building opinion aggregators like Yelp and Rotten Tomatoes , the objectivity of automated recommendation engines like those of Netflix and Pandora , and the comprehensiveness of price-comparison services like Priceline and Google Shopping.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Why Your Virtual Garden Doesn't Yield Any Crops How Zynga Went from Social Gaming Powerhouse to Has-Been Ars Technica Ars Technica Between 2007 and 2011, Zynga seemed unstoppable. Possibly, though the consensus is that it will take a drastic reduction in staff and a renewed focus on mobile, a platform the company has struggled with.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Coca-Cola, following a well-defined global trend among savvy advertisers, declared in 2011 that it''s marketing practice was going to shift to content creation. The workshop is not just a marketing exercise; it is also a political exercise, in the best sense of that word, building consensus around the brand story.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

They explored data across 28 different industries in 17 countries over a period spanning 1970 to 2011, during which 71 economic recoveries occurred. It looked at the role technology plays in economic recoveries, both in terms of economic growth and the number of jobs.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Good consultants build consensus and unify management focus, they do not splinter opinion. If your marketing doesn’t uphold your brand promise or if it’s not advancing core business initiatives, then you have an alignment issue.

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Blog Marketing Succession Brand 287

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

From 1979 to 2011, though, Henwood calculates that U.S. billion (in 2011 dollars). Still, it''s worth taking this occasion to reconsider the bipartisan consensus that has reigned since the 1970s that competition solves all economic problems. Before deregulation, airlines in the U.S. were pretty reliable moneymakers.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

All you can think is, “ this guy just didn’t listen to me – doesn’t he know that I’m on top of this , and I built quite a consensus around the office “? The apology goes right through you. So you bore in a little more. “ Well, we’ll see how THIS goes “ Your sarcasm is duly noted.

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