N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best?

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The Empowered Buisness

JUNE 16, 2015

Your management team struggles to identify and reach consensus on key issues and clear goals for the future. You expect or foresee major changes in the internal and/or external environment of your business sector over the next year or so. Systems Focused Approach to Strategic Planning. It is also the approach most used by our clients.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 8, 2015

Prior to the 1970s, the consensus among scientists was that the human brain was relatively fixed—or hardwired—after a critical point in early childhood. Most forms of brain damage and mind-sets were seen as irreversible, and the attitude was nearly apathetic.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 8, 2015

Prior to the 1970s, the consensus among scientists was that the human brain was relatively fixed—or hardwired—after a critical point in early childhood. Most forms of brain damage and mind-sets were seen as irreversible, and the attitude was nearly apathetic.

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Wilde Education Environment Consensus 70

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

In the summer of 2008, I experienced a massive hormonal shift, moving from the largely-male, testosterone-charged environment of Harvard Business School, where I had spent the first 18 years of my career, to the nearly all-female realm of Barnard College, the all-women''s liberal arts college where I now serve as president.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. But collaboration is not consensus. Too often, people will try to collaborate on everything, and wind up in endless meetings, debating ideas and struggling to find consensus. Collaboration is not a style.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Conventional thinking has suggested that leadership positions go to those who aggressively plan their careers with a keen eye for building the right skills to reach top jobs. Note that this inclusive process is not decision-making by committee or by consensus. Others believe that leaders are born, not made.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Companies that operate as a collection of silos commit the cardinal sin of underperforming relative to the resources they have invested. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

For example, the power company Tenaga Nasional could send a leader with strong operating capabilities to work for several years at Malaysia Airlines, acquiring skills in turning around a troubled business. Historically, Shell’s top leaders spent their careers at the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

My knowledge of corporate leaders' 360-degree feedback indicates that one out of four of them has a listening deficit—the effects of which can paralyze cross-unit collaboration, sink careers, and if it's the CEO with the deficit, derail the company. Earlier in his career, as a business unit manager, he recognized that he must cut costs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Even though self-awareness — knowing who we are and how we’re seen — is important for job performance , career success , and leadership effectiveness , it’s in remarkably short supply in today’s workplace. Typically, if someone is unaware, there’s a consensus about their behavior (i.e.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Studies comparing the problem-solving abilities of groups in which dissenting views are voiced with groups in which they are not find that dissent tends to be a better precondition for reaching the right solution than consensus. military operations in Vietnam. Decision making Difficult conversations Leadership' All too few.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Studies comparing the problem-solving abilities of groups in which dissenting views are voiced with groups in which they are not find that dissent tends to be a better precondition for reaching the right solution than consensus. military operations in Vietnam. Decision making Difficult conversations Leadership' All too few.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. Give you a sounding board to flesh out your ideas. The list goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

What if you upgraded your IT network to a new operating system that promised faster, better and leaner results — only to find that the vast majority of your leaders did not have the necessary competencies to use that new system? Just how scarce are matrix-related leadership skills ?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

The Cardinals, quarterbacked by an inspired Kurt Warner in the twilight of his illustrious career, mounted a spectacular comeback to go ahead 23-20 on a 64-yard touchdown bomb to Larry Fitzgerald with 2:37 left in the game. But in the business world, their precise equivalents are standard operating procedure.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

Time is viewed as limited in supply, so Western people structure their lives, especially business operations, by milestones and deadlines. What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures. I learned about how perception of time varies from culture to culture early in my career. Managing Across Cultures. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Leadership : There are a number of ways to get in trouble here…poor leadership, no leadership, or fractionalized leadership can all be quite problematic. Good consultants build consensus and unify management focus, they do not splinter opinion. Thanks for sharing Tom.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

Places full of highly mobile and in-demand workers operate more democratically. Third, and even tricker to manage, effective leaders are given credit for their political skills, both as they rise through the organization and as they operate at the top. Consulting Leadership Leadership development' How do they do that?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Ambiguity in Leadership is a Certainty Failure, the Other “F&# Word → June 30, 2009 · 1:35 am ↓ Jump to Comments Workplace Democracy – A Genie in A Bottle Okay so I’m going where Boomers fear to tread here today.

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