Career Consensus Leadership Resistance 
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 5, 2021
Facing the reality of strong employee resistance and even turnover, we have seen Google recently backtrack from its plan to force all employees to return back to the office. They spent their career surrounded by other people. So did Amazon for the same reasons. They’re falling for the anchoring bias.
Eric Jacobson
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
The ones who resist making those decisions – who won’t cannibalize their own hero product or won’t terminate the toxic star employee – tend to be insecure and driven by ego or other impure motives. And time spent prematurely cultivating buy-in and fostering consensus just amounts to energy leakage. Incrementalism squanders potential.
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Great Leadership By Dan
JUNE 21, 2012
For 150 years, corporations, governments and militaries were built for up-and-down leadership, with incentives and rewards that discouraged cross-organization thinking and, in many cases, actually created or encouraged internal competition. Focus on authentic leadership and eschew passive aggressiveness.
Ron Edmondson
DECEMBER 6, 2017
I’ve been in a senior leadership position most of my career. I think some are called to senior leadership – or at least wired for it. But, I do have a few warnings, before or as you take the leap of faith into the realm of senior leadership. It an act of serving others, don’t enter senior leadership.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 29, 2018
For example, a decision to invest in a new product might ultimately rest in the hands of two pivotal individuals even when there is an entire senior leadership team reviewing the decision. Another aspect of decision making to understand is whether your company culture has a bias for action or a bias for analysis and consensus.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 8, 2013
Her consensus-minded opposite numbers in Europe (mostly male) certainly regarded her with disapproval. Her rather older than she husband Denis (whose apocryphal letters in Private Eye caused merriment to a generation of readers) provided the financial security that allowed her to pursue a career in politics. Government Leadership'
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 25, 2011
I wanted to accept the consensus as a sign that the company had rounded the corner on its 3-year slog to be more relevant in their market. A rebel resists conformity. So the challenging, dissenting voice can, at times, be tied to leadership. All the content was "good," the timelines "reasonable," the budgets "sufficient.".
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