Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

McKinsey cites 5 practices or mindsets that will enable leaders to bring their organizations through any turbulent times. They gather differing perspectives and then make the decisions, with the best interests of the organization (not their careers) in mind, without needing a full consensus.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

Guest post by John Hooker : Everyone knows that an organization can’t function without physical infrastructure communications, transportation, computer technology, and the rest. When organizations go astray ethically, it is usually due to a lack of ethical competence, not bad people. Yet we rely equally on social infrastructure.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

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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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2015

Whatever that team is called - an executive team, a leadership team, a management team, etc. That’s no way to create a high performing, values-aligned organization. Do they act as committed, responsive members of the executive team to present a united voice on how the organization operates, not just how it performs?

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Maybe you’re fairly new to your career, or maybe you’ve spent years at the same job without a promotion. You will need to take control and guide your own career in order to attain the success you have worked so hard for. In the new art of getting ahead , you’ll need to expand your efforts, and manage the following.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

By creating and implementing effective mental health programs within their organization, companies can experience greater staff member well-being, boost productivity and contribute to transforming our country’s corporate culture regarding mental health. Take practical steps to help your organization. Mental Health Defined.

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Lead from Within

MAY 9, 2019

Engage senior leaders: It’s essential to have consensus among the CEO and senior leadership team about the importance of proactive leadership development and succession planning. This group should set expectations, put processes in place, and hold the organization accountable for making it happen.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

Management changes, or our strategic plan is rebuffed, or people simply don’t perform the way we think they will. Bruce Harpham of Project Management Hacks submitted Why Showing Appreciation To Your Team Makes A Difference. Jesse Lyn Stoner of the Seapoint Center provided Collaboration Does Not Require Consensus.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 3, 2018

This scenario, lone wolf promoted to manager followed by team disaster, is both predictable and avoidable. Jesse summarizes: “ Often in coaching, managers work on changing their behaviors. Shelley shares: “ We talk a lot about the need to gather information, discuss, debate and gain consensus. Communication.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

One key to a happy team is to create an environment where people feel free to discuss ideas openly and to disagree with each other before reaching consensus—or, at the very least, a compromise that everyone can live with. A happy team has an inclusive culture. A happy team has opportunities for learning.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Kill morale, careers, and even a company. Delegation killed morale, careers, and the company. For example, for several of my C-level clients, team management has emerged as an area where letting go can both free up executive time and help develop direct reports. So what do you do, kill delegation? My answer is “no.”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

While a formal mentoring relationship – meaning one that takes place in a monitored program within an organization – is the ideal, sometimes an informal mentoring relationship is what’s available. Are you more collaborative as a leader, working through consensus? Goal #7 in the blog post stated: “Find a mentor and/or hire a coach.”

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2014

In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape expected to continue for 2015, leaders face many challenges , requiring aggressive, sustained talent management strategies to prepare them for success. Forty-eight countries and 32 major industries are represented, as well as multinationals and local corporations.

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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.

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The Empowered Buisness

JUNE 16, 2015

One of the biggest challenges organizations face is making the commitment to develop a well thought out strategic plan. So why don’t more organizations engage in strategic planning? Depending on the size of your organization and the desired outcomes for the planning process, there is a strategic planning process that is right for you.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2014

Sharon Drew imparts invaluable advice to executives and managers at all levels: helping them solve problems, become more effective, and realize a higher measure of business and career success. StrategyDriven refers to the family of organizations comprising StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About StrategyDriven.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

I only care that they are totally committed to making a positive contribution to the organization. The goal of a leader is not to clone him/herself, but to harness individual strenghts for the greater good of the team and for the overall benefit of the organization.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 13, 2011

@ 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! Are You Smart, or Clever?

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

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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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2015

How can the organization create guidelines for socially responsible submissions when some negative offshoots of free speech-extremism, sexism, hate mongering and vigilantism—threaten Reddit's integrity? Advance your organization while leading from the front. The sacred cow has been Reddit's free speech and privacy policies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

Maybe you also dream about switching to a career that’s drastically different from your current job. Two careers are better than one. And by committing to two careers, you will produce benefits for both. Instead, a more revealing query would be, “Why do you have multiple careers?” Career Transitions.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

It is rife with struggles related to managing the emerging responsibilities of adult life. If ownership or management of a family enterprise is an expectation, the pressures only mount. Y OUNG ADULTHOOD today is a challenging life stage. Family enterprise ownership requires deep commitment and responsibility. This entails: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Although the figures are elusive, the majority of data I've seen suggests that 40 to 50 percent of new hires at the middle level of management and above have not succeeded in their new companies 24 months after hire. Less visible are those who fail or flame out when they make the change. How strong is your external network?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Just imagine the noise level when that many smart and engaged female managers debated the pros and cons of wielding power. The others were in the room because they had been identified by their organizations as high potentials. Still, the art of consensus can sometimes slow women down and diminish their leadership credibility.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Many managers want to be more inclusive. For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. PATRIK STOLLARZ/Getty Images. But they don’t know how to get there.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

A simple question was asked: are hospitals ranked more highly when they are led by medically trained doctors or non-MD professional managers? The analysis showed that hospital quality scores are approximately 25% higher in physician-run hospitals than in manager-run hospitals. In a recent study that matched random samples of U.S.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 19, 2016

I ran into a profound message from a Google manager who wrote a simple email to his staff on Time Management. (By Now, think about how you’re managing your time. It’s been said there are two paradigms to scheduling —  the manager and the maker. The post The Perfect Message On Time Management (from a Google Manager).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

When you join an organization, you have a short window of time to adapt to its culture. This happens because most organizations don’t explain the cultural rules to newcomers, and new hires are so focused on the job and the new boss that they overlook the rules’ profound influence. Luciano Lozano/Getty Images.

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LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

How do you construct all that relationship, and also what kinds of career trajectories they have when they join you, what kind of promise, or actually, what kind of threats are you putting forward with, for example, requiring a non-compete. That can be, I think, really demotivating.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

Should you align yourself with the person who has the most influence over your job and career? “It’s like when you were a kid and your parents would fight,” says Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Selling needs to be a part of every woman's career tool kit. These roles very rarely lead to major jobs in senior management. As the consensus builders, the nurturers of relationships, and the well-networked passionate persuaders, women have all of the essential skills to bring in clients, money and monster deals.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

Her team clearly loved working with her, and she was considered a high potential in the organization. There is evidence that although their managers may want them to say no to such “extracurricular” projects, there are greater costs for women who decline to help others at the office than for men who do so.).

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The engineering department needed better organization and management, and its employees were craving more career development. Top-level organizations have roadmaps. We had multiple teams in different organizations working on the same thing: search. Have clear accountability with the fewest decision makers.

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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 2, 2017

Collaboration is a way of working that attracts and involves people outside one’s formal control, organization, and expertise to accomplish common goals. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Historically, organizations have swung between these two ends of the external-internal spectrum depending on the economy, the labor pool, and the strategic imperative — do we need new talent and capabilities right now or do we have the time to grow them? Historically, Shell’s top leaders spent their careers at the company.

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