Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Kill morale, careers, and even a company. Delegation killed morale, careers, and the company. This helps direct reports understand the agendas of the peer team members and allows them to develop their skills in building collaboration and reaching consensus. The company was operating in a rapidly changing environment.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 26, 2022

Today, however, most companies find themselves operating under the philosophy that corporate dress codes should be relaxed. As far as business casual clothing is concerned, the general consensus is that anything goes. However, if you want to get ahead in your career, it’s best to follow the trends and stick to the basics.

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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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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? Never be swayed by consensus that calls you to compromise your values, rather be guided by doing the right thing. This is a skill I believe many leaders do not develop until later in their careers.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

That was the general consensus after one of my favorite HBS classes: an entrepreneurship case on a company called Tickle. The financial risk of a career in entrepreneurship is the chance of spending 20 years in startups with nothing to show for it — neither money nor an impact on the world.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

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. Despite having a full plate of client projects, she signed up to work on a massive survey to understand the concerns of chief operating officers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

A law firm cannot provide legal services without lawyers, for example, but a tech company could continue to operate for a long time without a general counsel. We conducted an additional study to assess whether there’s consensus among employees in different positions about which roles are the lynchpin ones. We found no downsides.

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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

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. “We were Abelson-Frankel, yet operated as two separate agencies.”

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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

MAY 9, 2011

Have you ever wondered if a person's childhood experiences influence the way they operate as a professional later in life? They may react negatively to consensus building on the job and gravitate towards leaders who operate independently and exude an aura of confidence. Jeff longed to capture and hold his parents attention.

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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

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

AUGUST 15, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Drew Conway and I discussed his company Alluvium, which “uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to turn massive data streams produced by industrial operations into insights.” Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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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. 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. All too few.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

for the quarter, just barely clearing the consensus estimates of $0.40. Early on in my career, I had a boss who discounted my ability to connect with clients. And to another: "Every day, I notice how meticulously you attend to operations. Had something catastrophic happened? The problem? They reported $0.42 Thank you.".

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

During his remarkable career, described in detail here , Koh played central roles in some of the most complex international negotiations ever held. Special Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky. Tommy Koh became the youngest ambassador ever appointed to the United Nations and later served as Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Instead, the decision to fire (or hire or promote) someone is based on group consensus. burden of running their companies’ day-to-day operations. But you probably don''t work at Menlo Innovations, where there are no bosses (at least in the traditional sense). — actually lead to more-productive employees and companies?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. That’s how groups become mired in consensus, and after a while, everyone thinks and acts alike. In the next three weeks, reconnect with people outside the com­pany who may shed useful light on your work, industry, or career.

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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

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? At Hay Group, our research suggests that many companies are now stuck in that metaphorical boat.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Characteristics that are necessary to lead an organization through significant transitions — traits such as patience, consensus building, and adherence to strict processes — don’t always come naturally to the best entrepreneurs.

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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. I learned about how perception of time varies from culture to culture early in my career. Even if you work for the same parent company, different locations have different protocols and operations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. Lauri Rotko/Folio Images/Getty Images. The United States spends 40% more per patient than other developed countries but suffers the worse overall health outcomes. Proactive and population-based.

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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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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. But having hired such talent, organizations face a challenge. How do they do that?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

This company operates its democracy to the extent that: Employees set their own work schedules They don’t use the same workstation more than two days in a row so that no one really knows when they go to work or how long they stay. But what does a truly democratic workplace look like?

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