Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2015

Consensus Do discussions end with members proactively summarizing options, making recommendations, and end with a clear, mutual, firm decision or action being made? If consensus is not being reached, do all members engage in the discussion to reach consensus quickly? How well does your leadership team model these factors?

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 25, 2014

” In it, the authors Melissa Korn and Rachel Feintzeig write: At a time when the default mode of the workplace is one of cooperation and consensus, being a hard-edged leader is riskier than it used to be, according to executives and people who study leadership.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 11, 2023

Therefore, trying to build consensus or form team spirit becomes more difficult. The key is to do so in a spirit of cooperation, not a spirit of disruption. If unaddressed it can be dangerous for organizational health. It’s okay to have different opinions, challenge the system – and even the leader.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Successful climate policy requires cooperation among nations, but as we’ve seen during the Covid crisis, it can be very easy for nations to look inwards and prioritize their own citizens to the detriment of others. “The results show that political ideology is also highly influential in shaping attitudes towards climate policy.

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Policies Consensus Crisis Cooper 115

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Builds involvement and consensus, supports team members, and advocates for team initiatives. Strong People Skills and Interpersonal Capability: Caring, compassionate, big-hearted; respects people, connects well with others and makes them feel valuable. Good Listener: Attentive and present when people are presenting their views.

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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

People are more likely to oblige requests from people they like and know well, and we tend to like those who are similar and those who give compliments, and cooperate well. Principle #6 – Consensus. As a leader, you should strive to get to know your employees. Learn about them and find common bonds.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 13, 2020

Effective cooperation. Participants were asked to complete a cooperation game that was based upon the Prisoner’s Dilemma, in which their partner was either a human or a bot. The players had to decide whether to act selfishly or cooperate with their colleague.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Resist the temptation to overuse consensus. In what ways can I increase the cooperation & agreement ? Am I relying too much on consensus? Have you ever experienced a project manager, manager who was overly reliant on consensus? Checklist: Selecting a Decision-Making Approach. The decision needs to be made quickly. ?

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Positioning Team Consensus Team Building 128

Ron Edmondson

JULY 29, 2020

Trying to build consensus or form team spirit becomes more difficult. The key is to do so in a spirit of cooperation, not a spirit of disruption. In fairness, it may or may not be a conscious decision they’ve made, but they simply don’t fit well with the rest of the team. Differing viewpoints help make us all better.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 3, 2013

It is tough to have them choose just 1 … and if we can get agreement through consensus the team is doing really great. Plus it helps, for you the facilitator, to be on the look out for cooperation. Trying hard to place some QQT/R metrics on that goal. What is one current barrier that we know of to achieving our goal(s)?

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Team Company Team Building Executive Coaching 141

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 27, 2014

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. Decisions that involved cross-divisional cooperation were made effectively without involving him. In one example, a CEO was frequently traveling.

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Delegation Morale Report Learning-by-Doing 152

Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 28, 2014

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. Decisions that involved cross-divisional cooperation were made effectively without involving him. In one example, a CEO was frequently traveling.

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Delegation Report Consensus Learning-by-Doing 137

Mike Cardus

APRIL 16, 2012

Kim, with the team created “Decision Making Chart” defining which decisions she would make herself ( Authoritarian to Consultative ) which needed to be delegated to specific team members, and which decisions will be made by the group ( Consensus to 2/3 majority vote ). She reported finding greater areas of cooperation and solutions.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The alignment culture is a company’s “must do” culture, and encompasses cooperation, consensus, and working together toward overarching goals.

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Succession Teamwork Restructuring Commitment 50

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

However when a situation can be seen through the lens of difference, and a position is simply a matter of opinion not a totalitarian statement of fact, then cooperation and compromise is possible. Never be swayed by consensus that calls you to compromise your values, rather be guided by doing the right thing.

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Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 412

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

U2 is further unified by its participative, consensus-oriented decision-making style that gives each member a voice. Doing so will increase trust, cooperation and esprit de corps among your group members. Develop a participative, consensus-oriented decision-making style that gives people a voice in matters they care about.

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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. Upbeat Music Can Make Employees More Cooperative. Collaboration is not a style. Collaboration is not “cross-selling.” Amy Jen Su.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

That’s the argument of British money manager George Cooper ’s very interesting if less-than-felicitously titled new book, Money, Blood and Revolution: How Darwin and the Doctor of King Charles I Could Turn Economics Into a Science. Economics is due for a paradigm shift. That evidence has just kept on piling up in finance.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

They strongly preferred to collaborate and cooperate rather than brazenly call the shots. Still, the art of consensus can sometimes slow women down and diminish their leadership credibility. The problem is that an overemphasis on consensus can be viewed as weak. They have a talent for establishing buy-in.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Going forward, I hope that the current experiment in consensus building among the two major parties will succeed and will serve as a prototype for coalition governments in Greece in the future. And voters seem to understand that they face a long period of austerity, volatility, and a substantially lower standard of living.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2017

The authors of that research, Lynda Gratton and Tamara Erickson, noted that “[people] were encouraged to cooperate, and they wanted to cooperate, but they didn’t know how to work together very well.” Upbeat Music Can Make Employees More Cooperative. Amy Jen Su. Celia de Anca and Salvador Aragón.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Its opposite, femininity, stands for a preference for cooperation, modesty, caring for the weak and quality of life. Society at large is more consensus-oriented.". It is hard to imagine The Economist arguing that "cooperation and modesty" may be an effective engine for competitiveness and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

While diverse team composition does seem to confer an advantage when it comes to generating a wider range of original and useful ideas, experimental studies suggest that such benefits disappear once the team is tasked with deciding which ideas to select and implement, presumably because diversity hinders consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

In itself this may seem like an interesting but minor finding, but this large proportion of asymmetric friendships translates to a major effect on the ability of an individual to persuade others to cooperate or change their behavior. Instead, begin by building consensus with peers who are part of your interaction networks.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

Here's how: Policy makers need to commence a dialogue with citizens aimed at determining the appropriate parameters for online law enforcement so that policies reflect some kind of public consensus about how we want our online profiles to be used in intelligence-gathering. Is it whenever the information is posted publicly?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Yet having the two teams work in perfect harmony and reach an easy consensus on every decision is a pipedream, and in fact, is not the best answer either. Start with strong sales and marketing leaders who, through their words and actions, consistently reinforce a cooperative, customer-focused culture.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

In order to ascend the organizational ranks, such leaders must seek consensus on decisions and drive others through a keen process orientation. Though being overtly cooperative while maintaining a level of skepticism can be beneficial in group settings, these behaviors can also hinder execution.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

Respondents in a recent study who took a competitive approach to dual-career negotiations (for instance, by viewing one partner’s gain as the other’s loss) reported receiving less emotional support from their partner than those who took a cooperative approach (for instance, by being willing to compromise).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Resistance, or in the best case, lack of cooperation can be expected from entrenched interest groups, particularly from the leaders of state-owned enterprises and local officials. China’s new leaders face unprecedented challenges in terms of the complexity of policy measures and their implementation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

For example, on a key issue under negotiation by 172 countries, Koh finally miniaturized the larger stalled process to include only Fiji, Pakistan, Argentina, and the United States, with their small-scale agreement ultimately expanding into a full consensus. Wage your campaign on several fronts.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Any attempt to reach consensus on how best to reverse climate change at the COP21 conference in Paris must take such corporate measures into account. aka, Cabot Creamery Cooperative ), a large dairy food producer in New England. Thus, the Ben & Jerry’s-Paris connection. pilots: Ben & Jerry’s ; New Chapter, Inc. ,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

never ratified but the rest of world committed to; and (b) the much more specific 2009 Copenhagen consensus , where (nearly) everyone agreed that it would be wise to stop the warming at 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F). President Obama called for “a world marked not by conflict but by cooperation.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

All this represents a considerable turn away from anything resembling a Washington Consensus and towards a more highly managed system favoring preferential terms for developing countries and redistribution over competition and efficiency.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

With whom should we discuss matters first, and who should be approached later if we are to work towards consensus or cooperation? What do their interests and incentives tell us about their likely actions and reactions as the negotiation unfolds?

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Strategy Health Care Compliance Policies 9

Ron Edmondson

MAY 11, 2016

Trying to build consensus or form team spirit becomes more difficult. The key is to do so in a spirit of cooperation, not a spirit of disruption. If unaddressed it can be dangerous for organizational health. It’s okay to have different opinions, challenge the system – and even the leader. In fact, don’t be.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

They are interdependent and incentivized to cooperate in conserving the extant network rules. Any change to the network rules requires coordination and consensus among all of the stakeholders. As a blockchain community grows, it becomes increasingly more difficult for stakeholders to reach a consensus on changing network rules.

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Decentralization Consensus Resistance Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The international political consensus of the universal economic benefits of globalization that defined much of the 20th and early 21st centuries is breaking down. The positive consensus toward globalization that defined the U.S. This rising generation reflects and reinforces China's growing nationalism.

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