Leading Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2017
After discussion, debate and thinking through the options, the team reaches consensus about the best course of action to take, or how best to solve a problem. Delegate authority: As an organization grows, leaders need to get comfortable with delegating authority. Delegated authority can also be used in a more limited way.
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 22, 2010
Never be swayed by consensus that calls you to compromise your values, rather be guided by doing the right thing. Most people don’t have to agree with you 100% of the time, but they do need to trust you 100% of the time. Trust cannot exist where leaders are fickle, inconsistent, indecisive, or display a lack of character.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 18, 2016
These findings are especially useful for any companies facing a large portfolio of products, continuous technological change, short life cycles, and high levels of product obsolescence. In industries characterized by short product life cycles and rapid technological change moving faster is generally better. Know the big picture.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 11, 2018
Unnecessary consensus-seeking for reversible, non-consequential decisions. ” Despite advances in technology, and perhaps in large part because of it, many find themselves working well beyond 5 PM just to keep up with their workloads, but it doesn’t have to be that way. How to Foster a Shorter, More Productive Workday.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
There will always be new technologies and processes you can adopt — an app promising better communication, a service promising smarter collaboration. Don’t expect consensus. Getting everyone to agree before moving forward with a decision can waste time if consensus is not realistic. Environment. Take real breaks.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 21, 2016
To test more detailed options, alternative solutions for the technology organization, investment processes and safety delegations were presented to the newly appointed leadership team. ” This flushed out unattractive options and helped them come to consensus on the organizational design.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
To test whether our experimental findings would hold in actual organizations and across different cultures, we conducted two more studies: one at a set of R&D companies in China and the second at EA Engineering, Science, and Technology Inc., an environmental consulting company headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
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