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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Maintaining our social infrastructure also requires know-how, because we must develop ground rules that make our social practices sustainable. Beginning with Lawrence Kohlberg, developmental psychologists have discovered that ethical competence tends to develop in stages that parallel social and cognitive development.

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Public And Private Sectors Differ In Their Approach To AI Governance

The Horizons Tracker

The results reveal a clear divide between policymakers, who typically aligned around specific priorities, and the private sector, where no such consensus emerged. “As Among policymakers, there was a general agreement around the most important ethical principles for the appropriate development of AI-based applications.

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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

These individuals probably have some history of working together but they also operate with the same obstructed viewpoint. Coming to a consensus around vision and direction can be time intensive simply because people who don’t interact are likely speaking to each other for the very first time, and frankly don’t trust each other.

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A President is to a Nation as a CEO is to a Boardroom

Great Leadership By Dan

In a departure from my usual policy of steering clear of politics on this blog, today’s timely guest post is by Dr. David Kantor. Obama’s preoccupations with fighting has gotten—now, unfortunately and appropriately written in past tense—in the way of creating a clear policy based on narrative purpose. If anything, it is awkward.

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? When you develop the skill to transform negative conflict into creative tension is when you will begin to earn and hold the respect of even those individuals who don’t agree with your positions.

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Global Demand for Food Is Rising. Can We Meet It?

Harvard Business Review

This growth, along with rising incomes in developing countries (which cause dietary changes such as eating more protein and meat) are driving up global food demand. Farmers must also grow more on the land they currently operate through what is called “sustainable intensification.” billion people — and we may reach 9.7