Chart Your Course

APRIL 29, 2013

was changing its telecommute policy. How could she possibly hope to retain and/or attract top talent with such draconian policies? Mayer enacted the policy because Yahoo! said, “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.”. s new telecommute policy. This past February Yahoo!’s

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Leading Blog

APRIL 8, 2013

I am not a consensus politician. Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. On Society.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

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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Ethics Maturity Analysis Cost-Benefit Analysis 197

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 31, 2021

It’s an approach that is not without its problems, however, not least of which are the HR systems and policies that have largely been created with onsite workers in mind. Such policies are often forged with the employer in mind. The post Helping Employees Be Productive Anywhere first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Productivity Products Long-term Consensus 134

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The consensus among these individuals is that when you focus on taking care of your own emotional health, the resulting positivity has a contagious effect, especially when it comes to relationships between leaders and employees. It is also critical that business leaders are better informed on the current landscape of mental illness.

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CO2

JULY 13, 2013

Charlie was the head of the division that developed a telescope with a flawed mirror. He assembled a team to develop the fix–and gave them credit for doing so. Failure to develop the leadership capacity of your team. Leaders develop leaders. But he didn’t spend time looking for somebody to blame.

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Consensus Leadership Emotional Intelligence Executive Coaching 145

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Various measures of democracy yield different totals, but the consensus tends to show that democracy started to spread at the beginning of the Supercycle wave III in 1842. Here''s an assessment from a July article in Foreign Policy: The Third Wave Peters Out. A New York Times op-ed columnist now says, "Pax Americana is in decline."

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Marketing Development Trends Open-book 90

Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

We cannot achieve and maintain alignment without consensus and conviction about The Main Thing. The CEO of Connecticut's Farmington Bank told George that its Main Thing is to "Drive economic development in central Connecticut.". The Main Thing is critically important. It is the end that strategy and human effort serve.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 21, 2019

A new tool developed in the UK aims to rectify that by providing policy makers with an easy to use platform to measure how much pollution can be removed by trees in any given area. The developers hope that it will help to guide the significant investment being made in tree planting in the UK over the next few years.

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Quality Tools Webinar Consensus 65

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

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. In business, there is usually a zero tolerance policy for failure (remember John D. Rockefeller’s attitude toward failure ?).

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Despite this general support, however, the researchers believe a stronger public consensus is required to further support pro-vaccine attitudes and legislation so as to ensure community immunity. Social spreading. An early study from the university found that social media was a key channel for the spreading of misinformation about vaccines.

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Media Consensus Education Information 69

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 16, 2020

America retains great strengths, and many of the basic policy directions required to enhance U.S. Despite the consensus that change is required, however, the lack of political cooperation on the matter results in little real progress being made. competitiveness and boost shared prosperity are well understood and widely supported.”.

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Human Capital Crisis Politics Policies 82

Leading Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

While having a few rules that are meant to be broken can actually spur creativity, organizations should thoughtfully prune policies built up over time to address problems that may or may not still be relevant.” We reward sheep-like behavior so we have to teach the unacceptability of blind obedience. What problem does this rule exist to solve?

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How To Creativity Motivation Learning-by-Doing 166

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

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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Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

Each circle uses a defined governance process to create and regularly update its roles and policies. Democratic member control: Cooperatives are democratic organizations controlled by their members, who actively participate in setting their policies and making decisions. Leadership and team development challenges still exist.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2017

Guest post from Lisa Bodell: As leaders, we’re responsible for setting the tone of our organization through policy and strategy, as well as our behavior. Since these insights sprang directly from customer feedback, marketing was able to develop responses that more closely addressed customers’ specific needs.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2014

Consensus stage. Buying Decision Team members meet to share research and determine the type of solution, fallout, possibilities, problems, considerations in re management, policies, job descriptions, HR issues, etc. Buy-in and consensus necessary. It’s The Consensus, Stupid*. Choice stage. and Why is Change so Hard?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2015

Simply, a system – for the sake of this article families, corporations, or individuals – is: a collection of policies, beliefs, agreements, goals and history, uniquely developed over time, which. It’s The Consensus, Stupid*. To understand why our status quo is tenacious we must understand systems.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Consensus stage. Buying Decision Team members meet to share research and determine the type of solution, fallout, possibilities, problems, considerations in re management, policies, job descriptions, HR issues, etc. Buy-in and consensus necessary. call current vendors or new vendors etc.). Choice stage.

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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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Women on Business

MARCH 4, 2011

The scary question is whether Congress can come to a consensus on the budget–in the short-term as well as for 2012–or whether we are headed for a government shut-down in a few days. The meetings, debate and proposals are various means to an end and hopefully to some concrete resolution, but one thing is for sure. It’s nice to see them hustle.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2015

Consensus stage. Buying Decision Team members meet to share research and determine the type of solution, fallout, possibilities, problems, considerations in re management, policies, job descriptions, HR issues, etc. Buy-in and consensus necessary. General decisions made. Action stage.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

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. I have always found that rapport is quickly developed when you listen, care, and attempt to help people succeed.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2016

When I started up a tech company in London in 1983 and became a ‘buyer’ I realized the problem and developed a new skill set to migrate it. the people involved shared their thoughts and concerns, and bought-in to any changes a new solution would involve, we discerned any fallout to the company, relationships, people, policies etc.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

In situations where consensus cannot be reached, they have an uncanny ability to cut to the chase and make informed decisions. There are those who believe that their effectiveness can be increased through education, other methods of training and development, and experience, though to a limited extent.

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Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

Actually, reading the book reminded me of this old anecdote that I heard one time, a conversation between a sort of unnamed CEO and an unnamed CFO and essentially, the CFO was asking, “What happens if we invest all this money to develop our people and they leave?” and the CEO’s response is, “Well, what happens if we don’t and they stay?”.

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Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

Ultimately, enough hateful content has been published to show that the online mob has developed a case of groupthink that at times seemed to parallel the mob mentality that fueled the riot itself. Social websites and internet service providers need transparent policies about when and how they cooperate with law enforcement.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

When Alan Greenspan , Paul Krugman , and Niall Ferguson all agree on something, it’s a sign that the consensus is either very right — or very wrong. There was no UK strategy to enable Scotland to develop alternative engines of growth, as other small advanced economies were able to do. But neither is this the full story.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

Part of the answer is that the vast wealth of Africa is often not being translated into development. But to achieve development, we need much more than money. Without a solid consensus over the financing and resources needed, goals remain simply wishes. Often it benefits only a few, or is squandered altogether. We are investing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

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. Regulators need to overhaul policies that limit inclusion of small, rural farmers into the financial system— for example, soft loans (i.e., billion by 2050.

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Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Business leaders are not just employers: as frequent board members for regional economic development entities, they have a major influence on the civic agenda in the cities and metropolitan regions in which their firms are located. Economic inclusion must be a priority both for economic policy makers and for business.

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Industry Policies Consensus Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Nordic countries' progressive gender policies have deep cultural roots. Society at large is more consensus-oriented.". But in the Nordics, the governments' enlightened policy-making has forced employers to make parental leave as equally (and gender-neutrally) available to men as to women. Pragmatic indeed.

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Hofstede Cooper Leadership Styles Consensus 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

These are what the New Economics Foundation think tank calls the "five ways to wellbeing," and they are now becoming central to UK Government policy. A consensus is building that continued growth of the macro-economy risks pushing us into unstoppable climate change and the peaking of many of the finite resources our way of life depend on.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Develop an inclusive vision of high growth entrepreneurship. Boston's Mayor Menino and his staff developed and have repeated hundreds of times the mantra of the Innovation District: "Live, work, play." We'll give architects and developers the challenge to experiment with new designs, new floor plans, and new materials.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Decisions at such meetings typically provide general guidance, which is open to interpretation, so CEOs should lower their expectations in terms of the announcement of measures as well as the policy direction. 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 22, 2013

Sloan continued, "Then, I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what this decision is about.". There''s a lot of discussion on how leaders ought to cast a vision, gain buy-in, or steer a group to consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

Despite the development of numerous techniques and tools to structure patient handoffs and improve the transfer of communication, we haven’t seen much improvement in reducing medical errors. During this stage, Margaret also worked with staff to develop a quality improvement plan. Adopting a more systematic process.

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