leaderCommunicator

JUNE 3, 2014

Flip charts and sticky notes flow, ideas get jotted down, and ultimately you arrive at a consensus -- the path forward. While I’m not in the product promotion business, I was so impressed by a new crowd-sourcing technology I recently encountered that I can’t resist sharing my experience.

Brainstorming 126

Brainstorming Conference Consensus eBook 126

Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Develop a Zen-Like Mantra. This approach typically results in a much longer discussion, since it is much harder to get a fast consensus on what is best, versus what is worst. Here’s a summary of all 25, and the lessons discussed today are in bold ( p ast lessons are underlined and linked ). Practice Full Spectrum Management .

Leadership 339

Leadership Consensus Follow-up Resistance 339

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2015

What if the leader’s goal overrides the mental models, beliefs or historic experiences of the followers, or the change is pushed against the follower’s values, and resistance ensues? It will more than meet the vision of the leaders (although it might look different), and the followers will own it with no resistance.

Charisma 50

Charisma Leadership Resistance Welch 50

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 22, 2023

This develops nicely from the previous point! That sort of makes sense because somewhere, in the background, the rule of law or an agreed consensus is floating about. What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” Jean-Jacques Rousseau What are the attributes of organizations that are successful? What makes a jerk fail?

How To 107

How To Open-book Wilde Constraint 107

Strategy Driven

MAY 5, 2016

How do you manage your CP’s biases, triggers, filters, and assumptions to expand choice and possibility, and avoid unconscious resistance, fallout, and restricted results? Do your current methods of avoiding resistance work? No more delayed sales cycles or lost prospects; no more failed implementations; no more resistance to change.

Influence 50

Influence Resistance Consensus Learning-by-Doing 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2015

What if the leader's goal overrides the mental models, beliefs or historic experiences of the followers, or the change is pushed against the follower's values, and resistance ensues? It will more than meet the vision of the leaders (although it might look different), and the followers will own it with no resistance.

Charisma 50

Charisma Leadership Resistance Follow-up 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2015

We offered a cover page and a couple of pages of Facilitative Questions [a new type of question I developed that enables Responders to assemble/recognize unconscious, systemic criteria - in this case, regarding implementation, buy-in/consensus, resistance issues that would be a natural fall-out from a project of this size].

Proposal 50

Proposal Consensus Committee Project 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2016

Cognitive Dissonance: When the content we share – words, questions, information, education, advice, written material – goes against someone’s (conscious or unconscious) personal beliefs and system of Self, we cause Cognitive Dissonance and resistance regardless of the efficacy of the information. I’ve developed them.

Skills 50

Skills Resistance Self-aware System 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 28, 2014

it might be just a resource); Social believes that by engaging in relationships over time and developing trust, followers will come back when they are ready. I then developed Buying Facilitation ® to add to the front end of the sales model. Facilitative Questions are a type of criteria-recognition and choice format I developed.

Marketing 81

Marketing Consensus Content Follow-up 81

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2015

These terms define a specific set of sequenced actions buyers take to enable internal consensus and change – change management issues, if you will – rather than define steps that address needs or vendor/solution choice which come later and are the focus of sales. Long meeting to get consensus. Tech guy resistant.

CFO 50

CFO Consensus Budgeting Brand 50

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

Your challenge is to develop and model the behaviors required to inspire people and teams to genuinely break through organizational silos and make collaboration a competitive advantage. How you lead your people has a direct impact on your ability to eliminate or mitigate the types of human behaviors that slow organizations down.

Incentives 258

Incentives Agility Resources Follow-up 258

Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2015

Anyone who will touch the final solution must be present to move forward or there will be fallout, sabotage, and resistance: there is no way to compensate (as per creativity or consensus) once a meeting is held with folks missing. No restrictions. Collaborators must enter with no assumptions.

Resistance 50

Resistance Download Open-book Diversity 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

It’s possible that by pushing our own agendas and not focusing on what might be common values and consensus, we are perpetuating harm and causing others to defend their beliefs. Change needs consensus: win-win is key (we know there is no such thing as win/lose). Avoiding Resistance. Hearing Agreement. About the Author.

Consensus 50

Consensus Active Listening Learning-by-Doing Discount 50

Ron Edmondson

JUNE 20, 2018

If one person on the team develops a negative attitude, for example, and it’s allowed to continue impacting the team, the entire team might be affected. We moved too soon, or with the wrong people, or without building enough consensus or motivation. People didn’t understand why, so they resisted. The reverse is true also.

Bottom-up 42

Bottom-up Leadership Consensus Learning-by-Doing 42

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. It includes people, systems, implementation, resistance, workarounds, relationships – and comes well before any decision is made to buy anything, and quite separate from any ‘need’.

Definition 50

Definition Consensus Influence Resistance 50

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 4, 2016

We need a way forward to choose behaviors that maintain our Beliefs, Values, and Identity AND find common ground to listen to each other and come to consensus with action steps to help us all heal. I’m going to offer some steps for us to dialogue and reach win/win consensus.

How To 50

How To Consensus Learning-by-Doing Resistance 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2015

I developed Facilitative Questions decades ago to enable any Questioner to facilitate someone’s route to congruent change. With no manipulation or bias, they require a different form of listening , wording, and objectives, thereby avoiding resistance and encouraging trust between sellers, coaches, consultants and their clients.

Insurance 50

Insurance Objective Learning-by-Doing Consensus 50

Skip Prichard

APRIL 19, 2021

What are some of the major mistakes people make when developing a vision? How do aspiring leaders develop this leadership skill? At the same time, effective development demands well-planned everyday effort and a means of assessing progress. The biggest problem is that vision cannot be created through consensus.

Consensus 125

Consensus Learning-by-Doing Long-term Banking 125

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate. Incremental innovations can be managed at the operating levels where the people know the customers/consumers best and decisions can be made in a more consensus-driven way with input and agreement between all stakeholder functions.

Process 15

Process Innovation Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

That’s because the primary obstacle is invisible: the internal resistance that all human beings experience, often unconsciously, when they’re asked to make a significant change. ” Human development is about progressively seeing more. This same phenomenon operates not just individually, but also organizationally.

Skills 12

Skills Decentralization Agility Resistance 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

These questions struck me some time ago when I read a post by an Indian newspaper journalist about the Dongria Kondh , who have been resisting the plans of a British mining company to mine bauxite from Niyamgiri mountain, where they live and which they hold sacred. Are we fostering a culture of jumping to conclusions?

Consensus 15

Consensus Letter Resistance Education 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

A further sign of disempowerment: more than three quarters of respondents indicated that front-line employees were either “never” or only “occasionally” involved in the design and development of major change initiatives. As you ponder that question, we should note that there was one area of consensus.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Survey Politics Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There is a growing consensus among students, parents and employers that today’s young liberal arts graduates lack the skills needed to succeed in the post-Recession job market. To prosper in the new competitive environment, institutions must engage the whole school system in supporting the personal and career development of their students.

Skills 11

Skills Education Long-term Career 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Yet each staff meeting should have a clear purpose: discuss a strategic issue, share information on business development activities, brainstorm on how to seize an opportunity or address a challenge, or to discuss options and make a decision. Mistake 5: Not reaching consensus on a course of action.

Participative 18

Participative Objective Brainstorming Follow-up 18

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. We must answer open questions about when and how our social information can be used. Is it whenever the information is posted publicly?

Consensus 13

Consensus Media Policies Groupthink 13

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. That will require the development of new corporate capabilities and resources.

Policies 8

Policies Uncertainty Long-term Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Lack of consensus among players in a complex system is one of the biggest barriers to innovation. Of course, we must hold innovations to an evidence standard — but without holding them hostage to resistant establishments. The problem is that everyone can have a different view of the meaning of getting and staying healthy.

Health Care 15

Health Care Innovation Pharmaceuticals Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

First, some background: On September 17 th , NASA announced the winners of the $6.8bn “space taxi” contract which will fund the development and launch of new platforms to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Interdependency refers to product architectures where the parts cannot be developed independently.

Industry 9

Industry Disruptive Innovation Innovation Engineering 9

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. When organizations emphasize rank, emerging leaders tend to develop unique coping skills. Some leaders become cynical, mistrusting, and eventually covertly resistant, particularly under stress.

Leadership 8

Leadership Leadership Styles Consensus Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

The path of least resistance is simply to let work and traditional gender roles take over—whoever has the better (i.e. Indeed, this is what happens when couples don’t actively work to build and maintain consensus on what they want. Develop a common vision, then keep each other on track.

Career 8

Career Chief Financial Officer Cooper Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

These ICOs are nearly always held when a project is at an immature stage of development akin to a seed stage startup — when it is testing hypotheses around its consumer value proposition and forming a founding team. This focused attention from developers has the added benefit of crowdsourcing feedback on the beta version of the project.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

I wanted to accept the consensus as a sign that the company had rounded the corner on its 3-year slog to be more relevant in their market. A rebel resists conformity. And a much different roadmap developed, through many pizza-filled evenings, and some new demands requiring reallocation of resources.

CEO 16

CEO Engineering Consensus Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

Marketing and commercial decision makers often complain that customer analytic tools developed to improve their productivity actually make them less effective. We find that small, test-and-learn data projects on 90-day cycles help to steer clear of committee consensus. Empower, don’t automate.

Retail 8

Retail Banking Chief Information Officer Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

The opposite of consensus, dissensus measures the degree of differences of opinion — the higher the level of expertise dissensus, the greater the variety of opinions within the group about how much each team member knows. I call this phenomenon "expertise dissensus.".

Skills 13

Skills Project Team Consensus 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

The code that was developed for the (confusingly named) The DAO application was called a “smart contract,” and ran as a DAO application on top of the Ethereum blockchain. But we must resist the temptation to anthropomorphize code and misapply machine governance to social systems.

Decentralization 10

Decentralization Consensus Resistance Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Big companies obsessively ask that question, because their approach to new ideas is that there are good ones than can be developed into revenue generators, and bad ones that should be abandoned as quickly as possible so as not to waste resources. “It’s very hard to make money on… consensus. Resist instincts to kill.

Consensus 12

Consensus Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Video 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

Influence and conflict management capabilities help leaders to build consensus around a common purpose and deliver the collaborative solutions that the matrix requires. Empathy, on the other hand, enables leaders to develop a better understanding of their counterparts' perspectives and their customers' mindset.

Management 15

Management Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Influence 15