Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 16, 2023

In addition to the connections built through working together and solving problems, you can also include periodic conversations that build relationships, such as: Cultural conversations to problem solve or celebrate: for example, “What’s really getting in the way of people using our new system?” A team makes the decision through consensus.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I did not feel management set the kind of example that I wanted to abide by.” Affirm Shared Values While credible leaders honor the diversity of their many constituencies, they must also find a common ground on which everyone can stand. Set the example by going first. Lisa’s sentiment is one that we hear time and time again.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

Millennials, for example, are observed to prefer jobs that make a difference over those that provide a large salary, and their iGen counterparts show less interest or movement toward independence. Respecting diverse viewpoints. This can occur by sharing stories about individual members who live the family’s values. It was a huge hit!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

PR practitioners need to be keenly attuned to what their brands’ strategies are and how their campaigns can be perceived, but they’ll be hard-pressed to do so if they don’t become more diverse and inclusive themselves. What seems to be changing is that clients are mandating more diversity and inclusion on their accounts.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They fall under three categories: the environment you create, the expectations that you have, and the example your choices and actions set. Don’t expect consensus. Getting everyone to agree before moving forward with a decision can waste time if consensus is not realistic. Environment. Treat new tools as debt.

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Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

MARCH 23, 2017

For example, rewarding or punishing team members based on their performance of your goals. This style boosts your team’s morale by allowing them to take part in reaching a consensus on decisions and goals. Use this style with a diverse team, where personalization in management is required for each member.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

They recognize the value of inclusion and diversity and believe it’s the right thing to aspire to. Take, for example, the hiring process. ” In finance, for example, that might mean believing — based on no evidence — that only MBA graduates from an elite university are likely to succeed at their jobs.

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Examples: A CEO ignores market research that suggests a new product will not be well-received because he or she firmly believes it’s a good idea. A manager only listens to team members who agree with them, neglecting diverse opinions that could offer a new perspective. Also know as “throwing good money after bad money.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2016

At Standard Chartered, for example, the insights of one Indian female banker translated into innovation that boosted net sales at two branches by 127% and 75% within two years. Leaders with acquired diversity , our US data shows, are more likely to behave in ways that unlock the innovative potential of their entire team. Her insight?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Maybe your company tells people to be consensus-builders, but promotes people who are solely authoritative decision makers (behavior-practices gap). For example, if I saw someone exemplifying the value of “teamwork,” what would she be doing? Given your organizational values, which behaviors consistently get rewarded?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

And as the number and diversity of required decision makers grows, marketers are concluding they must personalize content so that it resonates with each stakeholder. In short, personalizing content for each of a group of diverse stakeholders, often with differing priorities, amplifies disconnects rather than overcoming them.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

The quiet assumption, for example, that everyone would, or at least should, agree. A drive to achieve consensus and prevent outright conflict. But they have not successfully leveled the playing field or created the kind of true diversity that any great organization needs to thrive. It wasn''t necessarily better.

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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. These diverse perspectives often lead to conflict. But the tension created by diverse viewpoints also has a positive side. But sales and marketing don’t always get along.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Here's my most recent example of the power of this approach. The online startup Kaggle assembles a diverse group of people from around the world to work on tough problems submitted by organizations. The winning prediction was more than 270% better than the insurance company's baseline. They needn't have worried.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 31, 2022

Research and interviews with diverse practitioners for our 2021 L&D Report affirm that purpose can powerfully drive value creation. These tensions can and should be cultivated for their ability to facilitate coherence , rather than perfect alignment, complete consensus, or collapse of some perspectives in the face of others.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

When contact occurs in a situation like an acquisition and in-groups and out-groups form, members of the in-group have a tendency to homogenize members of the out-group, without attention to the diversity and differences within the out-group. The challenge is to create a new “we.” Healthy debate.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

For example, a cohort-based annual course, “Leading in Health Care,” began in the early 1990s and has invited nominated, high-potential physicians (and more recently nurses and administrators) to engage in 10 days of offsite training in leadership competencies which fall outside the domain of traditional medical training.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

Markets change much faster in developing nations than they do in developed countries, as these examples show. Emerging markets are pretty diverse. Tracking stakeholders'' perspectives may not yield a consensus prediction. They''ve become more comfortable with their wealth and are starting to emulate their global peers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Samsung's predicament is a classic example of the new-product juggling act that every company has to perform: While trying to keep its rivals at bay, it must at the same time compete with its own existing products. Samsung is now the undisputed leading vendor of mobile handsets and smartphones.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Paul, a diverse set of stakeholders from economic development, philanthropy, business, government, and community development came together to reach consensus on more than 50 indicators of economic, social, and environmental progress that will guide their regional strategy. Promoting economic inclusion begins with agreeing on goals.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) are multisided platforms that help members reach agreements over a standard (For example, mobile carriers, handset makers, chip providers and many others have to agree on a common standard — like 4G — for what they do to work together.) Other SSO rules are important too.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2011

For example, a female vice president at a major multinational was criticized by a boss for her Anglo-Indian accent, which he found "too stuffy." Goldman Sachs , for example, realized this. "It The comment left her hurt and confused. In Asia, there's a saying that the loudest duck gets shot. But the answer isn't just to "fix the Asians."

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

It''s tough to find examples of successfully challenging the boss, even tougher to find stories of leaders who specifically ask to be challenged. There''s a lot of discussion on how leaders ought to cast a vision, gain buy-in, or steer a group to consensus. The most common is a tale of Alfred P. Sloan at General Motors.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

For example, one large technology company embraced a strategy to win through new digital businesses. The diversion of cash from investment slowed long-term strategic success. Here’s a hypothetical example of how they might work at GE. Eventually, the company’s share price nosedived.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Balancing team roles can be particularly important to avoid the Apollo effect , where every team member needs his or her idea to dominate and the team is unable to come to a consensus. Higher levels of business performance through a custom work environment. Talent management in the right place.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

The fuzziness was a counter-intuitive advantage in engaging diverse stakeholders to define for themselves the role they would play. Innovation, creativity, design, sustainability, experimentation, entrepreneurship, inclusiveness: these are example principles to be infused into the city's collective consciousness.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

But how do you overcome obstacles to spreading innovation, like fear of change, resource constraints, and slow, consensus-based decision making? Here’s an example that shows how well this combination of bottom-up, top-down communication can work when you’re trying to spread a health care idea: Telemedicine on wheels.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Your network’s strategic advantage and, therefore, the extent to which it helps you step up to leadership, depends on three qualities: Breadth: Strong relationships with a diverse range of contacts. Breadth: How Diverse Is Your Network? For example, recently we were in a meeting discussing the results of a global people survey.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

It continues to live on in places as far-flung and diverse as Iran, Burma and Zimbabwe, just to name a few. For example, rather than focusing on staging large-scale demonstrations, in the beginning Otpor focused on street theatre and pranks to embarrass the regime. This clarity of purpose led directly to action.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

In facing the inevitable tradeoff between breadth and depth of coverage, we have opted to focus on only a handful of core insights from the field of negotiations, while devoting more attention to providing examples of how these insights can be applied to doctors and hospitals.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

Healthy debate encourages group members to think more deeply, scrutinize alternatives, and avoid premature consensus. While homogenous teams felt more confident in their decisions, it was the diverse teams that performed best. Twitter, for example, has a rock-climbing wall. Myth 5: Their Offices Are Full of Fun Things.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

This kind of intellectual diversity is more likely to be present when individuals on the team come from different disciplines, backgrounds, and areas of expertise. For example, a group needs both expertise in relevant subjects and fresh eyes that can see beyond the established ways of doing things.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2018

“Conflict allows the team to come to terms with difficult situations, to synthesize diverse perspectives, and to make sure solutions are well thought-out,” says Liane Davey, cofounder of 3COze Inc. If you want to have diversity and inclusion in your organization, you have to be prepared to disagree.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. In this section are examples of crises that were handled well, thus increasing public trust and respect for their organizations. Most often (85% of the time), they can be heeded, planned for averted. by Hank Moore. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

For example, should the boss’s estimate count for more simply because of status? ” In fact, it was the consensus estimate created by financial experts. Shouldn’t an expert’s opinion count more than a novice’s? We asked 424 parents in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

For a single important decision, it can take months to get consensus, align employees, consult with key stakeholders, and communicate the final decision. For example, consider Meg Whitman, president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard. While you may be aware that consensus building is more effective than giving orders, your company may not be.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

We have the interactivity of social networks like Facebook and Pinterest , the consensus-building opinion aggregators like Yelp and Rotten Tomatoes , the objectivity of automated recommendation engines like those of Netflix and Pandora , and the comprehensiveness of price-comparison services like Priceline and Google Shopping.

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