QAspire

MARCH 23, 2021

When this happens, organizations suffer. The gap between people who do the work and people at the top widens because no one in the organization stands up to say the truth. “Tomorrow’s management systems will need to value diversity, dissent and divergence as highly as conformance, consensus and cohesion.”

Hamel 114

Hamel Handbook Consensus Diversity 114

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The general consensus from our experience of the web is that anonymity is generally not a good thing as the freedom anonymity provides brings out the harmful side of an emboldened community to bully, abuse, and spread misinformation. Improving diversity. Speaking up. Anonymous meetings.

Consensus 135

Consensus Diversity Proposal Environment 135

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

It was a diverse mix of volunteers and militias with different traditions and backgrounds, primarily loyal to their own town, region or colony. Facing an almost impossible challenge with no clear solution, he made that diversity an asset by actively seeking the advice of his subordinates. Reaching a consensus.

Leadership 320

Leadership Consensus Diversity Proposal 320

The Practical Leader

APRIL 10, 2024

The team leader then thinks he or she has consensus, only to be frustrated later by lack of commitment and follow-through. There’s a strong relationship between a leader’s skills in facilitating team discussions, managing conflict, leveraging the strengths of diversity, leading meetings, and building a team’s effectiveness.

Team 124

Team Teamwork Goleman How To 124

Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2016

The call for greater diversity at senior leadership levels is not new, although it has itself become more inclusive, extending beyond gender, race and ethnicity, to encompass age, education, socioeconomic background and sexual orientation, as well as experience, skills and talent. McKinsey & Co. About the Author.

Diversity 50

Diversity McKinsey Team Leadership 50

Mark Sanborn

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Embrace Diverse Opinions: Consult individuals with different perspectives, including team members and external advisors. Groupthink: The Consensus Conundrum The Trap: The desire for group harmony can lead to unchallenged decision-making and potentially flawed outcomes.

Groupthink 56

Groupthink CFO Uncertainty Consensus 56

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

Therefore, organizations are increasingly looking to cross-functional teams to address seemingly intractable problems within the organization. These teams, bringing together diverse opinions and the institutional knowledge of multiple departments, are the ones that solve the big problems and seize the Big Opportunities.

Leadership 285

Leadership Kotter Consensus Diversity 285

Lead from Within

MAY 9, 2019

Engage senior leaders: It’s essential to have consensus among the CEO and senior leadership team about the importance of proactive leadership development and succession planning. This group should set expectations, put processes in place, and hold the organization accountable for making it happen.

Planning 164

Planning Succession How To Consensus 164

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 26, 2018

Leading a board is so very different from leading your organization. And diverse boards are best. Adding diverse directors can be challenging for a leader because of the ensuing creative frictio n. Because outside investment usually comes with board participation, you may not have the diversity you need.

Venture Capitalist 140

Venture Capitalist Chief Financial Officer Committee Diversity 140

Women on Business

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The overall consensus was that unless you’re trying to win government contracts where government agencies are required to award a certain percentage of contracts to women-owned and minority-owned businesses each year, then the certification might not be worth it to you. .”

Consensus 213

Consensus Diversity Budgeting Reputation 213

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 18, 2016

Some lead by charisma, others by consensus building. As diverse as they are, I’ve found that leaders do have certain things in common. They’re trusted because they have wisdom, being able to “see around corners” and lead an organization to “all-things-considered” optimum results. Some are visionaries, others are tacticians.

Delegation 120

Delegation Leadership Charisma Storytelling 120

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

Jesse Lyn Stoner of the Seapoint Center provided Collaboration Does Not Require Consensus. Jesse summarized: “Pushing for consensus when it’s not needed actually makes collaboration more difficult. Jim Taggart of Changing Winds submitted Five Ways To Serve Your Organization & Build Your Leadership Skills.

Leadership Development 150

Leadership Development Development Leadership Deming 150

CO2

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Leaders and organizations contemplating major changes ought to think twice before ripping up their currency (or the equivalent). These types of changes are usually way too complex to be told and sold throughout the organization. Success hinges on a collaborative process that engages many levels and layers of the organization.

Executive Coaching 74

Executive Coaching Consensus Diversity Execution 74

QAspire

MARCH 6, 2013

All they do is respond to changing priorities and task requests and the relationship between the individual and a leader (or organization) becomes purely transactional. You can organize an open-forum or have a closed door meeting. It can be used to build consensus, to educate others or to simply assess progress.

Critical Success Factor 167

Critical Success Factor Consensus Quality Bottom-up 167

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

Setting aside social, political, and moral reasons for encouraging a more diverse workplace, there is arguably no better incentive for promoting diversity than the premise that diverse teams and organizations are more creative. The conflicts arising from diversity can be mitigated if teams are effectively led.

Diversity 13

Diversity Creativity Analysis Consensus 13

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

In this special guest piece, Jim and Barry discuss the 3rd leadership principle from the book, “Earn Credibility”, by sharing findings from several of their studies as to why credibility is so critical to our ability to effectively lead our employees and organization. Lisa’s sentiment is one that we hear time and time again.

Leadership 279

Leadership Commitment Loyalty Follow-up 279

Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 16, 2023

Your meetings should also move the mission of your group, team, and organization forward. If your meeting isn’t going to build relationships and advance the mission of the organization, don’t have the meeting. On the other end of the continuum, you could have everyone—every single person in the organization—attend a meeting.

Consensus 548

Consensus Commitment Information Learning-by-Doing 548

Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

This includes having values-driven behavior, open communication, constructive expression of emotion, appreciation for the diversity of skills and interests, and so on. However, this involves showcasing a diverse set of values, including ones that cross generations so as to promote a feeling of inclusiveness and respect.

How To 305

How To Diversity Open-book Consultative 305

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.

PR 9

PR Diversity Public Relations CEO 9

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 2, 2013

These groups, however different, take advantage of a diverse range of experiences and knowledge, so it’s reasonable to think that collective intelligence might come to a more accurate conclusion than any one individual. The organization publishes the Journal of Near-Death Studies.

Mayo 112

Mayo Consensus Open-book Information 112

Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

MARCH 23, 2017

This fosters a feeling of bonding, belonging, and ownership to the organization. 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.

Leadership Styles 64

Leadership Styles Management Leadership Servant Leader 64

Experience to Lead

JANUARY 31, 2022

Across the corporate world, purpose has found increased interest, and significant efforts are made to clearly define it within leading organizations. Research and interviews with diverse practitioners for our 2021 L&D Report affirm that purpose can powerfully drive value creation. Granted, purpose is no silver bullet.

Organization 52

Organization Storytelling Diversity Learning-by-Doing 52

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 18, 2019

The importance of diversity in our teams and organizations is something that has been written about extensively over the years. ” Dangerous diversity. Whilst it’s by no means conclusive, it does add an extra degree of nuance to the debate around the merits of diversity in teams.

Long-term 76

Long-term Diversity Team Absenteeism 76

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 26, 2021

As discussions around the nature of work as we emerge from Covid lockdown measures, the consensus seems to be coalescing around a hybrid form of work that will see a greater mixture of home and office-based working. Indeed, research from Stanford suggests that around 70% of organizations are planning for hybrid working in some shape or form.

Diversity 133

Diversity Consensus Loyalty Crisis 133

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

They recognize the value of inclusion and diversity and believe it’s the right thing to aspire to. Diversity, on the other hand, spurs innovation. They have to in order to communicate and to reach consensus with others who may not share the same experiences or perspectives. PATRIK STOLLARZ/Getty Images.

Power 12

Power Management Diversity CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

A great culture is what you get when all three of these are aligned, and line up with the organization’s espoused values. You might espouse being a learning organization that develops people, but then not give people the time to actually take classes or learn on the job (system-behaviors gap). These gaps can take many forms.

Teamwork 15

Teamwork Consensus Attrition System 15

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.

B2B 8

B2B Content Marketing Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

Her team clearly loved working with her, and she was considered a high potential in the organization. It can help create a more inclusive workplace culture that combines the strengths of both genders and a broader spectrum of diverse talent. Tony was baffled. His direct report, Susan , was enormously productive.

Delegation 10

Delegation Consensus Committee Benchmarking 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But organizations today need to be big and fast. Can organizations be both agile and scalable? But what about organizations? To get bigger and faster, organizations need to be reconceived as networks. Perhaps the most whale-like organization in the world. In nature, there's a tradeoff between size and speed.

Agility 15

Agility Diversity Groupthink Efficiency 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Nearly from the start, I started to notice subtle differences that marked an organization run by women from those run by men. 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.

Diversity 14

Diversity Consensus Career Conference 14

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.

Marketing 11

Marketing Market Segmentation Short-term Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

She was a leader of several important diversity initiatives at IBM as well — but it was likely Rometty's sales experience that opened the door to the C-suite. Just ask IBM's Ginni Rometty. As IBM's global sales leader before landing the Chief Executive role, Rometty lived and breathed sales.

P&L 16

P&L McKinsey Consensus Committee 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

In most organizations without professional risk managers, the amount of risk individuals are allowed to take is set informally and evaluated by tradition. People with unpopular ideas about risk may be eliminated or marginalized, depriving the organization of essential diversity. It can also work badly.

Risk Management 12

Risk Management Proposal Committee Exit Strategy 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

We recently asked members of the HBR community to gauge the extent of “bureaucratic sclerosis” within their organization using our Bureaucracy Mass Index (BMI) tool. Since then, we’ve received over 7,000 responses from a diverse group of participants. Organizations aren’t becoming flatter.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Survey Politics Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The online startup Kaggle assembles a diverse group of people from around the world to work on tough problems submitted by organizations. The company runs data science competitions, where the goal is to arrive at a better prediction than the submitting organization's starting 'baseline' prediction. They needn't have worried.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Consensus Health Care 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

Just because an entry wasn't selected doesn't mean it's not a worthy and important contribution to the shared goal of making all organizations more resilient, innovative, inspiring, and accountable. First, we were struck by the diversity of the contributions. That diversity is matched only by the deep humanity of the entries.

Management 14

Management Innovation Storytelling Bottom-up 14

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.” But if we have people with diverse tools, they’ll get stuck in different places. Leadership.

How To 166

How To Creativity Motivation Learning-by-Doing 166