Lead from Within

AUGUST 27, 2020

Brainstorming depends on combining knowledge and skills, and it works best with a diverse group. Identify the individuals you want to participate and let them know about it—but don’t bring them together yet. Identify the problem solvers. You’ll need to keep them apart until the next step is complete.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

Furthermore, we agree that, used improperly, Osborn's process of brainstorming can promote consensus, not collaboration. Suffice it to say, we dislike consensus-based "Groupthink" as much as the next person. Assemble a Diverse Team. Here's our advice: 1. Focus on Roles: The Client, the Facilitator, and Resources.

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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). Are meeting participants expected to be collaborative and consensus-driven, or is some conflict OK? Strategy and goal setting.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The research, involving over 5,000 B2B purchase participants across 12 industries, uncovered three mistakes that undermine firms’ content marketing. 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.

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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 22, 2013

Yale psychologist Irving Janis used the debacle to coin the term “groupthink,” which refers to a psychological drive for consensus at any cost that suppresses dissent and appraisal of alternatives. The whole idea was to solicit diverse viewpoints, stimulate debate, explore options, probe assumptions, and let the best plan win on its merits.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

There''s a lot of discussion on how leaders ought to cast a vision, gain buy-in, or steer a group to consensus. Conflict is an indicator that diverse viewpoints are being considered and that the competition for ideas is still ongoing. What Sloan was looking for was something many of us seek to eliminate: dissent.

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Moreover, in ten years of follow-up after the initial course, 43% of the physician participants have been promoted to leadership positions at Cleveland Clinic. There seems to be a widening consensus that training physicians for leadership matters. 61% of the proposed innovation projects have had a positive institutional impact.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

The pursuit of game-changing innovation only works when the person who can say yes to big spending visibly sponsors and participates in the work and provides air cover to the work team. Autocratic decision-making fails to engage all of the critical stakeholders, while consensus sinks every decision to its lowest possible common denominator.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Since then, we’ve received over 7,000 responses from a diverse group of participants. As you ponder that question, we should note that there was one area of consensus. Here are our initial takeaways: The blight of bureaucracy seems inescapable. It seems that the real impediments are deeper and more personal.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2011

As a result of a deeply engrained deference to authority, Asians in the CWLP survey are also significantly less likely than other ethnic groups to challenge a consensus, let alone participate in the "in your face" leadership model rewarded in much of corporate America. "In In Asia, there's a saying that the loudest duck gets shot.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

The Newbury Street League exemplifies what multisided platforms do: by their nature, and however they are organized, they create value by harnessing externalities—good and bad ones—between participants. (An Many have supermajority voting that essentially requires their diverse members to reach consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Many of us have participated on teams where the members complement each other, trust each other and find ways of working that are not only effective, but also enjoyable. An effective team is a powerful thing. For teams like this, performance is typically much higher than might be expected of the sum of individuals.

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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? Dynamism: A dynamic set of extended ties that evolves as you evolve.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

” In fact, it was the consensus estimate created by financial experts. We also asked participants how intelligent or ethical they perceived the other person to be, based on their recommendation. adults to form a judgment before seeing the judgment of another participant selected at random from a prior study.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

It involves too many people When a strategic plan needs to finely calibrate the moves of loosely controlled business units and achieve consensus, then it often makes sense to include a wide range of stakeholders in the discussions. Industry upheaval often calls for tough choices, and consensus will not be possible.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

Mongolia is a large country, with a diverse terrain and poor maps; to get the data for his algorithms, he''d have to process hundreds of thousands of images and make sure they were accurately labeled. When observing an area of high tag density, Lin observed the convergence of parallel agreement from hundreds of randomly selected participants.

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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. While you may be aware that consensus building is more effective than giving orders, your company may not be. The time-suck related to collaborative projects is considerable.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The relationship we found was unmistakable: amongst our study participants, profit was strongly negatively associated with perceived value to society. This expert consensus is incompatible with our subjects’ view of profit as almost necessarily coming at the expense of others. They saw profit as the result of a zero-sum game.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. The program has shown promising results : One group of participants has experienced greater academic achievement and lower rates of incarceration and teen pregnancy after just six years.

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Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

Democratic member control: Cooperatives are democratic organizations controlled by their members, who actively participate in setting their policies and making decisions. Member economic participation: Members contribute equitably to the capital of their cooperative. The main vehicle for broad-based ownership in the U.S.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

If you want your B2B content to be great, invite your community to participate. The key is bringing your entire team to consensus on consistent brand identity and messaging, and then translating into both powerful owned-content and powerfully communicating it to other stakeholders such as the media to multiply the reach of your content.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

There are many advantages to democratic workplaces, not the least of which are that they appear to be magnets for skilled, talented and diverse pools of people. Org Democracy efforts are similar to but don’t always embrace feminist management perspectives and what we’ve learned from the diversity/inclusion movement.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

The research of decision scientists reveals that our best strategy for tackling these problems is to harness cognitive diversity, because groups do better than individuals, including those with the highest IQs. Diversity, as Scott Page puts it, trumps ability. Structured deliberation is key.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

The research of decision scientists reveals that our best strategy for tackling these problems is to harness cognitive diversity, because groups do better than individuals, including those with the highest IQs. Diversity, as Scott Page puts it, trumps ability. Structured deliberation is key.

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