Chart Your Course

APRIL 29, 2013

A former Google executive- wasn’t Mayer supposed to bring new energy to Yahoo!, said, “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.”. Effective June 2013, all employees were required to work in the office. The email shortly went viral as the modern workforce gasped at her audacity.

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White Paper Human Resources Consensus Case Study 231

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. A couple years ago, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 79

Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 15, 2024

Your ability to help your organization and teams make effective decisions is a competitive advantage and rare leadership skill. But it happens all the time and teams waste too much valuable time and energy talking past one another. Three questions will help energize and clarify your decision making process.

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Process Morale Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing 444

Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 16, 2023

Starting and ending on time is a basic meeting skill – when you carelessly let meetings run long or start late, or have a meeting you never should have called, you disrespect your people. A team makes the decision through consensus. Consensus is often misunderstood. They abuse our most precious resource: time. Be specific.

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Consensus Commitment Information Learning-by-Doing 550

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 61

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 50

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 412

Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 26, 2017

I have a strong desire to help improve the quality of leadership in churches and ministries, especially among the next generation of Christian leaders. We aren’t all called to be leaders, although I have a contention that we are all leaders in some environment in our life, even if it’s self leadership. He’s right.

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Delegation Consensus Team Commitment 53

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Books Handbook Kotter Leadership Pipeline 93

Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 20, 2014

U2 rose from a band with less than ideal musical skills when it began in 1976 to today having received a remarkable 22 Grammy awards, morethan any band in history. In my last article, “ 3 Practices CEOs Should Adopt from this Rock Star ,” I credited Bono’s leadership of U2 as a key factor behind the band’s success. Build Consensus.

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Leadership Consensus CEO Advice 402

Ron Edmondson

APRIL 9, 2012

I have a strong desire to help improve the quality of leadership in churches and ministries, especially among the next generation of Christian leaders. We aren’t all called to be leaders, although I have a contention that we are all leaders in some environment in our life, even if it’s self leadership. He’s right.

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Delegation Consensus Team Commitment 80

Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

I have a strong desire to help improve the quality of leadership in churches and ministries, especially among the next generation of Christian leaders. We aren’t all called to be leaders, although I have a contention that we are all leaders in some environment in our life, even if it’s self leadership. He’s right.

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Delegation Consensus Team Edmondson 30

Lead from Within

AUGUST 27, 2020

Brainstorming depends on combining knowledge and skills, and it works best with a diverse group. Bring the full group together: After you’ve allowed people to process and finalized the group, bring everyone together to discuss the most promising ideas and begin working toward a consensus. The Leadership Gap.

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Brainstorming Crisis How To Crisis Management 218

Skip Prichard

APRIL 19, 2021

That’s where Oleg Konovalov, business educator, consultant, coach, and a top global thinker on leadership wants to help. How do aspiring leaders develop this leadership skill? We are living in a time of leadership blindness. They talk about strong leadership first. Do not allow anyone to silence your vision.

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Consensus Learning-by-Doing Long-term Banking 125

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. They have to in order to communicate and to reach consensus with others who may not share the same experiences or perspectives. Ask, “What skills and experiences am I missing on my team that this person has?”

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Power Management Diversity CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Would you be able to focus your energy on the most compelling way to convey your most important thought? And the presence of all those props was losing everyone else: After the meeting, the general consensus was that the presentation was unclear. Yet the skill to turn a "presentation" into a "tweet" remains elusive for many.

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Audience Hedge Consensus Analysis 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Resilience has long been touted as an essential capability for bouncing back from leadership setbacks. Yet despite the overwhelming consensus and supporting evidence that resilience is vital for success in today’s business environment, the truth remains: resilience is hard. Adopt a growth mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Swansea City was a club looking for a midfield player with flair and skill. For example, the power company Tenaga Nasional could send a leader with strong operating capabilities to work for several years at Malaysia Airlines, acquiring skills in turning around a troubled business. Why leave such valuable opportunities to chance?

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It is indicative of a new generation of leadership emerging at the top of many of the world's largest organizations. Undeniably there is more pressure on the things we all depend on: finite resources like water, energy, food, certain metals and minerals, and ecosystems like fisheries and forests. And that requires a real skill.

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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

There is a sea change going on in African leadership. A story behind the story of Africa’s growth is the influence of a remarkable organization called the Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) , launched by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and a small group of organizational experts who believe that influence is a learnable skill.

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Bureaucracy GDP Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

Active listening and probing (with humility, not aggression) energizes groups, encourages them to reach consensus, and helps them arrive at new and better solutions. This released GE managers' energy to grow their businesses with new ideas. Consider Ivan Seidenberg, who rose to become Chairman and CEO of Verizon. Slow Down.

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360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Conventional thinking has suggested that leadership positions go to those who aggressively plan their careers with a keen eye for building the right skills to reach top jobs. Note that this inclusive process is not decision-making by committee or by consensus. Others believe that leaders are born, not made.

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Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Even though self-awareness — knowing who we are and how we’re seen — is important for job performance , career success , and leadership effectiveness , it’s in remarkably short supply in today’s workplace. Typically, if someone is unaware, there’s a consensus about their behavior (i.e.,

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Self-aware Chief Operating Officer Survey Tools 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

Based on what we''ve learned so far, I can offer a few tips for other organizations hoping to amplify their workers'' talents and energy for greater innovation capacity and impact: Change how you measure performance. Leadership skills focus on community building, consensus building, mediation, commitment, and humility.".

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Mission Statement Class Learning-by-Doing Pharmaceuticals 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

The root problem from Christensen's perspective is that "they didn't keep the purpose of their lives front and center as they decided how to spend their time, talents, and energy." Providing employment opportunities to low-skilled workers. Leadership compensation. Customer satisfaction. Environmental impact. Short-term profits.

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Christensen Company Consensus Gilbert 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

The connection between leadership and art has been made many times over, usually as a way to single out certain properties of the arts that carry over to leadership, such as a jazz musician's ability to create through improvisation. Leadership and art both animate social encounters.

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Short-term Wilde Consensus Long-term 18

Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 9, 2016

And after all that research and with all the different clashing views, the general consensus to this finding is that this generation of young people is unlike anything we’ve seen before. Roles in Leadership. Organizations need to give the Millennials a reason to want to be involved, to want to commit their time effort and energy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Successful strategy execution calls for skillful orchestration of sometimes opposing forces and competing needs. When a detailed cost assessment identified significant savings potential, executive leadership boldly added another five percentage points to the target.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

For example, many American CEOs spent considerable energy in the weeks building up to Trump’s Paris announcement lobbying the President not to withdraw. Respect the leadership role of government, but be prepared to use your voice and influence. Make sure you have the right skills and capabilities.

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Globalization Policies Supply Chain CEO 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

Third, and even tricker to manage, effective leaders are given credit for their political skills, both as they rise through the organization and as they operate at the top. But they display the attitude toward leadership that it is not work one would choose, only a responsibility that should be shouldered by “one of us.”.

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