Women on Business

OCTOBER 11, 2012

It’s a time consuming and costly process, so it’s important to determine whether or not becoming WOB certified will offer enough benefits to your business before you start the certification process. For example, P&G looks for women and minority owned contractors. It’s not worth the effort for most WOB.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 27, 2016

In the case of 2016, there seems to be a common consensus that this was a particularly bad year which many are glad to see come to an end. Some other posts you may enjoy: How To Successfully Achieve Your Goals This Year Understanding What Drives Us To Push Ahead Where Do We Go From Here?

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Long-term Politics Consensus Learning-by-Doing 269

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 24, 2011

While most everyone has horror stories about meetings, there also are far too many examples of meetings that, while not awful, are far from effective. A consensus decision – a decision where the leader themselves isn’t making the decision, but truly the full group comes to the decision collectively.

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Consensus Blog Workshop Learning-by-Doing 210

LDRLB

MARCH 27, 2013

The leader seeks to control a situation and hold onto his or her power, rather than seeking to achieve goals by being influenced by others while also seeking to influence others. However, convey that asking for input doesn’t mean you will necessarily agree or that decisions will be made by consensus. Then implement it.

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Team Rogers Consensus Learning-by-Doing 154

The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 6, 2014

For example, when a company is stuck or has plateaued, I often hear reasons like …. Due to your brain’s limited processing capabilities, your mental maps filter out over 99% of external information coming from your five senses. As a result, this filtering process distorts, deletes and generalizes your sense of reality.

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Organization Leadership Consensus Market Segmentation 164

Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Good decorators always use the process of elimination in making color and design choices – that is, they find out what their clients DO NOT want before they figure out what they want. 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.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 3, 2013

Trying hard to place some QQT/R metrics on that goal. What is one current barrier that we know of to achieving our goal(s)? It is tough to have them choose just 1 … and if we can get agreement through consensus the team is doing really great. Where does the team want / need to be? And by when?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

They often give tacit agreement in a meeting, for example, but then proceed to take counterproductive action once the meeting is over. Tell people your style and thought process for navigating tricky, or even every day, decisions. Ultimately, it's as much a mindset as it is a process. But what happens when you're not around?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 25, 2024

Maybe your manager never clarified an important process. Here’s an example that many remote and hybrid teams experience: should you have your cameras on during a meeting? For example: “There’s no rule about this, so it’s up to us to figure out. For example: “I know we don’t want to exhaust each other. So meta, right?)

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 12, 2013

Positive Team Conflict requires teams to have a shared Purpose (Goal) – sufficient Trust in each other the team leader, and the organization – plus known and clear individual goals, roles and accountability plus authority. The process of working through the conflict will enhance the team’s understanding and performance.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 24, 2021

This kind of frustration and anger reflects a broken process. The first type is a decision about goals. can take many forms, but it’s always about your group’s goal, destination, or outcome. A team makes the decision through consensus. Consensus is often misunderstood. ” Avoid These Two Big Mistakes.

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LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Consider a few examples: “The company’s primary objective is to maximize long-term shareholder value while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standard.” It’s hardly a flag worth rallying around. Where We Went Wrong.

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Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 120

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. When Admiral Clark assumed the CNO role, the Navy was not meeting its sailor retention goals.

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Lead Change Blog

JULY 3, 2018

Whether it is physical energy as in this example or emotional or mental energy, we often expend it on things and people that do not lead to positive outcomes or results. Shelley shares: “ We talk a lot about the need to gather information, discuss, debate and gain consensus. Find them on Twitter at @letsgrowleaders.

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LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Consider a few examples: “The company’s primary objective is to maximize long-term shareholder value while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standard.” It’s hardly a flag worth rallying around. Where We Went Wrong.

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Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 78

Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

MARCH 23, 2017

Great leaders choose leadership styles based on the circumstances and the end goal. 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. The Participative Leader.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 16, 2013

For example, Dan shared research findings which has shown that the correlation between power and perspective taking is inversely related. In other words, the more power we have, the less we look out to see and understand the perspective of others.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

Let's dispense, once and for all, with the managerial absurdity known as "stretch goals." While it's true that renowned psychologists Edwin Locke and Gary Latham described goal setting as "the most effective managerial tool available," it's also true that no less a thinker than W.E. Stretch goals can be terribly demotivating.

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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. This entails: 1. Building and maintaining a strong family dynamic. Family members give and receive feedback openly and constructively.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

For example, you might have a cross-departmental team collaborating to sell to a single customer. Each department has its own agenda and strategic goals. Or, there’s a strong desire to reach a consensus, and every decision requires hours of stakeholdering and escalation. They can see all the offerings in one place.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The goal of a leader is not to clone him/herself, but to harness individual strenghts for the greater good of the team and for the overall benefit of the organization. It is essential for organizational health and performance that conflict be accepted and addressed through effective conflict resolution processes.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2016

Subjective expectations: We enter into each conversation with expectations or goals (conscious or unconscious) of what we want from a conversation, thereby limiting outcomes to those within our set of expectations making it difficult to achieve all that’s possible. with buy-in, consensus, and no resistance.

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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? Strategy and goal setting. Which behaviors lead to promotion?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The goal of most executive coaching and leadership development is behavior change—help the individual identify and change the behaviors that are getting in the way of, and reinforce the behaviors associated with, effective leadership. This ultimately yielded a consensus and reasoned decision-making.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2018

Once your team grows larger, it may be challenging to reach consensus around what your values should be. I’ve worked with a handful of small organizations as they’ve established the cultural tenets of their business — most recently, I went through the process of developing corporate values at my own tech startup.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

B2B marketers, on the other hand, have shied away from the idea, instead approaching selling as a rational, numbers-driven process where the best value proposition wins. Powerful brands (think Apple and Nike) reinforce customers’ positive self-image. This third category is distinct from the other two.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Collaboration is a way of working that attracts and involves people outside one’s formal control, organization, and expertise to accomplish common goals. But collaboration is not consensus. Too often, people will try to collaborate on everything, and wind up in endless meetings, debating ideas and struggling to find consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

Adopting a more systematic process. Our approach engaged management and staff throughout the change process and relied on their feedback. The core idea was that managers and staff would systematically work together to change their behaviors and work processes, rather than working in a limited and idiosyncratic fashion.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

The ones that persisted are incredibly well-positioned today, having transformed their business processes and enabled a level of agility that competitors cannot easily mimic. For example, early efforts of companies developing chatbots for Facebook’s Messenger platform saw 70% failure rates in handling user requests.

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Insurance Video Long-term Project 10

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. Marketers focus on analysis and process; sellers focus on relationships and results. Implement processes and systems that encourage communication and collaboration.

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Marketing Market Segmentation Short-term Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Here's my most recent example of the power of this approach. The company runs data science competitions, where the goal is to arrive at a better prediction than the submitting organization's starting 'baseline' prediction. The winning prediction was more than 270% better than the insurance company's baseline.

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Productivity Products Consensus Health Care 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Kennedy captured the world''s imagination when he said, "This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth." Reading Kennedy''s quote raises the spirit; a more typical corporate goal of increasing return on invested capital from 13.4%

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

There is a general consensus that U.S. The ultra low-cost, high-quality prostheses innovation of Dr. Therdchai Jivacate and the Prostheses Foundation of Thailand is an inspiring example of this. How did he achieve such an impossible goal? Fifth, they understood customer feedback, which led to continuous process improvements.

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Health Care Cost Constraint Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

From an early age, we're taught in school to develop the logical, language-based, rational capacities of the left hemisphere of our brain, which is goal-oriented and impatient to reach conclusions. Over the past hundred years, researchers have reached a surprising degree of consensus about the predictable stages of creative thinking.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

Take the example of people who buy lots of lottery tickets. Their commitment to their goals and beliefs allows them to view reality through rose-tinted glasses – and that’s a good thing in many situations. Keep the change process positive, simple, focused and fast. This belief is delusional, but it is also empowering.

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Succession Commitment Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 181

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

Or do you need to gather more information, have a discussion, or drive the group toward consensus to get to your desired next step? Otherwise, you waste valuable meeting time playing catch-up instead of working toward your goal.) Slidedocs can serve not only as prereading for conversations but also as emissaries and follow-up material.

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Audience Software Document Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

However, to effectively understand any partnership, you have to analyze each firm’s Resources, Processes and Priorities. However, when combining processes and priorities is necessary, stress fractures are likely to emerge. Processes aren’t designed to change. Priorities are even more deeply rooted in an organization.

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