Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

I N AN IBM global survey of CEOs, the overwhelming consensus was that more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision, successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity. They march through the phases robotically, as if they have discovered a magic formula for innovation.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases). Their success depends on their ability to build consensus and inspire the other team members to do great things.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

The best coach for any team is the manager who leads that team. Being a good coach is essential to being a good manager and leader. Coaching is no longer a specialty; you cannot be a good manager without being a good coach.”. Your Title Makes You A Manager, Your People Make You A Leader. Best Idea, Not Consensus.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Be concise but make sure the essentials are clearly defined: how often the team will connect and meet and who will manage the agenda, how delays and snags will be handled, and how people working from outside the team will be managed. Do they foster creative thought and innovation? Ask your team. Are our work processes effective?

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Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Instead, employees self-manage and belong to different decision-making circles that keep the company operating.” But if we simply eliminate hierarchy altogether, we find that “flat-management” alternatives … well, they fall flat. No one reports to anyone anymore,” explains The Washington Post about Zappos.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Research from two well-respected organizations makes it clear that we have a big collective blind spot that’s dragging down productivity, innovation and economic performance. Gradually over time, America has become overly obsessed about managing tasks. Do you get people together to inform them about matters that are important to them?

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Ensure employees get real-time feedback to help assess their performance There’s a common consensus amongst the various studies on employee engagement that leaders need to be giving more feedback to their employees. So don’t try and wipe slate clean, but use past experiences to inform and guide future decisions.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 5, 2022

Hiring people who are overqualified for their role is usually framed in negative terms, with the consensus being that they will quickly grow bored in their role and jump ship. ” Incomplete information. The researchers argue that the key is to surround people with peers of similar abilities.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 3, 2018

This scenario, lone wolf promoted to manager followed by team disaster, is both predictable and avoidable. Jesse summarizes: “ Often in coaching, managers work on changing their behaviors. Shelley shares: “ We talk a lot about the need to gather information, discuss, debate and gain consensus. Communication.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Coaching and mentoring have seldom been more popular, with a growing consensus that it can be vital to our career development. The allure of such products is that they’re capable of crunching the huge quantities of data generated during the course of this kind of work to provide informed feedback to employees and employers alike.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Consensus is a powerful tool. When CEOs set out to conquer new markets or undertake billion-dollar acquisitions, we’d hope they’d at least sought out some consensus from their trusted advisors. The problem with consensus is that it’s expensive. The problem with consensus is that it’s expensive. Consider the story of Nick.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

Innovation is key to sustainability. Too many ideas may distract and disorient the management.” This inability to source deals from outside the four walls, and to do so quickly, is one of the main reasons why innovation in so many companies is stifled. Innovation is a team sport indeed. Have more than one bet.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 24, 2011

A consensus decision – a decision where the leader themselves isn’t making the decision, but truly the full group comes to the decision collectively. Who has the information needed to make the best decision? The people the information are the people who should be consulted, inside or outside of a meeting.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

He cites as proof a 2007 Gallop Management Journal survey that estimates that “actively disengaged workers&# cost the U.S. Third Floor: People develop an emotional comfort level that goes beyond facts and information. Product managers rely heavily on other people — engineers, sales people, support, etc.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2014

In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape expected to continue for 2015, leaders face many challenges , requiring aggressive, sustained talent management strategies to prepare them for success. Two times more likely to place value on interacting over managing skills.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 15, 2012

When managers talk about social media the debate still seems to revolve around external uses of social technologies. This is typified by the kind of debate I participated in for Professional Manager back in February that asked whether social media was a waste of time. The Six Principles of Collaboration.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2015

Does it mean that by offering thought-provoking, useful, creative information buyers will be motivated to contact you at the right time along their complete (including pre-sales) decision path? Content marketing can help prospective buyers dispense suitable information 1. It’s The Consensus, Stupid*. Content is king'.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders consciously or unconsciously lump employees into three categories: the “stars” consisting of those in management as well high potential employees, the much larger “core” made up of solid contributors, and the rest, employees whose contributions and fit with the organization are questionable.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 23, 2023

There are three common decision owners at work: a single person, a team via vote, or a team consensus. Using consensus? Your Turn Your team, department, and organization will make better-informed decisions, solve problems faster, and be more innovative when everyone has a chance to speak and be heard at work.

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Management Craft

JUNE 6, 2011

You want your employees to feel they benefit when managers and leaders go on retreat because: The management team seems to be on the same page. Managers shared the plan for the next year clearly and consistently. Catalyze innovation that is aligned with the external and internal brand. What is your desired external brand?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 30, 2019

The business community, in particular, has embraced what has come to be called Big Data : the practice of taking the mountains of information that businesses accumulate and putting it to work. These days, of course, the world has more scientific and data-based methods available.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

This dialogue reached a consensus among political parties stipulating that the incumbent Islamists hand over power to a technocratic transitional government. I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. How could I refuse? Build bonds to strengthen trust.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others. Why the market values some kinds of innovation better than others. But do markets really follow the logic of an academic theory?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

The athletes and coaches who traffic drugs or abuse children because the rules don't apply to them; millennials who, at a time of high unemployment, expect more concessions and perks, not fewer; politicians who can legally buy and sell stock based on non-public information. In a business, entitlement inhibits innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. The Information Age was exploding.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

A simple question was asked: are hospitals ranked more highly when they are led by medically trained doctors or non-MD professional managers? The analysis showed that hospital quality scores are approximately 25% higher in physician-run hospitals than in manager-run hospitals. …and how training can make them even better ones.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

We're delighted to announce the finalists for the Management 2.0 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. You can read them all here. ). Story by Barry K. Hack by Sonja Dieterich.

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LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

We all understand that these days it’s really not so much the number of cars or assembly line or factories that a company has, but really its ability to keep up, to be competitive, to be innovative and what gives the company its competitive edge is really the people who make it.

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Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Many managers want to be more inclusive. For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. And sameness blocks performance and innovation.

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Power Management Diversity CFO 10

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? For instance, here’s a video about providing patients with real-time access to care and their personal health information, regardless of where they are.)

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Confirmation Bias Leaders with confirmation bias tend to search for, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms their preexisting beliefs or values. This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking. A manager focuses only on what went wrong in a successfully completed project.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2017

Consider the following: Research out of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce shows that time spent by managers and employees in collaborative activities has ballooned by 50% or more over the last two decades. Pull through, prioritize, and inform.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

When he managed to beat a reform-minded opponent by just 243 votes (four of which cast by ghost-voters purporting to live at the address of Bauler`s own tavern) he made a declaration that still lives today: “Chicago ain’t ready for reform.” economy $1.5 billion a week. Yes, a week. So what’s the holdup?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? The biggest obstacle here isn’t calculating an accurate number; it’s reaching a consensus of what the ballpark figure should be. Growth strategy Innovation'

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Confirmation Bias Leaders with confirmation bias tend to search for, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms their preexisting beliefs or values. This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking. A manager focuses only on what went wrong in a successfully completed project.

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Dunning Consensus Groupthink Charisma 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

finalize strategy and build consensus; 4. Communicate: Different people absorb information in different ways. In a virtual environment managers can communicate in multiple forms, utilizing everything from plain text to video and multimedia. communicate strategy, direction, and issues of importance; 2.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

But it is simply unrealistic for a doctor — or any human being — to stay abreast of that much information, much less be able to recall accurately the relevant information on demand. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Build a learning medical information ecosystem. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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