The Horizons Tracker

MAY 11, 2020

This concern lends itself to strong support for action, including adaptation policies to mitigate against the risk of flooding. ” The scientific consensus around climate change has been fairly well established for some time, and if this survey is any guide, consensus among the general public is also forming. Taking action.

Consensus 93

Consensus Sharpe Survey Policies 93

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2022

Although expert consensus is that Europe will avoid recession this year, the combination of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine has the potential to significantly impact Europe’s economy, causing a material deceleration in growth,” the researchers explain. It comes at a price, but it is an ‘insurance policy’ against future shocks.”.

Supply Chain 122

Supply Chain Report GDP Consensus 122

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

Coming to a consensus around vision and direction can be time intensive simply because people who don’t interact are likely speaking to each other for the very first time, and frankly don’t trust each other. In business, there is usually a zero tolerance policy for failure (remember John D. I could not agree more.

Leadership 285

Leadership Kotter Consensus Diversity 285

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 17, 2021

The results reveal a clear divide between policymakers, who typically aligned around specific priorities, and the private sector, where no such consensus emerged. “As Among the private sector, however, no real consensus emerged, with several options equally popular.

Ethics 86

Ethics Consensus Constraint Report 86

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 31, 2021

It’s an approach that is not without its problems, however, not least of which are the HR systems and policies that have largely been created with onsite workers in mind. Such policies are often forged with the employer in mind.

Productivity 126

Productivity Products Long-term Consensus 126

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 10, 2018

Then you will then take turns brainstorming potential solutions to the problem at hand—mostly small tweaks to current policies and activities in the office. This goes back and forth until a consensus is reached on a middle ground, “safe option,” and you both go on your way.

Consensus 165

Consensus Brainstorming Project Conference 165

Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 14, 2015

For example, a lack of clarity encourages people to avoid making decisions, or else to seek only decisions that have a full consensus, slowing everything down until there is a crisis that prompts the big boss to momentarily return to command-and-control leadership.

Agility 100

Agility System Management Bureaucracy 100

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 30, 2020

Wealth inequality has become a hot topic in recent years, with the likes of Thomas Piketty leading the way in urging policy makers across the world to address what he perceived as the central ill of our time.

Consensus 73

Consensus Comparison Policies Innovation 73

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The research consensus is that whilst diverse teams can present coordination challenges, they nonetheless thrive due to the different perspectives they can bring to bare on particular problems. It’s important that team policies are transparent and inclusive to alleviate any power imbalances that may exist.

Diversity 69

Diversity Team Consensus Environment 69

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Despite this general support, however, the researchers believe a stronger public consensus is required to further support pro-vaccine attitudes and legislation so as to ensure community immunity. Indeed, among those whose knowledge changed between spring and autumn, most suffered a decline.

Media 68

Media Consensus Education Information 68

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 5, 2019

Migration has been a hot political potato for several years, but there is a growing consensus that people’s primary migration-related gripe is the perception that some migrants don’t contribute to their host community.

Marketing 64

Marketing Long-term Consensus Report 64

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 21, 2019

A new tool developed in the UK aims to rectify that by providing policy makers with an easy to use platform to measure how much pollution can be removed by trees in any given area. Trees are well known to benefit the air quality in urban areas, but it is perhaps not always easy to understand just how much of a difference they make.

Quality 65

Quality Tools Webinar Consensus 65

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 15, 2012

I wrote recently about how successful Lego have been at harnessing the innovative thoughts of their customers to revive their fortunes in recent years. If you flip things around however you can begin to appreciate how social media can be used as a collaboration tool. Transparency – Feedback and trust are essential elements of collaboration.

CIO 76

CIO Media Participative Consensus 76

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Never be swayed by consensus that calls you to compromise your values, rather be guided by doing the right thing. In fact, most differences don’t require intervention as they actually contribute to a dynamic, creative, innovative culture. The Importance Factor : Not every difference needs to be resolved. I Think Not.

Blog 412

Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 412

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Today, inner cities are "in" — innovative, hip hotbeds of convenient culture, commerce and connection. The centripetal force of today's cities is pulling the ambitious and educated back in, and increasing cities' innovative capacity, without sacrificing (at least some would argue) their inclusiveness.

Innovation 15

Innovation Real Estate Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist 15

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. What can we do to take advantage of this idea?

Human Capital 60

Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 19, 2022

The research underlines how misinformation can spread as we can all too easily believe a consensus exists when it doesn’t. ” The researchers showed volunteers a number of articles about a fictional tax policy. This intervention helped to reduce the illusion of consensus.

Consensus 125

Consensus Discount Proposal Policies 125

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. From 1857 to 1983, when the Devil''s Advocate policy was removed, 98 individuals were named saints. Communication Innovation Leading teams' From 1983 until today, over 500 hundred people have been granted sainthood.

Innovation 11

Innovation Team Brainstorming Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Economic inclusion must be a priority both for economic policy makers and for business. With inclusion as a fundamental goal, they settled on a core mix of metrics to measure innovation, talent development, job access, and job quality while increasing attention to measures of poverty and inequality based on race.

Industry 8

Industry Policies Consensus Entrepreneur 8

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2017

Guest post from Lisa Bodell: As leaders, we’re responsible for setting the tone of our organization through policy and strategy, as well as our behavior. He was a decent guy, had a senior role in the HR department, and wanted our help building new innovation skills and improving the team’s morale.

Short-term 260

Short-term Efficiency Brand System 260

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

There is strong academic consensus that climate change–driven water scarcity, rising global temperatures, and extreme weather will have severe long-term effects on crop yields. Regulators need to overhaul policies that limit inclusion of small, rural farmers into the financial system— for example, soft loans (i.e.,

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Even large domestic firms were far behind their global counterparts in funding, innovation, and access to markets. The rapid pace and impact of these changes did not allow the luxury of time and resources to endlessly research or build consensus around an idea or course of action. The very survival of many firms was at stake.

Globalization 14

Globalization Bottom-up Class Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

There’s a lot of debate over the magnitude of the decline, but there is broad consensus that it has happened and that it’s a big deal. That suggests that changes in antitrust law or other policy-specific factors can’t be the primary driver. If policy isn’t driving rising concentration, what is?

GDP 8

GDP Video Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Decisions at such meetings typically provide general guidance, which is open to interpretation, so CEOs should lower their expectations in terms of the announcement of measures as well as the policy direction. China’s new leaders face unprecedented challenges in terms of the complexity of policy measures and their implementation.

Policies 8

Policies Uncertainty Long-term Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

These are what the New Economics Foundation think tank calls the "five ways to wellbeing," and they are now becoming central to UK Government policy. A consensus is building that continued growth of the macro-economy risks pushing us into unstoppable climate change and the peaking of many of the finite resources our way of life depend on.

Company 13

Company Kahneman Long-term Brand 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

The hybrid Prius was a legitimate business home run (2 million sold), and it helped both differentiate Toyota's brand as the market innovator and propel Toyota to unprecedented profits. So I reached out to Ford's Director of Sustainability and Environmental policy, John Viera to help me better understand the company's approach.

Strategy 15

Strategy PPM Long-term Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

And sameness blocks performance and innovation. Diversity, on the other hand, spurs innovation. In research spanning decades, Columbia professor Katherine Phillips has repeatedly found that, when tasked to innovate, teams that include diverse members and that value the contributions of all their members outperform homogenous teams.

Power 12

Power Management Diversity CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The front page of yesterday's New York Times offered an in-depth account of how innovators in one industry are wrestling with that very question. The piece reports on the radical new admissions policy at Virginia Tech Carilion , the country's newest medical school. It's your job, as a group, to reach a consensus about who else gets in.

Airlines 15

Airlines Health Care Consensus Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Whether we are discussing money, terms of peace, spousal relations, or healthcare policy, the fundamental question that negotiation theory helps us tackle is this: how might we engage with others in a way that yields better outcomes and understandings? Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

Strategy 9

Strategy Health Care Compliance Policies 9

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.” We reward sheep-like behavior so we have to teach the unacceptability of blind obedience. What problem does this rule exist to solve?

How To 165

How To Creativity Motivation Learning-by-Doing 165

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 4, 2020

Similar laws exist in the other Scandinavian countries, and they have prompted much debate about the ethics of such a policy. As public debate on the matter provided little in the way of consensus, a new paper attempted to provide quantitative evidence to bring to the discussion.

Policies 80

Policies Consensus Analysis Comparison 80

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

But, as climate policy expert Aimee Christensen pointed out to me, “the recent momentum going into Paris is primarily driven by the improving economics of action (e.g., renewables are getting cheaper than fossil fuels ) and global peer pressure.” ” Even these significant achievements are insufficient.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. This combination of clear policy, well-designed technology, and redesigned workflows can come together to enable precision mental healthcare. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the U.S. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Report Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Not only has it become far more important to know how to engage with policymakers, but now they increasingly see it as their role to proactively energize government policy, industry competitors, and wider society, and get people pulling together. engage in and contribute to public policy (60%). engage in effective dialogue (75%).

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

In situations where consensus cannot be reached, they have an uncanny ability to cut to the chase and make informed decisions. They foster an environment that encourages the sharing of ideas through brainstorming while realizing that innovation need not be preceded by the existence of committees. Is “ethical leadership” an oxymoron?

Leadership 418

Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

It analyzes consumer behavior, microeconomic trends, government policies, market forces, and emerging research within the context of our continually-evolving tech and digital media ecosystem. Think of the block chain as a sort of distributed consensus system, where no one person controls all the data. Innovation Internet'

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 16, 2020

America retains great strengths, and many of the basic policy directions required to enhance U.S. Despite the consensus that change is required, however, the lack of political cooperation on the matter results in little real progress being made. competitiveness and boost shared prosperity are well understood and widely supported.”.

Human Capital 82

Human Capital Crisis Politics Policies 82