Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 14, 2014

Also compassionately remember that the people you are relying on to implement a new product, service, or management model may not have all the power you give them credit for. Implementing change today relies on building consensus rather than top down executive fiat. ” are gone.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The ones who resist making those decisions – who won’t cannibalize their own hero product or won’t terminate the toxic star employee – tend to be insecure and driven by ego or other impure motives. And time spent prematurely cultivating buy-in and fostering consensus just amounts to energy leakage.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 3, 2013

Working with managers, teams and various sizes of companies …we all feel stuck and that nothing is ever going to change. It is tough to have them choose just 1 … and if we can get agreement through consensus the team is doing really great. In the past when faced with challenges how has the team managed to be successful?

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Practice Full Spectrum Management . 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. If you are a manager that has staff in other places, even a couple of thousand miles away, you need to go to those places once in a while.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 4, 2016

“Think Grey” Steven Sample shared this concept in his landmark book The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership as an encouragement to resist making a critical thinking judgment sooner than necessary. I participated in a talent review once where the consensus on one leader was that he had an entitlement complex.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 5, 2014

What issues would need to be agreed upon for a solution to get group consensus and buy-in? And you end up with resistance, delayed sales cycles, implementations studded with costly errors and insufficient data, regardless of the efficacy of your solution. What does the housing market look like for the sale of your house?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2015

What if the leader’s goal overrides the mental models, beliefs or historic experiences of the followers, or the change is pushed against the follower’s values, and resistance ensues? It will more than meet the vision of the leaders (although it might look different), and the followers will own it with no resistance.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 5, 2016

How do you manage your CP’s biases, triggers, filters, and assumptions to expand choice and possibility, and avoid unconscious resistance, fallout, and restricted results? Do your current methods of avoiding resistance work? Not to mention lost sales and difficult implementations.). premature goal setting.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2016

Cognitive Dissonance: When the content we share – words, questions, information, education, advice, written material – goes against someone’s (conscious or unconscious) personal beliefs and system of Self, we cause Cognitive Dissonance and resistance regardless of the efficacy of the information. often fall on deaf ears.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2015

We offered a cover page and a couple of pages of Facilitative Questions [a new type of question I developed that enables Responders to assemble/recognize unconscious, systemic criteria - in this case, regarding implementation, buy-in/consensus, resistance issues that would be a natural fall-out from a project of this size].

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 21, 2015

Consider the baseline of what needs to be accomplished and come to consensus on assignment details, team classifications, and the roles each team member will play. It’s possible that people who are forced to work together will build a rapport and completely change the team dynamics so future projects don’t go through the same resistance.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2015

When outcomes aren't being met effectively it's a people- and management problem including: fall-out, sabotage, and resistance; long execution times; exclusion of peripheral people; restricted creativity and communication; exacerbated power and status issues. Rule: a senior manager must be responsible for each agenda item.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2015

These terms define a specific set of sequenced actions buyers take to enable internal consensus and change – change management issues, if you will – rather than define steps that address needs or vendor/solution choice which come later and are the focus of sales. meet with CFO (manages the Tech department). meet with BDT.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 28, 2014

When I started up my tech company in London in the 80s I realized the problem: as a buyer, my direct needs were often superseded by the social, political, organizational, and relational considerations I had to manage. That way we got onto the Buying Decision Team early and became great relationship managers. That is our Achilles Heel.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2015

Anyone who will touch the final solution must be present to move forward or there will be fallout, sabotage, and resistance: there is no way to compensate (as per creativity or consensus) once a meeting is held with folks missing. Management and Leadership – Managing Your Virtual Team. No restrictions.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2015

What if the leader's goal overrides the mental models, beliefs or historic experiences of the followers, or the change is pushed against the follower's values, and resistance ensues? It will more than meet the vision of the leaders (although it might look different), and the followers will own it with no resistance.

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Charisma Leadership Resistance Follow-up 50

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

The more transparent the envi­ronment the more willing leaders will be to share resources in support of the shared goals of the entire business, and the harder it will be for resisters to hoard them. Ultimately, it's as much a mindset as it is a process. These are the types of questions to which everyone must know the answers.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2016

ensures all sales models, including Challenger, create resistance, potentially turn off real buyers who need your solution (80% of prospects buy a similar product within 2 years of your interaction), and ignore the ability to influence 70% of the Buying Decision Path. I began teaching the material to clients, coaches, and managers.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 4, 2016

We need a way forward to choose behaviors that maintain our Beliefs, Values, and Identity AND find common ground to listen to each other and come to consensus with action steps to help us all heal. I’m going to offer some steps for us to dialogue and reach win/win consensus. We must be willing to start sharing our Truth and our hearts.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

Why We Resist Change. Even when I’ve gotten the greatest advance build-up as someone who can help people change for the better, I still meet resistance. Dr. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. I see this daily in my work.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2012

By not relegating the execution of strategy, the Chief Execution Officer can achieve consensus and commitment across the leadership team, establish and preserve the integrity of the strategy, and engage the work force. Executives who resist this type of consensus can undermine successful strategy execution.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Maybe your manager frequently stops by and says, “Can you come join this meeting now?”) Your peers and direct reports may be well positioned to tell you how to proceed with your manager and those above. Most places are resistant to outsiders bent on change. The best way to figure out these rules is to ask around.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Incremental innovations can be managed at the operating levels where the people know the customers/consumers best and decisions can be made in a more consensus-driven way with input and agreement between all stakeholder functions. Because consensus and familiar metrics are death to breakthrough.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 19, 2021

The vast majority of leaders are managers focused on execution and juggling with the consequences of their blind leadership. Visionaries are leaders who managed to turn their vision into a reality despite many challenges. The biggest problem is that vision cannot be created through consensus. Oleg Konovalov.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

That’s because the primary obstacle is invisible: the internal resistance that all human beings experience, often unconsciously, when they’re asked to make a significant change. Learning to embrace our own complexity is what makes it possible to manage more complexity.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

It goes against the grain of established ways of working and is a threat to management practices that have existed for decades. Communication managers no longer have total control over message, target, and timing of news and announcements. Many companies struggle with digital transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Despite, all the rhetoric about holacracy and “ flatarchies ”, the average respondent works in an organization that has more than 6 management layers. In large organizations (more than 5,000 employees) front line employees are buried under 8 or more layers of management. Bureaucracy is a time trap.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Some leaders cannot resist the temptation to clutter up the agenda with other small items –the “kitchen sink” approach. Mistake 5: Not reaching consensus on a course of action. Leading teams Managing people Time management' Preparing for such a large meeting requires some forethought and serious planning.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Resistance, or in the best case, lack of cooperation can be expected from entrenched interest groups, particularly from the leaders of state-owned enterprises and local officials. Which Management Style Will China Adopt? China’s Next Great Transition. An HBR Insight Center. Is It Time to Be Skeptical on China?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Lack of consensus among players in a complex system is one of the biggest barriers to innovation. It's a classic change management problem. Of course, we must hold innovations to an evidence standard — but without holding them hostage to resistant establishments. In the U.S.,

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Health Care Innovation Pharmaceuticals Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

And I couldn't resist following up with an email Q&A: Justin Fox: A lot of smart people have been saying for a while now that public-company executives should put less time and effort into dealing with Wall Street. Managers clearly have to respond to regain investors' trust. In the final analysis, managers can't shun corporate owners.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

I wanted to accept the consensus as a sign that the company had rounded the corner on its 3-year slog to be more relevant in their market. I knew that the new head of engineering and the head of product management had worked through a ton of issues to get to this review meeting prepared. A rebel resists conformity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

But because his colleagues solicited his feedback and worked on getting a consensus, he didn’t become resentful. town government is facing intractable gridlock because one town commissioner’s idea met some resistance. His idea failed to garner sufficient votes. Upset by his loss, his wound could have festered.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

In order to ascend the organizational ranks, such leaders must seek consensus on decisions and drive others through a keen process orientation. These types of managers adjust their messaging to keep the discussion affable; direct communication is seen as unnecessarily harsh. Business cycles can take longer as a result.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

As Jack thought about the broader relationships at stake, he knew that his manager, and their teams, expected him and Leslie to collaborate and work well together. Resist opening with a comment that judges or labels – a sure way of putting the other person on the defensive and getting you nowhere fast.

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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? As Atul Gawande put it in a recent New Yorker article , “Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change.”.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

Consciously or unconsciously, couples adopt strategies for managing the demands of each career plus a shared domestic life. The path of least resistance is simply to let work and traditional gender roles take over—whoever has the better (i.e.

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