N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? Never be swayed by consensus that calls you to compromise your values, rather be guided by doing the right thing. The strongest teams don’t weed out or neutralize individual tendencies, they capitalize on them.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Decades of scientific research confirm the obvious: Patients who undergo complicated operations fare worse when their hospitals or surgeons rarely perform them. (In We would not bend the policy itself, however, and told a couple of recalcitrant surgeons, “Dartmouth-Hitchcock may not be the best fit for you.”

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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. Farmers must also grow more on the land they currently operate through what is called “sustainable intensification.”

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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. I also believe that when simplification is an operating principle, it can guide leaders both in big, risky decisions and in daily priorities.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

” The breakthrough came only after the warring camps became aware of the five basic ownership models: owner/operator , partnership , distributed, nested, and public. This model, which we call owner-operator , can be successful for many generations. Our great-grandfather wanted us to be equal owners.” Or Caterpillar Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Nordic countries' progressive gender policies have deep cultural roots. Society at large is more consensus-oriented.". They all had wives who worked, and they all knew that in the Nordic operations they ran, fathers were just as avid to bond with their new babies as mothers. Pragmatic indeed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2012

We described what we meant by that in the consensus report Intelligence Analysis for Tomorrow , and in more detail in a collection of readings that introduces the science. It includes decision analysis, game theory, and operations research. In order to apply the science of decision-making, leaders must create hospitable organizations.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

The ability to meet challenges with a willingness to depart from standard operating procedures; to confront anxiety, tolerate criticism, take intelligent risks, and refute conventional wisdom—especially one’s own views—in order to achieve breakthroughs” is what Jonah Sachs calls unsafe thinking. W E ALL GET STUCK IN RUTS. Thinking ruts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

operations compete more effectively. The great majority of business leaders understand that what is necessary is investments in the business environment and efforts to reach consensus on issues such as health care costs, balancing the budget, and tort reform. operations compete more effectively.

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

In exchange, these paying entities have access to medical insights that can help them better inform and plan healthcare research, funding, and policy. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS. The creators are targeting refugee camps in Europe.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

At the moment, there seems to be little consensus on just how the two differ and which differences matter most. The New York Times recently published a 2000-word article trying to divine the likely policies of Summers versus Yellen. Googling Yellen vs. Summers nets some 12.5 million results. Recent scrutiny of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Before the financial crisis ushered in the current global economic downturn, there was a strong intellectual consensus among mainstream economists and policymakers about the merits of free trade. In addition to across-the-board monetary and fiscal policy measures, many of them targeted specific sectors and even specific firms as growth poles.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

A drive to achieve consensus and prevent outright conflict. They have launched much-needed maternity policies and flexible work arrangements. We need women who operate as managers, not just as employees or critics; who are as competitive for themselves as they are for their children. It wasn''t necessarily better.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

Like many entrepreneurial founders, he did it by force of personality and personal vision, without much concern for consensus or committees. It has had the luxury of having a personification of its ethos, and now it must either allow someone else to be that, or learn to operate effectively without one. History shows it isn't easy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

We started working with the management and staff of the perioperative unit in 2014 to develop a more systematic, long-term approach for improving patient handoffs from the operating room (OR) to the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU). We evaluated initial progress by surveying care providers and asking what could be further improved.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

So just when electric systems need to operate flawlessly — whether to power air conditioners, pump water, or heat homes — long-term challenges to power grids are multiplying. A digitally-skilled workforce is vital to help deploy advanced digital technologies that can streamline and automate grid operations. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Applying best practices and customer journey mapping, organizations will program rules and policies to surface recommendations such as pointing out what floor a patient is located on, providing dietary compliant options on the cafeteria menu, and suggesting when to rest based on vital signs.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

Every successful business has, at its heart, a theory of the business—an underlying set of supporting objectives and a corporate philosophy that gives people a foundation on which to operate. We cannot achieve and maintain alignment without consensus and conviction about The Main Thing. The Main Thing is critically important.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It recognizes this new reality will spell decline for some commercial activities, but growth for others who find better ways of operating. engage in and contribute to public policy (60%). engage in and contribute to public policy (60%). So in one sense, Polman is only being a good businessman. engage in effective dialogue (75%).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Rockefeller or Andrew Carnegie, operating deliberately and with sufficient power and intent to change the shape of markets. Consider that when there are 500 of us in some setting all pursuing our own agendas, it's very difficult to get a consensus on anything. The invisible hand was replaced by a visible one, belonging to a John D.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

The process by which a network of nodes confirms the record of previously verified transactions, and by which it verifies new transactions, is known as a consensus protocol. Consensus Protocols and Access Permissions in Public vs. Private Blockchains. by solving the cryptographic puzzle). Security Starts with Network Architecture.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

For example, the delays associated with social conflict at large mining operations can run in the vicinity of $20 million per week. Yet the same companies that spend months and millions tweaking operational details devote only a small fraction of their resources to understanding and addressing the social risks they face.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Families usually operate by consensus and make decisions based on their impact on legacy and stewardship. Similarly, executives make many daily decisions on how to implement the business strategy but do not decide the dividend policy. In the board room, directors influence one another in a peer-to-peer setting.

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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.”.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. Lauri Rotko/Folio Images/Getty Images. The United States spends 40% more per patient than other developed countries but suffers the worse overall health outcomes.

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Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

Instead of operating top-down, power is distributed throughout the organization, giving individuals and teams more freedom to self-manage, while staying aligned to the organization’s purpose. Each circle uses a defined governance process to create and regularly update its roles and policies. Key Elements of Holacracy.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Good consultants build consensus and unify management focus, they do not splinter opinion. If your marketing doesn’t uphold your brand promise or if it’s not advancing core business initiatives, then you have an alignment issue.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

What Pittsburgh is doing has implications, not just for policy, but also for business strategy and the future of public-private collaboration. Compare that with 5,300 people in iron and steel (there are only two operating coal mines left in the county), and you can see why Pittsburgh supports the Paris accord. It’s up to cities.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

So states a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which sets out the policy choices governments around the world need to make over the next 12 years to 2030 if they want to limit global temperature rises to 1.5 Ultimately, long-term legitimacy, reputation, and license to operate are at stake.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

A CEO could be forgiven for thinking it’s safest to only weigh in on political issues that affect operational and strategic goals, industry dynamics, or a company’s regulatory and policy landscape. But a company’s exposure to a political issue is also determined by its values.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

True to Smith’s beliefs about government policies not distorting the market, he would set duties to be equal for different producers and importers, so that one group or one country would not have an advantage over another. After all, there is consensus among them that international trade benefits an economy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

But Thatcher was also saying that a specific set of financial-market-friendly, ownership-oriented, low-tax policies was the only path to economic success. So successful economies do operate within certain bounds. And we shouldn''t want to — the capitalist era has coincided with a staggering increase in living standards.

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