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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality. The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Stew Friedman – Practice Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. World authority on project management. Non-profit CEOs.

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Profit Is Less About Good Management than You Think

Harvard Business Review

Benjamin Graham , the father of value investing, seldom met the managers of the companies he invested in because he felt they would tell him only what they wished him to hear and because he didn’t want to be influenced by impressions of personality. So is there something different about the managers who do succeed?

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Be a Minimally Invasive Manager

Harvard Business Review

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. Peter Drucker. That’s the core tenant of what I call “Minimally Invasive Management.”. The idea reflects the struggles of tech-centered start-ups to rethink the role of professional managers. This is management as a service.

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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

How can you accept the responsibility to develop a team if you’re not developing yourself? It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton. Put simply, if you’re not learning you have no business leading. Here's a link to a recent "re-reading" list.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. These include administrative or middle management functions, which have historically provided jobs for the middle class. What are the organization’s goals?

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Are CEOs Overhyped and Overpaid?

Harvard Business Review

Throughout the Western world, and increasingly elsewhere, individual performance is glorified over and above collective team efforts. For instance, midlevel managers may primarily affect their teams, but C-suite leaders can be expected to influence the majority of the organization. How much do CEOs actually matter?

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