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. Maybe it was the conclusion of a big project, or a close to the fourth quarter of 2013.

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Leadership Kotter Consensus Diversity 285

Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

T his post originally published Friday, November 1, 2013 at www.greatleadersserve.org. Consultative, Consensus, Command, Delegated). A leader’s impact, career, reputation and legacy are all determined by the decisions he or she makes. Each week, I respond to a question I’ve received from another leader. Image by Garrett Coakley.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

You can read more on mastering this difficult balancing act in the Hay Group 2013 Best Companies for Leadership study. They allow you to cast a worldwide net to gather ideas, connect to sources of knowledge and experience, and build consensus throughout your organization, no matter how large it is.

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Competitive Advantage Resistance Business Model Consensus 267

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos abhors what he calls “social cohesion,” the natural impulse to seek consensus. In its second-quarter earnings report in July 2013, Amazon said its ranks had swelled to 97,000 full-time and part-time employees, up 40 percent from the year before. Sources: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 14, 2013.

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Leadership Consensus Retail Career 91

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 22, 2013

With only a couple weeks left of 2013, it''s time to select your New Year''s Resolutions for 2014. To get you started, how about selecting one or more of these 70 New Year''s resolutions for leaders ?

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Mentor Micromanagement Consensus Policies 101

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 3, 2013

Which one of the 70 tips for how to become a more effective leader did you select as a 2013 New Year's Resolution? This list was published last December in my blog, about the time many leaders were identifying their professional and personal goals for 2013. Summarize group consensus after each decision point during a meeting 18.

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Mentor Micromanagement Consensus Policies 69

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 27, 2013

With only two months left of 2013, it''s not too early to start identifying your New Year''s Resolutions for 2014. To get your started, how about selecting one or more of these 70 New Year''s resolutions for leaders? Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and December 31, think about which couple you want to work on in 2014.

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Mentor Micromanagement Consensus Policies 61

Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

IDPs also allow employees and organizations to communicate and reach consensus on what constitutes a developmental win. © 2013 Thoughts for the Everyday Leader — Standard by 8BIT. Without a plan for development, effectiveness is evaluated on a pass/fail basis of performance outcomes. What should be included in an IDP?

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 2, 2013

Linking people into virtual groups enables the sharing of knowledge, but when that information isn’t accurate, it can lead the group consensus astray causing widespread fear of the unknown. Fearing 2013. Soon everybody knew that bacteria couldn’t live in the stomach, but what they knew was completely false. Related articles.

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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. This was the context when on Christmas day 2013, the then designated Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa offered me the aforementioned thankless and non-lucrative opportunity. Turbulence.

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How To Chief Information Officer Tourism Politics 50

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

I have often heard Ed Zander, the CEO of Motorola, teach his high-potential leaders the value of encouraging participation, while also being clear that every decision should not be made by a vote or through achieving consensus. Marshall was the highest rated executive coach on the Thinkers50 List in both 2011 and 2013.

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Succession Commitment Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 181

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

We plotted shared directorships among 176 large companies in 1976 and 2013, two years that followed a major global economic crisis. Fast forward to 2013 and we see a remarkable change — try toggling between the two years in the graphic below. Board Interlocks, 2013. Interlocks, 2013. SOURCE Eelke M. © HBR.ORG.

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Crisis Globalization Banking Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

This instability meant that Japan was unable to iron out a national consensus on its reform plan, or implement reforms in the long run. The Korean economy is increasing at a rate of less than 3% for the third consecutive year in 2013 – far below its potential growth. Society hasn’t reached consensus on reform.

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Consensus Class Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013. The tragedy in America is that there is no consensus among leaders in business and government.

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Restructuring Fixed Costs Consensus Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

After a general election that saw an Islamist-led coalition rise to power, the country witnessed two political assassinations in February and July 2013. This dialogue reached a consensus among political parties stipulating that the incumbent Islamists hand over power to a technocratic transitional government.

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Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You cannot pick up a business newspaper magazine these days without reading some article about Europe’s economic crisis; there seems to be an almost universal consensus that Europe is sick, that its institutional frameworks and governments are unfriendly to business, and that its prospects for getting better are dim.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

“My coauthor and I were most surprised by the extraordinary consensus across the many different countries in the survey,” Norton says. Though he notes some movement on that front, including an unsuccessful vote in Switzerland to cap the ratio at 12 to 1 in 2013 and recent protests by fast food workers in the U.S.

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Norton CEO CIO Survey 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

The other half might have been open to the idea that law firms needed a strategy, but completely opposed to having anything other than a consensus-built, senior partner-friendly mechanism for making strategic choices, which almost by definition is doomed to fail. Just keep billing those hours!

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Creativity Consensus Business Model Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2013 an activist investor criticized the board at ConMed for a “ culture of nepotism, patronage, and dystopian corporate governance.” ” Director Stephen Mandia, who had served on the board for 12 years, departed shortly after. The results from our paper suggest two areas for further investigation.

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Reputation Media Consensus Long-term 8

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 4, 2020

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. Similar laws exist in the other Scandinavian countries, and they have prompted much debate about the ethics of such a policy.

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Policies Consensus Analysis Comparison 80

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Beijing’s business circles are buzzing this week about what the Communist Party of China (CPC) is cooking up for the Third Plenary Session of the 18 th Party Congress, scheduled to start on November 9, 2013. There was skepticism about whether the then leadership-in-waiting would even embark on the reforms that China required.

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Policies Uncertainty Long-term Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

By the end of 2013, nurses reported over 20% of patient handoffs still had missing information. We saw slight agreement that the new handoff protocol was an improvement, yet there was consensus that a few changes needed to be made. Initially, the program seemed to be a success: staff members understood and followed the practices.

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Long-term Janis Quality Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Instead, the decision to fire (or hire or promote) someone is based on group consensus. growth in digital ads between 2013 and 2014. But you probably don''t work at Menlo Innovations, where there are no bosses (at least in the traditional sense). — actually lead to more-productive employees and companies?

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Advertising Video Ethics PR 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Then came ill-advised decisions — like making a flip phone when market research showed that no one wanted flip phones — and an accretion of layers of management that operated by consensus. Oh, and an offer from then-up-and-coming star Justin Bieber to rep BlackBerry, an offer that was rebuffed by the marketing department.

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CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Peter Voser, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell from July 2009, retired in May 2013. Voser’s ascension to the CEO role, after he returned to Royal Dutch Shell was notable for a “blunt” memo describing the need to change a culture that was “too consensus oriented,” to create a stronger performance culture.

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

While there is universal agreement that (1) it exists, and (2) that it plays a crucial role in shaping behavior in organizations, there is little consensus on what organizational culture actually is, never mind how it influences behavior and whether it is something leaders can change.

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Incentives Definition Pharmaceuticals System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. The blockchain is a sort of distributed consensus system, where no one person controls all the data. Last year, a glitch caused 5,000 United flights to be grounded for two hours. Technical glitches halted trading at the New York Stock Exchange recently. Blockchain.

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Trends Film Technology Software 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2013

So, what does the above tell us about the state of mind of executive marketers in June 2013? But it can be overcome if peers work together to come to a consensus (that’s the aim of the conference, by the way…). Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. That doesn’t mean it’s easy.

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Marketing Media ROI Consensus 58

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Inspirational forces like that built by ADL and other groups are most effective when they add constituencies outside their normal scope, building consensus of opinion and the strength of wider resources. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 72

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2013

” The prevailing consensus is that if a Kim Kardashian or Justin Bieber tweets your content out to their followers, the inherent size of their audience will cause a viral loop, exploding the campaign into the news feeds and inboxes of everyone and their grandmother. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Marketing Video Content Advertising 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Part of the problem is there isn't a clear consensus on what marks an innovative company. equity markets* on BusinessWeek's 2008 list ended up underperforming broader market indices between March 2008 and March 2013. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business. But there are some measurements that try.

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Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Part of the problem is there isn't a clear consensus on what marks an innovative company. equity markets* on BusinessWeek's 2008 list ended up underperforming broader market indices between March 2008 and March 2013. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business. But there are some measurements that try.

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Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

A 2013 Commonwealth Fund study of wait times in eleven countries found that 26% of U.S. While we’re making progress with the shift to managing the health of populations, we still have limited ability to measure quality outcomes, limited physician consensus on what to measure, and limited ability to predict the drivers of quality.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Retail Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. Think of the block chain as a sort of distributed consensus system, where no one person controls all the data. Deep learning intersects with numerous fields, and it will soon aid in manufacturing, medicine, retail, utilities, and beyond.

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 29, 2014

It’s not just co-CEO structures like those at Whole Foods and Chipotle that are getting attention: In late 2013, Zappos announced that it was abandoning hierarchy for “holacracy,” a flat structure without titles where leadership responsibilities ebb and flow among employees.

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Leadership Globalization Maturity Agility 244

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Generally speaking, women leaders more than men leaders tend to be inclusive and aim for consensus-building. Tosi on April 1, 2013. Women on the other hand tend to employ democratic leadership styles that allow subordinates to participate in decision making. When Doing It All Won't Do: A self-coaching guide for career women.

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Self-aware Leadership eBook Career 70