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4 Steps for Making Change Happen

Great Leadership By Dan

Our clients'' resistance to change was not irrational and it was up to us, not our clients, to manage it. Implementing change today relies on building consensus rather than executive fiat. If you can''t or won''t measure results don''t expect sympathy from me or any line manager. But if it crashed the organization, heads rolled.

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Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus Michael A. Roberto FT Press/Pearson (2013) One of the most important attributes of a great leader This is the second edition of a book first published in 2005.

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Five Ways Leaders Turns Doubters into Doers

Chart Your Course

Effective June 2013, all employees were required to work in the office. Part of being a leader is managing change. said, “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.”. Your business is adding a new time-management system, which requires employees to log their hours on specific projects.

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Leaders: Still Making Progress On Your 2013 New Year's Resolution?

Eric Jacobson

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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Questions for Building a Great Team!

Marshall Goldsmith

Help team members prioritize all the behaviors on the charts (many will be the same or similar) and (using consensus) determine the most important behavior to change (for all team members). Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013.

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Leadership in a Gladiator Culture

Coaching Tip

Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos abhors what he calls “social cohesion,” the natural impulse to seek consensus. Managers in departments of 50 people or more are often required to “top-grade” their subordinates on a curve and must dismiss the least effective performers. Sources: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 14, 2013.

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70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders

Eric Jacobson

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

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