Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2014

In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape expected to continue for 2015, leaders face many challenges , requiring aggressive, sustained talent management strategies to prepare them for success. Can''t Get Enough Leadership. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. Ask the Coach .

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

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’s exciting new research on engagement will be published in his upcoming book Triggers (Crown, 2015).

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2016

iv Their consensus is that a lack of diversity in executive teams is less about overt discrimination than it is about unconscious biases toward affinity: people tend to hire people like themselves. . January 2015. ” Linda Yueh, Chief Business Correspondent, BBC News January 25, 2015 [link].

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

With only one month left of 2015, it's not too early to start identifying your New Year's Resolutions for 2016. To get you 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 2016.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2015

Team meetings, user advisory boards and a consensus approach might take a little time, but a plan concocted in a closet and then jammed down everyone's throat didn't work, did it? Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Collaborate with your people AND your user community. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 21, 2015

dollar , doomed to failure by the mainstream consensus a few years ago due to the Fed's "inflationary" QE policies, is enjoying strength not seen in years. Both the DJIA and the S&P 500 are now in the red for 2015. Chinese stocks , up almost 60% YTD into their July peak, suddenly crashed, sparking fears of global contagion.

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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]. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2015

As outsiders, it’s unlikely we can acquire the historic knowledge and consensus from all relevant insiders, or design the new rules for systemic change, for our ideas or solutions to gain broad acceptance throughout the system. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. It’s The Consensus, Stupid*.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2015

It's possible to use content to facilitate the non-solution-focused consensus and change issues readers must attend to as they ready themselves to make a purchase. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. It’s The Consensus, Stupid*. to become a true trusted advisor and support partner. Buyers know this.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

After a rocky start for the country after Ben Ali’s fall, the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize went to the Tunisian Quartet, composed of four civil society associations, which facilitated the country’s national dialogue. Look at Volkswagen in 2015. I would say overall we harnessed technology to push the country toward the future.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

It’s a decision facilitation tool that helps buyers address all decision/pre-sales issues they must address internally to get consensus and manage change. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. I developed Buying Facilitation® to manage that problem for my own sales team. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Consensus stage. Buy-in and consensus necessary. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Everyone researches their portion of the solution fix (online research—webinars, etc., call current vendors or new vendors etc.). Discussions include managing resultant change. Choice stage. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

It’s possible that by pushing our own agendas and not focusing on what might be common values and consensus, we are perpetuating harm and causing others to defend their beliefs. Change needs consensus: win-win is key (we know there is no such thing as win/lose). Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2015

Consensus stage. Buy-in and consensus necessary. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Specific research for each possible solution; seek answers to how fallout or change would be managed with each solution. General decisions made. Action stage. Responsibilities apportioned to manage specifics of Stage 9.

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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. Long meeting to get consensus. She opposes hiring external vendors.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Do not force the team to come to consensus; that results in whitewashing differences and dissenting votes. Copyright (c) Louis David Marquet, 2015. If the decision needs to be made soon, ask for team input, even briefly, then make the decision. If the decision can be delayed, then force the team to provide input.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2015

When asking folks to buy-in, build consensus, and collaborate, they don’t know how to make the necessary changes without facing internal resistance, regardless of the efficacy of the requested changes. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Code the route to systemic change. Consider leaving a comment!

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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. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. No restrictions. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2015

Rule: put a specific, consensual, and supervised method in place to ensure action items get accomplished as promised. Rule: as meeting begins, get consensus on what must be accomplished for a successful outcome. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. How can additional meetings be avoided? All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2015

When asking folks to buy-in, build consensus, and collaborate, they don't know how to make the necessary changes without facing internal resistance, regardless of the efficacy of the requested changes. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Code the route to systemic change. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2015

I’ve trained sellers to use them for lead generation, to make appointments with the right decision makers (often helped by gatekeepers) and teach prospects to assemble Buying Decision Teams and reach consensus; to help coaches find – and keep – ideal clients, and facilitate their change efficiently. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

If a seller doesn’t have an advocate in the organization to help drive the consensus, a so-called “mobilizer” who is personally motivated to champion the deal, the sale can stall (see “ Making the Consensus Sale ” Harvard Business Review , March 2015). Sales Sales & Marketing Customers'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

But the real tragedy happened later: a timid recovery during 2010-11 was followed by a second recession starting in the third quarter of 2011, from which Europe did not start recovering until 2015. Yet the place where the crisis had originated, the U.S., avoided the second recession and continued its recovery. What went wrong?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

There is a general consensus among economic analysts and commentators that the changes are merely cosmetic — they certainly do not affect the daily lives of most average Nigerians, and their timing might be politically motivated given the upcoming 2015 elections which are expected to be highly contested.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2016

Research we did in eleven growth markets in 2015 (Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, the UK, and the U.S.), And a majority (54%)—as compared to a distinct minority (12%)—say that nobody on their team is afraid to challenge the status quo or group consensus.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

In 2015, shortly before Amazon bought Whole Foods, co-CEO John Mackey is faced with a plummeting stock price and is under fire. In Unsafe Thinking: How to Be Nimble and Bold When You Need It Most , Jonah Sachs walks us through six key components of unsafe thinking and practices that will help us to overcome our reluctance to use them.

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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’s exciting new research on engagement will be published in his upcoming book Triggers (Crown, 2015).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

A “Tunisian Quartet,” composed of four civil society associations, initiated and facilitated the country’s national dialogue (for which they were warded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize). I would say overall, we harnessed technology to push the country toward the future.

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Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

When I joined Instagram in 2015 as head of engineering, the company had been part of Facebook for three years. This prevented design by committee while we were building consensus. Andy Crawford/Getty Images. It had 115 engineers, but we would soon scale to 300, and later grow to over 400 in 2017.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

The Holmes Report published in 2015 found that while women make up 70% of those employed in the U.S. I found there wasn’t even consensus on the meaning of diversity and inclusion. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , the ethnic makeup of the PR industry in the U.S. African American, 2.6% Asian American, and 5.7%

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PR Diversity Public Relations CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

According to a recent New York Times article , Barra is known inside GM as a “consensus builder who calls her staff together on a moment’s notice to brainstorm on pressing issues.”. She had “an ability with people” and a track record of bringing new models to market faster and at lower cost.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

The consensus solution to the infrastructural challenges is to continue the build-out of a smarter, self-healing digital grid (which President Obama mentioned in his June 25th speech on climate change), while integrating new technologies with the old. The need for digitally savvy technical hires is especially pronounced.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

Our 2015 trends offer great opportunity – along with some unusual new challenges – for managers in all industries. In 2015, consumers will begin to see SVPA technology baked into their mobile phones. One new area of particular note in 2015: digital consent. Here are six of note.

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Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A 2015 Institute of Medicine report, “Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress,” demonstrates broad consensus that measuring the quality of people’s health and the care they receive is critical to improving performance of the health care system and patients’ health outcomes.

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Health Care Report Sports Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The blockchain is a sort of distributed consensus system, where no one person controls all the data. In 2015, two drones inadvertently prevented firefighters from putting out a rapidly spreading California wildfire, which crossed over onto a freeway and destroyed a dozen vehicles. Blockchain. Drone lanes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

A 2015 study from Skillsoft and Eudemonia noted that “women’s time in the office may also be siphoned away from the activities that help people advance.” For a single important decision, it can take months to get consensus, align employees, consult with key stakeholders, and communicate the final decision.

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Career Leadership Styles Emotional Intelligence Consensus 8

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. In adult care, CMS announced in 2015 ambitious value-based payment goals for Medicare, which were achieved 11 months ahead of schedule. Lauri Rotko/Folio Images/Getty Images.

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