Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Indeed: the time it takes buyers to manage changes they’ll face from bringing in your solution is the length of the sales cycle. And you’re not helping them manage the change. I developed Buying Facilitation® to manage that problem for my own sales team. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

It’s because the sales model does not include the skills to facilitate the larger part of buying decisions – those idiosyncratic, behind-the-scenes, change-management-driven processes that are private and we can’t be part of. Change Management stage. Discussions include managing resultant change. Consensus stage.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2015

To get folks to change their minds or accept a solution and avoid resistance, it’s necessary to first: help the system discover the differences between the new and the old, help the system discover the details of the risk, facilitate an acceptable route to managing the risk, facilitate buy-in from the right people/elements.

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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. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

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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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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

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. Relate Articles: Goal-Setting, Planning, and Testing: The Importance of Managing Your Lead-Generation Strategy.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2015

Change management stage. the level of disruption and change management as per type of solution chosen, e. Specific research for each possible solution; seek answers to how fallout or change would be managed with each solution. Consensus stage. Buy-in and consensus necessary. Group discusses: a. Organization stage.

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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. Tawfik Jelassi is IMD Professor of Strategy and Technology Management. About the Author.

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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

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. meet with CFO (manages the Tech department). meet with BDT.

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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. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2015

When outcomes aren't being met effectively it's a people- and management problem including: fall-out, sabotage, and resistance; long execution times; exclusion of peripheral people; restricted creativity and communication; exacerbated power and status issues. Rule: a senior manager must be responsible for each agenda item.

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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. Sharon Drew Morgen is a visionary, original thinker, and thought leader in change management and decision facilitation.

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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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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. economy are asking whether we learned enough from the 2008 crisis about how to manage risk in the financial system. 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

Management endorsed her proposal to make over the New Delhi and Kolkata branches into all-women-staffed banks. Our case studies also make clear why so many companies that have succeeded in diversifying their ranks fail to capitalize on that diversity: management too often elicits and endorses the ideas of people like themselves.

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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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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. Colleagues and managers are more likely to see the quiet latent dissenter as disloyal and, surprisingly, as more verbally aggressive and argumentative. First up is courage. Leadership.

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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. The engineering department needed better organization and management, and its employees were craving more career development. This prevented design by committee while we were building consensus.

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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. They play well as a team.

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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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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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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

DECEMBER 8, 2015

My 2016 trends offer early warnings and opportunities for managers in all industries. HR managers can use bots to train employees. This is not an argument against technology — it’s a recommendation for increased systems monitoring and regular conversations with IT managers. Here are eight to note for 2016.

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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. During the next several months, managers should discuss how to include accountability systems for algorithms.

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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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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. These include infant safety and injury prevention, social work, legal advocacy, case management, tutoring, fitness classes, nutrition and lactation, mental health, and dental care.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In PPP terms, the US invested $86 billion in 2015, which is roughly 62 times the amount invested in the UK in the same period. The US leads the way, investing heavily in robotics and automation. By contrast, the UK languishes behind peers such as Japan, Germany and the US.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Even in an era of bitter partisanship, there’s consensus that the U.S. multinationals like GE have managed to pay less than nothing some years in federal corporate income taxes. billion in 2015, so the revenue lost to tax expenditures is significant. What’s wrong with the current system? How much time do you have?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

For the past decade, the consensus strategy among hospital and health-system leaders has been to achieve scale in regional markets via mergers and acquisitions, to make medical staffs employees, and to assume more financial risk in insurance contracts and sponsored health plans. The following areas deserve special management attention.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

This has spread advanced production techniques and management practices around the world, dramatically improving productivity. in 2015, while foreign direct investment from the United States fell from 2.9% Finally, the chance that an investment will go wrong because of unexpected political events is increasing. of GDP in 2007 to 3.3%

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

When Kellogg’s CEO, John Bryant, spoke at the Paris meeting, in December 2015, he told the assembled executives and diplomats that addressing climate change was “mission critical” for the company. (I I mean actual extreme weather and climate change. These things are not theoretical and are costing business and society today.

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