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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. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality.

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How Leaders Can Fix a Negative Company Culture

Great Leadership By Dan

Bridge divides with team bonding. To avoid forced consensus, take generational and background diversity in job candidates into account. Broad diversity also discourages clique-forming by a majority group, actually strengthening the bonds of your teams. Create consequences for noncompliance.

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What Information Helps Us To Cooperate?

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The group chat also seemed important, with any consensus reached on cooperation in the chat translating into cooperation in the task. If people can also utilize warmth and humor this can also further bond the group together and encourage collective behaviors. The post What Information Helps Us To Cooperate?

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36 Lessons for Business & Life from Trillion Dollar Coach Bill Campbell

Leading Blog

Best Idea, Not Consensus. The goal of consensus leads to “groupthink” and inferior decisions. Invest in creating real, emotional bonds between people. Have a structure for one-on-one’s and take the time to prepare for them, as they are the best way to help people be more effective and to grow. Always Build Community.

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Six Principles of Persuasion for Leaders

Lead on Purpose

Learn about them and find common bonds. Principle #6 – Consensus. Look for ways to lead with consistency and consensus, and your products – and the customers that use them – will reap the benefits. As a leader, you should strive to get to know your employees. A leader can use this in two ways.

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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

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. However, there is a significant cost associated with the impact these teams can provide – time.

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Three (Not So) Surprising Lessons of Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Some lead by charisma, others by consensus building. Author Bio: Joel Peterson (Twitter: @JoelCPeterson ), chairman of JetBlue and a longtime consulting professor at the Stanford Business School, is the author of the new book “ The 10 Laws of Trust: Building the Bonds That Make a Business Great.”