Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 23, 2013

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. Two Leadership Self-Coaching Guides for Career Women.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Higgins is co-founder and CEO of private investment firm RSE Ventures and a lecturer and Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. Question: You say you can predict CEO failure based on one thing. And time spent prematurely cultivating buy-in and fostering consensus just amounts to energy leakage. What is it?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Never be swayed by consensus that calls you to compromise your values, rather be guided by doing the right thing. In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 13, 2011

@ ScottEblin has some tips on what to do [link] # communication # Interesting model by @ RedBaronUSA on how to build team consensus in organizations [link] # Check out @ mikemyatt ‘s take on the importance of valuing those white spaces in # leadership [link] # Thanks Paul! Are You Smart, or Clever? Thanks Kathy!

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Headlined by Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers, Tipping Point) and joined by Simon Sinek (Start with Why?) – who stole the show, Mitch Joel (Six Pixels of Separation), Nilofer Merchant (Rubicon Consulting), and Michael Eisner (former CEO of Disney), the day showcased some amazing ideas, great presenters and inspiration to spare. Ctrl.Alt.Del.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2015

Those users architected, for all intents and purposes, a coup de 'tat that resulted in Interim CEO Ellen Pao's departure. 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? Here's the deal, Steve.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The CEOs of both — John Noseworthy and Delos “Toby” Cosgrove — are highly skilled physicians. A study published in 2011 examined CEOs in the top-100 best hospitals in USNWR in three key medical specialties: cancer, digestive disorders, and cardiovascular care. Cleveland Clinic comes in second.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

That was the general consensus after one of my favorite HBS classes: an entrepreneurship case on a company called Tickle. The financial risk of a career in entrepreneurship is the chance of spending 20 years in startups with nothing to show for it — neither money nor an impact on the world. Other risk-mitigation strategies .

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Many managers want to be more inclusive. For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. PATRIK STOLLARZ/Getty Images. But they don’t know how to get there.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Consider a CEO who demeans his colleagues by rolling his eyes at them, interrupting them, and otherwise devaluing their roles. The CEO has nowhere to turn to discuss the dilemma, because he has alienated his executive team. This ultimately yielded a consensus and reasoned decision-making. Coaching Leadership Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

As the up-and-coming vice president and CEO candidate for a Fortune 500 technology corporation sat before the CEO for his annual review, he was baffled to discover that the feedback from his peers, customers, direct reports, and particularly from board members placed unusual emphasis on one potentially devastating problem: his listening deficit.

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LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

Actually, reading the book reminded me of this old anecdote that I heard one time, a conversation between a sort of unnamed CEO and an unnamed CFO and essentially, the CFO was asking, “What happens if we invest all this money to develop our people and they leave?” and the CEO’s response is, “Well, what happens if we don’t and they stay?”.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Selling needs to be a part of every woman's career tool kit. These roles very rarely lead to major jobs in senior management. This helps explain why the number of women CEOs in Fortune 500 companies appears stuck around 3%. When we hear a woman say that sales is outside of her job description, we always beg to differ.

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Consensus building is one of this particular leaders core strengths and they have done everything they can to win over the hostile player. Do you notice that workplace bullies are usually particularly good at “managing up&# ? That’s a fair counter assumption, but in this case definitely off base.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

But collaboration is not consensus. Former Ogilvy CEO Charlotte Beers was famous for saying, “Collaboration is highly overrated when you don’t have the right thing to do.” Too often, people will try to collaborate on everything, and wind up in endless meetings, debating ideas and struggling to find consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

The CEO nodded, the VPs agreed, the Directors were polished in their reviews. I wanted to accept the consensus as a sign that the company had rounded the corner on its 3-year slog to be more relevant in their market. The product managers looked at each other, then at their VP, and then, finally, to the CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

It was led people by who have devoted their career to this topic and included Daniel Goleman, coiner of the term "emotional intelligence." Typically, 80% of a company's managers believe their company has this differentiation. This is a huge gap and it demonstrates that managers are fooling themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Like the Premier League in soccer, Khazanah plays the role of investor and broker, creating a structure that allows the borrowing and lending companies to mitigate the risk and costs of managing the loans themselves. Peter Voser, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell from July 2009, retired in May 2013. I wanted that experience.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Conventional thinking has suggested that leadership positions go to those who aggressively plan their careers with a keen eye for building the right skills to reach top jobs. Note that this inclusive process is not decision-making by committee or by consensus. Near the end of his career, it also helped him decide to sell Frankel.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Money is left on the table because managers are unwilling or unable to cross-sell their products and services, cross-pollinate resources to create new products, or share best practices to improve efficiency. Cisco managers will no doubt let us know in due course. Massive failures abound in the business world. So what's the right way?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2011

of Fortune 500 CEOs and barely 2% of board members. There's a pervasive feeling of being "a square peg in a round hole," as one manager puts it, with 48% reporting that conforming to prevailing leadership models is a problem. CWLP research finds that 63% of Asian men and 44% of Asian women feel stalled in their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Instead, the decision to fire (or hire or promote) someone is based on group consensus. Most managers assume that customers love getting gifts, especially in front of other people. In fact, a survey of retail managers suggests that a majority think customers are happier getting preferential treatment in public than in private.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

CEO Jack Griffin after less than six months on the job has the media world buzzing. career: Avoid the term "change agent." It casts veteran managers as part of the problem, not forces for positive change themselves. The abrupt departure of Time Inc. Try to keep that from happening. As one Time Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

The Cardinals, quarterbacked by an inspired Kurt Warner in the twilight of his illustrious career, mounted a spectacular comeback to go ahead 23-20 on a 64-yard touchdown bomb to Larry Fitzgerald with 2:37 left in the game. The Steelers, led by young star Ben Roethlisberger , leapt out to a 10-0 first-quarter and 20-7 halftime lead.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

In matrix organizations, leaders suddenly find themselves having to master the challenges of managing cross-divisional, international teams over whom they have little formal authority. Self-awareness allows leaders to summon the patience to manage the complexities of the matrix. Implement rotational assignments.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that women’s household responsibilities are taking time away from their career development. For a single important decision, it can take months to get consensus, align employees, consult with key stakeholders, and communicate the final decision. hours and 7.8 hours, respectively).

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

with the only outcomes being failed initiatives and splintered management teams. Managing Outside Vendors : Remember that consultants work for you, and that the decisions should be made by you and not the vendor. Good consultants build consensus and unify management focus, they do not splinter opinion.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

However, just as we''ve found in our decades of experience consulting to senior leaders — including CEO''s of major companies — Thatcher''s greatest strengths were also her biggest weaknesses. Leadership Managing yourself'

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