Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

But collaboration is not consensus. Too often, people will try to collaborate on everything, and wind up in endless meetings, debating ideas and struggling to find consensus. How to Handle a Colleague Who’s a Jerk When the Boss Isn’t Around. Collaboration is not a style. Collaboration is not “cross-selling.”

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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. “We were Abelson-Frankel, yet operated as two separate agencies.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. That’s how groups become mired in consensus, and after a while, everyone thinks and acts alike.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

My knowledge of corporate leaders' 360-degree feedback indicates that one out of four of them has a listening deficit—the effects of which can paralyze cross-unit collaboration, sink careers, and if it's the CEO with the deficit, derail the company. Earlier in his career, as a business unit manager, he recognized that he must cut costs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

What if you upgraded your IT network to a new operating system that promised faster, better and leaner results — only to find that the vast majority of your leaders did not have the necessary competencies to use that new system? At Hay Group, our research suggests that many companies are now stuck in that metaphorical boat.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Characteristics that are necessary to lead an organization through significant transitions — traits such as patience, consensus building, and adherence to strict processes — don’t always come naturally to the best entrepreneurs.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Good consultants build consensus and unify management focus, they do not splinter opinion. That said, my typical pro-marketing position assumes that certain key fundamentals are in place to insure that the lunatics don’t somehow become in charge of the asylum. Thanks for sharing Tom.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

Places full of highly mobile and in-demand workers operate more democratically. How do they do that? Clever people do not want to be told how to do their jobs, but they appreciate the importance of coherence, and the power of colleagues pulling together rather than working at cross purposes.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

This company operates its democracy to the extent that: Employees set their own work schedules They don’t use the same workstation more than two days in a row so that no one really knows when they go to work or how long they stay. As a leader how prepared might you be to be elected to your role rather than appointed?

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