Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 6, 2017

I’ve been in a senior leadership position most of my career. I know I would not be satisfied long-term. And, with much of this platform I encourage people to build by consensus and include others in decision-making, but there will be times you’ll have to stand for the right thing. You aren’t striving for popularity.

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Micromanagement Consensus Long-term Delegation 39

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The sad fact is that many business people are absolutists in that they only see things in terms of rights and wrongs. Thinking in terms of “ my way &# is right and therefore “ other ways &# are wrong is the basis for polarizing any relationship, which quickly results in converting discussions into power struggles.

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Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 412

Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

Some may want to pursue a career separate from the family enterprise, while some who join the family business may feel an extra level of intensity around performance expectations. While learning is considered a continuous process, a tangible goal is the ability to trust one another and communicate and collaborate for the long term.

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How To Diversity Open-book Consultative 304

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The report identified the top four skills that have the greatest impact on leader preparedness and confidence in addressing VUCA challenges: introducing and managing change; building consensus and commitment; inspiring others toward a challenging future vision and leading across generations. Can''t Get Enough Leadership. Ask the Coach .

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Still, they could not fully come to terms with their ambition. Still, the art of consensus can sometimes slow women down and diminish their leadership credibility. One thing we've heard again and again is that collaboration can be a double-edged sword in terms of being perceived as powerful.

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Career Consensus Decentralization Seminar 13

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

What’s going on there, it’s a term that’s been used for a really long time and you sort of opened the book with a discussion of that. They don’t feel that it’s part of what they’re proud of and what they are building in their professional career, what they want to do. Why is that so important? ORLY: Yes, absolutely.

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Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There is a growing consensus among students, parents and employers that today’s young liberal arts graduates lack the skills needed to succeed in the post-Recession job market. Schools can’t continue to deliver an expensive credential that is not seen as delivering a viable path to a career—no matter what the long-term value.

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Skills Education Long-term Career 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

Should you align yourself with the person who has the most influence over your job and career? “It’s like when you were a kid and your parents would fight,” says Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job.

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Consensus Case Study Long-term Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

Managers and employees can then map out, together, a career development plan so that the path forward is clear to everyone. And while building trust and consensus early in a project might seem time-consuming at the start, it has long-term benefits. See the value in collaborative leadership.

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Delegation Consensus Committee Benchmarking 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2017

When Baker Hughes and Halliburton were both downgraded by equity analysts following an Obama administration oil drilling ban in 2010, several of their long-serving directors decamped to take up seats at other firms. They should also consider better documenting directors’ careers and participation.

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Reputation Media Consensus Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

If this sounds like your boss, your career may be at risk. Working for a manager who is conflict-averse can have deleterious effects on your performance and your career. But there are serious long-term effects. People let it go on for a long time,” McKeown says. Case study #2: Don’t stay too long.

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Case Study Resources Long-term CIO 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

We must inspire students to find value in pursuing a career in science. Science instruction that mirrors the way scientists do their work also motivates students to pursue science as a career. We view scientific literacy and education, like our R&D programs, as essential long-term investments for the future.

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Education Creativity How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Throughout my career, I have consistently faced the question, "How does HR add value in a business?" Early in my career I was fortunate to help a large manufacturer and distributor of construction and agricultural equipment change the way it went to market in North America. In many cases, this question is not asked politely.

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Offshoring Fixed Costs Outsourcing Construction 14

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 19, 2016

Thursday: Energy begins to ebb — schedule meetings, especially when consensus is needed. Friday: Lowest energy level — do open-ended work, long-term planning and relationship building. Tuesday, Wednesday: Peak of energy — tackle the most difficult problems, write, brainstorm, schedule your Make Time.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2015

This blast of nostalgia, while great in the short term, illuminates a problematic phenomenon. What they’re often missing these days is a partnership with less prominent authors they cultivate over the long term, enabling them to be far more successful than they could on their own. Become a full partner with authors.

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Short-term Long-term Audience Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

When you borrow talent, you obtain what you need more cost effectively than hiring it and without making a long-term commitment; and when you lend talent you’re offering your stars and high-potentials new opportunities for growth and development that they might not otherwise get within the confines of your organization.

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

What immediately becomes clear is how it raises hackles in an organization; the term is quoted with irony , or upon someone's departure , more often than not. career: Avoid the term "change agent." It would appear that nothing guarantees more schadenfreude on your departure than having arrived as an agent of change.

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Emotional Intelligence Short-term Long-term Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2018

But because she was the client, and I was just starting out in my career, I didn’t think it was my place to openly disagree with her. ” They went on to explain that managers and employees need to get over an “instinctual urge to avoid conflict” and abandon “the idea that consensus is an end in and of itself.

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Diversity Learning-by-Doing Project Team 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Over the course of our careers, and through our formal research on mentoring within and outside of academia, we’ve found that good mentoring is discipline-agnostic. Mentors trade away hours they could use to pursue their own career goals and spend them on someone else’s. As academic physicians, we do a lot of mentoring.

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Mentor Emotional Intelligence Project Career 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. Experimentation will be needed to determine how such holistic pediatric-care programs can best achieve long-term return on investment. Lauri Rotko/Folio Images/Getty Images.

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Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 25, 2015

Poorly executed, at best it’s a waste of time, and often creates serious havoc on long term performance. False Consensus. Career & Learning Energy & Engagement 9 box performance potential grid 9 box performane potential matrix getting succession planning right leadership development'

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My Own Coach

JUNE 24, 2013

Characterised by long term thinking and a clearly stated direction, decisions are made by the leader with some input from the team to test the decisions. DEMOCRATIC The democratic leader builds consensus and commitment through participation. If this style were summed up in one phrase, it would be “ Come with me.

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Goleman Leadership Styles Bottom-up Consensus 47

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

Leadership is often defined in terms of opposites — autocratic vs. democratic, task-oriented vs. people-oriented, short-term vs. long-term. And we have all seen the flipside, when a supportive people-person seems unable to make the tough calls and drive for results.

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