Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The more mature you get, the better you get at managing ego.” “In Management is not a science, it is an art.” Collaboration does not = consensus.” “The It’s the thing that happens to get the product to market” Mitch Joel @mitchjoel / Author and marketing guru / In a nutshell: It’s time for Leadership 3.0…

Management 48

Management Simon COO Blog 48

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.

Blog 405

Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 405

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Although the figures are elusive, the majority of data I've seen suggests that 40 to 50 percent of new hires at the middle level of management and above have not succeeded in their new companies 24 months after hire. If venturing into the job market as the economy rebounds is on your radar screen, now's the time to take some proactive steps.

Career 15

Career Company Consensus Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

Maybe you also dream about switching to a career that’s drastically different from your current job. Two careers are better than one. And by committing to two careers, you will produce benefits for both. Instead, a more revealing query would be, “Why do you have multiple careers?” Career Transitions.

Career 8

Career Groupthink Banking Video 8

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 19, 2016

I ran into a profound message from a Google manager who wrote a simple email to his staff on Time Management. (By By Jeremiah Dillon , Head of Product Marketing, Google Apps for Work). Now, think about how you’re managing your time. It’s been said there are two paradigms to scheduling —  the manager and the maker.

Management 150

Management Energy Consensus Brainstorming 150

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

How do you construct all that relationship, and also what kinds of career trajectories they have when they join you, what kind of promise, or actually, what kind of threats are you putting forward with, for example, requiring a non-compete. That can be, I think, really demotivating.

Human Capital 60

Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

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.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

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.

360-Degree Feedback 17

360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For the first time in my young career, I was going to lots of meetings, and my job had become as much about convincing, cajoling, and coordinating as it was about designing. My manager told me about a team that was working on the Google Help Forum. We were product managers, designers, and leaders. Don’t expect consensus.

Examples 11

Examples Environment Library Consensus 11

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.

Open-book 8

Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Studies comparing the problem-solving abilities of groups in which dissenting views are voiced with groups in which they are not find that dissent tends to be a better precondition for reaching the right solution than consensus. As a former employee working in the development team at the time said of that decision , "Management did the usual.

Consensus 9

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Studies comparing the problem-solving abilities of groups in which dissenting views are voiced with groups in which they are not find that dissent tends to be a better precondition for reaching the right solution than consensus. In the six years since the iPhone was introduced Nokia lost about 90% of its market value. All too few.

Consensus 9

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

That's the new quantitative consensus reshaping professional sports worldwide. After looking hard at the numbers and algorithms, the smartest — and richest — general managers and franchises have made up their collective minds: They're not paying a premium for yesterday. Yesterday" is a sunk cost. But why not?

Loyalty 8

Loyalty Franchising Six Sigma Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

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. I knew that the new head of engineering and the head of product management had worked through a ton of issues to get to this review meeting prepared. Some long seconds passed.

CEO 16

CEO Engineering Consensus Innovation 16

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.

Self-aware 15

Self-aware Goleman Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

That’s the argument of British money manager George Cooper ’s very interesting if less-than-felicitously titled new book, Money, Blood and Revolution: How Darwin and the Doctor of King Charles I Could Turn Economics Into a Science. Economy Finance Risk management' Economics is due for a paradigm shift. In macroeconomics, too.

Cooper 9

Cooper Finance Open-book Risk Management 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Throughout my career, I have consistently faced the question, "How does HR add value in a business?" Adding legitimacy to this skepticism are new technologies that enable automation of routine transactions, offshoring and shared service organizations that specialize in managing many tactical elements of HR.

Offshoring 14

Offshoring Fixed Costs Outsourcing Construction 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2017

Understanding the strategies directors use to protect their reputation (resigning from boards, pursuing new boards, and so on) can help executives create policies to keep directors engaged in the unity and consensus building that strong corporate governance requires. The results from our paper suggest two areas for further investigation.

Reputation 8

Reputation Media Consensus Long-term 8

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.

Advertising 8

Advertising Video Ethics PR 8

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Over the course of my career I’ve assembled a very handy annual New Year’s “Checklist&# that helps get me focused and ready for the challenges to come in the days and months ahead, and well positioned for success. Sometimes as managers we get too caught up in the big picture and forget to focus on the details.

Leadership 418

Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

The challenge of attracting and retaining talent is particularly acute for marketers. In this new world, the best marketers exhibit five superpowers – each of which requires new types of talent. Content creation + product expertise: Brand marketers are becoming more and more like publishers. Who: Look for dual superpowers.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Brand Metrics 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Those of you familiar with this blog know that I’m generally a strong marketing advocate. 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.

Blog 285

Blog Marketing Succession Brand 285

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2018

When I worked as a management consultant, I had a client that I thought of as difficult. 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. In fact, disagreements — when managed well — have lots of positive outcomes.

Diversity 15

Diversity Learning-by-Doing Project Team 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Company founders would seem to be a natural fit for change management programs. When channeled successfully, these attributes represent the lifeblood of entrepreneurship and market disruption. Without these, I believe change management is impossible. The answer is, they can’t.

Company 8

Company Objective Construction Industry 8

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.

CEO 14

CEO Consensus Conference Rogers 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

While this is natural, it can lead to misunderstandings when communicating with and managing colleagues from around the world. This isn’t to say deadline-oriented cultures aren’t concerned with doing a job well or nurturing relationships, but getting the job done on time is the primary capitalistic driver of being first to market.

Delegation 12

Delegation Efficiency Learning-by-Doing Consensus 12

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. Whether you’re a mentor to a medical resident or marketing manager, the same principles apply. As academic physicians, we do a lot of mentoring.

Mentor 8

Mentor Emotional Intelligence Project Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

They went deep into three international firms with reputations for excellence – one a law firm, one a public accounting firm, one a management consultancy – conducting over 100 face-to-face interviews with people working within them. In the words of Empson and Alvehus they have gained “legitimacy to lead through market success.”

Politics 8

Politics Pharmaceuticals Consultative Consensus 8