Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Kill morale, careers, and even a company. Delegation killed morale, careers, and the company. Are there areas where I can help other people grow and develop, and give myself more time to focus on strategy and long-term planning?” This meeting management task can usually be delegated on a rotating basis to direct reports.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2014

Sharon Drew imparts invaluable advice to executives and managers at all levels: helping them solve problems, become more effective, and realize a higher measure of business and career success. Not only does a compelling, well-executed strategy align individuals to common goals, it ensures those goals best serve the company’s mission.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I interviewed 50 different founders, athletes, artists, activists, NFL coaches and celebrities, many of whom I have mentored and advised – from billionaire Marc Lore to Scarlett Johansson – to illustrate strategies for total commitment. And time spent prematurely cultivating buy-in and fostering consensus just amounts to energy leakage.

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How To Commitment Hedge Resistance 84

The Empowered Buisness

JUNE 16, 2015

Even though I did strategy development for billion dollar corporations in the early days of my business 30 years ago, I had no idea that there were 3 different approaches to strategic planning. Future business goals and strategies may be established, but only after issues are identified and addressed. I learned alot from this article.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Are you more collaborative as a leader, working through consensus? Here's one strategy for doing just that: • Make contact via phone or email introducing yourself and indicating that you are working on self-improvement in the area of leadership and that you would welcome input from an experienced leader who has been successful in this area.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Trust, leads to a willingness to be open to: new opportunities; new collaborations; new strategies; new ideas, and; new attitudes. Never be swayed by consensus that calls you to compromise your values, rather be guided by doing the right thing. Accepting a person where they are, creates an bond of trust.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2014

In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape expected to continue for 2015, leaders face many challenges , requiring aggressive, sustained talent management strategies to prepare them for success. Two times more likely to place value on interacting over managing skills. Related articles.

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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 Strategy is not a powerpoint. Challenge will be to manage them!” When technology, access, information and how consumers buy changes, so must management.”

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2015

While addressing the sacred cow, the company failed miserably to articulate its strategy and gain support for its direction. 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? Confusion reigned.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 26, 2014

Will this be a consensus decision everyone must be able to live with and support? With a timeline, the decision can be managed well and people can get on with their work. Decision-Making The Advisor''s Corner business leadership business management Practices for Professionals Roxi Hewertson strategydriven'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

In his retirement announcement , Pichette gave voice to the sentiments of countless mid-career professionals when he asserted that “Life is wonderful” but it also involves a series of tradeoffs between professional endeavors and commitments to family and community. Whose career will take priority? Mid-Career Crisis.

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Career Chief Financial Officer Cooper Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

"The most important career choice you''ll make is who you marry." This career advice from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg makes good sense based on research. Among couples, career outcomes are indeed linked to the dynamics of support and career priority within couples. Shared vision and values. A team orientation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

A simple question was asked: are hospitals ranked more highly when they are led by medically trained doctors or non-MD professional managers? The analysis showed that hospital quality scores are approximately 25% higher in physician-run hospitals than in manager-run hospitals. In a recent study that matched random samples of U.S.

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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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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Maybe your manager frequently stops by and says, “Can you come join this meeting now?”) Your peers and direct reports may be well positioned to tell you how to proceed with your manager and those above. Other company cultures prefer a more protracted discussion of options, models, and strategies.

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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

When it was time for Susan’s annual review, Tony ranked her as below average in delegation, decisiveness, and strategy setting. I’ve previously discussed what women like Susan can do to offset these differences and support their own development, but managers, too, play an important role in helping to level the scales.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

He was a stickler for punctuality and his need for control was so strong that he posted one of his managers at the elevators each morning armed with a clip board and orders to write down the names of all those unsuspecting stragglers who deigned to arrive past the expected starting time.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

By projecting his key principles of decision making and his strategy out to the front line Nelson created a faster and more adaptable Royal Navy that regularly overwhelmed far larger enemies. It was led people by who have devoted their career to this topic and included Daniel Goleman, coiner of the term "emotional intelligence."

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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.

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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.

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Examples Environment Library Consensus 10

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 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.

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Reputation Media Consensus Long-term 8

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

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.

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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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Career Leadership Styles Emotional Intelligence Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

As a provider of marketing talent to Silicon Valley’s top companies, one of our firms, The Sage Group, has seen a consistent pattern in the talent strategies of the most effective and innovative companies. These strategies address who you hire, how you hire, and what you do once they’re on board. Marketing Talent management'

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Marketing Strategy Brand Metrics 8

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. Facilitate different types of leadership experiences.

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Management Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Influence 14

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. These include infant safety and injury prevention, social work, legal advocacy, case management, tutoring, fitness classes, nutrition and lactation, mental health, and dental care.

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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.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I have watched companies spend tremendous amounts of money, time and energy debating logos, taglines, color pallets, font styles, ad campaigns, positioning strategies, marketing messages, brand promises, etc., with the only outcomes being failed initiatives and splintered management teams.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

Announces Social Media, Branding & Diversity Strategies" by @ bizshrink. Has a positive impact but can delay decision-making or lead to poor use of time Pace-Setting Emphasis on setting high standards with little direction or support Can focus on outcomes or “bottom line&# issues excluding the larger vision.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Despite their best efforts, women still face obstacles pursuing a career and being a mother. . Unconscious to the many limitations placed on their choices, women still believe that they face a stark choice of either their careers or a happy home. We need to make sure that our career goals coincide with our personal goals.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

However, the theory is that many companies who take the time to reach decisions through voting and consensus are better positioned to carry out a decision quickly having gained commitment from everyone involved. Announces Social Media, Branding & Diversity Strategies" by @ bizshrink. What are your thoughts?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

The research of decision scientists reveals that our best strategy for tackling these problems is to harness cognitive diversity, because groups do better than individuals, including those with the highest IQs. Managers need to be mindful of the numerous contributors to path dependence.

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