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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Talented managers often get frustrated by their pace of career advancement, sign on with a new company, and run into the same problems that were an obstacle in their prior organization. For example, Frank was a highly-skilled finance manager who advanced quickly early in his career based on his technical knowledge and desire for results.

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Career Company Consensus Learning-by-Doing 15

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 planning Entrepreneurship'

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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. This is a skill I believe many leaders do not develop until later in their careers. Most people don’t have to agree with you 100% of the time, but they do need to trust you 100% of the time. Thank you for sharing.

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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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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

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 is not a science, it is an art.” The future is not created, it is co-created.” “We

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

If you’re a marketer, you have to decide whether you’d prefer to work for a marketing agency or in the marketing department of an organization. We conducted an additional study to assess whether there’s consensus among employees in different positions about which roles are the lynchpin ones.

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Company Report Positioning Consensus 12

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

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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Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

On November 10, 2010, Cisco's stock price dropped 16%, erasing roughly $20 billion of market value in a matter of hours. In fact, this stock market bellwether had just beat earnings estimates by 6%. for the quarter, just barely clearing the consensus estimates of $0.40. Had something catastrophic happened? The problem?

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Proposal Benchmarking Consensus Morale 15

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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360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 18

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.

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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.

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Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

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. Don’t expect consensus. Getting everyone to agree before moving forward with a decision can waste time if consensus is not realistic.

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Examples Environment Library Consensus 11

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." To find the answer to that question I attended a session on leadership at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Typically, 80% of a company's managers believe their company has this differentiation.

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Self-aware Goleman Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

That's the new quantitative consensus reshaping professional sports worldwide. Unlike for a Procter & Gamble or Unilever, Morey muses, there is no "aging curve" for marketing prowess: "We can't say that, after 50, this guy won't have another good marketing idea again.". Future potential matters (much) more than past performance.

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Loyalty Franchising Six Sigma Sports 8

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 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

Financial economics adopted its own, narrower paradigm, in which the starting point was that the prices prevailing on financial markets were more or less correct (a belief that in those days went under the name Efficient Market Hypothesis, although the EMH is for the most part understood to mean something much narrower now).

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Cooper Finance Open-book Risk Management 9

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. Then the person associated with the voice stood up and started to point out other areas where the plan was lacking, and where it would lead the company to miss the market.

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CEO Engineering Consensus Innovation 16

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.

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Reputation Media Consensus Long-term 8

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 19, 2016

By Jeremiah Dillon , Head of Product Marketing, Google Apps for Work). Thursday: Energy begins to ebb — schedule meetings, especially when consensus is needed. I was wondering around the web the other day and ran into this article/email on Medium (one of my favorite sites).

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Management Energy Consensus Brainstorming 150

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2015

Though exact numbers are hard to come by, there’s a clear consensus that following the economic shocks of 2008, advances paid to writers are declining —in some cases precipitously. Many authors appreciate the turnkey services publishers provide such as distribution, design, marketing, foreign rights sales, and editing.

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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. New research led by Lan Jiang, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Oregon, shows that if you give a shopper an unearned reward, she’ll probably have mixed feelings if she’s observed by other people, such as shopper No.

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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. Ak January 5, 2010 at 1:38 pm Thank you Terry. Fantastic post.

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Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

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.

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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.

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Blog Marketing Succession Brand 287

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. That’s how groups become mired in consensus, and after a while, everyone thinks and acts alike. In the next three weeks, reconnect with people outside the com­pany who may shed useful light on your work, industry, or career.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 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.

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CEO Consensus Conference Rogers 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

When channeled successfully, these attributes represent the lifeblood of entrepreneurship and market disruption. Toss in some office politics and career management interests, and you’ll produce the most banal feedback imaginable.

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Company Objective Construction Industry 8

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

MAY 23, 2016

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. Time often literally equals money, in terms of costs, profit margins, and beating the competition for market share.

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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.

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Mentor Emotional Intelligence Project Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

In the words of Empson and Alvehus they have gained “legitimacy to lead through market success.” Aspiring leaders of professional service firms must build and sustain consensus among their colleagues, make trade-offs between competing interest groups, and offer incentives to individuals to lend their support.

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