leaderCommunicator

DECEMBER 19, 2014

They’ll provide you with tips, strategies and thought-starters from many of the smart folks in my network. If your career…”. Each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays I pull some of the best together here on my blog. So in case you’ve missed them, here is this week’s round-up of top posts.

Tips 120

Tips Productivity Products Consensus 120

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?” My caution to these executives is always the same: Inappropriate delegation can kill.

Delegation 152

Delegation Morale Report Learning-by-Doing 152

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.

Self-aware 70

Self-aware Leadership eBook Career 70

Women on Business

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The overall consensus was that unless you’re trying to win government contracts where government agencies are required to award a certain percentage of contracts to women-owned and minority-owned businesses each year, then the certification might not be worth it to you. Get the details: Is Woman Owned Business certification worth it?

Consensus 213

Consensus Diversity Budgeting Reputation 213

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.

How To 84

How To Commitment Hedge Resistance 84

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.

Consensus 64

Consensus Advice Executive Coaching Tactics 64

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.

Mentor 264

Mentor Goal Leadership Guidelines 264

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Their success depends on their ability to build consensus and inspire the other team members to do great things. Product managers who can work successfully with these (and other) groups in their companies will release great products and have success throughout their careers. What have you found to be important in your organization?

Productivity 182

Productivity Products Management Leadership 182

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.

Strategic Planning 100

Strategic Planning Planning Fashion Consultative 100

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. This is a skill I believe many leaders do not develop until later in their careers.

Blog 412

Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 412

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. When Doing It All Won''t Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women--Workbook Edition--Paperback .

Human Capital 103

Human Capital Conference Metrics Talent Management 103

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.

How To 50

How To Leadership Competitive Advantage Consensus 50

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).

Career 8

Career Leadership Styles Emotional Intelligence Consensus 8

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.

Career 8

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.

Career 8

Career COO Conference Consensus 8

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 .

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 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. Who: Look for dual superpowers.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Brand Metrics 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 26, 2014

Will this be a consensus decision everyone must be able to live with and support? I’ve often observed that more anxiety is created by not knowing who is making a decision than even the decision itself. And, people lose trust if you pretend their input matters when you’ve already made the decision. WHAT METHOD will you use to decide?

Competitive Advantage 63

Competitive Advantage Consensus Strategic Planning Content 63

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

MARCH 29, 2018

Another aspect of decision making to understand is whether your company culture has a bias for action or a bias for analysis and consensus. Other company cultures prefer a more protracted discussion of options, models, and strategies. These organizations tend to be flatter and more focused on shared goals and results.

Company 15

Company Consensus Influence Information 15

Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Collaboration does not = consensus.” “The Strategy is not a powerpoint. “Management is not a science, it is an art.” Nilofer Merchant @Nilofer / Consultant and champion of collaboration / In a nutshell: Leaders need to involve their people. The future is not created, it is co-created.” “We Knowing the way is crucial.

Management 48

Management Simon COO Blog 48

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.

Skills 10

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.

Consensus 8

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. Managers and employees can then map out, together, a career development plan so that the path forward is clear to everyone. See the value in collaborative leadership.

Delegation 10

Delegation Consensus Committee Benchmarking 10

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.

Leadership Styles 40

Leadership Styles Goleman Emotional Intelligence Leadership 40

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.

Offshoring 14

Offshoring Fixed Costs Outsourcing Construction 14

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."

Self-aware 15

Self-aware Goleman Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage 15

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.

Productivity 16

Productivity Products Brainstorming Diversity 16

You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Sometimes there just isn’t time for lengthy debate or consensus building. Announces Social Media, Branding & Diversity Strategies" by @ bizshrink. In times of upheaval, it is an authoritative leader who will ensure the reformation of a structure within which we can continue to work and contribute.

Leadership Styles 40

Leadership Styles Leadership Blog McCarthy 40

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.

Reputation 8

Reputation Media Consensus Long-term 8

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. Of course these things can be useful if the timing is right and the strategy is solid, but they also come at a cost. Don’t expect consensus.

Examples 11

Examples Environment Library Consensus 11

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. The team must develop collaboration strategies to meet these goals, prioritize the needs of complex patients, and tailor interventions to the specific needs of different subgroups.

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

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.

Productivity 11

Productivity Products Brainstorming Diversity 11

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

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.

Mentor 8

Mentor Emotional Intelligence Project Career 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

” Having spent their careers looking through a patient-focused lens, physicians moving into executive positions might be expected to bring a patient-focused strategy. There seems to be a widening consensus that training physicians for leadership matters. In a recent study that matched random samples of U.S.

Management 15

Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

It sets in when people collaborate on the wrong things or when collaboration efforts get bogged down in endless discussions and consensus decision-making in which no one is clearly accountable. The alternative problem is that collaboration sometimes goes too far. The result is slow and poor execution.

CIO 15

CIO Consensus Bottom-up Organizational Behavior 15