Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

He coached many others including Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, Dan Rosensweig, CEO of Chegg, John Hennessy, former President of Stanford University, and Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook. Best Idea, Not Consensus. The goal of consensus leads to “groupthink” and inferior decisions.

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Consensus Groupthink COO Mentor 239

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Former CEO and president of Verison Wireless, Denny Strigl explores nine specific behaviors that leaders do and don’t do that make them serious performers, marginal performers, or failures. They Over-rely on Consensus. Consensus managers seldom survive long in their jobs. In "Managers, can you hear me now?" They are consistent.

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Management Consensus Wireless Energy 285

Lead from Within

MAY 9, 2019

And many of them are shocked, but the truth is, succession planning takes time and development; and if you want to grow leaders you have to groom and grow them, it doesn’t happen overnight. Map out a vision of the future leadership team: An active development process to prepare people for next-level jobs.

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Planning Succession How To Consensus 165

Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

My colleagues and I believe that the primary reason people and organizations are struggling with employee engagement and organizational culture is that they are not intentional about developing cultures that connect people. Several developments this year make me optimistic that the need for connection is catching on.

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Leadership Open-book Competitive Advantage Stress 253

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Problems with dysfunctional harmony—when you want consensus too badly, you miss out on valuable debate. Michael Bryant, CEO of Centra Health explained it this way: “A good leader is like a coach of a basketball team. Entrenched in efficiency: forgetting to put effectiveness first. Distracted purpose.

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Consensus Efficiency Goal CEO 283

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Of course not, but even the best CEO can’t do everything alone. And team members should share a level of trust with one another and with the CEO. They bring information back to the CEO, either in the form of an update on current projects or in response to a specific question or assignment. Teams can serve a variety of functions.

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Delegation How To Real Estate CEO 175

Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

I N AN IBM global survey of CEOs, the overwhelming consensus was that more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision, successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity. In a world where we must adapt or die, we need creative solutions. Focus and distance. The Naysayer Mindset.

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Creativity Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Construction 272

Chart Your Course

APRIL 29, 2013

s fledgling CEO Marissa Mayer made her first misstep. said, “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.”. This past February Yahoo!’s In a company-wide email, she announced Yahoo! was changing its telecommute policy. Effective June 2013, all employees were required to work in the office.

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White Paper Human Resources Consensus Case Study 231

CO2

JULY 13, 2013

Charlie was the head of the division that developed a telescope with a flawed mirror. He assembled a team to develop the fix–and gave them credit for doing so. Failure to develop the leadership capacity of your team. Leaders develop leaders. But he didn’t spend time looking for somebody to blame.

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Consensus Leadership Emotional Intelligence Executive Coaching 145

Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

When managers invest time to develop connections with and among people they become real leaders who people want to follow. When leaders fail to meet the standard, help them with coaching, mentoring, education and development. Little things matter when it comes to connection.

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Leadership Six Sigma Competitive Advantage Consensus 400

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The consensus among these individuals is that when you focus on taking care of your own emotional health, the resulting positivity has a contagious effect, especially when it comes to relationships between leaders and employees. It is also critical that business leaders are better informed on the current landscape of mental illness.

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Strategy Presenteeism Absenteeism Fashion 233

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Now, only a few months until the election, the question is what has changed if anything?

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CEO Politics Consensus System 227

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Slow decision makers who are driven by how others will feel about the decision, look for and desire a consensus decision making process. If a leader is a Slow Decision Outlier, miss market opportunities, slow to change, will often want to decide using consensus-can’t please everyone. They want all in agreement before making a decision.

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Team Consensus Stress Executive Coaching 226

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 26, 2018

To help you develop. On many boards the CEO is also the Chairperson. A lead director can make your job much easier because they can run point on sensitive issues, poll the board for concerns, help build consensus, and give you much needed feedback and guidance. Operational boards are more valuable than governance boards.

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Venture Capitalist Chief Financial Officer Committee Diversity 140

Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 28, 2014

The CEO naively believed that his employees would always rise to the occasion and see the value of their learning through mistakes they made. 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?” In one example, a CEO was frequently traveling.

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Delegation Report Consensus Learning-by-Doing 137

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The CEO naively believed that his employees would always rise to the occasion and see the value of their learning through mistakes they made. 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?” In one example, a CEO was frequently traveling.

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Delegation Morale Report Learning-by-Doing 152

leaderCommunicator

JUNE 3, 2014

Flip charts and sticky notes flow, ideas get jotted down, and ultimately you arrive at a consensus -- the path forward. The cloud-based tool was developed by Codigital , a U.K.-based While such planning sessions can be great exercises for employee teams, they have clear limitations.

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Brainstorming Conference Consensus eBook 126

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. Here are the key roles that are crucial to your success as a product manager, and why they are important: Engineering/QA: The relationship with the engineering/development team is paramount for product managers.

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Productivity Products Management Leadership 182

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Managers need to develop a clear strategy around their company's unique place in the market (and not worry as much about creating strategy to compete head-on with other companies.). Strategy is not something that is done in a bottom-up consensus process. Porter, director of Harvard's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness.

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Porter Execution Strategy Consensus 98

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

When you develop the skill to transform negative conflict into creative tension is when you will begin to earn and hold the respect of even those individuals who don’t agree with your positions. I have always found that rapport is quickly developed when you listen, care, and attempt to help people succeed.

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Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 412

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

A CEO we’ve worked with – let’s call him “Gary” – prides himself on being a collaborative leader who invests in consensus and builds relationships. Unfortunately, by the time we met Gary, his habits as a “nice CEO” were about to cost him his job.

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CEO Consensus Kaplan Morale 8

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Readers'' favorites included those written by or about sports coaches, athletes, CEOs, scholars, religious leaders, governmental and military leaders. But, the general consensus was that if someone recommended a book that inspired them or taught them how to be a better leader, the book was worth their time. Top Books About Leadership.

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 79

Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2016

of chief executives of S&P 500 companies are women, and there are just six black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies currently. iv Their consensus is that a lack of diversity in executive teams is less about overt discrimination than it is about unconscious biases toward affinity: people tend to hire people like themselves.

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Diversity McKinsey Team Leadership 50

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

It will require that team members have the courage to ask for input and suggestions regularly and the discipline to develop a behavioral change strategy to follow up, and to ‘stick with it.’?. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There has just been listed as the #2 bestselling business book for 2012 by INC magazine / 800 CEO Read.

Team Building 137

Team Building Team Teamwork Survey 137

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders build the Vision bridge by developing and communicating a mission, set of values, and reputation that connect with employees. Leaders build the Voice bridge by developing processes and practices that keep employees “in the loop” and give them regular opportunities to express their views. Connecting the U.S.

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2012

Readers' favorites included those written by or about sports coaches, athletes, CEOs, scholars, religious leaders, governmental and military leaders. But, the general consensus was that if someone recommended a book that inspired them or taught them how to be a better leader, the book was worth their time.

Books 93

Books Handbook Kotter Leadership Pipeline 93

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Readers'' favorites included those written by or about sports coaches, athletes, CEOs, scholars, religious leaders, governmental and military leaders. But, the general consensus was that if someone recommended a book that inspired them or taught them how to be a better leader, the book was worth their time. Top Books About Leadership.

Books 50

Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 50

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 13, 2011

ScottEblin has some tips on what to do [link] # communication # Interesting model by @ RedBaronUSA on how to build team consensus in organizations [link] # Check out @ mikemyatt ‘s take on the importance of valuing those white spaces in # leadership [link] # Thanks Paul! Thanks Kathy!

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Learning-by-Doing Consensus Career Blog 100

Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Contribute to team consensus decisions. They do pose some extra challenges for the meeting leader, especially the difficulty in reading nonverbals to understand intent, optimize participation, or achieve consensus. I’ve been in the learning and development business for over 35 years, and CEO of Performance Support Systems, Inc.,

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Guidelines Participative Consensus Video 108

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Readers' favorites included those written by or about sports coaches, athletes, CEOs, scholars, religious leaders, governmental and military leaders. But, the general consensus was that if someone recommended a book that inspired them or taught them how to be a better leader, the book was worth their time.

Books 61

Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 61

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

It’s a tough situation, and the third generation decided to look outside the family to find a successor CEO. They called this idealized new CEO “Mr. Neither thought the business was ready for a non-family CEO. What should you do if you find yourself in the situation of wanting to bring in an outside CEO? Wonderful.”.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Consensus System 8

Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 20, 2014

In my last article, “ 3 Practices CEOs Should Adopt from this Rock Star ,” I credited Bono’s leadership of U2 as a key factor behind the band’s success. CEOs would be wise to follow Bono’s example. CEOs would be wise to follow Bono’s example. Build Consensus. U2 Ordinary Love Album Cover. U2’s Connection Culture .

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Leadership Consensus CEO Advice 402

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The goal of most executive coaching and leadership development is behavior change—help the individual identify and change the behaviors that are getting in the way of, and reinforce the behaviors associated with, effective leadership. The CEO has nowhere to turn to discuss the dilemma, because he has alienated his executive team.

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Consensus Executive Coaching Ethics CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate. Incremental innovations can be managed at the operating levels where the people know the customers/consumers best and decisions can be made in a more consensus-driven way with input and agreement between all stakeholder functions.

Process 15

Process Innovation Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

You might espouse being a learning organization that develops people, but then not give people the time to actually take classes or learn on the job (system-behaviors gap). Maybe your company tells people to be consensus-builders, but promotes people who are solely authoritative decision makers (behavior-practices gap). Developing.

Teamwork 15

Teamwork Consensus Attrition System 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Consider the story of the consultant brought in by the CEO to help solve a specific problem: the company is too centralized in its decision making. Two years pass, the company is still struggling, and a new CEO brings in a new consultant. Two years pass, the company is still struggling, and a new CEO brings in a new consultant.

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Skills Decentralization Agility Resistance 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The truth is that most leaders don't know how to develop a useful picture of their organization's culture, which is why they resort to platitudes. To fix this problem, the team asked themselves some simple questions about the decision-making culture: To what extent are decisions currently made by consensus or by the CEO (on a scale of 1-10)?

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Parcell Consensus Automotive Organizational Behavior 14