Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2015

Chris Edmonds : When I consult with executives on crafting a high performance, values-aligned culture, one of the first things I do is to examine the effectiveness of their leadership team. Whatever that team is called - an executive team, a leadership team, a management team, etc. Most leadership teams I observe are not teams at all.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 29, 2014

Guest post from Georg Vielmetter and Yvonne Sell: In “ Leadership 2030: The six megatrends you need to understand to lead your company into the future ,” we outline the repercussions of the convergence of globalization 2.0, The meaning of leadership is changing, as are the skills it requires. the top should be a crowded place.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Leadership is all about the human experience. Jim Goodnight, CEO and co-founder of SAS Institute, created a culture where the work hours are reasonable, employees work on a beautiful wooded 300 acre campus in Cary, North Carolina and they work in offices rather than cubicles. It’s also damaging to our mental and physical health.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 23, 2013

I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. Maxwell, and Warren Bennis books in abundance, do most people in leadership positions have no clue what to do?” Most managers (people in leadership positions) really don’t read books about leadership. This question from Kathy L.: “Why,

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 18, 2016

Guest post from Joel Peterson : For the past decade, I’ve been privileged to teach a leadership course at Stanford with Professor Charles O’Reilly. Their leadership styles are similarly variable. Some lead by charisma, others by consensus building. It also means using one’s leadership position to inspire.

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CO2

JULY 13, 2013

by Calvin Guyer Here are five key leadership failures: 1. Failure to develop the leadership capacity of your team. Until we as an organization–and the sector as a whole–become much more intentional about development of internal talent, we are doomed to an ever-growing leadership deficit” Neil Nicoll, President and CEO, YMCA.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Look for unanimous consensus from all the people who participated in the interviews. Over a span of 50 years with Cintas, he was promoted to positions of general manager, vice president and treasurer, executive vice president, president, and CEO, then served as Vice-Chair and Board Chair until retiring in 2016.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

Transpersonal Leadership is a concept that my colleagues and I at LeaderShape Global have been developing for over 10 years. The next area to consider is the crucial importance of distributed Leadership, which follows naturally from the transpersonal perspective. Anybody can travel the path to Transpersonal Leadership.

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Leading Blog

JULY 9, 2012

Jim Shaffer, author of The Leadership Solution , believes that top companies are guided by these three best principles: They value their people. The CEO is the communication champion. It stats with leadership. It’s driven home with leadership.”. Everyone says it but not everyone lives it.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 21, 2020

First, make sure that you and your top leadership don’t indulge in backstabbing or blame games. To avoid forced consensus, take generational and background diversity in job candidates into account. Harmful gossip and hostile cliques can’t take hold when your workforce feels like a team. Good culture will follow.

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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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Mark Sanborn

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Leadership, especially at the C-level, is a journey of high-stakes decisions and complex challenges. In Practice: A CEO convinced that remote work hampers productivity may only acknowledge studies supporting this view, while ignoring evidence to the contrary. What are the cognitive challenges leaders at the highest levels face?

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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 management — at every level — is a leadership role within the organization. The same holds true for the CEO and executives at smaller companies.

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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. Leadership should never be a popularity contest.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Great leadership starts with knowing your self on these levels, reflecting on past histories, and being forthcoming with your shortcomings. Now, only a few months until the election, the question is what has changed if anything? Has he come up with a coherent narrative resonant with the American public?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

They have discovered three areas where aspiring leaders fail : Unbalanced Orchestration (leadership failures at the organizational level). Drama Management (leadership failures at the team level) Leaders who rule by bullying. Problems with dysfunctional harmony—when you want consensus too badly, you miss out on valuable debate.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Implementing change today relies on building consensus rather than executive fiat. Create consensus by presenting your plan to colleagues and stakeholders. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Selling Magazine, the New York Times , and Business Week , and is a popular leadership contributor at Forbes.com.

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Lead from Within

MAY 9, 2019

Start early: It can take time to find and prepare a promising candidate for a leadership role. Engage senior leaders: It’s essential to have consensus among the CEO and senior leadership team about the importance of proactive leadership development and succession planning. The Deception Trap of Leadership.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos abhors what he calls “social cohesion,” the natural impulse to seek consensus. Can''t Get Enough Leadership Related articles. Two Leadership Self-Coaching Guides for Career Women. A Feminine Leadership Way of Doing Things. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.

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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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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Let’s start with what typically goes wrong: Scenario 1: The leader is too scared to make decisions and waits until consensus is reached within the team. This principle goes for all hierarchical levels in the organization, from the CEO to management teams, and all the way down to the work floor. What can be arranged up front?

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 1, 2012

Happy New Year, and welcome to the January, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival! This month's edition is a special "Best of 2011" collection of leadership development blog posts from many of our regular Carnival contributors. Sharlyn Lauby, HR Bartender : The Definition of Leadership. This one's been a big hit.". Jennifer V.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2017

Comprising that mindset are the following six leadership characteristics. Characteristic #1: Courage When Dave Lewis became CEO at European grocery store giant Tesco in 2014, the company was struggling. Leaders who are driving simplification must lay aside the need to seek consensus. Do you as a leader have this mindset?

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If we tend to be an outlier on either side of the bell curve, decision making can be holding us back from being successful and getting to the next level of leadership. Slow decision makers who are driven by how others will feel about the decision, look for and desire a consensus decision making process. Slow Decision Outliers.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

Fred Smith, the Founder and CEO of FedEx, once described to us his understanding of The Main Thing—which he refers to as the "theory of the business." We cannot achieve and maintain alignment without consensus and conviction about The Main Thing. Does your organization have a Main Thing? Do your people understand it? Dr. George H.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 10, 2018

This goes back and forth until a consensus is reached on a middle ground, “safe option,” and you both go on your way. He has over two decades of experience custom building leadership programs for corporate and nonprofit groups. is the co-founder and CEO of We!™ Ask them a question that is outside of the realm of “small talk.”

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. A couple years ago, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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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. As a result, they are viewed as having less leadership potential. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 26, 2018

On many boards the CEO is also the Chairperson. But you are missing an opportunity to add strength to your leadership. 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.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

In 2015, shortly before Amazon bought Whole Foods, co-CEO John Mackey is faced with a plummeting stock price and is under fire. Leadership. It’s up to the leadership to make sure people have a safe place to think in unsafe ways. First up is courage. But if we have people with diverse tools, they’ll get stuck in different places.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 14, 2014

Implementing change today relies on building consensus rather than top down executive fiat. Create consensus by presenting your plan to colleagues and stakeholders. business communication Guest Posts leadership Recent Posts change fear feedback planning results risk' ” are gone.

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JULY 18, 2017

It causes individual members of the group to unquestioningly follow the word of the leader and it strongly discourages any disagreement with the consensus. The CEO of this particular organization was frustrated by the lack of new ideas from his leadership team about how to stay ahead of the competition in the future.

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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. He is an inspirational business leader, international speaker and mental health activist from Munich, Germany.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2015

Those users architected, for all intents and purposes, a coup de 'tat that resulted in Interim CEO Ellen Pao's departure. Employ some leadership fundamentals. Reddit is now in the hands of CEO and returning co-founder Steve Huffman. You need to practice some leadership fundamentals. I look forward to the party.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2016

The call for greater diversity at senior leadership levels is not new, although it has itself become more inclusive, extending beyond gender, race and ethnicity, to encompass age, education, socioeconomic background and sexual orientation, as well as experience, skills and talent. iii Progress has been made, but slowly and inconsistently.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 20, 2017

You’ll be able to implement it with greater speed, confidence, and consensus than if you were trying out the best idea that bubbled up in your conference room. Nathaniel Greene is the co-founder and current CEO of Stroud International , and author of Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem-Solvers.

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