Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases). Their success depends on their ability to build consensus and inspire the other team members to do great things.

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Leading Blog

JULY 9, 2012

The CEO is the communication champion. Irv Hockaday, former president and CEO of Hallmark adds, “A CEO’s primary responsibilities are to provide vision, to motivate employees, and to develop leaders. Communication is managed as a business process. It stats with leadership. It’s driven home with leadership.”.

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CEO Insider

JULY 17, 2021

It’s easy to assume we know what they want due to a dangerous judgment error termed the false consensus effect. The false consensus effect is one of over 100 […]. This problematic mental blindspot causes us to perceive others who we feel to be in our team as sharing our beliefs. That’s often not the case.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 21, 2020

If it’s managers or staff who tend to reject requests or new policies, take some time to set firm boundaries and expectations: We expect you to accept new assignments, protocols, or crunch-time duties. Include this tactic in project team meetings and larger management planning sessions. with strings attached. Hire to innovate.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2015

Whatever that team is called - an executive team, a leadership team, a management team, etc. Consensus Do discussions end with members proactively summarizing options, making recommendations, and end with a clear, mutual, firm decision or action being made? He’s the CEO of The Purposeful Culture Group.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Our clients'' resistance to change was not irrational and it was up to us, not our clients, to manage it. Implementing change today relies on building consensus rather than executive fiat. If you can''t or won''t measure results don''t expect sympathy from me or any line manager. But if it crashed the organization, heads rolled.

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 29, 2013

s fledgling CEO Marissa Mayer made her first misstep. Part of being a leader is managing change. said, “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.”. Your business is adding a new time-management system, which requires employees to log their hours on specific projects.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

Those who are driven by their ego, for example, will take center stage and proclaim to have the answers, ignoring or side-lining the experts who could give a more realistic assessment of a situation, managing people’s expectations. During a crisis, leaders must relinquish the belief that a top-down response will engender stability.”

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

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. Michael Bryant, CEO of Centra Health explained it this way: “A good leader is like a coach of a basketball team. Distracted purpose.

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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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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. Managers encourage people to critique each other’s ideas early and often. The Prediction Mindset.

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LDRLB

MARCH 18, 2013

Toyota’s 100 year plan had weekly strategic meetings after high level of consensus was gained from the core of Japanese managers with life-time contracts. Toyota’s strategic process involved consensus in Japan not consensus worldwide. If real world strategic failure can harm them it can harm you.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

In the section that reviewed scholarly research, he wrote that over the last hundred years of scientific inquiry, there has not been a consensus on the definitions of, or a general theoretical model for, leadership or organizational culture. Theory C: A New Theory of Management. However,two trends have emerged in recent years.

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CO2

JULY 13, 2013

“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. Managers manage a process. How much time was spent managing processes? Leaders develop leaders.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Gradually over time, America has become overly obsessed about managing tasks. When managers invest time to develop connections with and among people they become real leaders who people want to follow. They would be wise to put processes in place to measure managers on employee engagement (i.e. What can be done?

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Despite its influence in popularizing ESG investing, the topic remains controversial with mixed academic consensus and political debate in the U.S. The study found that companies with high-ability CEOs and strong ESG investments outperform others, and firms with fewer supplier ESG incidents yield higher returns.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 26, 2018

Keenly aware that while your title makes you manager, only your team makes you leader. They may be easier to manage, but a lot less effective. Lead investors, the investors who price a round and set the terms, can help manage the syndicate of shareholders. On many boards the CEO is also the Chairperson.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 14, 2014

Also compassionately remember that the people you are relying on to implement a new product, service, or management model may not have all the power you give them credit for. Implementing change today relies on building consensus rather than top down executive fiat. ” are gone.

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Lead from Within

MAY 9, 2019

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. This group should set expectations, put processes in place, and hold the organization accountable for making it happen.

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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. For example, for several of my C-level clients, team management has emerged as an area where letting go can both free up executive time and help develop direct reports.

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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. Seems like a pretty straightforward, common work interaction a new employee and their manager. is the co-founder and CEO of We!™ Chad Littlefield , M.Ed. ™ , keynote speaker and professional facilitator.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Before getting to my tips on how management can get started with this mission, it’s important to review the various definitions of mental health. Mental Health Defined. At its core, mental health is “the emotional resilience which allows us to enjoy life, create friendships and be productive at our jobs.”

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leaderCommunicator

MARCH 17, 2015

Yet, CEOs, leaders and employees agreed email is an effective way to exchange information at work. Despite its effectiveness as a communication vehicle, there’s consensus that it needs to be improved. Managers and employees say the top issue with work-related email includes a number of misbehaviors.

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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. For example, for several of my C-level clients, team management has emerged as an area where letting go can both free up executive time and help develop direct reports.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Consensus is a powerful tool. When CEOs set out to conquer new markets or undertake billion-dollar acquisitions, we’d hope they’d at least sought out some consensus from their trusted advisors. The problem with consensus is that it’s expensive. The problem with consensus is that it’s expensive.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Higgins is co-founder and CEO of private investment firm RSE Ventures and a lecturer and Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. Question: You say you can predict CEO failure based on one thing. And time spent prematurely cultivating buy-in and fostering consensus just amounts to energy leakage. What is it?

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Talent Anarchy 1

JULY 18, 2017

He’s a wildly popular professor of management and psychology at Wharton, has written two great books ( Give and Take and Originals ), recently co-wrote a new book with Sheryl Sandberg called Option B , and his Ted Talks have been viewed by more than 9 million people. A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of hearing Adam Grant speak.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2013

It takes the “suggestion box” management approach of the 1970s and ’80s and turns it upside down. However, even with these weaknesses, the quality of the decisions using this approach was at least as good as those decisions made under more conventional management systems, often better. He lives with his wife in Arlington, VA.

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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. Managers in departments of 50 people or more are often required to “top-grade” their subordinates on a curve and must dismiss the least effective performers. Many last less than two years.

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LDRLB

MARCH 18, 2013

Toyota’s 100 year plan had weekly strategic meetings after high level of consensus was gained from the core of Japanese managers with life-time contracts. The real world is global, not local Toyota’s strategic process involved consensus in Japan not consensus worldwide.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

So how can management insure that the organization’s culture is properly aligned with strategy? Changing a culture takes considerable time — the consensus is that it often takes a minimum of ten years and/or involves major structural and personnel change. Get managers to model and promote key behaviours.

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 16, 2012

The team manager Kim, had her goals, roles and vision clearly articulated, and the team members all agreed that the goals and roles were understood and agreeable. Plus placing stress on Kim, because her boss the CEO of the company was putting pressure on her to “fix this”. CONTACT Create-Learning to make this happen for your team.

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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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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Help team members prioritize all the behaviors on the charts (many will be the same or similar) and (using consensus) determine the most important behavior to change (for all team members). Dr. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 8, 2015

Simmons is also the author of, The Story Factor (2001), which was named by 1-800-CEO-Read as one of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. Thanks to the book publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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