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 need to provide direction for how a product should be built, and through your understanding of the market, give them assurance they are building the right product.

Productivity 182

Productivity Products Management Leadership 182

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. Are you a Decision Outlier?

Team 226

Team Consensus Stress Executive Coaching 226

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.

Consensus 13

Consensus Innovation Company Ries 13

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.

Porter 98

Porter Execution Strategy Consensus 98

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

There is much talk today about the need to constantly align and adapt strategy to constantly changing market conditions to insure sustainable competitiveness. Think of culture playing the role of greasing the skids making alignment to market conditions faster and smoother. The following is a guest post by Dr. George H. Dr. George H.

Goal 226

Goal Festinger Strategy Insurance 226

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.

CEO 8

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.

Books 79

Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 79

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

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. If you’re a CEO who doesn’t leverage conflict for team building and leadership development purposes you’re missing a great opportunity. Where there is disagreement there is an inherent potential for growth and development.

Blog 412

Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 412

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

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The two men had created distribution channels, built a supply chain, entered profitable new markets–and, just as importantly, held the family together, ensuring that family members were well taken care of and that family disagreements didn’t harm the business. They called this idealized new CEO “Mr. Wonderful.”. Know your agenda.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Consensus System 8

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

Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Examples: A CEO ignores market research that suggests a new product will not be well-received because he or she firmly believes it’s a good idea. A business leader expands into new markets without sufficient research, thinking that past success will automatically translate to new ventures.

Dunning 86

Dunning Consensus Groupthink Charisma 86

Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Headlined by Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers, Tipping Point) and joined by Simon Sinek (Start with Why?) – who stole the show, Mitch Joel (Six Pixels of Separation), Nilofer Merchant (Rubicon Consulting), and Michael Eisner (former CEO of Disney), the day showcased some amazing ideas, great presenters and inspiration to spare.

Management 48

Management Simon COO Blog 48

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2017

Characteristic #1: Courage When Dave Lewis became CEO at European grocery store giant Tesco in 2014, the company was struggling. Teams collaborated to create an e-mail-based, fast-response system by which representatives could provide marketing with customer feedback and other observations. Do you as a leader have this mindset?

Short-term 260

Short-term Efficiency Brand System 260

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

There is a general consensus among economic analysts and commentators that the changes are merely cosmetic — they certainly do not affect the daily lives of most average Nigerians, and their timing might be politically motivated given the upcoming 2015 elections which are expected to be highly contested. Global business'

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2019

No confusion, no mixed messages, no need for consensus-building or alignment, no persuasion necessary – just a very, very smooth path from sensing to fleeing. The sensing, absorbing, thinking, and deciding functions that you just processed were extremely efficient, and so you were able to get to action right away.

Outsourcing 196

Outsourcing Trends Consensus Committee 196

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

Actually, reading the book reminded me of this old anecdote that I heard one time, a conversation between a sort of unnamed CEO and an unnamed CFO and essentially, the CFO was asking, “What happens if we invest all this money to develop our people and they leave?” and the CEO’s response is, “Well, what happens if we don’t and they stay?”.

Human Capital 60

Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

The CEO and CFO responded with, "A failure to hit ROI and NPV targets." The head of R&D remembered it as a failure to properly market the innovation. The Chief Marketing Officer recalled that sales and distribution did not achieve planned market presence. Introduce Celebrating Failure Day.

NPV 16

NPV ROI CFO Consensus 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The charismatic Apple Store retailer turned JC Penney CEO announced far worse-than-expected quarterly results. The congealing critical consensus is that Johnson's bold overhaul of the sagging American retailing icon went too far too fast. Speed to market" isn't what's driving the change. Pity Ron Johnson. Pity Meg Whitman.

Consensus 8

Consensus Welch Retail CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

As a CEO visiting one of our classes put it, "If you have time, you can be infinitely collaborative, but if you have to fix things in a significant way and you're in a hurry, you've got to be more directive.". Two levers available to any manager stand out in our research on top-performing CEOs: 1.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Politics CEO Leadership 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

As the up-and-coming vice president and CEO candidate for a Fortune 500 technology corporation sat before the CEO for his annual review, he was baffled to discover that the feedback from his peers, customers, direct reports, and particularly from board members placed unusual emphasis on one potentially devastating problem: his listening deficit.

360-Degree Feedback 18

360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Katzenberg recently hired Meg Whitman, the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV. Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. It has to find product-market fit before running out of cash. And it may work.

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

The company is already in market and earning revenue. In my experience, companies that are world class at creating growth through innovation have clear consensus around: The overarching definition of innovation. "The company needs to start raising money soon, or it is never going to realize its full potential," Piyush argued.

Power 13

Power Consensus Christensen Disruptive Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships.

Team 8

Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

The CEO nodded, the VPs agreed, the Directors were polished in their reviews. 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. The product managers looked at each other, then at their VP, and then, finally, to the CEO.

CEO 16

CEO Engineering Consensus Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

The idea is to fast-forward a project, so you can see what the end result might look like and how the market will react. Business-as-usual decision-making is busted: we strive for consensus; we don’t make tough calls; we aren’t transparent about how choices are made. The sprint corrects these problems.

Consensus 8

Consensus Hotels Project Fast Follower 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Here’s a conundrum: On the one hand, there’s a consensus among thoughtful business leaders that too many companies are sacrificing long-term growth on the altar of smooth, reliable short-term earnings. Meanwhile, I had a lot friends and colleagues saying, “The capital markets are a huge problem.” It can be done.

Short-term 8

Short-term Henderson Long-term Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

The Surowiecki / Salmon consensus is basically, as summarized by my colleague Walt Frick, It’s irrational for the market to value a company that produced a fluke hit so high, but it’s totally rational for the CEO to selfishly want to go public, since the market is valuing them so much higher than they’re actually worth.

IPO 8

IPO Consensus Quality Marketing 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?

Proposal 15

Proposal Benchmarking Consensus Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

What emerged was a consensus that t he most successful leaders in the future will be those who - like Nelson - can cut their distance to the front line through three key traits: the ability to be authentic, empathy with the customer and front line, and true self-awareness. But only 8% of their customers agree.

Self-aware 15

Self-aware Goleman Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

Jobs announced yesterday that he would step down as CEO, effecting a smooth transition to known successor Tim Cook. Jobs is surely not just any retiring CEO. Like many entrepreneurial founders, he did it by force of personality and personal vision, without much concern for consensus or committees.

Licensing 10

Licensing Entrepreneur Consensus CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

It was the summer of 2000 and the company had quickly lost $85 billion in market capitalization. Newly minted CEO A.G. As he stated in a 2009 Harvard Business Review article, “the CEO’s [role] is to interpret the organization’s values in light of change and competition and to define its standards. Employees were disengaged.

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

Four hundred seventy-one companies in the S&P 500 bought back stock last year, and 372 companies expanded their dividends — actions undertaken in spite of the need to invest heavily to keep up with global market changes. Investors in this long-term class are those like Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock.

Long-term 8

Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Once a team has reached, or appears to have reached, a consensus, it can be very hard for any individual to challenge the group’s interpretation of reality or predictions about the future — or to push back on what the group plans to do (or not do) — without running the risk of being perceived as a heretic or becoming a scapegoat.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

CEO Marissa Mayer said her company''s moonshot is to be "on every smartphone, every tablet, every day, for every Internet user.". But in turbulent times, these approaches can lead companies to miss critical market inflection points. The term has experienced a recent resurgence in the corporate world.

Scenario Planning 8

Scenario Planning Consensus Strategic Planning Innovation 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. Usually, startup success means hiring a “professional CEO,” so domain expertise also means you have the option of staying on at your company and learning the CEO ropes. Other risk-mitigation strategies .

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8