Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

The Value Bridge Admiral Clark described his strategy as using the Navy’s “asymmetrical advantages” of the “best technology in the world” combined with the “genius of our people.” This made it safe for people to disagree and express views that were outside of the consensus view. why is everyone smiling?

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Contribute to team consensus decisions. 'Skype' and 'Goto' meetings in particular seem to be growing in popularity as more and more companies gradually begin to realize telecommuting and mobile correspondence via digital technologies empower employees to be more productive. Do you agree? Are you opposed? since 1987.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Perhaps this is not surprising in our fast-paced and technology-driven business world, where there is little time to stop and think, and where people want (and are paying for) immediate outcomes. Consider a CEO who demeans his colleagues by rolling his eyes at them, interrupting them, and otherwise devaluing their roles.

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Consensus Executive Coaching Ethics CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Maybe your company tells people to be consensus-builders, but promotes people who are solely authoritative decision makers (behavior-practices gap). Every process that is created, every system installed, every technology that is used, every structure that is designed, every job title that is given will reinforce or dilute the culture.

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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. Ctrl.Alt.Del.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

But collaboration is not consensus. Former Ogilvy CEO Charlotte Beers was famous for saying, “Collaboration is highly overrated when you don’t have the right thing to do.” Too often, people will try to collaborate on everything, and wind up in endless meetings, debating ideas and struggling to find consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Working across organizational boundaries was a new way of thinking 25 years ago —one that was largely championed by Jack Welch, then CEO of GE. Our communications technologies have dramatically improved, and we have instantaneous access to massive amounts of information. Fast forward to today, and we live in a different world.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

The CEO and CFO responded with, "A failure to hit ROI and NPV targets." The disturbing pattern here wasn't that the failure had occurred, but that there was no consensus at all, no common understanding from which to learn. Clearly the company was painfully aware of these two failed projects. Introduce Celebrating Failure Day.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Healthcare has become extraordinarily complex — the balance of quality against cost, and of technology against humanity, are placing ever-increasing demands on clinicians. The CEOs of both — John Noseworthy and Delos “Toby” Cosgrove — are highly skilled physicians. ” But this is changing.

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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.

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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.

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360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

The normal culprits for short-termism are short-term-minded hedge-fund managers and activist shareholders, as well as CEOs worried about big bet investments with uncertain paybacks. For example, one large technology company embraced a strategy to win through new digital businesses. Eventually, the company’s share price nosedived.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Katzenberg recently hired Meg Whitman, the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV. But as Carlota Perez has so aptly described, all new technology industries go through an eruption and frenzy phase, followed by a crash, and then a golden age and maturity. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies.

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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.". At the heart of the future-back process is a consensus view of your company''s desired future state.This isn''t scenario planning, where you consider a range of possibilities. Finally, it is imaginative.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Newly minted CEO A.G. Bossidy, former CEO at AlliedSignal, once said , “We need people who are better at persuading than at barking orders, who know how to coach and build consensus. But Darren never saw the change required as only a matter of capitalizing on new technologies and developing new products. Lawrence A.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

For podcast startup Gimlet Media , an abstract question — “Should we become a technology company?” 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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Andy O''Connell Justin Bieber's Involved, of Course The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry: An Oral History Businessweek For years, every CEO had a BlackBerry. The inventions, Antonio Regalado writes in Technology Review , range from automated cars to balloon-based data networks to images of keypads that can be projected onto a user''s hand.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

But how do you overcome obstacles to spreading innovation, like fear of change, resource constraints, and slow, consensus-based decision making? That gave hundreds of leaders, physicians, nurses, and other frontline staffers a chance to try out the technology and hear Jenny’s story.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

never ratified but the rest of world committed to; and (b) the much more specific 2009 Copenhagen consensus , where (nearly) everyone agreed that it would be wise to stop the warming at 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F). Leading CEOs are seeing the work to manage climate change as a strategic and human imperative.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

This reflects the Umpqua team''s investment during the design process, as well as CEO Ray Davis''s continued efforts to champion its results. Once you''ve reached consensus on which idea to activate, it is critical to push the pause button and honestly assess whether your organization is able to execute the chosen solution.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

The great majority of business leaders understand that what is necessary is investments in the business environment and efforts to reach consensus on issues such as health care costs, balancing the budget, and tort reform. Just 51 called for tariffs or trade protection, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

If indeed lots of managers avoid long-term investments to meet the consensus, how to explain the constantly growing investment of corporate America in R&D , information technology, brands and business processes, and the constantly growing number of patents granted each year to US corporations? Where is the avoidance of investments?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

So finally, real bipartisan pressure and consensus are building. The discussion is shifting, thankfully, from if we should tackle it to how — as one CEO I work with said recently, “I know this is a problem… I just don’t know what to do about it.” What does that mean for business?

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Crisis Report Consensus Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2011

of Fortune 500 CEOs and barely 2% of board members. As a result of a deeply engrained deference to authority, Asians in the CWLP survey are also significantly less likely than other ethnic groups to challenge a consensus, let alone participate in the "in your face" leadership model rewarded in much of corporate America. "In

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Note that this inclusive process is not decision-making by committee or by consensus. In today’s fast-paced environment of dramatically changing technologies and global forces, leaders need to understand how to make the right decisions the right way.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

To generate new growth, CEOs must stop thinking of themselves as chief managers and start thinking of themselves as refounders. When Nadella took over the CEO role in 2014, he immediately began refocusing the company on growth. Don’t Seek Consensus. Satya Nadella of Microsoft is a great example of a refounder.

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CEO Consensus Management Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

George is a professor at HBS and the former CEO of Medtronic, which has been involved in one of this year’s highest-profile inversion transactions, a merger with Ireland-based Covidien. I actually am optimistic that we can get there; there’s a fair amount of consensus about that. Businesses.” The answer obviously is borrow at one.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

According to Noah Kagan, the CEO of SUMO , Sujan is half-mad scientist and half content master. Stay on top of all technological advances pertaining to marketing. Ensure you are leverage the best of breed solutions to create a technology stack that allows you to execute and manage your content appropriately for your business.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

To test more detailed options, alternative solutions for the technology organization, investment processes and safety delegations were presented to the newly appointed leadership team. ” This flushed out unattractive options and helped them come to consensus on the organizational design. Step 4: Get the Plumbing and Wiring Right.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We spent time with established digital players, midsize companies (including Box and Palantir), and startups, particularly those focused on FinTech and technology services. Artificial constraints, such as formal organizational hierarchies and belabored consensus-building processes, create waste and dampen motivation.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Good consultants build consensus and unify management focus, they do not splinter opinion. If your marketing doesn’t uphold your brand promise or if it’s not advancing core business initiatives, then you have an alignment issue.

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Blog Marketing Succession Brand 286

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, who as recently as last month has reported not believing that human activity or carbon dioxide are primary contributors to climate change, contradicting 150 years of basic physics and decades of scientific consensus. Here are 16 ways companies can support the climate march.).

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Supply Chain Health Care Apparel Leadership 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

When Kellogg’s CEO, John Bryant, spoke at the Paris meeting, in December 2015, he told the assembled executives and diplomats that addressing climate change was “mission critical” for the company. A week before the election, the CEO of General Mills, Ken Powell, spoke about his commitment to acting on climate.

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