QAspire

MARCH 6, 2013

It can be in-person or via online conference. It can be used to build consensus, to educate others or to simply assess progress. Be clear about the purpose of having the face time: Conversations can easily take diversions if they are not done purposefully. Face time can be used to inspire others or simply inform them.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The Conference Board, Executive Vice President, Knowledge Organization and Human Capital Practice Lead and study co-author. . Books Business Coaching Current Affairs Leadership Memes What is Work life best practices Executive Vice President financial HR Human Capital self-coaching guides talent management The Conference Board'

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Chris Brady

JUNE 14, 2013

First, by absolute independence of mind, which springs from the ability to think everything through for yourself, and to treat whatever is the current consensus on any issue with skepticism.  Author Paul Johnson wrote, “How do we recognize the heroes and heroines of today?   Contemporary Leadership Current Affairs Politics'

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 21, 2011

1, but a kind of dispirited consensus has taken hold about a sport that has been played on American campuses since 1869: its reputation has never been more damaged. College football has never been more prosperous, with five of the major college sports conferences recently signing billion-dollar broadcast deals.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 15, 2024

Mark and Sheila suggest, “We should really do one more booth at the new conference expo they just added at the end of the year. Before discussion begins, clarify the person or people who will actually make the call. Then the zombies will transform at the end by shedding their overshirts and revealing our product tee shirt.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 16, 2013

Although the focus of the conference was on HR practitioners, there were some interesting insights shared on leadership and understanding how we interact, engage and empower those under our care in this increasingly complex and uncertain global economy.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 28, 2014

let’s begin listening for, and designing, tools to facilitate the movement along the decision path that change decisions goes through; let’s ensure the right people are all involved (some not so obvious) and address consensus-building. A speaker at your next conference?

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Women's Leadership Exchange

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

." Less than 2 weeks ago, Dr. Faust's name came up on a conference call of the Women's Leadership Exchange (WLE) Multicultural Advisory Board, chaired by Marilyn Johnson of IBM. Whle acknowledging Dr. Faust as an outstanding scholar, the article said that she is an excellent administrator, with a management style that builds consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The 195 member countries, or “parties,” hold a Conference of Parties (COP) annually, and this year is the 21st meeting. 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).

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Contribute to team consensus decisions. But what about conference calls and Skype/video-oriented meetings. 'Skype' They do pose some extra challenges for the meeting leader, especially the difficulty in reading nonverbals to understand intent, optimize participation, or achieve consensus. Do you agree? Are you opposed?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

During the debrief there was a general consensus that nobody actually became another person as there was no complicated character analysis in preparation for the role of a particular partygoer. So if they were still being themselves, what had they done to effect such a dramatic change in their behavior?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

Another women''s conference finds another predominantly female group of HR Directors seeking to improve the gender balance in their firms. Rather, the solution requires action by those in leadership positions, still frustratingly rare, as hundreds of women at the recent JUMP Conference in Paris acknowledged. Sound familiar?

Company 9

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Only a few days before, hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor-Jones created a stir by remarking at a conference that women will never rival men as traders because babies are a "focus killer". This advanced research far more rapidly than the old approach of working in cubicles and meeting at conferences. households.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

The Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD), convening this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is one of several important milestones toward a new international consensus on eliminating extreme poverty and hunger. Without a solid consensus over the financing and resources needed, goals remain simply wishes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

While diverse team composition does seem to confer an advantage when it comes to generating a wider range of original and useful ideas, experimental studies suggest that such benefits disappear once the team is tasked with deciding which ideas to select and implement, presumably because diversity hinders consensus.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Collaboration does not = consensus.” “The 2 Responses to Top Quotes from the Art of Management 2010 Kneale Mann | November 22, 2010 at 9:53 AM | Once you spend a significant amount of time in business, you attend various workshops and presentations, conferences and networking events and can often grow weary on their effectiveness.

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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? I also prepare our C-suite executives with stories and statistics so they can promote innovation through the ranks and out to the rest of the world through speeches, media exposure, and conferences.

Health Care 9

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

Roles that are “lynchpins” — a lawyer in a law firm, a marketer in a marketing agency, a programmer at a tech company — confer a host of benefits on the people who have them. However, one might ask whether a self-reported measure of lynchpin status is valid.

Company 12

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

A drive to achieve consensus and prevent outright conflict. What would have happened if more women had been around conference tables and in board rooms, weighing in on crucial financial decisions? Nearly from the start, I started to notice subtle differences that marked an organization run by women from those run by men.

Diversity 14

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

A conference room will probably work best. Make sure your equipment allows everyone to hear, participate, or see people in the room (if using video conference). Group consensus allows participants to share their expertise and enhances the chance for buy-in from all parties. Choose a small room and set the chairs up in a circle.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2016

A question is an invitation for consensus. The conference room isn’t a stage for proselytizing your team members. Conflict courts enemies, not allies. Group pushback can actually be a moment for conversion, if you redirect your approach. So ask, don’t tell. Ask what aspects of your proposal are problematic for the group.

How To 10

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Just as lack of consensus around finances can doom a marriage, lack of support from one''s spouse can effectively sink a career. Many dual-career couples confer with each other before accepting travel commitments to ensure that both parents are never away at the same time.

Career 8

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

For a prestigious publisher, the essential — and vociferous — disagreement cut to its entrepreneurial core: Should its popular conferences reinforce the firm's "countercultural" vibe? And if you're not having the right kind of important arguments, then just how much is consensus and alignment really worth?

Company 8

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

These aren’t all-out, late-night, stack-of-pizza-boxes-on-the-conference-table types of affairs that only work for fledgling internet companies though. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2012

Even more seem to have run out of ideas, or simply appear unable to craft the necessary consensus to lead. Perhaps it's really not so ironic that there would be this inverse relationship: the deeper we sink into leadership crisis, the more it shows up on the agendas of think tanks and conferences.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

What does Ben & Jerry’s have to do with the Paris climate conference ? Any attempt to reach consensus on how best to reverse climate change at the COP21 conference in Paris must take such corporate measures into account. No, the company isn’t providing free ice cream to attendees (at least not that we know of).

Bottom-up 8

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

That's the new quantitative consensus reshaping professional sports worldwide. Future potential matters (much) more than past performance. After looking hard at the numbers and algorithms, the smartest — and richest — general managers and franchises have made up their collective minds: They're not paying a premium for yesterday.

Loyalty 8

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

For example, on a key issue under negotiation by 172 countries, Koh finally miniaturized the larger stalled process to include only Fiji, Pakistan, Argentina, and the United States, with their small-scale agreement ultimately expanding into a full consensus. Wage your campaign on several fronts.

Advice 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2011

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 In Asia, there's a saying that the loudest duck gets shot.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Having gained consensus from her Cabinet on a realistic set of measurable goals, the president’s next challenge was to influence their fulfillment. It’s one thing to drone on in press conferences about your general commitment to building infrastructure.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

But while we may experience an array of emotions at work, there’s a general consensus that we shouldn’t see anyone reduced to tears, hopelessness, or defeat on the job. Find a safe but private place, such as an unoccupied conference room or office where you can speak quietly. Here’s how: First, listen.

Emotional Intelligence 8

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

Leadership skills focus on community building, consensus building, mediation, commitment, and humility.". A few years ago my colleagues and I decided that we could donate our surfeit of conference space to be used on weekends and some evenings by various communities whose work we want to encourage. Socialize your underused assets.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

I mean "bestow fortune upon", because the super-rich have actually, while most people have gotten poorer, gotten richer during this great crisis) — headed off to hurriedly, nervously confer with their skinny-jeaned, sunglass-wearing, spiky-haired marketing droids. Who smoothly said something like: "Duuudes.

Marketing 15

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

After watching a presentation by Kaggle founder and CEO Anthony Goldbloom at a conference last year , I went up to the front of the room to ask him a question about macroeconomics. In the 1990s, the consensus seemed to be that for the U.S. Higher than that, and the bond market vigilantes would punish the U.S.

GDP 9

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

So when Amazon reports below-consensus earnings, as it did Tuesday, and the share price jumps, as it did after-hours Tuesday and again Wednesday morning, the reaction isn't quite the puzzle it seems. Hansen, Herminia Ibarra, and Urs Peyer latest ranking of long-run CEO performance in HBR , Amazon's Jeff Bezos now ranks No. After that the No.

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

All this represents a considerable turn away from anything resembling a Washington Consensus and towards a more highly managed system favoring preferential terms for developing countries and redistribution over competition and efficiency. But haven't we heard this before? Yes, with regard to what the emerging powers are asking for.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2015

Though exact numbers are hard to come by, there’s a clear consensus that following the economic shocks of 2008, advances paid to writers are declining —in some cases precipitously. Be more transparent with data.

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