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

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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

Part of the answer is that the vast wealth of Africa is often not being translated into development. But to achieve development, we need much more than money. Without a solid consensus over the financing and resources needed, goals remain simply wishes. Often it benefits only a few, or is squandered altogether. We are investing.

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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?

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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.

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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

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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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. For example, in a law firm there are both partners (core) and associates (noncore). how pervasive the impact would be).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Develop a preliminary agenda. Consider the following roles: A facilitator guides the discussion, making sure all sides of the issue are raised (this is a good job for someone who is developing leadership skills and practicing neutrality). A conference room will probably work best. Lay out a sequence for the meeting.

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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. Here are four strategies for developing and maintaining an effective dual-career partnership.

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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. AOI Development. The connection is actually much deeper and more meaningful.

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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

MAY 28, 2015

The AGI team focused Johnson-Sirleaf’s Cabinet on developing a 150-day plan. Having gained consensus from her Cabinet on a realistic set of measurable goals, the president’s next challenge was to influence their fulfillment. Liberia’s troubled history was an almost uninterrupted chain of broken promises.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands. In retrospect, not very much.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Develop the facts of the case jointly with your counterparts. 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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. That’s how groups become mired in consensus, and after a while, everyone thinks and acts alike.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Tommy chaired a subsequent "customer rationalization meeting," which he hoped would yield a similar consensus: that Egan should sever ties with its loss-making customers — especially the least profitable 1%, among them Westmid, whose accumulated losses cost Egan 40% of the company's profits. Yes, the conference. Jane prompted.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

If you're on a conference call, for example, and you turn your attention to an incoming email, you're missing what's happening on the call as long as you're checking your email. Ironically, researchers have developed a surprising degree of consensus about the stages of creativity and how to approach them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Its earnings were down 73% from the quarter a year earlier and it missed the analysts' consensus estimate of $0.24 On the conference call, Szkutak explained that significant capacity investments are being made in distribution centers so Amazon can continue to grow its core retail business. per share by nearly a dime.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

They are developing horizontally, not vertically, with vast areas of low sprawl reaching out for miles from Sao Paolo, Lagos, New Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta, and many others. As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Trade ministers of the World Trade Organization (WTO) will meet December 11-13 in Buenos Aires for their eleventh conference to review progress and set the agenda for global trade negotiations. solar-panel startups. Without the facts, other members and their injured industries cannot challenge subsidies that violate the rules.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

To foster this kind of collaboration, managers need to develop personal relationships — and some amount of trust — with potential partners. The struggle to reach consensus in Washington over spending, taxes, debt limits, and other issues is a case in point on how the absence of relationships constrains compromise.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

Last fall, I paid a visit to the Creative Class island within depressed Detroit for the Techonomy Detroit conference at Wayne State University, and I can attest that people there are well aware that urban rebirth will take a lot more than a few downtown restaurant openings. I can also attest that they don''t really know what it will take.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Unlike economy-wide supports such as an R&D tax credit, WTO rules prohibit subsidies to specific companies because of the competitive advantage they confer.) But under WTO rules, no country can obtain any remedy such as duties to offset the subsidies without hard evidence documenting these subsidies. concerns about China.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

I've seen fascinating developments inside both big companies and emerging startups. Cordiality and consensus returned, with the divergent discussion hidden from leadership's view. The company appropriately describes itself as "the world's simplest real-time conference Q&A tool on the mobile.". Then the bosses returned.

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