Leading Blog

MARCH 3, 2017

. ☙ It is so easy to forget that many, many people in America don’t have a professional network, an alumni network, two parents, or in some cases anyone around them with a job, to consult about how to get one. ☙ In a world of so many choices, it’s hard to know what to do.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

David Whitaker, one of Britain’s most distinguished coaches wrote in The Spirit of Teams , “If you want an exceptional team, keep your eye on the individual … Teams thrive on individual choice and commitment … the most powerful teams are made up of individuals who have chosen to work as a team.” But they do perform.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

Part of the attraction for me is the weekly escape to an unfamiliar world – a time, a place and a culture that seem light-years away from the daily challenges I face consulting with businesses on leadership issues. Guest post from Hay Group’s Rick Lash : I confess it: I love Downton Abbey.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 26, 2023

” Their Perceptions Are My Leadership Reality Key to leadership development is understanding how others see me. ” Ways to Live in The Feedback Zone The most powerful and accurate feedback is a well-designed 360 assessment process with strengths-based coaching. ” Personal development with an external coach.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

His behavioral profile also includes his preference for the domain of meaning (rather than the other structural dynamics languages of affect and power ) and the open system. Bystanders take in information, internally synthesize, and assess before adding their own two-cents, which often adds perspective or bridges opinions.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

When you develop the skill to transform negative conflict into creative tension is when you will begin to earn and hold the respect of even those individuals who don’t agree with your positions. I have always found that rapport is quickly developed when you listen, care, and attempt to help people succeed.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Powered by WordPress. I was called in to facilitate and consult the leadership team with the following objectives defined; Leaders will be able to reflect upon their own behaviors and adjust accordingly based upon what team they are a part of and whom they are leading. Averaged the numbers to create group consensus.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Power vs. Force. Here are some differences in beliefs between trait-centered leadership and more facilitative leadership: Trait-centered : Top down; behavior change and goal-driven; dependent on power, charisma, and persuasion skills of a leader and may not be congruent with foundational values of followers. Do you want to lead?

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 8, 2015

It’s all contextual, and we have the power to change it. Prior to the 1970s, the consensus among scientists was that the human brain was relatively fixed—or hardwired—after a critical point in early childhood. But the science is clear: Who we are is a combination of nature versus nurture.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 8, 2015

It’s all contextual, and we have the power to change it. Prior to the 1970s, the consensus among scientists was that the human brain was relatively fixed—or hardwired—after a critical point in early childhood. But the science is clear: Who we are is a combination of nature versus nurture.

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Wilde Education Environment Consensus 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

They have to in order to communicate and to reach consensus with others who may not share the same experiences or perspectives. ” The Power of Additive Contribution. That’s the power of reexamining our assumptions and considering people’s additive contributions.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

– 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. Collaboration does not = consensus.” “The Management is not a science, it is an art.”

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Consensus building is one of this particular leaders core strengths and they have done everything they can to win over the hostile player. When things don’t go a bully’s way, they decide to exert a bit of whatever power they think they have to try to intimidate you into a corner.

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LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

Now it turns out maybe the power dynamic has shifted a little bit and the talented people really don’t want to be constrained in that. I’m consulting on [inaudible 00:18:58] litigation and Silicon Valley and network security, lots of fascinating questions that come up and pop up in all kinds of unexpected areas.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

Every organization needs a Main Thing—a single, powerful expression of what it hopes to accomplish. We cannot achieve and maintain alignment without consensus and conviction about The Main Thing. An electrical utility executive explained his company's purpose crisply and clearly: "To be the power source of choice.".

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

“It’s like when you were a kid and your parents would fight,” says Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job. Claman recommends scheduling a meeting with the two of them and other colleagues to try to come to a consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

An effective team is a powerful thing. They manage, govern and develop themselves; define their own working practices and tools; and share out remuneration. A cluster is not the same as a consulting model. This is not always true of consultancies. Similar approaches can and should be applied to consultancy models.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

To develop a new customer experience, companies need a real-time engagement process that encourages customers and employees to devise new interactions between them and facilitates the emergence of innovative customer experiences. Apple invites third parties to develop new applications for its iPhones, iPads, and iPods.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

This encouraging bit of historical consensus was illustrated in a poll of economists taken this February by the University of Chicago. We might need fewer workers to produce food than we once did, but weve developed appetites for bigger houses, faster cars, and more elaborate entertainment that more than make up for the difference.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

Marketing and commercial decision makers often complain that customer analytic tools developed to improve their productivity actually make them less effective. We find that small, test-and-learn data projects on 90-day cycles help to steer clear of committee consensus. Empower, don’t automate.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The Power of Scale. To get a sense of the power of patient-reported outcomes data that’s collected on a large scale, consider the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial ( SPORT ). Such comparisons would help patients make better-informed decisions about where to obtain the highest-value care.

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leaderCommunicator

MAY 17, 2012

Do we have the necessary resources, knowledge, skill, and attitudes to successfully develop a strategic plan within the desired time frame? Team members need to reach a consensus in their answers to these questions before moving ahead. The development of a strategic plan is a serious undertaking. In Summary.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 4, 2016

Coaching is the process of asking powerful questions, listening, and sharing insights so that people gain clarify and move forward to solve problems. I also worked with a non-profit children’s theater company that developed and executed a plan to bring drama training to children in 20 under-served schools. Coaching isn’t a panacea.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Business development. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). These keep the branches, limbs and twigs (divisions, consultants and vendors) on a growth curve. Economic development and community stewardship programs emerged.

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Lead from Within

JULY 14, 2015

Is your organization led by consensus, or does the leader make decisions single-handedly? Lolly Daskal is the president and Founder of Lead From Within a consulting firm specializing in executive leadership coaching and customized leadership programs. Must too often prevents us from expressing our values, feelings, and judgments.

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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

The Power of Customer Costing. Enlisting several younger financial managers, he made the case to the executive director, Wilfred Hammond, who approved the hiring of a consultant with extensive experience in ABC. We're in negotiations to build a development of attached homes near the A19.". That's quite all right," Tommy said.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Managing Outside Vendors : Remember that consultants work for you, and that the decisions should be made by you and not the vendor. Good consultants build consensus and unify management focus, they do not splinter opinion. with the only outcomes being failed initiatives and splintered management teams. Thanks for sharing Tom.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

This is perhaps even more the case in the world of management outside of academic medicine — whether it is finance, consulting, or technology — as the path from professional to senior executive requires more than individual success. The Explainer: Emotional Intelligence. Establish a cadence for communication.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

Is it possible to develop skill in all of them? And therein lies the rub, as they say…first because we all have a pre-dominant leadership style which also becomes our default style when we are stressed or excited or both; and second because we don’t always know when to use what style. So, you decide. Is there something missing?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

Leaders don’t necessarily gain power by dint of high rank; they need to earn it every day. They went deep into three international firms with reputations for excellence – one a law firm, one a public accounting firm, one a management consultancy – conducting over 100 face-to-face interviews with people working within them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Companies we work with at BSR, a nonprofit sustainability business network and consultancy, feel trapped: Although every conceivable action carries considerable risk, inaction may not be much of an option, either. We have been working with businesses to develop a strategic framework for when to take a stand on social issues.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

However, the theory is that many companies who take the time to reach decisions through voting and consensus are better positioned to carry out a decision quickly having gained commitment from everyone involved. There is a lot of freedom and a lot of pressure to perform Employees are assessed and compensated based on what they produce.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Blockchain was originally developed as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Capgemini, a consultancy, estimates that consumers could save up to $16 billion in banking and insurance fees each year through blockchain-based applications. Santander, a European bank, put the potential savings at $20 billion a year.

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