Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Five of the most powerful takeaways are these according to Higgins: Trust your instincts and reject conventional wisdom : We are the only ones who know the full extent of our gifts, and the paths we are meant to follow. And time spent prematurely cultivating buy-in and fostering consensus just amounts to energy leakage.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 3, 2018

This scenario, lone wolf promoted to manager followed by team disaster, is both predictable and avoidable. Mary Ila Ward of Horizon Point Consulting submitted 6 Ways to Build Energy “We all have a finite amount of energy to give. Learning to self-observe is a powerful leadership practice. Productivity.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 4, 2016

I’ll never forgotten what FBI Executive Assistant Director Janet Kamerman told our consulting team several years ago. I participated in a talent review once where the consensus on one leader was that he had an entitlement complex. Perspective is a powerful tool. Be a “Kamerman” Teammate. No Entitlement.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2013

It takes the “suggestion box” management approach of the 1970s and ’80s and turns it upside down. However, even with these weaknesses, the quality of the decisions using this approach was at least as good as those decisions made under more conventional management systems, often better. He lives with his wife in Arlington, VA.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 8, 2015

Whoever Tells The Best Story Wins , is the new book by Annette Simmons , president of Group Process Consulting. The power of even a simple story to affirm someone’s connection to your organization’s people, values, and vision can mean the difference between simple competence and fully realized ownership," explains Simmons.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Many managers want to be more inclusive. For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. ” The Power of Additive Contribution. PATRIK STOLLARZ/Getty Images.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Thinking in terms of “ my way &# is right and therefore “ other ways &# are wrong is the basis for polarizing any relationship, which quickly results in converting discussions into power struggles. Never be swayed by consensus that calls you to compromise your values, rather be guided by doing the right thing.

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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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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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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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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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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. “You’re managing different people and you’re trying to do it without making them angry.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

An effective team is a powerful thing. And yet while teams often are where the real work gets done, most businesses don't value or manage them well. And yet while teams often are where the real work gets done, most businesses don't value or manage them well. Many businesses aren't skilled in talent management or team nurturing.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

That single sentence captures the greatest challenge that executives and managers face today: keeping their people and their organizations centered on what matters most. Every organization needs a Main Thing—a single, powerful expression of what it hopes to accomplish. The Main Thing is critically important.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Here's my most recent example of the power of this approach. Many of the 'novices' drawn to the challenge outperformed all of the testing companies in the essay competition, and came closer to the consensus score of the human graders than did any of the humans themselves. They needn't have worried.

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Productivity Products Consensus Health Care 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

So when companies rely solely on market research to design the customer experience, the result is a manager-biased lowest common denominator of customers' expectations. So how should customer experience managers go about transforming the company's inert touch points into live interactions that co-evolve with customer processes?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

They teach customers how to drive consensus for the purchase — as more often than not, customers themselves don't really know how to do it. At the very least, if reps give in simply because of a perceived power imbalance, they're conceding way too easily. What does that tell us?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

Across industries, staff such as retail category managers, sales representatives, financial advisers, and wealth managers are awash with reports and insights that comfort their companies’ top executives and by making them feel that they are leading a “customer-centric” organization. What made the difference?

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leaderCommunicator

MAY 17, 2012

Team members need to reach a consensus in their answers to these questions before moving ahead. Like other management processes, strat­egic planning must be organized, communicated, and implemented systemati­cally. Handled properly, this communication can be a powerful way to bring your employees together in a united front.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Before the financial crisis ushered in the current global economic downturn, there was a strong intellectual consensus among mainstream economists and policymakers about the merits of free trade. Instead we need to consult an independent source. Contests for influence over public policy have an added edge for managers during crises.

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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 notice that in times like these, more managers and leaders than ever before are questioning what really matters to them. His new book, Coach!

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

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. This is regarded as a premiere textbook case of quality crisis management. About the Author.

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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. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Tommy was a director and Jane was the Midlands regional sales manager for Egan & Sons, a supplier of doors and staircases to Westmid for 63 years. The Power of Customer Costing. Tommy also hoped to identify Egan's most profitable customers so that sales managers might extend and deepen relationships with them.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The international political consensus of the universal economic benefits of globalization that defined much of the 20th and early 21st centuries is breaking down. America's rising nationalism is taking a different form but it is powerful nonetheless. The positive consensus toward globalization that defined the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

As New York Times reporter and author Charles Duhigg recounts in his bestseller, The Power of Habit, accidents were commonplace at Alcoa, as they would be at any company in the business of handling molten metal on a regular basis. So what happened at Alcoa?

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Health Care Quality Retail Cost 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

with the only outcomes being failed initiatives and splintered management teams. with the only outcomes being failed initiatives and splintered management teams. Managing Outside Vendors : Remember that consultants work for you, and that the decisions should be made by you and not the vendor.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Whether you’re a mentor to a medical resident or marketing manager, the same principles apply. See More Videos > See More Videos > Consider the case of a partner in a major consulting firm who told us of how he struggled with his first mentoring relationship. The Explainer: Emotional Intelligence. That time has passed.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

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.

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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

JUNE 6, 2011

It's their failure to effectively manage the wickedness of the problems they face — problems that resist obvious solutions. However, systems thinking, chaos theory, power laws, and the like are not enough. Managing complexity is iterative and never final, which is why brilliant facilitators are not reluctant to revisit decisions.

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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. Employees are now a company’s most powerful interest group. At a time when the U.S. Polarization heightens risk.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The body makes a chemical choice about how best to protect itself — in this case from the shame and loss of power associated with being wrong — and as a result is unable to regulate its emotions or handle the gaps between expectations and reality. It is also, unfortunately, the most common.

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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

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code. Insight Center.

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