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

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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Leadership COO Team Building Active Listening 125

Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

Every organization needs a Main Thing—a single, powerful expression of what it hopes to accomplish. Every successful business has, at its heart, a theory of the business—an underlying set of supporting objectives and a corporate philosophy that gives people a foundation on which to operate. The Main Thing is critically important.

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Organization Mission Statement How To COO 284

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The executives' role is to define the attributes of the customer experience in partnership with their operational colleagues, organize the customer-satisfaction-measurement process against those attributes, and encourage remedial action wherever warranted. Many companies now have senior officers in charge of customer experience.

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B2B Consensus Productivity Products 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

An effective team is a powerful thing. 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. For teams like this, performance is typically much higher than might be expected of the sum of individuals.

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Real Estate Talent Management Long-term Short-term 12

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. But do these formal objections reveal only the tip of the iceberg?

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Crisis Policies Globalization Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

We find that small, test-and-learn data projects on 90-day cycles help to steer clear of committee consensus. The new group is now attracting top customer analytics talent, in part because it operates and feels like more like a startup than a blue-chip corporation, right down to its office layout.

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Retail Banking Chief Information Officer Report 8

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. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame is now out in all three e-book formats: iTunes , Kindle , and Nook.

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 72

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

” Given a choice between a network heavily skewed to the power players in your firm and a good mix of diverse contacts, which would you choose? That’s how groups become mired in consensus, and after a while, everyone thinks and acts alike. He then mapped out the network of who consulted with whom.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

But he could not shake his newfound awareness of the amount of money Egan was losing with Westmid — the account's ratio of operating income to sales was a negative 28%. The Power of Customer Costing. And they were shocking: Just 1% of Egan's SKUs accounted for 100% of its operating profits. I've got a strong stomach.".

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Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 14

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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Blog Marketing Succession Brand 303

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

Places full of highly mobile and in-demand workers operate more democratically. Leaders don’t necessarily gain power by dint of high rank; they need to earn it every day. Without being caught doing anything so grubby as scheming or plotting, they manage relationships and power with aplomb. How do they do that?

Politics 8

Politics Pharmaceuticals Consultative Consensus 8

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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CEO Politics Policies Survey 10

You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

This company operates its democracy to the extent that: Employees set their own work schedules They don’t use the same workstation more than two days in a row so that no one really knows when they go to work or how long they stay. But what does a truly democratic workplace look like? These are just a few questions that come up for me.

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System Blog Diversity Operations 43

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.

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