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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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

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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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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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

I observed that Japanese companies tended to emphasize the group and consensus, while American culture pushed rugged individualism. The kind of wide consultations that I advocate would not be possible in large, dispersed organizations were it not for email. I believe the advice process strikes a better balance.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 26, 2023

” Ways to Live in The Feedback Zone The most powerful and accurate feedback is a well-designed 360 assessment process with strengths-based coaching. When you’re trying to build a team consensus or get the team’s input, hold back your opinion until you’ve heard from everyone.

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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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Lead Change Blog

JULY 3, 2018

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. Shelley shares: “ We talk a lot about the need to gather information, discuss, debate and gain consensus. Productivity.

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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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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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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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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

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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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

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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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

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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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

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

APRIL 18, 2011

It requires gathering a huge amount of customer insights across a multitude of products, geographies, and touch points, and driving a large number of external and internal stakeholders to consensus on what the new experience should be. Doing so in a cost-effective fashion is a practical impossibility.

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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. Much of the book is dedicated to making the case that technical change is accelerating, due to Moores Law, the observation that computing power roughly doubles every 18 months.

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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

Team members need to reach a consensus in their answers to these questions before moving ahead. Handled properly, this communication can be a powerful way to bring your employees together in a united front. What do we need to do dif­ferently this time?

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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. However, for leaders and coaches who understand the power of coaching, we can make a difference – even a small one – in these very challenging times. His new book, Coach!

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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

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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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. Carefully identifying and executing your company’s customer insight mission in consultation with frontline managers can make all the difference. After achieving sufficient buy-in, the project can be easily scaled.

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

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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.

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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

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. Steve kept glancing at Tommy during the tour. You look pale," Steve said at one point. "I I've got a strong stomach.".

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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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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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