Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

A S a McKinsey & Company article stated in late March 2020: “What leaders need during a crisis is not a predefined response plan but behaviors and mindsets that will prevent them from overreacting to yesterday’s developments and help them look ahead.”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 6, 2014

Guest post from Dr. Greg Alston : “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” - Peter Drucker This quote by one of the most respected management theorists of the last 100 years crystallizes the essence of how to determine whether someone is a good leader or not.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

Lady GaGa) , with the implication that leadership is an intuitive skill. Great leadership is certainly associated with strong instincts and intuition, but intuition and instincts are shaped by training and more importantly, greatly augmented through experience. change failure intuition leadership risk Shaun Spearmon success'

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

Maintaining our social infrastructure also requires know-how, because we must develop ground rules that make our social practices sustainable. Beginning with Lawrence Kohlberg, developmental psychologists have discovered that ethical competence tends to develop in stages that parallel social and cognitive development.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Something I’ve been hearing lately from my executive leadership coaching clients is that their teams aren’t functioning as well remotely as they were when they worked face to face. Determine whether the overall approach will be one of seeking consensus among the group’s members or relying on the expertise of those charged with each element.

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The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 6, 2014

The Real Problem Is Your Leadership “Map.”. The distortion in thinking and perceptions –based on mental maps – creates over 80% of the problems at a leadership and organizational level. While your leadership mental maps can actually create many problems in your organization, let’s look at 2 common examples. This meme ….

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2013

If committed leaders can consistently achieve consensus, they will move the alliance forward. Finding consensus is an art form that alliance leaders must master.” The three crucial parts of a charter are: the Purpose section, the Principles section, and the Operating Procedures. But it is the job of leadership.

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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. You can read more on mastering this difficult balancing act in the Hay Group 2013 Best Companies for Leadership study.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

I N AN IBM global survey of CEOs, the overwhelming consensus was that more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision, successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity. As a result, they are viewed as having less leadership potential. And there seems to be a stigma surrounding creative types.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Amida, a director of Corporate Sales that I coached 1 on 1 to enhance managerial-leadership and improve the teams productivity , became so great about being clear about the decision style her team will be using for different issues she makes a chart. Photo Credit. Team Results. Contact Create-Learning or Call +1.716.629.3678.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It’s a sad truth of our time that the state of leadership is not well regarded. Here are some of the most harmful leadership mistakes you may be making: A sense of omnipotence. In today’s world, you have to rely on consensus and shared ownership rather than any individual point of view—even your own. The Leadership Gap.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 26, 2018

You need them to operate as a great team, not functionaries. Operational boards are more valuable than governance boards. To help you develop. But you are missing an opportunity to add strength to your leadership. He’s a seasoned financial operator with extensive experience in startups and growth companies.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2017

After discussion, debate and thinking through the options, the team reaches consensus about the best course of action to take, or how best to solve a problem. A good networker knows lots of people who operate in fields adjacent to his or her own. When you operate in the thick of things, it is hard to evaluate how things are going.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2021

The applications that the tech world has developed have been a mainstay in the work from home atmosphere. The consensus seems to be that it is alright. Profit may be coming in with a trending product or service, but long-term success is built upon leadership that understands its key areas of skills and fortitude.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. This will be centered upon skill(s) based development and co-creation of a shared structure for discussions at a leadership level.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 27, 2020

Although the next few months of our lives will look drastically different depending upon those variables, certain aspects of our approaches to leadership will have an air of uniformity. Not everyone is coming back and we are all going to have to operate differently in order to protect those most at risk. Every Return is Different.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Great leadership starts with knowing your self on these levels, reflecting on past histories, and being forthcoming with your shortcomings. Now, only a few months until the election, the question is what has changed if anything? Now, only a few months until the election, the question is what has changed if anything?

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 28, 2014

Are there areas where I can help other people grow and develop, and give myself more time to focus on strategy and long-term planning?” For example, for several of my C-level clients, team management has emerged as an area where letting go can both free up executive time and help develop direct reports.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best?

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The Empowered Buisness

JUNE 16, 2015

Even though I did strategy development for billion dollar corporations in the early days of my business 30 years ago, I had no idea that there were 3 different approaches to strategic planning. One of the biggest challenges organizations face is making the commitment to develop a well thought out strategic plan. Peter Green.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders build the Vision bridge by developing and communicating a mission, set of values, and reputation that connect with employees. Leaders build the Voice bridge by developing processes and practices that keep employees “in the loop” and give them regular opportunities to express their views. Connecting the U.S.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 8, 2015

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. Most forms of brain damage and mind-sets were seen as irreversible, and the attitude was nearly apathetic. Nick has dealt with adversity his entire life.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 8, 2015

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. Most forms of brain damage and mind-sets were seen as irreversible, and the attitude was nearly apathetic. Nick has dealt with adversity his entire life.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 19, 2021

That’s where Oleg Konovalov, business educator, consultant, coach, and a top global thinker on leadership wants to help. What are some of the major mistakes people make when developing a vision? How do aspiring leaders develop this leadership skill? We are living in a time of leadership blindness. Oleg Konovalov.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

Although the core ingredients of leadership are universal (good judgment, integrity, and people skills), the full recipe for successful leadership requires culture-specific condiments. In other words, good leadership is largely personality in the right place. What makes a great leader? Decision Making. The synchronized leader.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate. Incremental innovations can be managed at the operating levels where the people know the customers/consumers best and decisions can be made in a more consensus-driven way with input and agreement between all stakeholder functions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

During a meeting at a luxury retailer, the executive team decided that the company needed a digital strategy for its China operations. Was Madison tasked with forming a team that should develop a consensus view on what the company should do in China, or was she tasked with making the decision and executing?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2017

I also believe that when simplification is an operating principle, it can guide leaders both in big, risky decisions and in daily priorities. Comprising that mindset are the following six leadership characteristics. Leaders who are driving simplification must lay aside the need to seek consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. But collaboration is not consensus. Too often, people will try to collaborate on everything, and wind up in endless meetings, debating ideas and struggling to find consensus. Collaboration is not a style.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

The ability to meet challenges with a willingness to depart from standard operating procedures; to confront anxiety, tolerate criticism, take intelligent risks, and refute conventional wisdom—especially one’s own views—in order to achieve breakthroughs” is what Jonah Sachs calls unsafe thinking. Leadership. W E ALL GET STUCK IN RUTS.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We see this play out over and over in two contrasting styles of leadership. This same phenomenon operates not just individually, but also organizationally. We worked with a venture capital firm that took pride in differentiating itself from competitors by building its culture around collegiality, care, and consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

You either go out and buy it, or you develop the talent you already have. Such loans have advantages for the lender: they accelerate player development and/or reduce costs by removing the salary of the loaned player from the lending club’s books. How do you get the talent you need? Both clubs realize a unique win-win.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is the first in a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Lack of consensus among players in a complex system is one of the biggest barriers to innovation. Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Companies that operate as a collection of silos commit the cardinal sin of underperforming relative to the resources they have invested. It sets in when people collaborate on the wrong things or when collaboration efforts get bogged down in endless discussions and consensus decision-making in which no one is clearly accountable.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Studies comparing the problem-solving abilities of groups in which dissenting views are voiced with groups in which they are not find that dissent tends to be a better precondition for reaching the right solution than consensus. military operations in Vietnam. Decision making Difficult conversations Leadership' All too few.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Studies comparing the problem-solving abilities of groups in which dissenting views are voiced with groups in which they are not find that dissent tends to be a better precondition for reaching the right solution than consensus. military operations in Vietnam. Decision making Difficult conversations Leadership' All too few.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Society at large is more consensus-oriented.". They suddenly understood why their own leadership styles may have been less impactful with their Anglo-Saxon headquarter colleagues. They all had wives who worked, and they all knew that in the Nordic operations they ran, fathers were just as avid to bond with their new babies as mothers.

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