Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Team Leaders and Managers set the tone for team based decision making. Below is a case study / success story of coaching and consulting with a manager and a team to improve their decision making process and output as a team. Team & Management Problem. Team & Management Intervention. Photo Credit. Team Results.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Many of the issues we face will require collaboration at some level to solve or even manage them. If committed leaders can consistently achieve consensus, they will move the alliance forward. Finding consensus is an art form that alliance leaders must master.” Collaborations are not easy. But it is the job of leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 6, 2014

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

JULY 26, 2018

Keenly aware that while your title makes you manager, only your team makes you leader. You need them to operate as a great team, not functionaries. Operational boards are more valuable than governance boards. To help you develop. They may be easier to manage, but a lot less effective. But, what about your board?

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 19, 2021

What are some of the major mistakes people make when developing a vision? How do aspiring leaders develop this leadership skill? At the same time, effective development demands well-planned everyday effort and a means of assessing progress. Without this, there will be no long-term progress. Oleg Konovalov. Oleg Konovalov.

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Consensus Learning-by-Doing Long-term Banking 125

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. We cannot achieve and maintain alignment without consensus and conviction about The Main Thing. "The main thing is to keep the Main Thing the main thing!"

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Organization Mission Statement How To COO 284

Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In today’s world, you have to rely on consensus and shared ownership rather than any individual point of view—even your own. In business, as in life, we often have to operate in a fog of uncertainty. The best way not to make these deadly mistakes it to be aware of them, manage them and get a great coach to help you leverage them.

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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. In this case, a manager or program director is given the authority to make decisions within a particular department. And finally, some teams are actually decision-making bodies.

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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. Project management is an essential part of any brand, for example, but proper communication with employees is necessary to steady productivity. The consensus seems to be that it is alright. Collaborate and Listen.

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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. W E ALL GET STUCK IN RUTS. Thinking ruts.

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How To Creativity Motivation Learning-by-Doing 166

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 27, 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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Delegation Morale Report Learning-by-Doing 152

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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Delegation Report Consensus Learning-by-Doing 137

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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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 27, 2020

No matter whether your organization saw a boom in business, a need to shift how you operate or was halted altogether, some of the approaches we take as leaders will have to be the same because we are leading people through the same event. All of us have been impacted in some form or fashion. Every Return is Different.

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Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

Holacracy is a way of structuring and running organizations that replaces the conventional management hierarchy. Instead of operating top-down, power is distributed throughout the organization, giving individuals and teams more freedom to self-manage, while staying aligned to the organization’s purpose. Cooperative Examples.

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The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 6, 2014

A statement still widely used in many contexts, including management. Consensus: Your team, industry peers, the media, etc. They buy into the same reason. “ Of course, the economy is to blame.” Consensus grows and resignation becomes contagious within your company and industry. The map is not the territory. This meme ….

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? 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.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders consciously or unconsciously lump employees into three categories: the “stars” consisting of those in management as well high potential employees, the much larger “core” made up of solid contributors, and the rest, employees whose contributions and fit with the organization are questionable. Connecting the U.S.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Through the work of the Global Institute of Innovation Districts they highlight the work of ecosystems from Melbourne to Milan, St Louis to Stockholm, all of whom are working to further the development of a vaccine for the virus. In part these may be fed by the fact it is easy to find social consensus.”. Practical solutions.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

This will be centered upon skill(s) based development and co-creation of a shared structure for discussions at a leadership level. Leadership team will solve a problem, develop an action plan & plan the step to a solution that is applicable to the organization at the time of our meeting.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The matrixed teams help companies maintain normal operations while focusing cross-functional departmental resources on big or complex projects. Or, there’s a strong desire to reach a consensus, and every decision requires hours of stakeholdering and escalation. Are Matrix Organizations a Good Idea?

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The project had been operational for a few months when I joined so the foundation had already been poured. At one point, I suggested that we revisit our project governance – the operational guide, how it was implemented, and whether the team followed it – but this was a mature team and the general consensus was that everyone knew what to do.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

What if you upgraded your IT network to a new operating system that promised faster, better and leaner results — only to find that the vast majority of your leaders did not have the necessary competencies to use that new system? Self-awareness allows leaders to summon the patience to manage the complexities of the matrix.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Otpor also developed a clear doctrine of values. Rather than merely spouting a vague set of slogans, the group developed an explicit guide for action. As Tina Rosenberg describes in Join The Club , Otpor published a manual, developed a training course, and brought in activists from all over Serbia to onboard them.

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Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

There is a general consensus among economic analysts and commentators that the changes are merely cosmetic — they certainly do not affect the daily lives of most average Nigerians, and their timing might be politically motivated given the upcoming 2015 elections which are expected to be highly contested. Global business'

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

” The bottom line is that most people don’t want to be “sold” by an ad anymore; they want to develop a relationship where a business earns their purchase by offering invaluable content. They offer strategies like content development, email marketing, creative and branding, and more.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. They keep customers happier.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

After some investigating, they discovered that their fragmented, geographically dispersed matrix structure made it very difficult for the program managers to coordinate efforts across functions, keep everyone focused on the cost and delivery goals, and get people to reach consensus. Senior management knew this was an issue.

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Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

For that, he leaves a huge legacy in management. Eighteen months earlier, he’d made arguably the worst decision he ever made, to support an ill-conceived covert operation to unseat Fidel Castro, known today as the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Crisis management Decision making Government' But at the time, success was hardly assured.

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Groupthink Janis Consensus After Action Review 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

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. Despite having a full plate of client projects, she signed up to work on a massive survey to understand the concerns of chief operating officers.

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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. Most product development groups continue to design non-interactive products.

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B2B Consensus Productivity Products 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

Despite the development of numerous techniques and tools to structure patient handoffs and improve the transfer of communication, we haven’t seen much improvement in reducing medical errors. The problem is two-fold: first, hospital administrators and managers struggle to effectively implement these tools. The Six Stages.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

It involves too many people When a strategic plan needs to finely calibrate the moves of loosely controlled business units and achieve consensus, then it often makes sense to include a wide range of stakeholders in the discussions. Industry upheaval often calls for tough choices, and consensus will not be possible.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

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. ” Human development is about progressively seeing more.

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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. All too few. They never released the product. They killed it!"

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