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. Many organizations fail to understand and embrace the discontinuous nature of the creative process.” The Linear Mindset.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The collaborative process is more complex, slower, and messier than independent decision making. 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 best leaders collaborate anyway.) Collaborations are not easy.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

For decisions to be effective a process must be known and shared. 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 Leaders and Managers set the tone for team based decision making. Photo Credit. Team Results.

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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. The best leaders know how to work efficiently and meet deadlines, but they also know how to pace themselves and their team and to slow down the process when they need more time. Leadership is all about humility.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

These individuals probably have some history of working together but they also operate with the same obstructed viewpoint. Coming to a consensus around vision and direction can be time intensive simply because people who don’t interact are likely speaking to each other for the very first time, and frankly don’t trust each other.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Here are 4 tips for leading a founder run-organization more effectively and more efficiently while getting better results in the process. 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. But it doesn’t need to be that way!

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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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leaderCommunicator

JUNE 3, 2014

Flip charts and sticky notes flow, ideas get jotted down, and ultimately you arrive at a consensus -- the path forward. The cloud-based tool was developed by Codigital , a U.K.-based operations out of Denver. As I saw in Denver, the whole process engages everyone in the room in a way that traditional brainstorms can’t do.

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The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 6, 2014

Due to your brain’s limited processing capabilities, your mental maps filter out over 99% of external information coming from your five senses. As a result, this filtering process distorts, deletes and generalizes your sense of reality. Consensus: Your team, industry peers, the media, etc. all validate your reason.

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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? What I like to refer as “positional gaps&# are best closed by listening to all sides, finding common ground and then letting the principle of doing the right thing guide the process.

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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. Concluding this process with; Shared process and structure for leadership team to make decisions and solve problems within a time span. Averaged the numbers to create group consensus.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

A diminished marketplace of ideas reduces the likelihood the innovative connections will be made to birth new products, processes and businesses. Leaders build the Vision bridge by developing and communicating a mission, set of values, and reputation that connect with employees. Connecting the U.S. The CNO is the head of the U.S.

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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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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Many years after the curtain came down on my Camelot project, I was asked to lead the process / organization side of a large technology project. The project had been operational for a few months when I joined so the foundation had already been poured. How did I figure this out? And so, I relented. Baker was a protégé of Dr. W.

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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. The process is straightforward: As the brain takes in new information, it rewires itself and forms new neural connections that change the matter of the brain itself.

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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. The process is straightforward: As the brain takes in new information, it rewires itself and forms new neural connections that change the matter of the brain itself.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

To help maximize the value and minimize the misery of reorgs, we have developed a five-step process for running them. The steps apply to all reorgs generally and our survey data shows that companies using this process are three times likelier than others to achieve their desired results. Step 3: Consider Multiple Options.

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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

APRIL 20, 2016

Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. 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. They keep customers happier.

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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. Coming to know how and when to collaborate is a learning process. Collaboration is not a style. Collaboration is not “cross-selling.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

And as it turned out, the way President Kennedy orchestrated and led the decision-making process made all the difference. 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.

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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. More important is the customer process and how he engages with the organization.

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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. Since these insights sprang directly from customer feedback, marketing was able to develop responses that more closely addressed customers’ specific needs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

First, some background: On September 17 th , NASA announced the winners of the $6.8bn “space taxi” contract which will fund the development and launch of new platforms to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. ULA benefits from access to Blue Origin’s innovative designs and lean operations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

That was the general consensus after one of my favorite HBS classes: an entrepreneurship case on a company called Tickle. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management.

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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. Adopting a more systematic process. Our approach engaged management and staff throughout the change process and relied on their feedback.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

This growth, along with rising incomes in developing countries (which cause dietary changes such as eating more protein and meat) are driving up global food demand. Advanced logistics, transportation, storage, and processing are also crucial for making sure that food goes from where it grows in abundance to where it doesn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes were small — the famed “pivot.” .” They needed to be sure that what they were building was what customers wanted and needed. Seize the Cash.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

A further survey of 500 college-educated individuals in professional careers supported this finding and identified inclusiveness in the decision-making process as the key differentiator of leadership. Note that this inclusive process is not decision-making by committee or by consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

There is a growing sense that so-called lean start-up techniques — developing a minimal viable product, learning in the marketplace, and pivoting based on market feedback — can help to unleash this potential. These kinds of mechanisms help to reduce the friction of testing — and accelerate the process of learning.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The primary challenge most large companies now face is disruption, the response to which requires a new strategy, new processes, and a new set of behaviors. This same phenomenon operates not just individually, but also organizationally. ” Human development is about progressively seeing more. We’re too decentralized.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

Labovitz and Victor Rosansky, authors of Rapid Realignment : How to Quickly Integrate People, Processes, and Strategy for Unbeatable Performance. Without it, it's not possible to align the four elements that produce organizational efficiency and effectiveness: strategy, people, customers, and processes. Do your people understand it?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Agriculture alone – not including the sizable food processing industry — produces up to 35% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions (and uses 70% of the water ). ” By 2050 it will slash emissions up to 72%, with the exact number TBD, but at a pace that will keep them “in line with scientific consensus.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

So just when electric systems need to operate flawlessly — whether to power air conditioners, pump water, or heat homes — long-term challenges to power grids are multiplying. But solving the workforce problem is inherently part of this process. Encouraging trade skills.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

While there is universal agreement that (1) it exists, and (2) that it plays a crucial role in shaping behavior in organizations, there is little consensus on what organizational culture actually is, never mind how it influences behavior and whether it is something leaders can change. Culture is a process of "sense-making" in organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

Research has shown that leaders’ decision making, communication style, and dark-side tendencies are influenced by the geographical region in which they operate. In order to ascend the organizational ranks, such leaders must seek consensus on decisions and drive others through a keen process orientation. Decision Making.

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