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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

Learned Excellence is a comprehensive and practical guide to the mental disciplines of high performance, from the expert who developed the US Navy SEALs mental toughness curriculum and has worked with thousands of top athletes, elite military personnel, business executives, and first responders. It's time to fight back.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by John Hooker : Everyone knows that an organization can’t function without physical infrastructure communications, transportation, computer technology, and the rest. Maintaining our social infrastructure also requires know-how, because we must develop ground rules that make our social practices sustainable.

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Public And Private Sectors Differ In Their Approach To AI Governance

The Horizons Tracker

In an article published last year I highlighted how trust is crucial in our interactions with AI-based technologies in a huge range of spheres, from autonomous vehicles to healthcare. Among policymakers, there was a general agreement around the most important ethical principles for the appropriate development of AI-based applications.

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Leading in a World of Change: Lessons from Downton Abbey

Great Leadership By Dan

At the same time, the advent of new ground breaking technologies such as electricity and motorization – today we would call them disruptive – allowed the estates to operate with significantly less staff. Don’t try to resist technology in the workplace. The business models of the past are transforming at a breathtaking pace.

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Challenges for Founder Leaders and How to Make Things Easier

Leading Blog

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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Remote Positivity: Emulating Optimism for Your Work-From-Home Employees

Strategy Driven

There are numerous ways that technology has adeptly adapted to this, with apps and services across multiple platforms able to aid in employee communications no matter their location. 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.