Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

Those who are driven by their ego, for example, will take center stage and proclaim to have the answers, ignoring or side-lining the experts who could give a more realistic assessment of a situation, managing people’s expectations. From this diverse and open thinking comes an agility to take the best actions, as areas of clarity emerge.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2016

The call for greater diversity at senior leadership levels is not new, although it has itself become more inclusive, extending beyond gender, race and ethnicity, to encompass age, education, socioeconomic background and sexual orientation, as well as experience, skills and talent. McKinsey & Co. About the Author.

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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. And diverse boards are best. They may be easier to manage, but a lot less effective. Adding diverse directors can be challenging for a leader because of the ensuing creative frictio n. But, what about your board?

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Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

MARCH 23, 2017

You choose them, you assign them, and you manage them with the expectation of excellence. This style boosts your team’s morale by allowing them to take part in reaching a consensus on decisions and goals. You practice the Golden Rule — you manage other people the way you would like to be managed.

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Lead from Within

MAY 9, 2019

Engage senior leaders: It’s essential to have consensus among the CEO and senior leadership team about the importance of proactive leadership development and succession planning. This group should set expectations, put processes in place, and hold the organization accountable for making it happen.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

Setting aside social, political, and moral reasons for encouraging a more diverse workplace, there is arguably no better incentive for promoting diversity than the premise that diverse teams and organizations are more creative. The conflicts arising from diversity can be mitigated if teams are effectively led.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

Management changes, or our strategic plan is rebuffed, or people simply don’t perform the way we think they will. Bruce Harpham of Project Management Hacks submitted Why Showing Appreciation To Your Team Makes A Difference. Jesse Lyn Stoner of the Seapoint Center provided Collaboration Does Not Require Consensus.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

The early engagement, building of trust, developed shared mental models, and cognitive diversity will lead to a more cogent and successful change effort. They lean toward asking questions and building consensus, rather than making huge changes and trying to tell and sell stakeholders later. Penny for your thoughts?

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QAspire

MARCH 6, 2013

Be clear about the purpose of having the face time: Conversations can easily take diversions if they are not done purposefully. It can be used to build consensus, to educate others or to simply assess progress. Face time can be used to inspire others or simply inform them. It can be used to gather intelligence or to take decisions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 16, 2023

So, the question is, what is the smallest number of people who can attend but still provide you with good, diverse, and informed input from those who have a stake in the decision? Typically, this would be the manager or someone she appoints. A team makes the decision through consensus. Consensus is often misunderstood.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

It is rife with struggles related to managing the emerging responsibilities of adult life. If ownership or management of a family enterprise is an expectation, the pressures only mount. Respecting diverse viewpoints. Y OUNG ADULTHOOD today is a challenging life stage. This entails: 1. It was a huge hit!

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I did not feel management set the kind of example that I wanted to abide by.” To answer this question we asked people to think about the extent to which their immediate managers engaged in credibility-enhancing behaviors, and then we correlated their responses with how they felt about their work environment.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

PR practitioners need to be keenly attuned to what their brands’ strategies are and how their campaigns can be perceived, but they’ll be hard-pressed to do so if they don’t become more diverse and inclusive themselves. What seems to be changing is that clients are mandating more diversity and inclusion on their accounts.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2015

It's possible to use content to facilitate the non-solution-focused consensus and change issues readers must attend to as they ready themselves to make a purchase. I offer links that tie in to my books /services: I've written about diversity, leadership, collaboration, questions. It’s The Consensus, Stupid*.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Many managers want to be more inclusive. They recognize the value of inclusion and diversity and believe it’s the right thing to aspire to. For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. Diversity, on the other hand, spurs innovation.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2015

There is often not enough diversity to enable maximum creativity and unrestricted solution options. Gender, age, and ethnic diversity are necessary. Management and Leadership Best Practice 1 – Open, Honest, Timely Communications during Times of Uncertainty. Management and Leadership – Managing Your Virtual Team.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 30, 2019

Many businesses use both, combining techniques to achieve better results: Qualitative Forecasting: Uses methods that focus on opinion and consensus, such as market research and the Delphi method , to arrive at a reasoned conclusion. Beyond that, there are two broad categories of methods that each type of forecasting can employ.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

A simple question was asked: are hospitals ranked more highly when they are led by medically trained doctors or non-MD professional managers? The analysis showed that hospital quality scores are approximately 25% higher in physician-run hospitals than in manager-run hospitals.

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Women's Leadership Exchange

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

It was Ella Edmondson Bell, author and professor at Darmouth's Tuck School of Business and a WLE Compass Award winner, who suggested that we contact Dr. Faust, because she has a great awareness of what women of all ethnic diversities are accomplishing, and that perhaps, Dr. Faust should be considered for a WLE Compass Award.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

We're delighted to announce the finalists for the Management 2.0 First, we were struck by the diversity of the contributions. That diversity is matched only by the deep humanity of the entries. Everyone Innovates Every Day — Collaborative Idea Management at Ericsson. You can read them all here. ).

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Management Innovation Storytelling Bottom-up 14

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 26, 2021

As discussions around the nature of work as we emerge from Covid lockdown measures, the consensus seems to be coalescing around a hybrid form of work that will see a greater mixture of home and office-based working. For instance, how much control will managers give employees over when and where they work?

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Diversity Consensus Loyalty Crisis 133

Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

A manager only listens to team members who agree with them, neglecting diverse opinions that could offer a new perspective. A manager ignores potential issues with a new initiative because they don’t want to be the only one questioning it. A manager focuses only on what went wrong in a successfully completed project.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 27, 2020

Brainstorming depends on combining knowledge and skills, and it works best with a diverse group. Bring the full group together: After you’ve allowed people to process and finalized the group, bring everyone together to discuss the most promising ideas and begin working toward a consensus. Identify the problem solvers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Maybe your company tells people to be consensus-builders, but promotes people who are solely authoritative decision makers (behavior-practices gap). Every employee I have managed would give up their so-called perks for one thing: clear expectations. Does a manager value face-time more than outcomes? Strategy and goal setting.

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Teamwork Consensus Attrition System 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

This is a classic story of unintended consequences — inadvertently short-circuiting long-term management — to the detriment of companies, investors, and the economy. The diversion of cash from investment slowed long-term strategic success. Eventually, the company’s share price nosedived.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

(There is evidence that although their managers may want them to say no to such “extracurricular” projects, there are greater costs for women who decline to help others at the office than for men who do so.). In order to succeed, employees need clear information from their managers that goes beyond day-to-day execution.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2016

Management endorsed her proposal to make over the New Delhi and Kolkata branches into all-women-staffed banks. Our case studies also make clear why so many companies that have succeeded in diversifying their ranks fail to capitalize on that diversity: management too often elicits and endorses the ideas of people like themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

And as the number and diversity of required decision makers grows, marketers are concluding they must personalize content so that it resonates with each stakeholder. In short, personalizing content for each of a group of diverse stakeholders, often with differing priorities, amplifies disconnects rather than overcoming them.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

Furthermore, we agree that, used improperly, Osborn's process of brainstorming can promote consensus, not collaboration. Suffice it to say, we dislike consensus-based "Groupthink" as much as the next person. Assemble a Diverse Team. Here's our advice: 1. Focus on Roles: The Client, the Facilitator, and Resources.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

It continues to live on in places as far-flung and diverse as Iran, Burma and Zimbabwe, just to name a few. As Nocera pointed out, “Occupy protesters were purposely — even proudly — rudderless, eschewing leadership in favor of broad, and thus vague, consensus.”

Management 8

Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

A drive to achieve consensus and prevent outright conflict. But they have not successfully leveled the playing field or created the kind of true diversity that any great organization needs to thrive. We need women in leadership positions not only because they can manage as well as men but because they manage differently than men.

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Diversity Consensus Career Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

These roles very rarely lead to major jobs in senior management. She was a leader of several important diversity initiatives at IBM as well — but it was likely Rometty's sales experience that opened the door to the C-suite. In contrast, 65% of men on executive committees hold line jobs. What this really calls for is a mind shift.

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P&L McKinsey Consensus Committee 16

Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

A manager only listens to team members who agree with them, neglecting diverse opinions that could offer a new perspective. A manager ignores potential issues with a new initiative because they don’t want to be the only one questioning it. A manager focuses only on what went wrong in a successfully completed project.

Dunning 52

Dunning Consensus Groupthink Charisma 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Yet having the two teams work in perfect harmony and reach an easy consensus on every decision is a pipedream, and in fact, is not the best answer either. These diverse perspectives often lead to conflict. But the tension created by diverse viewpoints also has a positive side. But sales and marketing don’t always get along.

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Marketing Market Segmentation Short-term Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

In most organizations without professional risk managers, the amount of risk individuals are allowed to take is set informally and evaluated by tradition. People with unpopular ideas about risk may be eliminated or marginalized, depriving the organization of essential diversity. They are direct results of the process.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

My manager told me about a team that was working on the Google Help Forum. We were product managers, designers, and leaders. When managers are careless with their decisions, it creates big problems for their teams. Don’t expect consensus. Our team members were another layer in the pyramid.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

For that, he leaves a huge legacy in management. Yale psychologist Irving Janis used the debacle to coin the term “groupthink,” which refers to a psychological drive for consensus at any cost that suppresses dissent and appraisal of alternatives. Crisis management Decision making Government'

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