Lead Change Blog

MARCH 28, 2018

His promises to provide jobs, education, and even rewards prompted positive responses from his employees. They are less likely to take chances, question the norm, or innovate. When people take chances to bet against the consensus as Dalio does, there is a high probability that they may be wrong.

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Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Consensus Diversity 254

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The study suggests that while dominant individuals can elicit certain behaviors and outcomes through force, passive leaders are better at deriving consensus within the group. When it comes to bringing peers to consensus during more sophisticated tasks, it is the least aggressive individuals that exert the greatest influence.”

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Influence Power Consensus Analysis 122

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 24, 2021

For instance, under the Clinton condition, the number of college-educated immigrants in the country doubled, whereas, in the Trump condition, the number of Latin American immigrants was halved. The models suggest that when college-educated immigrants were introduced, average real wages rose, even for low-educated natives, with a rise of 5.2%

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Skills Education Consensus Course 127

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

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. And institutions of higher education, specifically MBA programs, often play a role by emphasizing thought and strategy over action.

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Leadership Kotter Consensus Diversity 285

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 8, 2021

“When we started doing misinformation work about five years ago, it was the consensus that correcting misinformation wasn’t just ineffective, but that it was aggravating the problem and making people more entrenched in their false beliefs,” the researchers explain. “We found no evidence of that in these four countries.

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Politics Consensus Tools Trends 132

Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Research from two well-respected organizations makes it clear that we have a big collective blind spot that’s dragging down productivity, innovation and economic performance. When leaders fail to meet the standard, help them with coaching, mentoring, education and development. American leaders need to wake up and smell the coffee.

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Leadership Six Sigma Competitive Advantage Consensus 400

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Research from the University of Pennsylvania suggests that often these beliefs are fueled by misinformation, with this found to be more of a factor than education, political partisanship, or religiosity. Recent research published in The Lancet highlighted the persistent opposition to vaccines, even as COVID-19 highlights their importance.

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Media Consensus Education Information 79

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 9, 2020

Urban-rural differences in partisan political loyalty is as familiar in the United States as they are in other countries,” the researchers say. “The general consensus has been that the origins of this divide lie within the personal characteristics of the people who live in rural or urban communities.

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Politics Long-term Consensus Education 100

Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

I don’t have consensus. Forward thinking is the intersection of creativity and innovation. The guidance you need is generally the guidance that tells you to trust your educated instincts. I tried it before and it didn’t work. What can you do differently this time? I’ll do it later. I’ll get in trouble.

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Learning-by-Doing Budgeting Succession Consensus 136

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Coaching and mentoring have seldom been more popular, with a growing consensus that it can be vital to our career development. Traditionally, the role of the mentor has been filled by an experienced colleague who can provide us with the wisdom they’ve gained over their careers.

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Bottom-up Mentor Consensus Call Center 89

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 have 3 blogs that often get onto best lists, such as top innovative content, top sales blog, top business blog. It’s The Consensus, Stupid*. Buyers know this.

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Content Marketing Consensus Open-book 50

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 15, 2012

I wrote recently about how successful Lego have been at harnessing the innovative thoughts of their customers to revive their fortunes in recent years. As we’ve seen from the experiment, this could involve you removing, or at least educating, people that don’t act collaboratively.

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CIO Media Participative Consensus 76

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

This dialogue reached a consensus among political parties stipulating that the incumbent Islamists hand over power to a technocratic transitional government. I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. How could I refuse? Build bonds to strengthen trust.

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How To Chief Information Officer Tourism Politics 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

We are often asked whether the best way to structure for innovation is top-down or bottom-up. Bottom-up approaches work well for incremental (keeps you in the game) innovations. Breakthrough (changes the game) innovations, contrary to popular belief, need a top-down approach. The answer is both, but it depends.

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Process Innovation Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

Technological innovation accounted for almost half of U.S. economic growth over the past 50 years, but the country's standing as the world's indisputable innovation leader is now at risk. The problem, of course, is education. And it's more than just the fact that U.S. students rank 25th in math and 17th in science.

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Education Creativity How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Management Craft

JUNE 6, 2011

Ensure everyone participates and hold yourselves to a high standard of decision making - not just going for majority rules or a watered down meet-in-the-middle consensus. Every retreat should have an educational aspect. Catalyze innovation that is aligned with the external and internal brand. What is your desired external brand?

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Productivity Products Brand Participative 69

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In addition to the negative impact on decision-making, diminished communications from the lack of connection reduces the marketplace of ideas inside the organization, which in turn reduces innovation. This made it safe for people to disagree and express views that were outside of the consensus view.

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. Your organization won't innovate productively unless some underlying factors are in good shape. A compelling case for innovation. Unless people understand why innovation is necessary, it always loses to core business or the performance engine in the battle for resources.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Today, inner cities are "in" — innovative, hip hotbeds of convenient culture, commerce and connection. The centripetal force of today's cities is pulling the ambitious and educated back in, and increasing cities' innovative capacity, without sacrificing (at least some would argue) their inclusiveness.

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Innovation Real Estate Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

In a business, entitlement inhibits innovation. And without innovation, we have sluggish economic growth. As can becoming a benevolent dictator to my staff, deciding that seeking consensus is no longer required. It's no wonder then that the emerging markets are a seedbed of innovation. They are our birthright.

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Innovation Consensus Entrepreneur Creativity 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Late in June, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton surprised business leaders by issuing a detailed technology and innovation platform. The consensus, even among many leading software providers , is that those new categories have done far more harm than good. Tech and business leaders should be taking note.

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Planning Innovation Review Policies 8

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

After graduating from my undergrad education (2007) I unexpectedly joined my parents’ company as the Global Sales and Marketing Director…it has been amazing yet seems to be a daily trial by fire test. In situations where consensus cannot be reached, they have an uncanny ability to cut to the chase and make informed decisions.

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Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

But how do you overcome obstacles to spreading innovation, like fear of change, resource constraints, and slow, consensus-based decision making? My team then invited Jenny to the Kaiser Permanente Innovation Retreat in May to network with other clinicians and innovators, share her story, and build support among attendees.

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Health Care Innovation How To Video 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

This "common language" barrier is one of the hidden challenges that can inhibit innovation inside large companies. Have each of them write down on a piece of paper their definition of innovation, and who in the company should be working on innovation. Innovation categories (e.g., Innovation categories (e.g.,

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Power Consensus Christensen Disruptive Innovation 12

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

They also offer a good mix of helpful and educational tools that integrate well with other leading tools for free. Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. The best content marketing tells authentic stories that inform, educate, inspire, or entertain the target audience.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

While diverse team composition does seem to confer an advantage when it comes to generating a wider range of original and useful ideas, experimental studies suggest that such benefits disappear once the team is tasked with deciding which ideas to select and implement, presumably because diversity hinders consensus.

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Diversity Creativity Analysis Consensus 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The more I learn about the results from crowdsourcing and open innovation efforts, the more I believe that the smart strategy is to expose your problems and challenges to as many people as possible and let them show you what they can do. Here's my most recent example of the power of this approach. They needn't have worried.

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Productivity Products Consensus Health Care 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Paul, a diverse set of stakeholders from economic development, philanthropy, business, government, and community development came together to reach consensus on more than 50 indicators of economic, social, and environmental progress that will guide their regional strategy.

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Industry Policies Consensus Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The international political consensus of the universal economic benefits of globalization that defined much of the 20th and early 21st centuries is breaking down. Gen 1 is often overtly anti-American, thanks to an education system that consistently frames the US as an enemy. Now, who would have guessed that would be the case in 1999?

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Globalization Class Consensus Outsourcing 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

I wanted to accept the consensus as a sign that the company had rounded the corner on its 3-year slog to be more relevant in their market. And then this small voice, untraceable for a moment because it was so small, started to explain how this plan would put the company in 2nd place in almost every aspect of innovation or time to market.

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CEO Engineering Consensus Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Bossidy, former CEO at AlliedSignal, once said , “We need people who are better at persuading than at barking orders, who know how to coach and build consensus. Business education Informal leadership Leadership' And perhaps the ultimate work of leaders in times of organizational change is to ensure high engagement levels. Lawrence A.

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education 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.

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GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Statistical modeling revealed strong consensus that what people felt was "feminine" they also deemed essential to leading in an increasingly social, interdependent and transparent world. Here are two of many examples we came across that show how anyone can lead with a more feminine ethos: Empathy Is Innovation.

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Sample Hedge Restructuring Conference 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

A choir can’t perform well if it’s made up of all sopranos; similarly, on an innovative team, you won’t achieve good results with people whose strengths and styles are all the same. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). Now that you understand what an innovative team looks like, think about your own group.

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Diversity Ries Creativity Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

When Alan Greenspan , Paul Krugman , and Niall Ferguson all agree on something, it’s a sign that the consensus is either very right — or very wrong. Scotland has the intrinsic qualities of successful small advanced economies: an educated population, social capital, and competitive firms. The UK’s future in the EU is uncertain.

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Consensus Globalization Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

It should come as no surprise, however, that as any innovative idea spreads, so do the misconceptions and mythology. For corporations, innovation, product acquisition, talent retention, and supply change development may be the benefits. If we want strong entrepreneurship ecosystems we need strong entrepreneurship education.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

In a global economy characterized by unprecedented competitiveness and constant change, nearly every CEO hungers for ways to drive more innovation. Ironically, researchers have developed a surprising degree of consensus about the stages of creativity and how to approach them.

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Company Meyer Energy Creativity 16