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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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3 Questions Church Leaders Need to Ask NOW

Ron Edmondson

It’s not that they don’t do in-person meetings, but if you can’t get the finance team together in one room one month, you have another option. If the general consensus of the room is that is where some energy is happening – put extra fuel behind it. When someone is sick they can still be connected. That’s a keeper.

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Leadership and Product Management

Lead on Purpose

Their success depends on their ability to build consensus and inspire the other team members to do great things. Accounting/Finance: This group is often completely ignored by product management. When the PM makes a concerted effort to have a strong relationship with sales, their product success will increase.

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Two Factors that Determine When ESG Creates Shareholder Value

Harvard Business Review

Despite its influence in popularizing ESG investing, the topic remains controversial with mixed academic consensus and political debate in the U.S. It demonstrated that focusing on financially material ESG (environmental, social, and governance) factors positively impacts portfolio returns and shareholder value.

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What Markets Do and Don’t Get About Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Great investments are both non-consensus and correct, and examining the valuation process shows that consensus tends to coalesce differently around each type of innovation. Without theory to tell us how the rules are changing, many tools of management and finance seem to break down. Disruptive innovation Finance'

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Never be swayed by consensus that calls you to compromise your values, rather be guided by doing the right thing. Most people don’t have to agree with you 100% of the time, but they do need to trust you 100% of the time. Trust cannot exist where leaders are fickle, inconsistent, indecisive, or display a lack of character.

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Will Africa’s Growth Help Africa’s People?

Harvard Business Review

They need education, health care, decent wages, access to finance. The Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD), convening this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is one of several important milestones toward a new international consensus on eliminating extreme poverty and hunger. We are investing.