LDRLB

MARCH 27, 2013

Most leaders often operate under a mindset of unilateral control where the manager or leader feels responsible and accountable for the team and thus dictates to them. However, convey that asking for input doesn’t mean you will necessarily agree or that decisions will be made by consensus.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 15, 2019

She writes, “The accidents and the resulting media attention together create a real wake-up call for Boeing… what’s required, however, is more than operational fixes. As leader, when you’re trying to build a team consensus or get the team’s input, hold back your opinion until you’ve heard from everyone.

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Open-book Consensus Engineering Brainstorming 92

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2021

The consensus seems to be that it is alright. With an untold amount of startups in the current atmosphere and a market that seems to change every second, there is a measure of instability that can occur when a company operates on an unstable foundation. But communication doesn’t just come from one direction.

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Positioning Long-term Short-term Video 102

The Empowered Buisness

JUNE 16, 2015

The following are the 3 most common approaches for Strategic Planning, ranked in order from least to most strategic: Goals focused. Goals Focused Approach to Strategic Planning. This approach calls for a heavy emphasis on establishing clear business goals. Action plans are then developed to achieve these goals.

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LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Consider a few examples: “The company’s primary objective is to maximize long-term shareholder value while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standard.” ” You probably got bored right at the phase “long-term shareholder value.” Where We Went Wrong.

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Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 120

The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 6, 2014

Consensus: Your team, industry peers, the media, etc. They buy into the same reason. “ Of course, the economy is to blame.” Consensus grows and resignation becomes contagious within your company and industry. That’s not to negate that economic downturns exist and can impact how a company operates and grows. This meme ….

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Organization Leadership Consensus Market Segmentation 164

LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Consider a few examples: “The company’s primary objective is to maximize long-term shareholder value while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standard.” ” You probably got bored right at the phase “long-term shareholder value.” Where We Went Wrong.

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Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 78

Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 16, 2023

Teams require trust, and that’s built only through time spent together, solving problems, making decisions, and learning how everyone operates, sees the world, and shares information. Remember, the goal of most meetings is to take action. A team makes the decision through consensus. Consensus is often misunderstood.

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Consensus Commitment Information Learning-by-Doing 550

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. When Admiral Clark assumed the CNO role, the Navy was not meeting its sailor retention goals.

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The alignment culture is a company’s “must do” culture, and encompasses cooperation, consensus, and working together toward overarching goals. An acclaimed speaker and executive coach, he advises Fortune 1000 senior leaders on how to create cultures that drive superior operating results.

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Succession Teamwork Restructuring Commitment 50

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? The goal of a leader is not to clone him/herself, but to harness individual strenghts for the greater good of the team and for the overall benefit of the organization.

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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. Each department has its own agenda and strategic goals. Or, there’s a strong desire to reach a consensus, and every decision requires hours of stakeholdering and escalation.

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Organization Power Project Consensus 266

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. A sense of urgency can help leaders reach goals. The situation was dire. So did we succeed?

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How To Chief Information Officer Tourism Politics 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

If a seller doesn’t have an advocate in the organization to help drive the consensus, a so-called “mobilizer” who is personally motivated to champion the deal, the sale can stall (see “ Making the Consensus Sale ” Harvard Business Review , March 2015). Sales Sales & Marketing Customers'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

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. Because consensus and familiar metrics are death to breakthrough.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Collaboration is a way of working that attracts and involves people outside one’s formal control, organization, and expertise to accomplish common goals. 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.

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Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 13

Skip Prichard

APRIL 19, 2021

People united around a common goal are unstoppable. None of them talks about sales, operations, or any other functions that ordinary leaders tend to lean on and consider as the core drivers of execution. We have to remember that we live in a world now where consensus increasingly has become very important for everyone to secure.

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Consensus Learning-by-Doing Long-term Banking 127

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

The ABU was set up as a centralized profit center with ambitious targets and with direct reporting to the chief operations officer; most often, similar units are organized as cost centers with no specific targets. The value generated by risk- and operational cost-abating analytics initiatives is measured by their impact on the bottom line.

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Company Chief Operating Officer Incentives Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2012

We described what we meant by that in the consensus report Intelligence Analysis for Tomorrow , and in more detail in a collection of readings that introduces the science. It includes decision analysis, game theory, and operations research. In order to apply the science of decision-making, leaders must create hospitable organizations.

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Kahneman Game Theory Committee Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Two big companies in particular, General Mills and Kellogg, have set new, aggressive goals. The companies’ goals as stated, are fairly straightforward: General Mills will cut absolute GHGs by 28% by 2025 “across the entire value chain.” Establish interim goals and adjustments to the targets as climate science evolves.

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Goal Industry Consensus Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Unnecessary consensus-seeking for reversible, non-consequential decisions. The relentless pursuit of “inbox zero,” a badge of honor in most workplaces, but a symbol of proficiency at putting other people’s goals ahead of one’s own. Cut: Reduce or eliminate tasks that don’t add value.

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Outsourcing Stress Productivity Products 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Kennedy captured the world''s imagination when he said, "This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth." Reading Kennedy''s quote raises the spirit; a more typical corporate goal of increasing return on invested capital from 13.4%

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Scenario Planning Consensus Strategic Planning Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

A core lynchpin position is one that offers critical, irreplaceable resources — that is, without these resources an organization could not achieve its primary goals and mission. A law firm cannot provide legal services without lawyers, for example, but a tech company could continue to operate for a long time without a general counsel.

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Company Report Positioning Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

Active listening and probing (with humility, not aggression) energizes groups, encourages them to reach consensus, and helps them arrive at new and better solutions. But his division's operations department was adamant it could not be done given the tremendous complexity of its processes. Prime the Pump.

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360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 20

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Clusters plug together like Lego bricks to achieve the business's goals. Balancing team roles can be particularly important to avoid the Apollo effect , where every team member needs his or her idea to dominate and the team is unable to come to a consensus. A cluster is not the same as a consulting model. Clusters Create More Value.

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Real Estate Talent Management Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

We started working with the management and staff of the perioperative unit in 2014 to develop a more systematic, long-term approach for improving patient handoffs from the operating room (OR) to the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU). The goal of this stage was to help care providers effectively enact the new protocol.

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Long-term Janis Quality Consensus 8

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. The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. “I’m so glad we read that case — I’m NEVER going to start a company.”.

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Career Company IPO Christensen 9

Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

Every successful business has, at its heart, a theory of the business—an underlying set of supporting objectives and a corporate philosophy that gives people a foundation on which to operate. We cannot achieve and maintain alignment without consensus and conviction about The Main Thing. The Main Thing is critically important.

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Organization Mission Statement How To COO 284

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

There was a consensus that CSR focuses more on boosting employee morale than addressing the way a company engages with society’s concerns. Each goal is tied to Unilever’s core business activity. These are not philanthropic ambitions. Apply world-class management.

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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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Leadership Leadership Styles Consensus Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

If a patient crashes, the telemetry will share the most pertinent information required with the nurses, doctors, operating room, medical tech, and family on a prioritized need-to-know basis. The goal is natural user experiences based on identity. Monetary, non-monetary, and consensus exchanges are three common forms of value exchange.

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Consensus System Information Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

ULA benefits from access to Blue Origin’s innovative designs and lean operations. As the supplier of a critical component in an interdependent product, Blue Origin will need to work closely with ULA on all future innovations to make sure that the parts fit and the combined system achieves its goal.

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Industry Disruptive Innovation Innovation Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

This change first developed inside the special operations community whose leaders faced the reality of being out-paced by a new type of networked challenger in Al Qaeda, and therefore focused on building the density and diversity of their own friendly network. So the first step is to build more relationships and connections.

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Agility Diversity Groupthink Efficiency 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. A sense of urgency can help leaders reach goals. The situation was dire. So did we succeed?

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Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Data science can be used in a number of different ways, depending not just on the industry but on the business and its goals. Among other things, I’ve asked them about what their jobs entail. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Ethics Learning-by-Doing Industry Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

By starting slow and building scale, Otpor could show, to their own members and the country at large, that they not only had clear goals, but that they were making progress against them. Otpor might have been a protest group, but it operated as if it was a startup company marketing a product.

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Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

The opposite of consensus, dissensus measures the degree of differences of opinion — the higher the level of expertise dissensus, the greater the variety of opinions within the group about how much each team member knows. Perhaps the task is a stretch goal for your colleague? I call this phenomenon "expertise dissensus.".

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