Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The consensus among these individuals is that when you focus on taking care of your own emotional health, the resulting positivity has a contagious effect, especially when it comes to relationships between leaders and employees.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 3, 2020

We talked to some human resource professionals from a variety of industries to learn their opinions on the pros and cons of eating lunch at the desk. The general consensus was that if people are eating at their desks to save time, then it is a fallacy. Work and leisure spaces mesh and you eat and toil in the same space.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The report consists of responses from an unparalleled participant pool of 13,124 global leaders and 1,528 human resource executives within 2,031 participating organizations. Forty-eight countries and 32 major industries are represented, as well as multinationals and local corporations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

But human resources departments can reconfigure their offerings so they are embraced, not resented. And if there were a consensus strategy to help an employee population sustain weight loss, we’d know about it by now instead of having hundreds of wellness vendors pitching their own approaches. Health Human resources'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

I've worked in human resources for over 25 years, the past six with Newell Rubbermaid, and this is not a new endeavor for me. In my current position at Newell Rubbermaid, we have gained consensus among our senior leaders that the primary role of HR is to build organizational capability to support the execution of business strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

“I’m pretty convinced that there are superficial differences in culture and communication and how people do things,” said the global human resources officer. At some point the value for hierarchy must contradict egalitarianism or consensus decision-making runs up against clearly demarcated decision rights.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

The HERO report is a self-described “consensus” document, representing “countless hours of research and discussions by more than 60 members of both organizations and many outside experts.” We previously wrote a detailed critique of the report.).

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Health Care ROI Case Study Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

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.

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Real Estate Talent Management Long-term Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Against that backdrop, the Army began with hospital-level experiments focused on early and robust screening for behavioral health conditions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

With increasing investments in IT security, data systems, digital technology, human resources, and compliance, many health systems are seeing corporate service costs increase faster than 10% annually, well above their rate of revenue growth.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

That’s how groups become mired in consensus, and after a while, everyone thinks and acts alike. Joel Podolny, former head of Apple’s human resources, calls this tendency of our networks to evolve more slowly than our jobs “ network lag.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

A young gun (let’s call him Sam) wanted to join the partner’s team, which was helping a client with a difficult human resources problem. To begin, clarify what your mentee expects from the relationship, match it against your expectations, and reach consensus. Sam appeared keen, ambitious, and enthusiastic.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

However, the theory is that many companies who take the time to reach decisions through voting and consensus are better positioned to carry out a decision quickly having gained commitment from everyone involved. Decisions, democratically reached, typically take a lot longer than in other systems.

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