Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

These individuals probably have some history of working together but they also operate with the same obstructed viewpoint. 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.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In today’s world, you have to rely on consensus and shared ownership rather than any individual point of view—even your own. The best leaders know how to work efficiently and meet deadlines, but they also know how to pace themselves and their team and to slow down the process when they need more time. Leadership is all about humility.

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Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Holacracy is a fundamentally different “operating system” for organizations. Instead, employees […] Holacracy is a fundamentally different “operating system” for organizations. Instead, employees self-manage and belong to different decision-making circles that keep the company operating.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Consensus is a powerful tool. When CEOs set out to conquer new markets or undertake billion-dollar acquisitions, we’d hope they’d at least sought out some consensus from their trusted advisors. The problem with consensus is that it’s expensive. The problem with consensus is that it’s expensive. Consider the story of Nick.

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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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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? What I like to refer as “positional gaps&# are best closed by listening to all sides, finding common ground and then letting the principle of doing the right thing guide the process.

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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. One such system was the Navy’s job assignment process. Connecting the U.S. Clark changed legacy systems that made sailors feel devalued.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Concluding this process with; Shared process and structure for leadership team to make decisions and solve problems within a time span. Averaged the numbers to create group consensus. This will be centered upon skill(s) based development and co-creation of a shared structure for discussions at a leadership level.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Of course, Sutherland and Schwaber weren’t alone in their search for innovative methods. They keep customers happier. They enjoy their work more.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? In reality, though, each step is fraught with psychological difficulties and organizational complications, making the process as much an exercise in rooting out unspoken assumptions as a mathematical exercise. Or by making process improvements? Setting the growth target.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2017

I also believe that when simplification is an operating principle, it can guide leaders both in big, risky decisions and in daily priorities. While simplicity benefits for the company as a whole, it often challenges certain individuals and groups whose authority is rooted in inefficient and overly complex rules, processes, and systems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

It’s not hard to see why a partnership between a strong, but staid incumbent and an innovative startup appears attractive. ULA benefits from access to Blue Origin’s innovative designs and lean operations. However, to effectively understand any partnership, you have to analyze each firm’s Resources, Processes and Priorities.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. In some rare cases, individuals are able to push back against team consensus and help organizations recognize and proactively respond to changes in the competitive landscape.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

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. Coming to know how and when to collaborate is a learning process. To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. Collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Innovative. The primary challenge most large companies now face is disruption, the response to which requires a new strategy, new processes, and a new set of behaviors. This same phenomenon operates not just individually, but also organizationally. amriphoto/Getty Images. Collaborative.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. That''s not right. Pick people carefully.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

They''re a keystone of what we call a "future-back" approach to strategy, which unlike the "present forward" nature of most strategic-planning processes, doesn''t operate under the assumption that tomorrow will be pretty much like today, and the day after pretty much more of the same. Innovation Strategy'

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Scenario Planning Consensus Strategic Planning Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The executives' role is to define the attributes of the customer experience in partnership with their operational colleagues, organize the customer-satisfaction-measurement process against those attributes, and encourage remedial action wherever warranted. More important is the customer process and how he engages with the organization.

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B2B Consensus Productivity Products 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

An additive operation in the algebra of change, as my colleague Stuart Albert would put it, not a subtractive or transformative process. Michelle Bachelet , the former Chilean president, said that in changing times the best leaders are those who can be generals one day and consensus-builders the next. Josette Sheeran , U.N.

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Leadership Consensus Crisis Leadership Styles 15

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. Less than a quarter of business executives interviewed by McKinsey reported having the management resources, talent and processes to engage with stakeholders effectively. Engage radically.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

There’s a lot of debate over the magnitude of the decline, but there is broad consensus that it has happened and that it’s a big deal. Indeed, we show that the industries where concentration has risen the most are also those where there has been the fastest growth in productivity and innovation. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Unnecessary consensus-seeking for reversible, non-consequential decisions. I conducted a two-week, six-hour workday experiment with my team at Collective Campus, an innovation accelerator based in Melbourne, Australia. How to Foster a Shorter, More Productive Workday.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

There is strong academic consensus that climate change–driven water scarcity, rising global temperatures, and extreme weather will have severe long-term effects on crop yields. First and foremost, farmers, trading companies, and other processing groups (Big Food in particular) need to commit to deforestation-free supply chains.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

The other half might have been open to the idea that law firms needed a strategy, but completely opposed to having anything other than a consensus-built, senior partner-friendly mechanism for making strategic choices, which almost by definition is doomed to fail. Just keep billing those hours!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Your company probably has a hierarchical process for deciding the proper course of action, and that process probably doesn''t put you at the center of the matter. But you probably don''t work at Menlo Innovations, where there are no bosses (at least in the traditional sense).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. As these managers start to concern themselves with broad strategic issues and organizational change processes, lateral relationships with people outside their immediate area become even more critical to the manag­ers’ ability to get things done. It can keep you informed. Teach you new things.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

These investments, complex processes, and competitive dynamics are removed in time and space from any single purchase. Doing so entails operating more efficiently or innovating to create products that consumers value more. What processes led to the development and delivery of a given product or service?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2012

My last post described how Innosight follows a three-stage process to evaluate investment proposals from outside entrepreneurs. In The Innovator's Guide to Growth we suggested that companies should create one-page "Idea Resumes" that capture the essence of an idea on a single PowerPoint slide. Is the testing plan well thought out?

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Company Net Present Value How To Proposal 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Welch was convinced that the speed of globalization and technological innovation in the 21 st century would require companies to work very differently – with shorter decision cycles, more employee engagement, and stronger collaboration than had previously been required to compete.

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Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

But he could not shake his newfound awareness of the amount of money Egan was losing with Westmid — the account's ratio of operating income to sales was a negative 28%. With three efficient plants staffed by 3,000 employees, it had reinvented itself to become an innovative manufacturer of modular steel staircases and fiberglass doors.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. Industry upheaval often calls for tough choices, and consensus will not be possible. Yet in turbulent times this is dysfunctional. That is a big problem.

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Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

The most successful relationships start with intention and truthfulness, with the client assessing exactly what they need from design and then seeking out a partner who fits where they are in the process. You should understand the solution''s cultural impact, its technological and operational feasibility, and its viability in your business.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

What if you upgraded your IT network to a new operating system that promised faster, better and leaner results — only to find that the vast majority of your leaders did not have the necessary competencies to use that new system? At Hay Group, our research suggests that many companies are now stuck in that metaphorical boat.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus”. The first is that it helps you to understand your own character and how you operate based on all those things that make up who you are as a person, not only in your personal life but very much in your professional life too.

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Development Leadership Consensus Leadership Styles 52

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. TopRank Marketing TopRank Marketing has been doing innovative and impactful work with interactive content and B2B influencers for huge brands like SAP, Dell, LinkedIn, 3M, and Oracle for over 18 years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Part of what’s been driving more ambitious corporate action on innovation to address social and environment challenges is increased pressure and higher expectations from the rest of society that business should play a role in helping sort out contemporary global challenges. Consider active joint advocacy with NGOs.

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