Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

He helped to build some of Silicon Valley’s greatest companies including Google, Apple, and Intuit and to create over a trillion dollars in market value. The best coach for any team is the manager who leads that team. Being a good coach is essential to being a good manager and leader. Best Idea, Not Consensus.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 28, 2009

John Maxwell — author of the book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership — does a masterful job of explaining the leadership principle of influence through the five myths about leadership: The Management Myth: Management focuses on maintaining systems and processes.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 28, 2014

Sales, marketing, and social marketing attempt to place solutions and create relationships by supplying great content, discovering likely prospects, and creating trust. The sales model, I realized, was not designed facilitate the behind-the-scenes non-need-related issues I had to manage before I could consider buying anything.

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Marketing Consensus Content Follow-up 81

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. Content marketing can help prospective buyers dispense suitable information 1. I get anywhere from 40-51% conversion with my content marketing. Buyers know this.

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The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 6, 2014

The Real Problem Is Your Leadership “Map.”. A statement still widely used in many contexts, including management. The distortion in thinking and perceptions –based on mental maps – creates over 80% of the problems at a leadership and organizational level. Consensus: Your team, industry peers, the media, etc.

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Organization Leadership Consensus Market Segmentation 164

Lead from Within

MAY 9, 2019

Start early: It can take time to find and prepare a promising candidate for a leadership role. Engage senior leaders: It’s essential to have consensus among the CEO and senior leadership team about the importance of proactive leadership development and succession planning. The Deception Trap of Leadership.

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Planning Succession How To Consensus 165

Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

He has distilled persuasion in to 6 principles that have been widely adopted in the field of marketing. Today we are going see how to apply these skills to real-world situations to master the art of leadership. Principle #6 – Consensus. Principle #1 – Reciprocity. Learn about them and find common bonds.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2014

Change Management stage. Discussions include managing resultant change. Discussions include managing resultant change. Consensus stage. Buy-in and consensus necessary. Change management issues incorporated with solution choice. Discuss the type/amount of fallout from each. Organization stage. Choice stage.

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Consensus Webinar Marketing Newsletter 67

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. A couple years ago, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 79

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2021

Project management is an essential part of any brand, for example, but proper communication with employees is necessary to steady productivity. The consensus seems to be that it is alright. Make sure that your working community knows that they’re valued on a personal level.

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Positioning Long-term Short-term Video 109

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

For 150 years, corporations, governments and militaries were built for up-and-down leadership, with incentives and rewards that discouraged cross-organization thinking and, in many cases, actually created or encouraged internal competition. Focus on authentic leadership and eschew passive aggressiveness.

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Incentives Agility Resources Follow-up 258

Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

He cites as proof a 2007 Gallop Management Journal survey that estimates that “actively disengaged workers&# cost the U.S. Leadership grows and develops through building effective relationships. – The Product Management Perspective: Building effective relationships is absolutely crucial for success in product management.

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Review Books ROI Loyalty 157

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 24, 2011

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision? A consensus decision – a decision where the leader themselves isn’t making the decision, but truly the full group comes to the decision collectively.

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Consensus Blog Workshop Learning-by-Doing 210

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

There is much talk today about the need to constantly align and adapt strategy to constantly changing market conditions to insure sustainable competitiveness. Think of culture playing the role of greasing the skids making alignment to market conditions faster and smoother. The following is a guest post by Dr. George H.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2014

Sharon Drew imparts invaluable advice to executives and managers at all levels: helping them solve problems, become more effective, and realize a higher measure of business and career success. Relate Articles: It’s The Consensus, Stupid*. How Sales, Marketing and Social Can Facilitate the Decision Path.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2015

Buyer Personas do a great job targeting marketing and sales campaigns to reach the most probable buying audience. Here’s a question: Do you want to sell/market? The belief is that if you can sell/market appropriately – the right campaign to the right buyer with the right solution at the right time – buyers will buy.

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LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Or how about this one: “Undisputed marketplace leadership.” Is it market share of products? And how are we defining leadership? Is it a plurality—just the largest market share? And this is a Fortune 500 company that we’re not going to name for various legal reasons. Is it for the industry?

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Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 120

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2014

In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape expected to continue for 2015, leaders face many challenges , requiring aggressive, sustained talent management strategies to prepare them for success. Two times more likely to place value on interacting over managing skills.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 50

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 61

LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Or how about this one: “Undisputed marketplace leadership.” Is it market share of products? And how are we defining leadership? Is it a plurality—just the largest market share? And this is a Fortune 500 company that we’re not going to name for various legal reasons. Is it for the industry?

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Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 78

Strategy Driven

MARCH 5, 2014

What issues would need to be agreed upon for a solution to get group consensus and buy-in? What does the housing market look like for the sale of your house? StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 39 – Making Change Work: A Radical Approach to Change Management, Real Leadership. What would be the time factor?

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Creativity Resistance Consensus Case Study 89

Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Simon Sinek @simonsinek / Author and consultant on inspiring leadership / In a nutshell: Know WHY you’re doing what you’re doing “Share one’s passion and purpose as you inspire others” “Hire people who believe what you believe – and they will work for that belief. “To punish failure is to encourage mediocrity.” “The

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Books Handbook Kotter Leadership Pipeline 92

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2016

This is why relevant solutions in sales, marketing, coaching, implementations, doctor’s recommendations etc. Fact #5: Change cannot happen until there is a defined route to manage disruption, and the appropriate elements buy-in, for those elements that are disrupted. often fall on deaf ears. I face this with you, my readers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

It’s no wonder, then, that more than 90% of B2B sellers have turned to content marketing to help regain access to buyers in the early stages of the purchase process. The research, involving over 5,000 B2B purchase participants across 12 industries, uncovered three mistakes that undermine firms’ content marketing.

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B2B Content Marketing Consensus 8

Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Leadership is not an easy task, and even the best leaders are susceptible to errors in thinking that can hinder decision-making and, ultimately, organizational success. Recognizing and avoiding these pitfalls can significantly enhance leadership effectiveness. This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking.

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Dunning Consensus Groupthink Charisma 86

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

They must manage to both craft the new world with smart strategy, often in the wake of disruption, and cause the organization to embrace the required change. Lou Gerstner’s arrival at IBM in 1993 is a classic example of leadership through a liminal period. Procter & Gamble provides another example. Newly minted CEO A.G. Lawrence A.

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Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

That's the new quantitative consensus reshaping professional sports worldwide. After looking hard at the numbers and algorithms, the smartest — and richest — general managers and franchises have made up their collective minds: They're not paying a premium for yesterday. Yesterday" is a sunk cost. But why not?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

Most managers agree that you need different kinds of leaders in lean and fat times, to preside over growth or retrenchment, to lead organizations out of crisis, or to steer a steady course in an ocean of calm. Two levers available to any manager stand out in our research on top-performing CEOs: 1.

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Venture Capitalist Politics CEO Leadership 14

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2019

No confusion, no mixed messages, no need for consensus-building or alignment, no persuasion necessary – just a very, very smooth path from sensing to fleeing. DECIDE) Those same managers may also decide on a course of action or bump it up the ranks to decide. and months pass… Meanwhile, the lion has eaten your lunch. (ACT)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

A CEO we’ve worked with – let’s call him “Gary” – prides himself on being a collaborative leader who invests in consensus and builds relationships. In speaking with the management team, we saw familiar signs of pain. And several weak players were holding back the already-strained management team.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A Great Year by Starbucker on January 3, 2010 As a leader, I’ve learned that getting off to a great start in a new year is very important. Popularity: 70% [ ?

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Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

Is success as Fed chair simply a matter of being a brilliant economist, or are a consensus-driven leadership style and the ability to effectively manage the Board of Governors and the Federal Open Market Committee equally critical? Before applying these conclusions to the present case, some caveats are necessary.

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Management Policies Analysis Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Otpor might have been a protest group, but it operated as if it was a startup company marketing a product. As Nocera pointed out, “Occupy protesters were purposely — even proudly — rudderless, eschewing leadership in favor of broad, and thus vague, consensus.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

And the same applies to the affected workers: The tight labor market means there are opportunities for those who go through retraining. Another issue involves reallocating resources in the face of fundamental market shifts. But markets and tastes shift, and changing assets and company processes is hard. government.

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