Leading Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Team leadership is as much about mitigating the risks of these traits as it is about exploiting their potential. Management consultant Kal Bishop found that with creative teams in particular, larger teams were inclined to seek consensus rather than explore novel ideas. But they do perform.

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QAspire

MARCH 6, 2013

Face time may be enabled by technology, but the ground rules don’t change. It can be used to build consensus, to educate others or to simply assess progress. All they do is respond to changing priorities and task requests and the relationship between the individual and a leader (or organization) becomes purely transactional.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2021

There are numerous ways that technology has adeptly adapted to this, with apps and services across multiple platforms able to aid in employee communications no matter their location. Project management is an essential part of any brand, for example, but proper communication with employees is necessary to steady productivity.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2017

After discussion, debate and thinking through the options, the team reaches consensus about the best course of action to take, or how best to solve a problem. In this case, a manager or program director is given the authority to make decisions within a particular department. And finally, some teams are actually decision-making bodies.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 25, 2024

Maybe your manager never clarified an important process. As norms shift, technology changes, and social standards develop, you and your team can resolve these ambiguous norms and unclear expectations with a conversation. Usually, this is going to be a vote or consensus. Or do we want to go for consensus?” (And

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 5, 2014

What issues would need to be agreed upon for a solution to get group consensus and buy-in? To have greater success, you’d need to begin your initiative – whether it’s sales, change management, leadership, or negotiation – by facilitating the components of systemic change first. What would be the time factor?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 28, 2014

When I started up my tech company in London in the 80s I realized the problem: as a buyer, my direct needs were often superseded by the social, political, organizational, and relational considerations I had to manage. That way we got onto the Buying Decision Team early and became great relationship managers. That is our Achilles Heel.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders consciously or unconsciously lump employees into three categories: the “stars” consisting of those in management as well high potential employees, the much larger “core” made up of solid contributors, and the rest, employees whose contributions and fit with the organization are questionable.

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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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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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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Contribute to team consensus decisions. 'Skype' and 'Goto' meetings in particular seem to be growing in popularity as more and more companies gradually begin to realize telecommuting and mobile correspondence via digital technologies empower employees to be more productive. Do you agree? Are you opposed?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

This dialogue reached a consensus among political parties stipulating that the incumbent Islamists hand over power to a technocratic transitional government. I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. How could I refuse? About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Healthcare has become extraordinarily complex — the balance of quality against cost, and of technology against humanity, are placing ever-increasing demands on clinicians. Doctors were once viewed as ill-prepared for leadership roles because their selection and training led them to become “heroic lone healers.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Maybe your company tells people to be consensus-builders, but promotes people who are solely authoritative decision makers (behavior-practices gap). Likewise, inspirational leadership, the repetition of value statements, and letting people be themselves are important, but they are by-products of a healthy culture, not the drivers of one.

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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. Lawrence A. billion, and its revenues increased from $6.4 billion to $11.7

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The goal of most executive coaching and leadership development is behavior change—help the individual identify and change the behaviors that are getting in the way of, and reinforce the behaviors associated with, effective leadership. This ultimately yielded a consensus and reasoned decision-making. Existentialists (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Mistake #1: The content focuses on “thought leadership” Most marketers would describe their current content strategy as an effort to demonstrate “thought leadership” in their industry. We like the example set by Jeff Lowe, CMO of SMART Technologies, and his team. What does a better approach look like?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Just imagine the noise level when that many smart and engaged female managers debated the pros and cons of wielding power. Many of these women already held senior leadership positions in large companies. Still, the art of consensus can sometimes slow women down and diminish their leadership credibility. Yes and no.".

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

When I was the chief marketing officer at Deloitte & Touche, we would have our annual leadership off-site in Las Vegas or Orlando. I remember people practicing their presentations far into the night, and the next day we'd sit for hours in uncomfortable chairs in a huge room listening to our leadership talk about the future of the business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

While basic technologies such as Google and Pubmed exist that can help automate the search for specific information, they are not sufficient and will prove even less tenable in the future as the advancement in medical science continues to accelerate. We need a similar “para-medical” function in medicine. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

There’s a growing consensus that companies need strong, independent boards full of qualified directors if they are to sidestep risks and seize opportunities in our complex and dynamic international economy. Boards Global business Leadership Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is the first in a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Lack of consensus among players in a complex system is one of the biggest barriers to innovation. It's a classic change management problem.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. 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. Collaboration is not a style.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

No one has a perfect model for managing this level of uncertainty. However, we believe that India's (incomplete) journey offers valuable lessons about managing growth and change. Decisive leadership characterized all the firms that emerged as winners. The very survival of many firms was at stake.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2011

Yet the impressive credentials and achievements that have caused them to be dubbed "the model minority" aren't reflected in senior-most leadership positions. There's a pervasive feeling of being "a square peg in a round hole," as one manager puts it, with 48% reporting that conforming to prevailing leadership models is a problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

I wanted to accept the consensus as a sign that the company had rounded the corner on its 3-year slog to be more relevant in their market. I knew that the new head of engineering and the head of product management had worked through a ton of issues to get to this review meeting prepared. Some long seconds passed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And yet while teams often are where the real work gets done, most businesses don't value or manage them well. Many businesses aren't skilled in talent management or team nurturing. Team management, in particular, is often a scarcely recognized activity. Clusters Manage Themselves. A New Kind of Team: Clusters.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

Consider a real example: Not long after a company created an online suggestion box on its new intranet, with all the bells and whistles of the latest social-media technologies, an executive lamented: “All we get are a bunch of complaints and impossibly wild ideas that we couldn’t follow up on in a million years.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

As the up-and-coming vice president and CEO candidate for a Fortune 500 technology corporation sat before the CEO for his annual review, he was baffled to discover that the feedback from his peers, customers, direct reports, and particularly from board members placed unusual emphasis on one potentially devastating problem: his listening deficit.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The engineering department needed better organization and management, and its employees were craving more career development. We gathered our leadership in a room and came up with 20 different outcomes — from speed to cost efficiency — and prioritized them, No. Get Buy-In, and Not Just From Leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

. “What I tell the new hires is that this is the one thing in the company that will never change, these values and principles,” claimed the P&G Near East general manager. In the 1990s, P&G, like other companies, sought to take advantage of global scale and technology platforms, rolling out their products worldwide.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Note: This post was written with Mark Sebell and Jay Terwilliger, managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc., a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. Visible senior management involvement. Third, evaluate the innovation leader for managing disciplined experiments, not for hitting short-term profit goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Managers clearly have to respond to regain investors' trust. In the final analysis, managers can't shun corporate owners. Managerial stock options got a bad rep in the early 2000s with the revelation of massive abuses (frequent repricing of options) and manipulations (backdating) of options by managers. From the government?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

In the California Civic Innovation Project' s (CCIP) recent survey of city managers and county administrators in California, we found that webinars attempting to provide information about innovation in local government are not as effective as many other techniques. Every once in a while the technology simply won't work. Ask questions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Conventional thinking has suggested that leadership positions go to those who aggressively plan their careers with a keen eye for building the right skills to reach top jobs. Note that this inclusive process is not decision-making by committee or by consensus. Others believe that leaders are born, not made.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Running Meetings (20-Minute Manager Series). Managing People Book. Consider the following roles: A facilitator guides the discussion, making sure all sides of the issue are raised (this is a good job for someone who is developing leadership skills and practicing neutrality). Meetings Time management Collaboration'

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