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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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Regular board evaluations and leadership assessments provide valuable insights into the board’s dynamics, functioning, and overall effectiveness. This involves conducting thorough research and gathering information about the organization’s industry, market, and internal dynamics.

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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

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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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2017

Comprising that mindset are the following six leadership characteristics. Customers shopping for a single product—ketchup, for example—were faced with dozens of brands, flavors, and types. To help Tesco identify which products to eliminate, Lewis hired Boston Consulting Group. Tesco had 28 different ketchups—Aldi only one.)

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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. Best Idea, Not Consensus. The goal of consensus leads to “groupthink” and inferior decisions. The purpose of a company is to bring a product vision to life.

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Mark Sanborn

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Leadership, especially at the C-level, is a journey of high-stakes decisions and complex challenges. In Practice: A CEO convinced that remote work hampers productivity may only acknowledge studies supporting this view, while ignoring evidence to the contrary. What are the cognitive challenges leaders at the highest levels face?

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 25, 2017

That’s Colin Powell’s approach to leadership. The friction of ideas and concepts rubbing against each other can produce a spark of creativity that you can’t get in a consensus environment. The friction of ideas and concepts rubbing against each other can produce a spark of creativity that you can’t get in a consensus environment.

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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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Leading Blog

MARCH 24, 2017

The world will not wait while you contemplate, take time to gather enough data to be exhaustive in your analysis, and then build consensus around actions.” The market is shifting. Now unless you tell me that you have used data analytics in order to find a new product ground, a new design, and a new market, you are not strategic.

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Mark Sanborn

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Leadership, especially at the C-level, is a journey of high-stakes decisions and complex challenges. In Practice: A CEO convinced that remote work hampers productivity may only acknowledge studies supporting this view, while ignoring evidence to the contrary. What are the cognitive challenges leaders at the highest levels face?

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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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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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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Leadership grows and develops through building effective relationships. I highly recommend It’s Not Just Who You Know as guidebook to building effective relationships and increasing your leadership potential. Product managers rely heavily on other people — engineers, sales people, support, etc.

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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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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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Mark Sanborn

APRIL 28, 2020

That’s when big change blindsides you, It is tedious to keep redefining what the new normal is and the odds of consensus with others is small. The goal of excellent product or service delivery doesn’t change. The post Welcome to the New Abnormal appeared first on Mark Sanborn Keynote Leadership Speaker.

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Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

Producer: owned by producers of commodities or crafts who have joined forces to process and market their products. These employee-owned businesses are more connected to their communities, better for their workers, and are measurably more stable and productive than traditional investor-owned corporations. Employee-owned Examples.

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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 78

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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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. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. Product Recall, Tylenol. The company’s swift recall of product from the shelves and the timely response of the company CEO were part of the crisis plan that was in place well ahead of the tragedy. by Hank Moore.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

The challenge of attracting and retaining talent is particularly acute for marketers. In this new world, the best marketers exhibit five superpowers – each of which requires new types of talent. Leadership + digital acumen: Many digital natives lack leadership experience and many seasoned leaders lack digital expertise.

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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. “Management is not a science, it is an art.” Ctrl.Alt.Del.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Lou Gerstner’s arrival at IBM in 1993 is a classic example of leadership through a liminal period. It was the summer of 2000 and the company had quickly lost $85 billion in market capitalization. But Darren never saw the change required as only a matter of capitalizing on new technologies and developing new products. Lawrence A.

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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. If you greatly reduce the production volume, the cars that do come out have to absorb more of the fixed costs, and that eventually sends the product into a profitability death spiral.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Political uncertainties and the absence of strong leadership contributed to social fragmentation. This instability meant that Japan was unable to iron out a national consensus on its reform plan, or implement reforms in the long run. Both countries’ uncertainties in political leadership are also alike.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

While the joint CEO structure was one of the key factors that helped us navigate the economic crisis," explained Chairman Azim Premji , "with the market exploding now, there is a need for a simpler, leaner organization. Collaboration, despite widespread confusion on this point, is not consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. Everyone is just like us — say, marketers or engineers. That tension essential to creativity is tough to manage, requiring deft leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The congealing critical consensus is that Johnson's bold overhaul of the sagging American retailing icon went too far too fast. She's outlined a long-term recovery strategy but the congealing critical consensus is that she's simply not moving fast enough. Failure simply means leadership went too fast or didn't go fast enough.

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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. While his intentions were admirable at first glance, his leadership style was ultimately hurting his team, his investors, and himself.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Most workdays aren’t terribly productive. The idea is to fast-forward a project, so you can see what the end result might look like and how the market will react. How to Boost Your Team’s Productivity. 9 Productivity Tips from People Who Write About Productivity. ANDREW NGUYEN/hbr staff. Ron Friedman.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2016

Research we conducted at the Center for Talent Innovation reveals a remarkable correlation between inclusive leadership, innovative output, and market growth. Research we did in eleven growth markets in 2015 (Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, the UK, and the U.S.),

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

When a detailed cost assessment identified significant savings potential, executive leadership boldly added another five percentage points to the target. Tensions arose, and significant debate ensued over several months as the leadership team tried to work their way through an initial set of critical decisions that would guide execution.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

We were in a meeting to review the roadmap for the company's new product. 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. Maybe the company was (ahem) finally going to make products that were competitive. Some long seconds passed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

The hybrid Prius was a legitimate business home run (2 million sold), and it helped both differentiate Toyota's brand as the market innovator and propel Toyota to unprecedented profits. Three key aspects of Ford's sustainability strategy strike me as critical, and show the company's real leadership: It's based on hard science.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

In the 1990s, P&G, like other companies, sought to take advantage of global scale and technology platforms, rolling out their products worldwide. But just as tastes for food differ, so do preferences for toothpaste, diapers, soap, and feminine hygiene products. Healthy debate.

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