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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post.

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What the Research Shows on What Employees Want When They Return to the Office

Lead Change Blog

Unfortunately, it’s too easy to make false assumptions about the desires of others due to a dangerous judgment error termed the false consensus effect. The false consensus effect is one of over 100 misleading mental patterns that researchers in behavioral economics and cognitive neuroscience call cognitive biases. Survey Says….

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How to Navigate Unclear Expectations and Fuzzy Norms at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

None of these people is “right” as there is no objectively “right or wrong” answer for cameras. 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. So meta, right?)

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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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Making the Most of Webinars

Harvard Business Review

Webinars can be valuable when they are offered and consumed under the right circumstances, or when they address areas unrelated to approaches to innovation — training to use a technology, or information about the details of a new legislative requirement, for example. Every once in a while the technology simply won't work.

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A 5-Step Process for Reorganizing After a Merger

Harvard Business Review

But, according to McKinsey research , only 16% of merger reorgs fully deliver their objectives in the planned time, 41% take longer than expected, and in 10% of cases, the reorg actually harms the newly-formed organization. This helped inform initial design discussions and narrow down the choices open to the new leadership team.

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Marketing Success | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Leadership : There are a number of ways to get in trouble here…poor leadership, no leadership, or fractionalized leadership can all be quite problematic. Good consultants build consensus and unify management focus, they do not splinter opinion.

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