LDRLB

MARCH 27, 2013

Most leaders often operate under a mindset of unilateral control where the manager or leader feels responsible and accountable for the team and thus dictates to them. However, convey that asking for input doesn’t mean you will necessarily agree or that decisions will be made by consensus. Explain your reasoning and intent.

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Team Rogers Consensus Learning-by-Doing 154

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Are there areas where I can help other people grow and develop, and give myself more time to focus on strategy and long-term planning?” For example, for several of my C-level clients, team management has emerged as an area where letting go can both free up executive time and help develop direct reports.

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Delegation Morale Report Learning-by-Doing 152

The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 6, 2014

A statement still widely used in many contexts, including management. Consensus: Your team, industry peers, the media, etc. They buy into the same reason. “ Of course, the economy is to blame.” Consensus grows and resignation becomes contagious within your company and industry. The map is not the territory. This meme ….

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Organization Leadership Consensus Market Segmentation 164

Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 28, 2014

Are there areas where I can help other people grow and develop, and give myself more time to focus on strategy and long-term planning?” For example, for several of my C-level clients, team management has emerged as an area where letting go can both free up executive time and help develop direct reports.

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Delegation Report Consensus Learning-by-Doing 137

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. We hope they’d be as sure as possible that their teams are ready, that their strategies are sound, and that they’d done their diligence.

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Consensus Innovation Company Ries 12

The Empowered Buisness

JUNE 16, 2015

Even though I did strategy development for billion dollar corporations in the early days of my business 30 years ago, I had no idea that there were 3 different approaches to strategic planning. Future business goals and strategies may be established, but only after issues are identified and addressed. I learned alot from this article.

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Strategic Planning Planning Fashion Consultative 100

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? Trust, leads to a willingness to be open to: new opportunities; new collaborations; new strategies; new ideas, and; new attitudes. Accepting a person where they are, creates an bond of trust.

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Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 419

The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 27, 2020

No matter whether your organization saw a boom in business, a need to shift how you operate or was halted altogether, some of the approaches we take as leaders will have to be the same because we are leading people through the same event. All of us have been impacted in some form or fashion. Every Return is Different.

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Consensus Fashion Advice Operations 52

Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 16, 2023

Teams require trust, and that’s built only through time spent together, solving problems, making decisions, and learning how everyone operates, sees the world, and shares information. Typically, this would be the manager or someone she appoints. A team makes the decision through consensus. Consensus is often misunderstood.

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Consensus Commitment Information Learning-by-Doing 550

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Be aware, however, that constant re-engineering, reorganization, and restructuring in pursuit of efficiency (or the latest management fad) has a questionable effect at best. Are the different parts of your organization, throughout the different levels in alignment as far as vision and strategy?

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Succession Teamwork Restructuring Commitment 50

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In addition, Corporate Executive Board research shows that 40 percent of engaged employees are not aligning their behavior with organizational goals, The bottom line is that only one out of ten employees are both engaged and aligned with strategy. Connecting the U.S. Admiral Clark’s description of who sailors are as members of the U.S.

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. Tawfik Jelassi is IMD Professor of Strategy and Technology Management. About the Author.

How To 50

How To Chief Information Officer Tourism Politics 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

During a meeting at a luxury retailer, the executive team decided that the company needed a digital strategy for its China operations. ” She was then designated “accountable” for the action item “digital strategy for China.” ” But what did Paul mean? .” ” But what did Paul mean?

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RACI Consensus Delegation Team 12

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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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

There is a general consensus among economic analysts and commentators that the changes are merely cosmetic — they certainly do not affect the daily lives of most average Nigerians, and their timing might be politically motivated given the upcoming 2015 elections which are expected to be highly contested. Global business'

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GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 8

Skip Prichard

APRIL 19, 2021

Meandering from point to point is not a coherent strategy and yet it is far too prevalent in many organizations. The vast majority of leaders are managers focused on execution and juggling with the consequences of their blind leadership. Visionaries are leaders who managed to turn their vision into a reality despite many challenges.

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Consensus Learning-by-Doing Long-term Banking 132

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.”

Management 8

Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

True incorporation requires bold decisions about reorganizing the business to make analytics a key component of strategy. The ABU was set up as a centralized profit center with ambitious targets and with direct reporting to the chief operations officer; most often, similar units are organized as cost centers with no specific targets.

Company 8

Company Chief Operating Officer Incentives Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Every day GM operates such factories, it expends more resources that could be redeployed elsewhere. I believe a far-better path is to restructure the operations in question way before they threaten the company’s survival.

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Restructuring Fixed Costs Consensus Operations 10

Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

Labovitz and Victor Rosansky, authors of Rapid Realignment : How to Quickly Integrate People, Processes, and Strategy for Unbeatable Performance. That single sentence captures the greatest challenge that executives and managers face today: keeping their people and their organizations centered on what matters most.

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Organization Mission Statement How To COO 284

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

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. Learning to embrace our own complexity is what makes it possible to manage more complexity.

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Skills Decentralization Agility Resistance 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Lack of consensus among players in a complex system is one of the biggest barriers to innovation. It's a classic change management problem. From years of helping organizations produce more innovation, I favor the strategy of more innovation in more places, at every corner of the system and every level of the organization.

Health Care 15

Health Care Innovation Pharmaceuticals Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

Active listening and probing (with humility, not aggression) energizes groups, encourages them to reach consensus, and helps them arrive at new and better solutions. Earlier in his career, as a business unit manager, he recognized that he must cut costs. Not only were costs cut, but operations became more focused and simplified.

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360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Companies that operate as a collection of silos commit the cardinal sin of underperforming relative to the resources they have invested. It sets in when people collaborate on the wrong things or when collaboration efforts get bogged down in endless discussions and consensus decision-making in which no one is clearly accountable.

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CIO Consensus Bottom-up Organizational Behavior 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

That was the general consensus after one of my favorite HBS classes: an entrepreneurship case on a company called Tickle. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

Some years ago, I had the rather thankless task of directing a program on strategy for law firms. It was thankless in part because about half the participants didn't think law firms needed a strategy. Back to that issue of strategy being, well, important, as it is going to help determine how well you perform.

Creativity 8

Creativity Consensus Business Model Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

The problem is two-fold: first, hospital administrators and managers struggle to effectively implement these tools. To fix this, in 2012 hospital administrators and managers implemented TeamSTEPPS , a commonly used set of evidence-based strategies and tools (e.g., Second, they struggle to sustain change that’s made.

Long-term 8

Long-term Janis Quality Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Here’s a conundrum: On the one hand, there’s a consensus among thoughtful business leaders that too many companies are sacrificing long-term growth on the altar of smooth, reliable short-term earnings. HBR: What got you interested in what impact short-term earnings management has on long-term performance? Insight Center.

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Short-term Henderson Long-term Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

There is little consensus as to whether firms that find themselves spun off from other companies – either as new, standalone companies, or under the stewardship of new parent companies – perform better or worse than they did before. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

If you were my manager and you watched my performance for an entire year, how accurate do you think your ratings of me would be on attributes such as my “promotability” or “potential?” How good a rater do you think you are? ” How about more specific attributes such as my customer focus or my learning agility?

Document 8

Document Training Consensus Learning-by-Doing 8

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. I love Lean. That''s not right. Be prepared for lean''s consequences.

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Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Using a NPCU strategy on the front end for some stroke patients is revolutionary in the sense patients are admitted directly from the emergency department after receiving TPA. Care for these patients could potentially be managed and monitored in the lower-cost NSPCU environment. NIH stroke scale (NIHSS) range.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Cost Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

All the anonymized data is securely stored on the blockchain, which supports smart contracts , making it possible to manage the rights, permission, and access to the health data. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

Health Care 10

Health Care Technology System Library 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Reorganizations can be a useful management tool for finding new value and are often essential as part of a merger or acquisition integration. Post-closure, managers from both businesses shared their views through interviews and electronic submissions. Step 3: Consider Multiple Options.

Process 8

Process McKinsey Due Diligence Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

In November 2010, to big fanfare at Unilever's London headquarters, chief executive Paul Polman boldly articulated a new strategy. To most of us, this did not sound like typical corporate strategy, but Polman's reframing of what it means to succeed in business is not an isolated example. And of course, more pressure on climate.

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

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