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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. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality.

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Do you need a Chief Social Officer?

Chartered Management Institute

When managers talk about social media the debate still seems to revolve around external uses of social technologies. Collective – As collaboration will involve taken relatively narrow perspectives and making them broad, you will need to help the group reach a consensus and then take action collectively on the decisions they make.

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

N2Growth Blog

Never be swayed by consensus that calls you to compromise your values, rather be guided by doing the right thing. The way to avoid conflict is to help those around you achieve their objectives. Most people don’t have to agree with you 100% of the time, but they do need to trust you 100% of the time.

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The Worst Failure of All Is Wasting a Failure

Harvard Business Review

The head of R&D remembered it as a failure to properly market the innovation. The Chief Marketing Officer recalled that sales and distribution did not achieve planned market presence. Here are a few ideas for enhancing your success tomorrow by learning from yesterday's failures: Conduct objective post-mortems.

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How Incentives for Long-Term Management Backfire

Harvard Business Review

Four hundred seventy-one companies in the S&P 500 bought back stock last year, and 372 companies expanded their dividends — actions undertaken in spite of the need to invest heavily to keep up with global market changes. How could anyone object to such an effort? Eventually, the company’s share price nosedived.

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Making Decisions Together (When You Don’t Agree on What’s Important)

Harvard Business Review

One group’s accountable for managing costs, for example, and another group’s responsible for growing market share. Jon: Some interesting conflicts come up with companies in the technology sector. Were we trying to get into an emerging market, develop a new capability, or what? These are natural checks and balances.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Sutherland already had a strong background in methodologies such as rapid application development, object-oriented design, PDSA cycles, and skunkworks. Disruptive technologies were terrorizing slow-footed competitors. Of course, Sutherland and Schwaber weren’t alone in their search for innovative methods.