The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While the general consensus is that employees liked it and were reasonably productive, there are concerns about its impact on things like creativity and innovation. If we’re going to maintain this transition, we need to be deliberate about how we manage the process. Affecting creativity. first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

Creativity 129

Creativity Consensus Idea Generation Engineering 129

Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

I N AN IBM global survey of CEOs, the overwhelming consensus was that more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision, successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity. Many organizations fail to understand and embrace the discontinuous nature of the creative process.” The Linear Mindset.

Creativity 268

Creativity Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Construction 268

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The collaborative process is more complex, slower, and messier than independent decision making. If committed leaders can consistently achieve consensus, they will move the alliance forward. Finding consensus is an art form that alliance leaders must master.” The best leaders collaborate anyway.) Collaborations are not easy.

Consensus 285

Consensus Participative Commitment Teamwork 285

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

For decisions to be effective a process must be known and shared. Below is a case study / success story of coaching and consulting with a manager and a team to improve their decision making process and output as a team. Team Leaders and Managers set the tone for team based decision making. Photo Credit. Team Results.

Case Study 138

Case Study Team Succession Consensus 138

Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Holacracy is a fundamentally different “operating system” for organizations. Instead, employees […] Holacracy is a fundamentally different “operating system” for organizations. Instead, employees self-manage and belong to different decision-making circles that keep the company operating.”

Agility 100

Agility System Management Bureaucracy 100

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

These individuals probably have some history of working together but they also operate with the same obstructed viewpoint. Coming to a consensus around vision and direction can be time intensive simply because people who don’t interact are likely speaking to each other for the very first time, and frankly don’t trust each other.

Leadership 285

Leadership Kotter Consensus Diversity 285

Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In today’s world, you have to rely on consensus and shared ownership rather than any individual point of view—even your own. The best leaders know how to work efficiently and meet deadlines, but they also know how to pace themselves and their team and to slow down the process when they need more time. Leadership is all about humility.

Self-aware 167

Self-aware Consensus Uncertainty Creativity 167

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. Then implement it. Jointly design next steps.

Team 154

Team Rogers Consensus Learning-by-Doing 154

The Practical Leader

MAY 15, 2019

She writes, “The accidents and the resulting media attention together create a real wake-up call for Boeing… what’s required, however, is more than operational fixes. Use a safe and anonymous process to identify, prioritize, and address key moose issues. It is nothing less than a full organizational culture change.”

Open-book 92

Open-book Consensus Engineering Brainstorming 92

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Here are 4 tips for leading a founder run-organization more effectively and more efficiently while getting better results in the process. 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. But it doesn’t need to be that way!

Delegation 173

Delegation How To Real Estate CEO 173

leaderCommunicator

JUNE 3, 2014

Flip charts and sticky notes flow, ideas get jotted down, and ultimately you arrive at a consensus -- the path forward. operations out of Denver. As I saw in Denver, the whole process engages everyone in the room in a way that traditional brainstorms can’t do.

Brainstorming 126

Brainstorming Conference Consensus eBook 126

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. The problem with consensus is that it’s expensive. The problem with consensus is that it’s expensive. Consider the story of Nick.

Consensus 12

Consensus Innovation Company Ries 12

The Empowered Buisness

JUNE 16, 2015

Another may be confusion over the strategic planning process itself. Depending on the size of your organization and the desired outcomes for the planning process, there is a strategic planning process that is right for you. Najera Consulting. Najera Consulting. What exactly is Strategic Planning? Issues focused.

Strategic Planning 100

Strategic Planning Planning Fashion Consultative 100

The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 6, 2014

Due to your brain’s limited processing capabilities, your mental maps filter out over 99% of external information coming from your five senses. As a result, this filtering process distorts, deletes and generalizes your sense of reality. Consensus: Your team, industry peers, the media, etc. all validate your reason.

Organization 164

Organization Leadership Consensus Market Segmentation 164

Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 27, 2016

In the case of 2016, there seems to be a common consensus that this was a particularly bad year which many are glad to see come to an end.

Long-term 252

Long-term Politics Consensus Learning-by-Doing 252

LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Consider a few examples: “The company’s primary objective is to maximize long-term shareholder value while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standard.” ” You probably got bored right at the phase “long-term shareholder value.”

Mission Statement 120

Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 120

LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Consider a few examples: “The company’s primary objective is to maximize long-term shareholder value while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standard.” ” You probably got bored right at the phase “long-term shareholder value.”

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 78

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Incremental innovations can be managed at the operating levels where the people know the customers/consumers best and decisions can be made in a more consensus-driven way with input and agreement between all stakeholder functions. Almost every company has a Stage Gate process because they work well for incremental innovation.

Process 15

Process Innovation Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Concluding this process with; Shared process and structure for leadership team to make decisions and solve problems within a time span. Averaged the numbers to create group consensus. This will be centered upon skill(s) based development and co-creation of a shared structure for discussions at a leadership level.

Leadership 125

Leadership COO Team Building Active Listening 125

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? What I like to refer as “positional gaps&# are best closed by listening to all sides, finding common ground and then letting the principle of doing the right thing guide the process.

Blog 419

Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 419

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

A diminished marketplace of ideas reduces the likelihood the innovative connections will be made to birth new products, processes and businesses. Leaders build the Voice bridge by developing processes and practices that keep employees “in the loop” and give them regular opportunities to express their views. Connecting the U.S.

Long-term 207

Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Many years after the curtain came down on my Camelot project, I was asked to lead the process / organization side of a large technology project. The project had been operational for a few months when I joined so the foundation had already been poured. How did I figure this out? And so, I relented. Baker was a protégé of Dr. W.

Project 28

Project Deming Root Cause Analysis RACI 28

Mills Scofield

JUNE 8, 2015

Prior to the 1970s, the consensus among scientists was that the human brain was relatively fixed—or hardwired—after a critical point in early childhood. The process is straightforward: As the brain takes in new information, it rewires itself and forms new neural connections that change the matter of the brain itself.

Wilde 70

Wilde Education Environment Consensus 70

Mills Scofield

JUNE 8, 2015

Prior to the 1970s, the consensus among scientists was that the human brain was relatively fixed—or hardwired—after a critical point in early childhood. The process is straightforward: As the brain takes in new information, it rewires itself and forms new neural connections that change the matter of the brain itself.

Wilde 70

Wilde Education Environment Consensus 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

To help maximize the value and minimize the misery of reorgs, we have developed a five-step process for running them. The steps apply to all reorgs generally and our survey data shows that companies using this process are three times likelier than others to achieve their desired results. Step 3: Consider Multiple Options.

Process 8

Process McKinsey Due Diligence Cost 8

Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The matrixed teams help companies maintain normal operations while focusing cross-functional departmental resources on big or complex projects. Or, there’s a strong desire to reach a consensus, and every decision requires hours of stakeholdering and escalation. Are Matrix Organizations a Good Idea?

Organization 266

Organization Power Project Consensus 266

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. Was Madison tasked with forming a team that should develop a consensus view on what the company should do in China, or was she tasked with making the decision and executing? Consider this example.

RACI 12

RACI Consensus Delegation Team 12

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. But markets and tastes shift, and changing assets and company processes is hard. Given the shift in immediate U.S.

Restructuring 10

Restructuring Fixed Costs Consensus Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

B2B marketers, on the other hand, have shied away from the idea, instead approaching selling as a rational, numbers-driven process where the best value proposition wins. Each value type has a role in helping to drive the needed purchase consensus. Powerful brands (think Apple and Nike) reinforce customers’ positive self-image.

B2B 8

B2B Consensus B2C Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

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. Coming to know how and when to collaborate is a learning process. Collaboration is not a style. Collaboration is not “cross-selling.”

Chief Operating Officer 10

Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

And as it turned out, the way President Kennedy orchestrated and led the decision-making process made all the difference. Eighteen months earlier, he’d made arguably the worst decision he ever made, to support an ill-conceived covert operation to unseat Fidel Castro, known today as the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Janis Consensus After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Nevertheless, the markets have discounted every announcement and have continued to operate in a state of quasi-panic, as they move at a different speed than the political activities. So is there hope after the latest EU summit? It is easy to take a grim view.

Crisis 15

Crisis Consensus Banking Short-term 15

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2017

I also believe that when simplification is an operating principle, it can guide leaders both in big, risky decisions and in daily priorities. While simplicity benefits for the company as a whole, it often challenges certain individuals and groups whose authority is rooted in inefficient and overly complex rules, processes, and systems.

Short-term 260

Short-term Efficiency Brand System 260

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

TDABC uses a bottoms-up approach to identify the actual clinical processes and resources used to care for a patient over a period of time. TDABC works from a process map of a patient’s care pathway, attributing costs to the time of each resource used at each step of the pathway. Neuroscience ICU (NSICU).

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Cost Resources 8

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.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The executives' role is to define the attributes of the customer experience in partnership with their operational colleagues, organize the customer-satisfaction-measurement process against those attributes, and encourage remedial action wherever warranted. More important is the customer process and how he engages with the organization.

B2B 13

B2B Consensus Productivity Products 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes. They keep customers happier.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8