Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2013

In Finding Allies, Building Alliances , authors Mike Leavitt and Rich McKeown, state, “The ability to get things done with collaborative networks is the next generation in human productivity.” If committed leaders can consistently achieve consensus, they will move the alliance forward. Collaborations are not easy.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Amida, a director of Corporate Sales that I coached 1 on 1 to enhance managerial-leadership and improve the teams productivity , became so great about being clear about the decision style her team will be using for different issues she makes a chart. Photo Credit. Team Results.

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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. Jeff Bezos and the people at Amazon use “time travel” frequently to stimulate innovative thinking about new products and services.

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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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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.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The research consensus is that whilst diverse teams can present coordination challenges, they nonetheless thrive due to the different perspectives they can bring to bare on particular problems. The importance of diversity to team performance is something that I’ve written about numerous times before.

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leaderCommunicator

JUNE 3, 2014

Flip charts and sticky notes flow, ideas get jotted down, and ultimately you arrive at a consensus -- the path forward. While I’m not in the product promotion business, I was so impressed by a new crowd-sourcing technology I recently encountered that I can’t resist sharing my experience. operations out of Denver.

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Brainstorming Conference Consensus eBook 126

Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 16, 2023

Minutes creep along while the meeting leader fritters away everyone’s time, people have meaningless conversations that don’t solve problems, and everyone is frustrated that they could be doing something more productive with their time. A team makes the decision through consensus. Consensus is often misunderstood.

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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.

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Long-term Politics Consensus Learning-by-Doing 231

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.” Is it market share of products? That’s all we are working for? Is it for the industry?

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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.” Is it market share of products? That’s all we are working for? Is it for the industry?

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Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 78

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

These sobering statistics represent a drain on productivity that leaders can no longer afford to ignore. Research from the Corporate Executive Board shows that engaged employees are 20 percent more productive than the average employee. Organizations with aligned and engaged employees clearly have a competitive edge. Connecting the U.S.

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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? It is absolutely possible to build very productive relationships with even the most adversarial of individuals. The strongest teams don’t weed out or neutralize individual tendencies, they capitalize on them.

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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. Each department must consider the overall customer relationship, not just for its product or performance metric. You find matrixed teams most often in tech companies and large global companies.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Averaged the numbers to create group consensus. Following that meeting the leadership team has created some amazing results of increasing retention of talented staff members, increasing the productivity (through partnered quality projects) of several departments. Now we just continue to build upon you success!”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. 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. When and how are the best ways to do it?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

If a seller doesn’t have an advocate in the organization to help drive the consensus, a so-called “mobilizer” who is personally motivated to champion the deal, the sale can stall (see “ Making the Consensus Sale ” Harvard Business Review , March 2015). Sales Sales & Marketing Customers'

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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. Customers shopping for a single product—ketchup, for example—were faced with dozens of brands, flavors, and types. Leaders operating in a simplicity mindset short-circuit those complaints.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

.” A 10-year McKinsey study on flow found that top executives are up to 500% more productive when they’re in a state of flow. The Modern Organization Sabotages Productivity. Unnecessary consensus-seeking for reversible, non-consequential decisions. How to Foster a Shorter, More Productive Workday.

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Outsourcing Stress Productivity Products 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

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. So he began by learning everything he could about maximizing organizational productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

But collaboration is not consensus. ” Another common misconception is that collaboration is cross-selling, the practice of suggesting new services or products, usually under another colleague’s purview, to an existing client. .” Collaboration is not “cross-selling.” Gain Firsthand Experience.

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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. Most product development groups continue to design non-interactive products.

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B2B Consensus Productivity Products 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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Despite a Broadway-styled launch held in Radio City Music Hall , the new product received somewhat mixed reviews. Samsung's predicament is a classic example of the new-product juggling act that every company has to perform: While trying to keep its rivals at bay, it must at the same time compete with its own existing products.

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Brand Customer Loyalty Hedge Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

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. The value generated by risk- and operational cost-abating analytics initiatives is measured by their impact on the bottom line.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

ULA benefits from access to Blue Origin’s innovative designs and lean operations. In reality, it will be nearly impossible for Blue Origin and ULA to maintain separate processes and priorities because the final product, ULA’s rockets, is built on an interdependent platform. Modular architectures form the other extreme.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

NewTV is the creation of Jeffrey Katzenberg, whose track record includes head of production at Paramount, chair of Walt Disney Studios, and cofounder of DreamWorks. Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. And it may work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Farmers worldwide will need to increase crop production, either by increasing the amount of agricultural land to grow crops or by enhancing productivity on existing agricultural lands through fertilizer and irrigation and adopting new methods like precision farming. This will shape agricultural markets in ways we have not seen before.

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Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

When you truly understand the perspective of others, you are most likely to reach productive solutions; further, all the participants will feel heard, whether their solution is adopted or not. But his division's operations department was adamant it could not be done given the tremendous complexity of its processes. Prime the Pump.

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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. The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. “I’m so glad we read that case — I’m NEVER going to start a company.”.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Finally, they build machine learning pipelines and personalized data products to better understand their business and customers and to make better decisions. It’s true that data science is a varied field.

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Ethics Learning-by-Doing Industry Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. This is where technology offers promise, and products like CareAi could become catalytic when they begin to penetrate into villages and cities across the continent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

There’s a lot of debate over the magnitude of the decline, but there is broad consensus that it has happened and that it’s a big deal. In the “good old days,” more-productive companies would take a bigger slice of the market, but there would be plenty left over for their rivals. In the U.S.

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GDP Video Sharpe 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. But then one day you don’t have anything in your product pipeline. Insight Center. The New Ways to Compete.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Around the world, though, many countries still have domestic payment networks that operate as not-for-profit platforms. That standard may then become a platform for many firms that produce complementary products and their customers. Many have supermajority voting that essentially requires their diverse members to reach consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

operations compete more effectively. The convoluted tax system, for example, is not simply the product of dysfunctional politics. operations compete more effectively. We invited each respondent to make one specific suggestion to government officials to improve U.S. Give us tariff protection to deal with "dumping" from abroad.

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