Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2017

Guest post from Lisa Bodell: As leaders, we’re responsible for setting the tone of our organization through policy and strategy, as well as our behavior. I also believe that when simplification is an operating principle, it can guide leaders both in big, risky decisions and in daily priorities.

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Short-term Efficiency Brand System 260

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The problem was, Amida was making consultative decisions ( listening to each argument, then making the decision herself ) while the team thought they were making consensus decisions. She had always prided herself on listening carefully to the evidence provided before making a decision. Team Results.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

At the same time, the advent of new ground breaking technologies such as electricity and motorization – today we would call them disruptive – allowed the estates to operate with significantly less staff. Rick works with executives to build the leadership capabilities needed to execute their organizational strategy.

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Competitive Advantage Resistance Business Model Consensus 267

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 26, 2018

You need them to operate as a great team, not functionaries. Operational boards are more valuable than governance boards. A lead director can make your job much easier because they can run point on sensitive issues, poll the board for concerns, help build consensus, and give you much needed feedback and guidance. What do you do?

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Venture Capitalist Chief Financial Officer Committee Diversity 140

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. In business, as in life, we often have to operate in a fog of uncertainty. Leadership is all about humility. Moving too fast. Needing to know everything. N A T I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R. The Leadership Gap.

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Self-aware Consensus Uncertainty Creativity 167

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2021

The consensus seems to be that it is alright. With an untold amount of startups in the current atmosphere and a market that seems to change every second, there is a measure of instability that can occur when a company operates on an unstable foundation. About the Author.

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Positioning Long-term Short-term Video 112

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. None of them talks about sales, operations, or any other functions that ordinary leaders tend to lean on and consider as the core drivers of execution. The biggest problem is that vision cannot be created through consensus.

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Consensus Learning-by-Doing Long-term Banking 125

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

The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 6, 2014

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. That’s not to negate that economic downturns exist and can impact how a company operates and grows. This meme ….

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Organization Leadership Consensus Market Segmentation 164

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 13

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. If the boss is saying, ‘It’s my way or the highway,’ it doesn’t matter how good the strategy is; it won’t be well executed.”. We call it co-creation,” Carr says. “If

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Brainstorming Conference Consensus eBook 126

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?” This helps direct reports understand the agendas of the peer team members and allows them to develop their skills in building collaboration and reaching consensus.

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Delegation Morale Report Learning-by-Doing 152

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?” This helps direct reports understand the agendas of the peer team members and allows them to develop their skills in building collaboration and reaching consensus.

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Delegation Report Consensus Learning-by-Doing 137

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Now, only a few months until the election, the question is what has changed if anything?

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CEO Politics Consensus System 227

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. A team makes the decision through consensus. Consensus is often misunderstood. If we can come to a consensus by then, that would be great.

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Consensus Commitment Information Learning-by-Doing 550

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

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 412

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In this new era of tech, one strategy for smaller ecosystems to increase their footprint is to focus on specific sub-sectors in either verticals or deep tech areas where they have existing strengths,” the authors explain. “The In part these may be fed by the fact it is easy to find social consensus.”.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Are the different parts of your organization, throughout the different levels in alignment as far as vision and strategy? When different parts of an organization are only in it for themselves and end up pulling in conflicting directions, the overall organizational mission and strategy can’t make progress.

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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

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Surely, one of Heins' first tasks is to think through a strategy to pull the company out of its current mess. How can RIM (and other companies in the same boat) chart effective strategy in uncertainty? Industry upheaval often calls for tough choices, and consensus will not be possible.

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Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

They are on top of the latest trends in SEO, SEM and copywriting strategies. Neil Patel Neil provides constant value to his readers through amazing long-form content with tons of strategy built into every post. Growth Tools Their current strategy of tackling a sought-after topic and adding new sections weekly is pretty unique.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

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.

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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

MARCH 21, 2013

Part of the problem is there isn't a clear consensus on what marks an innovative company. Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). But there are some measurements that try.

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Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 15

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

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

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 11

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.

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Company Chief Operating Officer Incentives Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Part of the problem is there isn't a clear consensus on what marks an innovative company. Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). But there are some measurements that try.

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Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 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.

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Creativity Consensus Business Model Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2012

Consider some combination of the following criteria: Does what we hope to do fit our strategy? (If If you don't have an innovation strategy , go and create one.). A small decision-making team can come to consensus about the right plans to take forward. After this starting point, however, our VC process holds pretty well.

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Company Net Present Value How To Proposal 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

They''re a keystone of what we call a "future-back" approach to strategy, which unlike the "present forward" nature of most strategic-planning processes, doesn''t operate under the assumption that tomorrow will be pretty much like today, and the day after pretty much more of the same. Innovation Strategy' First, it inspires.

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Scenario Planning Consensus Strategic Planning Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Lack of consensus among players in a complex system is one of the biggest barriers to innovation. 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. In the U.S., Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L.

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Health Care Innovation Pharmaceuticals Consensus 15

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. We have a problem, the CEO explains. We’re too decentralized. You can guess the solution.

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Skills Decentralization Agility Resistance 12

You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

This company operates its democracy to the extent that: Employees set their own work schedules They don’t use the same workstation more than two days in a row so that no one really knows when they go to work or how long they stay. But what does a truly democratic workplace look like?

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