Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Take the group of senior managers I was leading through a workshop series recently. During the debrief there was a general consensus that nobody actually became another person as there was no complicated character analysis in preparation for the role of a particular partygoer. I've seen bosses enter a brainstorming session scowling.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Collaboration does not = consensus.” “The 2 Responses to Top Quotes from the Art of Management 2010 Kneale Mann | November 22, 2010 at 9:53 AM | Once you spend a significant amount of time in business, you attend various workshops and presentations, conferences and networking events and can often grow weary on their effectiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Sure enough, by the fifth and final day of the workshop, I was able to produce a self-portrait that was undeniably me, and surprisingly realistic. Over the past hundred years, researchers have reached a surprising degree of consensus about the predictable stages of creative thinking. But what did that have to do with creativity?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

A typical Chinese boss, Lu strongly believed in the value of harmony and consensus. He resolved to bring the issue to a head and he asked me to moderate a two-day workshop weekend he had convened with his deputies. The rest of the workshop just seemed to slip by as the participants opened up. Lei got up unhappily and left.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

We cannot achieve and maintain alignment without consensus and conviction about The Main Thing. When we ask participants in workshops, "What's your Main Thing?" It is the end that strategy and human effort serve. Yet we are always amazed by how few people can articulate their organization's main thing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

There is a general consensus that U.S. So, Dr. Jivacate innovated highly-efficient mobile clinics and 27 satellite workshops in local areas. healthcare needs major reform. Can reverse innovation — innovations originating from poor countries — provide one important answer? Most definitely. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The workshops companies invest in typically teach them to constantly check their thoughts for bias. They have to in order to communicate and to reach consensus with others who may not share the same experiences or perspectives. They recognize the value of inclusion and diversity and believe it’s the right thing to aspire to.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I was running a workshop with the executive team running the R&D function of a highly successful Danish company. Before long there was a consensus that a lot of the detail was not very helpful. As Horrocks thought about it, he realized that Montgomery was right. So he rang him up and said, "Thank you very much." Fast forward to 2012.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 31, 2022

These tensions can and should be cultivated for their ability to facilitate coherence , rather than perfect alignment, complete consensus, or collapse of some perspectives in the face of others. Focus on individual purpose: increasingly, L&D is involved in building modules and workshops to cascade and help activate organizational purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The company wanted to clarify its launch strategy for a new product, so I created an intense one-day workshop for the leadership team to move them quickly from exploration to formulation. LaunchPad , a San Francisco startup that provides enterprise innovation software, recently participated in a vision sprint that I designed for them.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

The process is built around research and collaborative workshop exercises and results in a final report that sets out the core story and shows how to build communications on the platform. From the research and the output of these workshop exercises, we then create the Story Platform.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2014

This doesn’t necessarily require a collective decision-making process or a unified consensus. For example, at the end of a one-day workshop I might omit the pile of objects, because it can seem too formal for the event. Sometimes, that’s simply infeasible. You can modify this exercise to fit the needs of the group or the occasion.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Petersburg, Johannesburg, Buenos Aires, Rio or Bogota (all places where I have conducted workshops and have conducted informal surveys on the question) raising capital, finding talent, and overcoming bureaucracy are three of the top challenges entrepreneurs ascribe to their environments. But this does not mean that they are right.

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