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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

This in turn leads to a very focused, coordinated, and ultimately a very passionate work environment. It reminds me of Drucker’s first rule of decision making: one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement. A team helps to create the best foundation for a decision or action. Consensus isn’t the goal.

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Competing on Service: Eleven Ways to Beat the Competition by ‘Hugging’ Your Customers

Strategy Driven

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence, but Don’t Use It

Harvard Business Review

Yet no one asks: which of the information purchased at high cost from the outside army of research vendors and consultants was ignored, missed, discounted, filtered or simply not used correctly? What Did Peter Drucker Really Say? ” Yet this does not actually represent his thoughts on measurement.