N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Never be swayed by consensus that calls you to compromise your values, rather be guided by doing the right thing. This is a skill I believe many leaders do not develop until later in their careers. Most people don’t have to agree with you 100% of the time, but they do need to trust you 100% of the time. Thank you for sharing.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

Publish the parameters for these decision rights and tell people which leaders have these rights -- that information is crucial to breaking through any consensus logjam; decision-rights holders should have 51 percent of the vote when collaborative teams can't reach natural agreement. For more information please visit [link] and Amazon.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 16, 2017

Applying technology to provide easy access for societal dialog has the promise of peer-to-peer co-creation of knowledge and rapid consensus solution-building. Today's technology holds the promise of quickly connecting problem solvers with problems, converting actionable knowledge into value that transforms the world.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 4, 2016

Coaching helps people gain clarity about what really matters to them, how they should live, what type of careers they should have, and how they can have maximum impact on the world both inside and outside of their organizations. He is trying to find an authentic life and career in an extremely uncertain world with many needs.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Coaching and mentoring have seldom been more popular, with a growing consensus that it can be vital to our career development. Traditionally, the role of the mentor has been filled by an experienced colleague who can provide us with the wisdom they’ve gained over their careers.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 3, 2024

While the general consensus among workers is that remote work is something they want to retain, managers are often keener for people to return to the office on a regular basis. The researchers also checked the authors’ career stage, how highly ranked their institution was, and how many people joined in on their group projects.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 20, 2020

Marketing was wearing suit and tie everyday, and teams were operating by consensus and under the tight control of one leader. Technology is now asking teams to work under pressure, fast and remotely. A group led by consensus and a Senior Leader will default to caution. This was when ‘facetime’ at the office was mandatory.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Collaboration does not = consensus.” “The When technology, access, information and how consumers buy changes, so must management.” “Management is not a science, it is an art.” Nilofer Merchant @Nilofer / Consultant and champion of collaboration / In a nutshell: Leaders need to involve their people. Knowing the way is crucial.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Still, the art of consensus can sometimes slow women down and diminish their leadership credibility. It's easy to make the case that collaborative leadership is the wave of the future: Technology makes decentralized decision-making and flat organizations more feasible than ever. They have a talent for establishing buy-in.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

There’s a growing consensus that companies need strong, independent boards full of qualified directors if they are to sidestep risks and seize opportunities in our complex and dynamic international economy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

As the up-and-coming vice president and CEO candidate for a Fortune 500 technology corporation sat before the CEO for his annual review, he was baffled to discover that the feedback from his peers, customers, direct reports, and particularly from board members placed unusual emphasis on one potentially devastating problem: his listening deficit.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There is a growing consensus among students, parents and employers that today’s young liberal arts graduates lack the skills needed to succeed in the post-Recession job market. Schools can’t continue to deliver an expensive credential that is not seen as delivering a viable path to a career—no matter what the long-term value.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Throughout my career, I have consistently faced the question, "How does HR add value in a business?" Adding legitimacy to this skepticism are new technologies that enable automation of routine transactions, offshoring and shared service organizations that specialize in managing many tactical elements of HR.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

Technological innovation accounted for almost half of U.S. In today's climate of intense competition, we must find ways to develop " integrative thinking " — the thinking that leads to new business ideas, especially in science and technology. We must inspire students to find value in pursuing a career in science.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

Maybe you also dream about switching to a career that’s drastically different from your current job. Two careers are better than one. And by committing to two careers, you will produce benefits for both. Instead, a more revealing query would be, “Why do you have multiple careers?” Career Transitions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Perhaps this is not surprising in our fast-paced and technology-driven business world, where there is little time to stop and think, and where people want (and are paying for) immediate outcomes. Philosophical self-reflection is essential at inflection points in one’s career, when a leader faces a serious challenge, dilemma, or crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

Throughout my career — on Wall Street, in technology venture capital, and in media production — I’ve fostered a professional network that spans industries. These could include things like spending two hours each week developing a skill that doesn’t fit in with your current career path. Herminia Ibarra.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

If you’re a programmer, you have to decide between jobs in the technology field and technological jobs in nontechnical organizations — law firms, publishing companies, universities, and so on. The major implications of our research for individuals regard career choices. We found no downsides.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

I wanted to accept the consensus as a sign that the company had rounded the corner on its 3-year slog to be more relevant in their market. Apple's Steve Jobs was once viewed as an ideologue for design and is now acknowledged as the premier technology visionary. We were in a meeting to review the roadmap for the company's new product.

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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. Collaboration is not a style. Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2011

As a result of a deeply engrained deference to authority, Asians in the CWLP survey are also significantly less likely than other ethnic groups to challenge a consensus, let alone participate in the "in your face" leadership model rewarded in much of corporate America. "In In Asia, there's a saying that the loudest duck gets shot. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For the first time in my young career, I was going to lots of meetings, and my job had become as much about convincing, cajoling, and coordinating as it was about designing. There will always be new technologies and processes you can adopt — an app promising better communication, a service promising smarter collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Healthcare has become extraordinarily complex — the balance of quality against cost, and of technology against humanity, are placing ever-increasing demands on clinicians. There seems to be a widening consensus that training physicians for leadership matters. These challenges require extraordinary leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Today’s most competitive marketplace isn’t technology but talent. Their function has been turned upside down and inside out as a result of digital technology, empowered employees, and connected customers. What is important to them in a job, career, team and employer? Why Technology Won’t End the Marketing Hierarchy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Conventional thinking has suggested that leadership positions go to those who aggressively plan their careers with a keen eye for building the right skills to reach top jobs. Note that this inclusive process is not decision-making by committee or by consensus. Near the end of his career, it also helped him decide to sell Frankel.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The engineering department needed better organization and management, and its employees were craving more career development. This prevented design by committee while we were building consensus. When I was brought on, Instagram’s executives knew they needed help. But even with team support, reorganizations are a big deal.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Over the course of our careers, and through our formal research on mentoring within and outside of academia, we’ve found that good mentoring is discipline-agnostic. Mentors trade away hours they could use to pursue their own career goals and spend them on someone else’s. As academic physicians, we do a lot of mentoring.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2018

While there is no well-defined career path for data scientists, and little support for junior data scientists, we are starting to see some forms of specialization. We’re approaching a consensus that ethical standards need to come from within data science itself, as well as from legislators, grassroots movements, and other stakeholders.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. Health information and other technology. Technologies hold promise for remote monitoring and intervention. Lauri Rotko/Folio Images/Getty Images. Proactive and population-based.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Good consultants build consensus and unify management focus, they do not splinter opinion. If your marketing doesn’t uphold your brand promise or if it’s not advancing core business initiatives, then you have an alignment issue.

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