Leading Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

Agree to Disagree Be wary of consensus. When uncertainty is high, and there are many unknowns, consensus is a danger and often biased. People compromise, converge, and seek consensus.” For stability, go for consensus; for breakthroughs, rely on the VC mindset way, VCs are not consensus seekers.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 11, 2015

Some people believe that in a collaborative environment, consensus is the best. Pushing for consensus when it’s not needed actually makes collaboration more difficult. → Read More: Situational Team Decision-Making: Collaboration Does Not Require Consensus. There are six ways teams can make decisions.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 16, 2014

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Posted in Leadership Development “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” ” Martin Luther King, Jr. Can you hear me now?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 8, 2017

. “I need to make this decision, but I would love your input” or “We’re going to decide by consensus” or “After 30 minutes of discussion, we’re going to take a vote.” ” Of course, the most important part of this approach is to make a plan and stick to it.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Warren Bennis on consensus decision-making: “Emphasis on harmony does not serve organizations particularly well. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JANUARY 26, 2022

Learn about the consensus-based decision-making style and the situations when it’s most appropriate. The fourth style of decision-making is consensus-based decision-making. This is when decisions are reached with a cross-functional team. People from different departments are having their input, and buy-in is essential.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 23, 2023

There are three common decision owners at work: a single person, a team via vote, or a team consensus. Using consensus? If you aren’t clear about who owns a decision, here are phrases to help clarify the owner and how everyone can best participate: “I’m unclear how this decision will be made. Are we voting?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 27, 2021

We need the right balance between authority vs. autonomy, consensus vs. direct decision-making, and friendly vs. firm. Whether you’re new to management or a veteran leader, this webinar will give you the tools you need to lead spectacularly.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 8, 2021

Unfortunately, it’s too easy to make false assumptions about the desires of others due to a dangerous judgment error termed the false consensus effect. The false consensus effect is one of over 100 misleading mental patterns that researchers in behavioral economics and cognitive neuroscience call cognitive biases. Survey Says….

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Leading in Context

APRIL 3, 2024

While sometimes people disagree about implementation, there is a strong consensus among scholars and research organizations that today’s leadership requires broad, high level, inclusive thinking. Expectations of “good leadership” are increasing and leaders and organizations are scrambling to keep up.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 25, 2024

Usually, this is going to be a vote or consensus. In consensus, everyone can live with a choice, even if it wasn’t their first option. Or do we want to go for consensus?” (And And yes, that’s an example of a quick consensus decision about whether to use a vote or consensus. In a vote, the majority rules.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 27, 2012

The consensus [.]. Sad I often ask managers this question: “Is the key thing a manager can do to engage employees is to listen to their ideas and increase the number that get implemented?”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

And inclusion can be conflated with consensus.” John Baird and John Baird and Ed Sullivan on what could derail you on what could derail you: “It is crucial for leaders to be very clear about what their values mean in practice. Transparency can be conflated with having no privacy. Honesty can be conflated with oversharing.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

” The overwhelming consensus was that it’s harder to receive than to give, and most felt that they give far more than they receive. I recently asked a group of managers, “Is it more difficult for you to give or to receive?” ” and “What percentage of your time is spent giving versus receiving?”

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Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Ineffective teams don’t know how to make consensus decisions. Margaret Thatcher complained of consensus: “To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs,… Continue reading → Decisions Teams Communication Leadership Development organizational success' Can we please make a decision and move on?

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 20, 2014

Build Consensus. Like Bono, it is wise to seek consensus on decisions, especially on issues that are important in the eyes of the people you lead and on decisions they will need to implement. In the case of shy employees, take time to thank them for their great work by paying them a personal visit or sending a handwritten note.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

We’ve learned that while there are many paths to greatness, in the end, there is a consensus on several must-dos that every leader has to keep in the forefront of their minds (or pinned on their bulletin board, or better yet, both). And what have we learned?

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In other cases, group consensus or majority rule is used to make the decision. Strive to reach consensus. In some situations, the team leader makes the final decision. Or the team leader may empower the team to make the decision on their own. Some basic operating rules related to making decisions include: Fully consider all options.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 8, 2012

Failure to Decide – If the buck is going to stop with us, then we need the courage to make timely decisions, regardless of consensus or the lack of 100% of the information needed to make them. The key learning here is to fully grasp the concept of “opportunity cost” – the cost of NOT doing something in favor of something else.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

They Over-rely on Consensus. Consensus managers seldom survive long in their jobs. The people who work for you perform their best when what you say is consistent and frequent. Do you have a core performance message that you constantly talk about with your employees? They Focus on Being Popular.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In addition to the right processes, leaders from the top down need to embrace the importance of conversation and be patient to develop a consensus on issues that are important to employees at large.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 24, 2013

Author Book Notes Leading Managing Power Taking others higher Teams consensus decision Culture flat organizations Leadership Development Management Organizational Development zero sum games' When managers and front-line employees “pretend-collaborate,” for example, the group that makes the decision has the power.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2017

That phenomenon, first described by Jerry B Harvey in his article ‘The Abilene Paradox’, highlighted his views on consensus inertia. Ensure your team consensus is real, rather than imagined, by regularly reflecting on the values that underpin your declared purpose. So what is that profound issue, that killer component? What to do now?

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Reaching a consensus. While it’s important to encourage and maintain an open exchange of ideas, leaders must ensure that the group moves toward a consensus solution. Endless discussion is almost never a solution. By the end of Washington’s meeting, a new, third option had taken shape with unanimous consent.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 6, 2014

Leadership Learning Personal Development 12 Angry Men consensus team development' Typically in this space and time I recommend a traditional learning resource to you – a book, teleseminar, workshop or perhaps a website. Today I am going to recommend a movie and give you a few thoughts about how to watch it for more […].

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

While sometimes people disagree about implementation, there is a strong consensus among scholars and research organizations that today's leadership requires broad, high level thinking. Expectations of "good leadership" are increasing and leaders and organizations are scrambling to keep up.

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Kevin Eikenberry

AUGUST 17, 2014

Leadership & Supervisory Skills Personal & Professional Development 12 Angry Men consensus team development' The post Learning From the Movies: Dead Poets Society appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Consensus is the path to average. Rather than resolving conflict, invite it. Lousy leaders and weak organizations pursue peace at all costs. The heat of tension, tests, clarifies, refines, and strengthens teams and ideas. Teams without tensions have weak players. One person runs the show. Everyone else […].

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Most teams lead by consensus, the lowest common denominator. Image source Every team has a few passionate leaders chomping at the bit to create the future. But, dead weight weighs them down. I believe in leading with teams but struggle with drifters, underperformers, and the fearful who hold organizations back.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

A proponent of open dialogue, Socrates would undoubtedly encourage face-to-face communication as the best way to build community, consensus, and trust. Because he beseeches mankind not to be thought-less.”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 15, 2024

Before discussion begins, clarify the person or people who will actually make the call.

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Leading Blog

JULY 9, 2012

It is a constant, interactive process aimed at creating consensus.” * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *. Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It’s the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball-to-eyeball back and forth.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

They suppress dissent and push for consensus. Build consensus” or “Get everyone on the same page” is another way of saying, “I’m right, and you need to change your thinking.”. Sometimes collaboration is really an exercise in coercion. Bosses try to be compelling, not curious. They ask leading and self-affirming questions.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Consensus building skills. Consensus does not mean that everybody must agree with a decision. Reaching consensus takes more time, but will usually produce better ideas and more buy-in. However, they usually don’t, and never really leverage the power of a well-run brainstorming session.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

On the most fundamental level, leaders must bring divergent groups together and forge a consensus on a path forward. The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility : Thriving Organizations & Great Results by Marilyn Gist PhD. But what makes that possible?

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 19, 2022

The research underlines how misinformation can spread as we can all too easily believe a consensus exists when it doesn’t. This intervention helped to reduce the illusion of consensus. Halting the spread. The post Research Explores How We Choose What To Believe first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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