Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Doctors were once viewed as ill-prepared for leadership roles because their selection and training led them to become “heroic lone healers.” The emphasis on patient-centered care and efficiency in the delivery of clinical outcomes means that physicians are now being prepared for leadership. ” But this is changing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

While there is universal agreement that (1) it exists, and (2) that it plays a crucial role in shaping behavior in organizations, there is little consensus on what organizational culture actually is, never mind how it influences behavior and whether it is something leaders can change. Culture is powerfully shaped by incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is the first in a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Lack of consensus among players in a complex system is one of the biggest barriers to innovation. It's a classic change management problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

The situation improved recently with the accounting recognition of a stock option expense, which clarified to directors that options are not costless, and with the general lengthening of the options' vesting period (incenting long-term orientation).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

To find the answer to that question I attended a session on leadership at the World Economic Forum in Davos. This is where the leadership principle of authenticity comes in. A leader like this can define the strategy through the language, incentives, measures, capabilities of the people executing it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

It sets in when people collaborate on the wrong things or when collaboration efforts get bogged down in endless discussions and consensus decision-making in which no one is clearly accountable. As we discuss in our next HBR article (coming in July 2011), collaborative leadership is a poorly understood yet crucial new leadership skill.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

I’m 100% in favor of kindness and compassion in leadership. If you can make the downsides of his conflict-avoidant behavior evident, he may be incented to change. But Fred was also indecisive and often looked to the team to make key decisions by consensus. If this sounds like your boss, your career may be at risk.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

As evidenced by CCIP's research, webinars seem to work less well when they deal with topics around which there is no consensus, or that require enormous customization to be relevant to all audience members. Provide incentives for participants to demonstrate their mastery. Focus on training, not analysis. Take and distribute notes.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Despite the overwhelming number of laboratory experiments carried out to evaluate this argument — known as the overjustification effect — there is still no consensus about the degree to which higher pay may demotivate. In fact, the biggest organizational cause of disengagement is incompetent leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 9, 2016

And after all that research and with all the different clashing views, the general consensus to this finding is that this generation of young people is unlike anything we’ve seen before. Roles in Leadership. Team Dynamics. In the work setting, Gen-Ys are vastly different from the generation before them. Why don’t they understand?

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

That’s where a leadership philosophy comes in. In this article, we’ll break down what a leadership philosophy is, why it’s important, the different types of leadership philosophies, and how to create your own – so you can lay the foundations and then hit the ground running. What Is a Leadership Philosophy?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

Because they have been trained and incented to care about the real game, the one happening on the field, and not about the associated betting market. CEOs routinely go to the microphones to apologize or make excuses for missing the analysts' consensus earnings estimates — even if their real results are substantially up.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Many leadership teams actually don’t function as teams – each member runs his or her own “patch” without much obligation or incentive to align the company’s initiatives to a coherent whole. Collaboration in the middle can often be sabotaged by political wrangling and turf wars at the top.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

Aspiring leaders of professional service firms must build and sustain consensus among their colleagues, make trade-offs between competing interest groups, and offer incentives to individuals to lend their support. Consulting Leadership Leadership development'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

For many companies, the right solutions are available for tackling social and environmental challenges, but they don’t become commercially viable unless regulatory change aligns commercial incentives with the right thing to do. Respect the leadership role of government, but be prepared to use your voice and influence.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

There is sort of a consensus that what we need to do is lower the corporate tax rate. But I think we need a concrete proposal and leadership in that area. Ideally, with a lower marginal rate, companies would have more incentive to bring it home, but you need to have some kind of program in place as well. trade policy.

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