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. This longevity has helped them learn and grow together, to be innovative, and to take their music and performances in new artistic directions.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Research from two well-respected organizations makes it clear that we have a big collective blind spot that’s dragging down productivity, innovation and economic performance. Conversation and consensus are the only way to develop the strategic alignment and employee engagement necessary to achieve sustainable superior performance.

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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. We’d love to hear from you: how do you ensure decision making criteria are clear before you get into discussions about ideas?

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

We don’t innovate. 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.”. This mindset is not only found in the manufacturing environment but just about everywhere else where humans are involved.

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 29, 2013

said, “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.”. Innovation has always been what makes good businesses great. And innovation does not happen without change and risk. , but was improperly communicating the message so that employees would understand the change. As Martin Luther King Jr.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

Coming to a consensus around vision and direction can be time intensive simply because people who don’t interact are likely speaking to each other for the very first time, and frankly don’t trust each other. Failure is an essential part of the innovation process. I could not agree more.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

I N AN IBM global survey of CEOs, the overwhelming consensus was that more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision, successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity. They march through the phases robotically, as if they have discovered a magic formula for innovation.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 29, 2012

I’ve come to know other organizations that encourage conflict, often as a method of coming to agreement or boosting innovation and creativity. If the team will make final decisions about the things that are in conflict together, decide how it will be made: by majority vote, consensus, by the team leader or some other way?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

We need much more of the kind of leadership that is capable of scaling innovation, adaptability, sustainability, agility, and engagement as it is growth strategy. Builds involvement and consensus, supports team members, and advocates for team initiatives. The solution is to scale our leadership. Leads by Example: Good role model.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Supercommunicators : How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg Come inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant foreign agent.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 16, 2024

Successful leaders recognize that diversity goes beyond demographics; it includes diverse thinking, a potent driver of innovation and growth. Here are my top recommendations: Encourage Dissent and Debate: Instead of seeking consensus, encourage healthy dissent and open debate within your team.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 27, 2024

Pattern breaking is a non-consensus opportunity that forces a choice in the mind of the individual and not a comparison. If you act too slowly, you’ve got what is a conventional idea, embraced only after it became obvious to many others—leaving your idea to compete against a crowded field.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 21, 2020

Hire to innovate. Business and HR leaders can cover all the bases by keeping innovation in mind as they select new hires. It may feel good to have a homogeneous staff, but this stifles innovation. To avoid forced consensus, take generational and background diversity in job candidates into account.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

Best Idea, Not Consensus. The goal of consensus leads to “groupthink” and inferior decisions. Innovation Is Where the Crazy People Have Stature. Have a structure for one-on-one’s and take the time to prepare for them, as they are the best way to help people be more effective and to grow. Money’s Not Just About the Money.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Last year innovation group Solverboard published their first Innovation Blockers Report to help shed some light on the main challenges organizations face in growing innovation to scale. Indeed, they argue that Covid has prompted many to focus purely on protecting business as usual, with innovation punted down the priority list.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 10, 2013

This past week, I was looking for insight into this question: “Why has the United States slipped down in the innovation rankings for the developed countries in the world?” There seems to be no consensus on why. There is not much doubt about this reality: we have slipped. But I ran across this article that […].

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 28, 2018

They are less likely to take chances, question the norm, or innovate. When people take chances to bet against the consensus as Dalio does, there is a high probability that they may be wrong. In this highly competitive, global business climate, employees who are motivated by these extrinsic factors are much less likely to learn.

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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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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 24, 2011

A consensus decision – a decision where the leader themselves isn’t making the decision, but truly the full group comes to the decision collectively. Duncan Brodie Reply Sonja Froyen January 26, 2011 at 11:05 am Sometimes leaders forfeit their role in a consensus decision. I completely agree with your other three points!

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 10, 2020

We’ve recently been breaking down the different types of innovations and explaining their differences in a series of previous articles. This time, we’re looking at breakthrough innovation. It’s a commonly used term, and just like most other innovation terminology, there doesn’t seem to be a clear consensus on what the word means.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

U2 is further unified by its participative, consensus-oriented decision-making style that gives each member a voice. Develop a participative, consensus-oriented decision-making style that gives people a voice in matters they care about. Give people a voice (this creates shared understanding).

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2017

Through a decade of innovation-training work with global leaders (and in researching my new book, Why Simple Wins ), I’ve identified the unique mindset possessed by leaders who succeed in simplification. Leaders who are driving simplification must lay aside the need to seek consensus.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 28, 2020

For more than a year, he and his senior management team have been trying to encourage patient groups to adopt his organization’s innovative medical equipment. The false consensus effect is just one out of over one-hundred mental blind spots that scholars in cognitive neuroscience and behavioral economics call cognitive biases.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 2, 2020

Build consensus so you have wide agreement and ownership—leaving room for course corrections if needed. Especially when the stakes are high, is important to be the kind of leader who encourages innovation and risk-taking, and that means embracing mistakes and failures instead of punishing them. Well-defined priorities.

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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. In fact, most differences don’t require intervention as they actually contribute to a dynamic, creative, innovative culture. The Importance Factor : Not every difference needs to be resolved. I Think Not.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Ensure employees get real-time feedback to help assess their performance There’s a common consensus amongst the various studies on employee engagement that leaders need to be giving more feedback to their employees. But in terms of team cohesion, it’s important that we not lose sight of what got us to where we are today.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

It follows that teams and organizations with cultures of connection have employees with a superior cognitive advantage, higher employee engagement, better strategic alignment, superior decision-making and greater innovation. That adds up to a powerful performance advantage (and a competitive advantage).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When selecting new innovation projects, some committees prize consensus — and thus end up funding only ideas whose success is plain to see, which is often an incremental innovation. Meanwhile, venture capitalists looking for the next big thing might do the opposite, picking projects on which they disagree.

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Lead from Within

JULY 2, 2024

Example: “Our purpose is to innovate sustainable solutions for urban living, and our vision is to become the leading provider of eco-friendly city infrastructure.” Example: “We will use Slack for daily communication, hold weekly video meetings on Mondays, and make decisions through a consensus-driven process.”

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

They found that this attempt to provide balance undermines people’s confidence in the scientific consensus on the issue at hand. Climate change is a great case study of the false balance problem, because the scientific consensus is nearly unanimous.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Do they foster creative thought and innovation? Determine whether the overall approach will be one of seeking consensus among the group’s members or relying on the expertise of those charged with each element. Are we sticking to what we agreed to? What new processes might help us be more effective? Settle on decision-making.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 9, 2024

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski When it’s time to make meaningful change, there’s no time for consensus. When the worn path of success must be violated, use a small team. When it’s time for new thinking, create an unreasonable deadline, and get out of the way. The best people don’t want the credit, they want […]

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Their success depends on their ability to build consensus and inspire the other team members to do great things. Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases).

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 28, 2009

To succeed you need to build consensus and exert positive influence on the teams you work with. 3 Responses Chris Fillebrown , on January 1, 2010 at 8:07 pm said: In October of 2009 I started the Frame of Reference blog to focus on the innovation space. A new Leadership Development Carnival » Like Be the first to like this post.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In today’s world, you have to rely on consensus and shared ownership rather than any individual point of view—even your own. But perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world of business and leadership, the enemy of creativity, innovation and effectiveness. Leadership is all about humility. Moving too fast.

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