Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 15, 2024

Your ability to help your organization and teams make effective decisions is a competitive advantage and rare leadership skill. Three questions will help energize and clarify your decision making process. When Decision Making Meetings Go Wrong You’ve been there before.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 23, 2023

Whether you’re in a formal leadership position or are participating on a committee, in a meeting, or on a project team, you have a role to play. There are three common decision owners at work: a single person, a team via vote, or a team consensus. Using consensus? Are we voting? Or will you make the call on this one?” “Are

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 20, 2014

In my last article, “ 3 Practices CEOs Should Adopt from this Rock Star ,” I credited Bono’s leadership of U2 as a key factor behind the band’s success. His leadership approach can be described in one sentence: Bono communicates an inspiring vision and lives it, values people, and gives them a voice. Build Consensus.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

I highly recommend reading Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer’s recent books, Leadership B.S. In them he makes a compelling case that most leadership training has failed to produce effective leaders and that the poor state of the vast majority of workplace cultures today is harming the health of people. and Dying for a Paycheck.

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Lead from Within

JULY 2, 2024

In my role as an executive leadership coach, I’ve observed that teams with a clear and comprehensive charter exhibit enhanced clarity, collaboration, and accountability. 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.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

Lady GaGa) , with the implication that leadership is an intuitive skill. Great leadership is certainly associated with strong instincts and intuition, but intuition and instincts are shaped by training and more importantly, greatly augmented through experience. Failure is an essential part of the innovation process.

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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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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. Leadership is all about the human experience. If they prove to be unable to connect with the people they manage, they shouldn’t be in leadership roles.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 3, 2018

Welcome to the July Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, employee performance and engagement, personal and professional development, productivity, team building, and more. Learning to self-observe is a powerful leadership practice.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

They are no longer responsible for managing risk but also for driving innovation, enhancing customer experiences, and achieving sustainable growth. Strong strategic leadership skills, including the ability to inspire and motivate teams, are also crucial in navigating the complexities of the insurance sector.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 21, 2020

First, make sure that you and your top leadership don’t indulge in backstabbing or blame games. 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. Good culture will follow.

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Leadership is not an easy task, and even the best leaders are susceptible to errors in thinking that can hinder decision-making and, ultimately, organizational success. Recognizing and avoiding these pitfalls can significantly enhance leadership effectiveness. This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 28, 2020

Developing a great relationship with your organization’s stakeholders is one of the most important aspects of leadership. 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. However, they had not gained enough traction.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

Welcome to the April 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival. of Germane Consulting submitted 5 Ways Women Redefine Leadership. She shares: “Women have improved and redefined leadership in a number of important ways, which men have also adopted. Bruce says, “Appreciation is a powerful leadership tool.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 2, 2020

It’s easy to become overwhelmed and lose your bearings at a time when many of the usual processes and measures no longer apply, but successful leadership is still possible—and more necessary than ever. Build consensus so you have wide agreement and ownership—leaving room for course corrections if needed. The Leadership Gap.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Regular board evaluations and leadership assessments provide valuable insights into the board’s dynamics, functioning, and overall effectiveness. Their expertise in leadership advisory and executive coaching solutions brings a valuable outsider perspective to the evaluation process.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 17, 2024

However, there was a catch: When they compared the consensus forecasts to actual financial results, they found that these atypical firms underperformed analysts’ expectations, leading to negative earnings surprises. The researchers called this the “performative atypicality premium.”

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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. As a result, they are viewed as having less leadership potential. And there seems to be a stigma surrounding creative types.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Something I’ve been hearing lately from my executive leadership coaching clients is that their teams aren’t functioning as well remotely as they were when they worked face to face. Do they foster creative thought and innovation? The Leadership Gap. A Leadership Manifesto: A Guide To Greatness. Settle on decision-making.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 3, 2023

Generally speaking, the consensus is that autonomy is highly motivational. They highlight how famous exemplars of decentralized leadership, such as Zappos and Oticon, have generally failed to deliver results and employees have requested a return to some form of hierarchy again with managers providing invaluable support.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 27, 2012

Posted in Change Management Leadership Coaching Leadership Development [link] In a LinkedIn poll we conducted 80 percent of managers said that less than 10 percent of employees’ ideas ever get implemented. The consensus [.].

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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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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos abhors what he calls “social cohesion,” the natural impulse to seek consensus. You are learning constantly, and the pace of innovation is thrilling. I filed patents; I innovated. Can''t Get Enough Leadership Related articles. Two Leadership Self-Coaching Guides for Career Women.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The study suggests that while dominant individuals can elicit certain behaviors and outcomes through force, passive leaders are better at deriving consensus within the group. When it comes to bringing peers to consensus during more sophisticated tasks, it is the least aggressive individuals that exert the greatest influence.”

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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 management — at every level — is a leadership role within the organization. Leadership – the personal side is next on my list. What have you found to be important in your organization?

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Leadership is not an easy task, and even the best leaders are susceptible to errors in thinking that can hinder decision-making and, ultimately, organizational success. Recognizing and avoiding these pitfalls can significantly enhance leadership effectiveness. This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It’s a sad truth of our time that the state of leadership is not well regarded. Here are some of the most harmful leadership mistakes you may be making: A sense of omnipotence. In today’s world, you have to rely on consensus and shared ownership rather than any individual point of view—even your own. The Leadership Gap.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 28, 2009

John Maxwell — author of the book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership — does a masterful job of explaining the leadership principle of influence through the five myths about leadership: The Management Myth: Management focuses on maintaining systems and processes.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

More than just about any other leadership skill, people are fiercely criticized for poor communication,” the researchers explain. This misreads what employees actually want, as the general consensus is that it’s better to overcommunicate than under-communicate. The higher up you get, the more brutal that criticism becomes.”

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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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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

There are probably few if any people in leadership who don’t aspire to have a happy team. One key to a happy team is to create an environment where people feel free to discuss ideas openly and to disagree with each other before reaching consensus—or, at the very least, a compromise that everyone can live with. THE LEADERSHIP GAP.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 24, 2017

But as a leadership expert, it also highlights a critical function leaders need to play both to drive organizational growth, as well as to boost employee productivity. But the opportunity remains for each of us to use our leadership to demonstrate that we don’t need to ignore our differences to be able to successfully work together.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

” Maintain consensus across messaging – It’s inevitable that decisions will change when new information becomes available, but even then it’s important that messaging is consistent across leaders for employees to both understand the messaging and have faith in it.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 10, 2018

This goes back and forth until a consensus is reached on a middle ground, “safe option,” and you both go on your way. Creativity and innovation happens best in an environment of psychological safety where we trust that those we are working with have our best interest in mind. WiLL WiSE , M.Ed.,

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In the new world of work, we must learn how to bridge our differences with others so we can collaborate, innovate, and solve complex problems at work. Additionally, e mployees will have to manage [iii] themselves, make decisions through consensus, and navigate the how of work to succeed. 8 (2014): 691–709, [link]

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

They analyzed around 70 previous studies into culture creation and found that there was no real consensus on whether one can intentionally be created to underpin strategic goals. Culture creation. Instead, many theorists argue that cultures are largely a response to whatever is happening externally.

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