Chart Your Course

APRIL 29, 2013

Part of being a leader is managing change. 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. Manage perceptions. As Martin Luther King Jr.

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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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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

The best coach for any team is the manager who leads that team. Being a good coach is essential to being a good manager and leader. Coaching is no longer a specialty; you cannot be a good manager without being a good coach.”. Your Title Makes You A Manager, Your People Make You A Leader. Best Idea, Not Consensus.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 21, 2020

If it’s managers or staff who tend to reject requests or new policies, take some time to set firm boundaries and expectations: We expect you to accept new assignments, protocols, or crunch-time duties. Include this tactic in project team meetings and larger management planning sessions. Hire to innovate. with strings attached.

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Company Bond Learning-by-Doing Diversity 286

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Evaluating how well the board engages in strategic discussions, challenges assumptions, and contributes to developing robust and innovative strategies provides valuable insights into its effectiveness. A comprehensive and systematic approach is essential to analyze the board’s effectiveness in risk management and compliance.

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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.

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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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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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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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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A common mantra in business is that “information is power” This may encourage managers to hoard information for the benefit of their career, but research from Stanford highlights how harmful this can be. They suggest that often managers get this wrong and communicate too little, and very rarely overcommunicate.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In this culture, most people feel controlled by one of more of the following: autocratic leaders, micro-management, too many rules and/or bureaucracy. U2 is further unified by its participative, consensus-oriented decision-making style that gives each member a voice. The first is the “culture of control.”

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 28, 2020

Ineffective engagement with an organization’s stakeholders can lead to blind spots for managers and executives , and these can have a dire effect on an organization’s growth. 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.

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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.

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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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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 1, 2023

By and large, the consensus suggests that remote work improves our wellbeing by giving us a better work-life balance and lower stress by removing our commute and giving us more control over our lives. For instance, if managers regularly send emails late at night, this behavior will trickle down to the team.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Be concise but make sure the essentials are clearly defined: how often the team will connect and meet and who will manage the agenda, how delays and snags will be handled, and how people working from outside the team will be managed. Do they foster creative thought and innovation? Ask your team. Are our work processes effective?

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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. Theory C: A New Theory of Management. First, I recently read the Doctoral Dissertation of Jon Rugg, Ph.D.

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Leadership Open-book Competitive Advantage Stress 253

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. This includes understanding market trends, anticipating risks, and crafting effective risk management strategies.

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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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Mike Cardus

MAY 3, 2013

Working with managers, teams and various sizes of companies …we all feel stuck and that nothing is ever going to change. It is tough to have them choose just 1 … and if we can get agreement through consensus the team is doing really great. In the past when faced with challenges how has the team managed to be successful?

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Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Instead, employees self-manage and belong to different decision-making circles that keep the company operating.” But if we simply eliminate hierarchy altogether, we find that “flat-management” alternatives … well, they fall flat. No one reports to anyone anymore,” explains The Washington Post about Zappos.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 3, 2018

This scenario, lone wolf promoted to manager followed by team disaster, is both predictable and avoidable. Jesse summarizes: “ Often in coaching, managers work on changing their behaviors. Shelley shares: “ We talk a lot about the need to gather information, discuss, debate and gain consensus. Neal Burgis, Ph.

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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

APRIL 3, 2023

Generally speaking, the consensus is that autonomy is highly motivational. Nicholai Foss and Peter Klein suggest that complete autonomy isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be, however, and that managers can actually be incredibly useful. Management and its accompanying hierarchy still have an essential role to play.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 8, 2023

The only real consensus is that there is no consensus, with as many firms seeming to want employees back in as those believing employees should be free to choose. The researchers used textual analysis to explore the contents of each email, while also conducting qualitative surveys of both employees and managers.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 24, 2020

It’s a concern that seems to have been born out in the latest World Competitiveness Rankings from the Institute for Management Development (IMD), which saw the United States fall from 3rd spot down to 10th. “In part these may be fed by the fact it is easy to find social consensus.”.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

He cites as proof a 2007 Gallop Management Journal survey that estimates that “actively disengaged workers&# cost the U.S. – The Product Management Perspective: Building effective relationships is absolutely crucial for success in product management. economy about $382 billion annually.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Sometimes as managers we get too caught up in the big picture and forget to focus on the details. In situations where consensus cannot be reached, they have an uncanny ability to cut to the chase and make informed decisions. rm’s management, employees, clients, stakeholders, and others. I especially like the #3 on the checklist.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2021

While the success rate of digital transformation efforts has not always been much to write home about, the general consensus has remained that trying to digitally transform one’s business is far preferable to not doing so.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While the general consensus is that employees liked it and were reasonably productive, there are concerns about its impact on things like creativity and innovation. If we’re going to maintain this transition, we need to be deliberate about how we manage the process. The post How Creative Are We When Working Virtually?

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 1, 2024

The best way to incentivize people at work has been a topic of debate for many years, but the issue still seems to rumble on, despite an apparent consensus that intrinsic motivation is typically far better than extrinsic. The researchers used GitHub as their Petri dish after the platform introduced a scheme to sponsor coders.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2022

It’s already well established that a diverse workforce has various organizational benefits, including greater innovation and employee commitment. What’s more, in order to reach a consensus, such teams must also take these perspectives into account. Taking perspectives.

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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. Seems like a pretty straightforward, common work interaction a new employee and their manager. For each suggestion one of you makes, the other explains why it wouldn’t work or what in it is useful.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

Management changes, or our strategic plan is rebuffed, or people simply don’t perform the way we think they will. Bruce Harpham of Project Management Hacks submitted Why Showing Appreciation To Your Team Makes A Difference. Jesse Lyn Stoner of the Seapoint Center provided Collaboration Does Not Require Consensus.

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