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.

Management 125

Management Consensus Stress Participative 125

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? Your Turn Your team, department, and organization will make better-informed decisions, solve problems faster, and be more innovative when everyone has a chance to speak and be heard at work. Are we voting?

Consensus 536

Consensus Brainstorming Participative Committee 536

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

From doctors to teachers to managers to presidents, the more experience the better. On the most fundamental level, leaders must bring divergent groups together and forge a consensus on a path forward. Our personal experience is key to who we are and what we do. We judge others by their experience and are judged by ours.

Books 436

Books Meyer Leadership Tactics 436

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.

Compliance 418

Compliance Risk Management Objective Process 418

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 3, 2024

While the general consensus among workers is that remote work is something they want to retain, managers are often keener for people to return to the office on a regular basis. An often voiced concern by managers is that remote working prevents younger employees from learning effectively from their peers.

Career 70

Career Consensus Learning-by-Doing Innovation 70

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.

Insurance 243

Insurance Execution Long-term Diversity 243

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.”

Team 181

Team Document Objective Goal 181

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.

Company 286

Company Bond Learning-by-Doing Diversity 286

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.

Consensus 188

Consensus Influence Bottom-up Incentives 188

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.”

CEO 64

CEO Banking Consensus Price 64

Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking. A manager only listens to team members who agree with them, neglecting diverse opinions that could offer a new perspective. A manager ignores potential issues with a new initiative because they don’t want to be the only one questioning it.

Dunning 102

Dunning Consensus Groupthink Charisma 102

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.

Productivity 129

Productivity Products Consensus Quality 129

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2024

New research suggests that this rejection can be due to people’s lack of shared criteria or reference points when evaluating a potential innovation’s value. Previous research has found that new ideas are seen as risky and are often rejected.

Consensus 28

Consensus Reference How To Information 28

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.

Decentralization 138

Decentralization Micromanagement Consensus Fashion 138

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.

Creativity 294

Creativity Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Construction 294

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.

Consensus 265

Consensus Groupthink COO Mentor 265

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

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). Their success depends on their ability to build consensus and inspire the other team members to do great things.

Productivity 182

Productivity Products Management Leadership 182

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?

Creativity 137

Creativity Consensus Idea Generation Engineering 137

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.

Supply Chain 123

Supply Chain Consensus Technology Analysis 123

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.

Crisis 218

Crisis Crisis Management Consensus Agility 218

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.

Morale 121

Morale Diversity Organization Consensus 121

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 [.].

Consensus 285

Consensus Leadership Development Management Development 285

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.

White Paper 231

White Paper Human Resources Consensus Case Study 231

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.”.

Education 121

Education Consensus Metrics Efficiency 121

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.

Agility 100

Agility System Management Bureaucracy 100

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?

Team 218

Team How To Objective Consensus 218

Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking. A manager only listens to team members who agree with them, neglecting diverse opinions that could offer a new perspective. A manager ignores potential issues with a new initiative because they don’t want to be the only one questioning it.

Dunning 52

Dunning Consensus Groupthink Charisma 52

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.

Consensus 140

Consensus Crisis Information Examples 140

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. These leaders unfortunately don’t manage how the work gets done, which requires offering a supportive environment and demonstrating concern for their teammates. Michelle P.

Real Estate 119

Real Estate Self-aware Open-book Learning-by-Doing 119

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 7, 2023

The biggest shakeup in UK immigration policy for half a century coincides with a sustained shift in public attitudes in a more positive direction, with a broad consensus that the system should meet the needs of the economy and labor market,” the researchers explain. This decline has contributed to labor shortages.

Consensus 98

Consensus Transportation System Report 98

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Consensus is a powerful tool. When CEOs set out to conquer new markets or undertake billion-dollar acquisitions, we’d hope they’d at least sought out some consensus from their trusted advisors. The problem with consensus is that it’s expensive. The problem with consensus is that it’s expensive. Consider the story of Nick.

Consensus 13

Consensus Innovation Company Ries 13

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The study originated out of a desire to understand how cultures form, and indeed whether it’s possible for managers to recreate cultures experienced elsewhere in a new environment. “We Research from the Rotman School highlights how difficult it is to actively mold such a culture, however. Culture creation.

Development 122

Development Consensus Drucker Cooper 122

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. Gradually over time, America has become overly obsessed about managing tasks. American leaders need to wake up and smell the coffee. What can be done?

Leadership 400

Leadership Six Sigma Competitive Advantage Consensus 400

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.”

Team 273

Team Consensus Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage 273

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 11, 2020

Climate change can scarcely have been more at the forefront of the public debate than it is now, but has this prominence managed to shift public attitudes? ” The scientific consensus around climate change has been fairly well established for some time, and if this survey is any guide, consensus among the general public is also forming.

Consensus 100

Consensus Sharpe Survey Policies 100

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.

Leadership 253

Leadership Open-book Competitive Advantage Stress 253

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.

Self-aware 168

Self-aware Consensus Uncertainty Creativity 168