N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? Never be swayed by consensus that calls you to compromise your values, rather be guided by doing the right thing. The strongest teams don’t weed out or neutralize individual tendencies, they capitalize on them.

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Lead from Within

JULY 2, 2024

A team charter is a crucial component of team success, acting as a guiding document that outlines the team’s objectives, roles, and operational guidelines. 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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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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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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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This includes evaluating whether the board composition is diverse and well-aligned with the organization’s goals, whether there are clear roles and responsibilities defined for board members, and whether the board operates with transparency and integrity.

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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. The Covid pandemic was many things, but it in workplace circles, it provided the largest experiment in remote working ever seen. Affecting creativity.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 17, 2021

The results reveal a clear divide between policymakers, who typically aligned around specific priorities, and the private sector, where no such consensus emerged. “As Among the private sector, however, no real consensus emerged, with several options equally popular.

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Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Holacracy is a fundamentally different “operating system” for organizations. Instead, employees […] Holacracy is a fundamentally different “operating system” for organizations. Instead, employees self-manage and belong to different decision-making circles that keep the company operating.”

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Leading Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

The ability to meet challenges with a willingness to depart from standard operating procedures; to confront anxiety, tolerate criticism, take intelligent risks, and refute conventional wisdom—especially one’s own views—in order to achieve breakthroughs” is what Jonah Sachs calls unsafe thinking. W E ALL GET STUCK IN RUTS. Thinking ruts.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The key to explaining this is the situation in which people operated. The general consensus around risk-taking is something that the researchers believe has clear implications for our careers. “If So perceived dominance undermined people’s willingness to vote for risk-takers, whereas perceived prestige made them more willing.”.

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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. This is especially crucial for companies aiming to be innovative. Especially if you’re early in your career.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Averaged the numbers to create group consensus. Allowed for the group to individually share where they placed themselves, while I wrote each persons name under the number they said.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The research consensus is that whilst diverse teams can present coordination challenges, they nonetheless thrive due to the different perspectives they can bring to bare on particular problems. The importance of diversity to team performance is something that I’ve written about numerous times before.

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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.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2024

As we gain a greater understanding of the role generative AI might play in the workplace, there’s a growing consensus that it will work alongside humans rather than replace them. As many companies turn to AI to streamline operations and boost productivity, the research underscores the technology’s limitations.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 20, 2020

Marketing was wearing suit and tie everyday, and teams were operating by consensus and under the tight control of one leader. A group led by consensus and a Senior Leader will default to caution. This was when ‘facetime’ at the office was mandatory. Alignment was more important than anything else. ‘Us’ Us’ prevailed over ‘I’.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Who is the world's most innovative company? Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. Perhaps a company's ability to innovate doesn't last long. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

We are often asked whether the best way to structure for innovation is top-down or bottom-up. Bottom-up approaches work well for incremental (keeps you in the game) innovations. Breakthrough (changes the game) innovations, contrary to popular belief, need a top-down approach. The answer is both, but it depends.

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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

MARCH 21, 2013

Who is the world's most innovative company? Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. Perhaps a company's ability to innovate doesn't last long. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2012

In The Innovator's Guide to Growth we suggested that companies should create one-page "Idea Resumes" that capture the essence of an idea on a single PowerPoint slide. If you don't have an innovation strategy , go and create one.). A small decision-making team can come to consensus about the right plans to take forward.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

In a global economy characterized by unprecedented competitiveness and constant change, nearly every CEO hungers for ways to drive more innovation. Ironically, researchers have developed a surprising degree of consensus about the stages of creativity and how to approach them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

An additive operation in the algebra of change, as my colleague Stuart Albert would put it, not a subtractive or transformative process. Michelle Bachelet , the former Chilean president, said that in changing times the best leaders are those who can be generals one day and consensus-builders the next. Josette Sheeran , U.N.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

For years — even decades — in response to intensifying global competition, companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. Manufacturing, it turns out, really matters in an innovation-driven economy. by Will Thorndike. But is this the blueprint we should be following? Not necessarily.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? The biggest obstacle here isn’t calculating an accurate number; it’s reaching a consensus of what the ballpark figure should be. Growth strategy Innovation' But this is not cause for alarm.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Have you ever wondered if a person's childhood experiences influence the way they operate as a professional later in life? They may react negatively to consensus building on the job and gravitate towards leaders who operate independently and exude an aura of confidence.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. TopRank Marketing TopRank Marketing has been doing innovative and impactful work with interactive content and B2B influencers for huge brands like SAP, Dell, LinkedIn, 3M, and Oracle for over 18 years. This goes for B2B, B2C, and B2B2C markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. Industry upheaval often calls for tough choices, and consensus will not be possible. Yet in turbulent times this is dysfunctional.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The executives' role is to define the attributes of the customer experience in partnership with their operational colleagues, organize the customer-satisfaction-measurement process against those attributes, and encourage remedial action wherever warranted. Many companies now have senior officers in charge of customer experience.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Borrowing many of the HBR article’s key ideas and filling in specific operational practices, Sutherland created a new way of developing software; honoring the rugby imagery, he dubbed his approach “scrum.” They keep customers happier.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

But collaboration is not consensus. Too often, people will try to collaborate on everything, and wind up in endless meetings, debating ideas and struggling to find consensus. To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. Collaboration is not a style. Collaboration is not “cross-selling.” Amy Jen Su.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

What if you upgraded your IT network to a new operating system that promised faster, better and leaner results — only to find that the vast majority of your leaders did not have the necessary competencies to use that new system? At Hay Group, our research suggests that many companies are now stuck in that metaphorical boat.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

It’s not hard to see why a partnership between a strong, but staid incumbent and an innovative startup appears attractive. ULA benefits from access to Blue Origin’s innovative designs and lean operations. At first glance, it appears that Blue Origin is merely supplying a resource, its innovative BE4 engine, to ULA.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

There is a general consensus among economic analysts and commentators that the changes are merely cosmetic — they certainly do not affect the daily lives of most average Nigerians, and their timing might be politically motivated given the upcoming 2015 elections which are expected to be highly contested. Global business'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Innovative. But if employees have long been valued and rewarded for behaviors such as practicality, consistency, self-reliance, and prudence, why wouldn’t they find it uncomfortable to suddenly embrace behaviors such as innovation, agility, collaboration, and boldness? amriphoto/Getty Images. Collaborative.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

But he could not shake his newfound awareness of the amount of money Egan was losing with Westmid — the account's ratio of operating income to sales was a negative 28%. With three efficient plants staffed by 3,000 employees, it had reinvented itself to become an innovative manufacturer of modular steel staircases and fiberglass doors.

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