Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 27, 2021

We need the right balance between authority vs. autonomy, consensus vs. direct decision-making, and friendly vs. firm. Melissa Lamson, facilitator and executive coach to some of today’s most successful companies, has developed a perfect formula for spectacular leadership.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Leadership is all about the human experience. Individuals who don’t demonstrate that they care about people will never be true leaders and, frankly, have no place in a position of leadership. If they prove to be unable to connect with the people they manage, they shouldn’t be in leadership roles.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

In the seven years I’ve been writing and talking about my concepts and lessons of personal leadership, I’ve often been asked, “What does it take to be a great leader?” 2) Be Consistent in Your Leadership - Nothing unsettles a team more than a scattered leader. And what have we learned?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 16, 2014

Posted in Leadership Development Chaos It was a mess. The World Wide Widgets leadership team had gathered to decide how to use surplus funds. He is a leadership speaker, consultant and coach as well as the the founder and President of Trailblaze, Inc. The Human Resource Director objected and offered another thought on how the [.]

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2020. The Grit Factor : Courage, Resilience, and Leadership in the Most Male-Dominated Organization in the World by Shannon Huffman Polson. On the most fundamental level, leaders must bring divergent groups together and forge a consensus on a path forward.

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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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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

And we find that the leadership approaches and the language used aligned itself with that goal. It is this need that David Marquet thoroughly discusses in Leadership Is Language. This is the subject of Leadership Is Language. They suppress dissent and push for consensus. No variations. This is not collaboration.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

For me, though, the most fascinating event in the book was a meeting a week after the attack – because it captured George Washington in the process of inventing a brilliant new style of leadership in the face of overwhelming challenges. Leadership, in the balance. Reaching a consensus. Lasting testament to leadership.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

T HE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE of leading in an increasingly complex world is that we will have developmental gaps in our leadership. In the words of Robert Anderson and William Adams, authors of Scaling Leadership , “We are running an Internal Operating System that is not complex enough for the complexity we face.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 16, 2023

A team makes the decision through consensus. Consensus is often misunderstood. Consensus decision-making means that the group continues discussion until everyone can live with a decision. Consensus decision-making can take more time and often increases everyone’s ownership of the final decision.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

Agree to Disagree Be wary of consensus. When uncertainty is high, and there are many unknowns, consensus is a danger and often biased. People compromise, converge, and seek consensus.” For stability, go for consensus; for breakthroughs, rely on the VC mindset way, VCs are not consensus seekers.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

Real leadership is the key to speed and agility. That requires real leadership. When an organization has been working well for a while, it is not uncommon to see the leadership begin to nurture a retirement-home culture. It is important to cut your losses and move on when things arent working. Clogged arteries.

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Sales Wolf Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Leaders understand the line and balance between consensus and productive conflict to enhance decision-making and foster innovation in leadership teams.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This isn’t just about consensus—it’s about choosing behaviors that will influence your culture and outcomes. Once you have your two habits, commit to them and get ready to build your leadership blueprint. As a team, choose two core habits that will have the greatest impact on driving success for the initiative. What’s working?

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Leading in Context

AUGUST 31, 2011

As we struggle day-to-day with what ethics means in business, groups of concerned leaders around the world are studying common ethical values that could clarify ethical behavior and unite us in a common global code of ethics.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Posted in Leadership Development “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” ” Martin Luther King, Jr. Can you hear me now?

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Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Ineffective teams don’t know how to make consensus decisions. Margaret Thatcher complained of consensus: “To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs,… Continue reading → Decisions Teams Communication Leadership Development organizational success'

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2024 curated just for you. 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. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024 * * * “.

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Leading in Context

APRIL 3, 2024

By Linda Fisher Thornton Ethical leadership learning is an issue that is gaining attention. Expectations of “good leadership” are increasing and leaders and organizations are scrambling to keep up.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 6, 2014

Guest post from Dr. Greg Alston : “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” - Peter Drucker This quote by one of the most respected management theorists of the last 100 years crystallizes the essence of how to determine whether someone is a good leader or not.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 23, 2013

I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. Maxwell, and Warren Bennis books in abundance, do most people in leadership positions have no clue what to do?” Most managers (people in leadership positions) really don’t read books about leadership. This question from Kathy L.: “Why,

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Leading Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

And inclusion can be conflated with consensus.” Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Honesty can be conflated with oversharing.

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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 20, 2013

Leadership is a personal trait that often proves elusive to many people, however is intimately related to personal success. Leaders also foster social change, and most of our cultural, social and economic progress is the result of leadership. So, too, does the way to impart leadership to an eager young mind.

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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. change failure intuition leadership risk Shaun Spearmon success'

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 11, 2015

Some people believe that in a collaborative environment, consensus is the best. Pushing for consensus when it’s not needed actually makes collaboration more difficult. → Read More: Situational Team Decision-Making: Collaboration Does Not Require Consensus. There are six ways teams can make decisions.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 24, 2013

Author Book Notes Leading Managing Power Taking others higher Teams consensus decision Culture flat organizations Leadership Development Management Organizational Development zero sum games' When managers and front-line employees “pretend-collaborate,” for example, the group that makes the decision has the power.

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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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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Consensus decision-making is an obstacle to success when groups are large, and issues are complicated. Forget consensus; aim for commitment when making decisions. Requiring 100% agreement unnecessarily complicates decisions.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Consensus is the path to average. Communication Conflict resolution Decisions Power Success Taking others higher Conflict Resolution Culture Leadership Leadership Development perspective' The heat of tension, tests, clarifies, refines, and strengthens teams and ideas. Teams without tensions have weak players.

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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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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 8, 2022

GUEST POST from Greg Satell “I hate consensus,” legendary Silicon Valley coach Bill Campbell used to growl. The problem, as the authors explain in the book, Trillion Dollar Coach, wasn’t that he didn’t want people to get along, but that an easy consensus often leads to groupthink and inferior decisions.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

It’s the third week of my 5-week series outlining 25 timeless leadership lessons. “It is Solved by Walking” Take the Leadership Litmus Test. I am a big fan of those home improvement shows on TV, and I have found a great piece of leadership advice by watching interior decorators work with their clients.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

Or will they be individuals who can think and act on their own without consensus from others? We must instill in Generation iY,” says Elmore, that “leadership is leveraging my influence for a worthwhile cause.” * * *. Will they become a generation so connected that they just parrot what peers are saying in their social network?

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 8, 2012

Failure to Decide – If the buck is going to stop with us, then we need the courage to make timely decisions, regardless of consensus or the lack of 100% of the information needed to make them. Until we learn that trust is an essential part of great leadership, we are doomed to overwork and a huge misapplication of time and talent.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A Great Year by Starbucker on January 3, 2010 As a leader, I’ve learned that getting off to a great start in a new year is very important. Popularity: 70% [ ?

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 19, 2023

That’s why we’ve compiled a list of 50 inspiring leadership quotes to help you stay motivated and focused on what’s important. No matter what industry you’re in or what position you hold, these quotes will remind you of the power of good leadership and its impact on both individuals and organizations.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 16, 2011

With nearly 30 years of experience in my rear view mirror, I can best describe the process of successful leadership as somehow getting a giant boulder up, and then over, a steep hill – a boulder not only filled with the accumulated weight of our talents and expectations, but with those of our teammates as well.

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