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. Dye President at Trailblaze, Inc David works with leaders, managers, and supervisors who want to get more done, build teams that care, and achieve results. Author information David M.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

In "Managers, can you hear me now?" Managers Fail to Build Trust and Integrity. Trust always begins with the manager. As the manager, you are the force that keeps your team focused on results. Managers are the first to get bored with their message. They Over-rely on Consensus. They Have the Wrong Focus.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 16, 2023

Typically, this would be the manager or someone she appoints. 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. If we can come to a consensus by then, that would be great.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

This slow, painful slide into irrelevance happens to successful products when their management succumbs to those three basic human tendencies: loss of urgency, a proud and protective attitude, and an entitlement mentality. Real leadership is the key to speed and agility. That requires real leadership. Clogged arteries.

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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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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.

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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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Leadership Freak

JUNE 24, 2013

Empowerment is smoke and mirrors until management loses power. When managers and front-line employees “pretend-collaborate,” for example, the group that makes the decision has the power. Collaboration only occurs between […].

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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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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

It’s the third week of my 5-week series outlining 25 timeless leadership lessons. Practice Full Spectrum Management . “It is Solved by Walking” Take the Leadership Litmus Test. “It is Solved by Walking” Take the Leadership Litmus Test. Sometimes just showing up is great leadership.

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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. If your office is running low on pens, the office manager can decide. There are six ways teams can make decisions. But that’s a big mistake.

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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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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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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

For the third part of this month-long series celebrating the release of my first leadership book (which will be available in bookstores and online retailers next Thursday, September 25th), “ Leadership Vertigo ”, co-written with S. I did not feel management set the kind of example that I wanted to abide by.” Kouzes and Barry Z.

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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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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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Leading Blog

JULY 9, 2012

Jim Shaffer, author of The Leadership Solution , believes that top companies are guided by these three best principles: They value their people. It stats with leadership. It’s driven home with leadership.”. Communication is managed as a business process. Everyone says it but not everyone lives it.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Here are eight steps to follow: Step #1: Identify one or two specific leadership skills you feel that you could improve through mentoring. Step #2: Now assess what style of leadership is best suited to you. Are you more collaborative as a leader, working through consensus? Here's to your leadership success in 2012!

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Here's a post that I wrote for SmartBlog on Leadership , published 10/25: The majority of popular leadership advice falls into one of two categories: 1. Leadership for the small-business owner (which usually deal with entrepreneurialism, sales, financing, and other basic management and business skills).

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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.”. Your business is adding a new time-management system, which requires employees to log their hours on specific projects. Manage perceptions. As Martin Luther King Jr.

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CO2

JULY 13, 2013

by Calvin Guyer Here are five key leadership failures: 1. Failure to develop the leadership capacity of your team. Until we as an organization–and the sector as a whole–become much more intentional about development of internal talent, we are doomed to an ever-growing leadership deficit” Neil Nicoll, President and CEO, YMCA.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Senior managers follow, apparently slavishly, structural change, without a clear vision to underpin it. That phenomenon, first described by Jerry B Harvey in his article ‘The Abilene Paradox’, highlighted his views on consensus inertia. That issue has some typical outcomes. They seem unclear about purpose. Then act on that feedback.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

They have discovered three areas where aspiring leaders fail : Unbalanced Orchestration (leadership failures at the organizational level). Drama Management (leadership failures at the team level) Leaders who rule by bullying. Problems with dysfunctional harmony—when you want consensus too badly, you miss out on valuable debate.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 8, 2012

Building consensus, supporting staff, sharing credit, and leading [.]. Understanding when someone just has a crummy day. Understanding the pressures that other women leaders face. Organization and multitasking. Compassion. Tenderness.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Our clients'' resistance to change was not irrational and it was up to us, not our clients, to manage it. Implementing change today relies on building consensus rather than executive fiat. If you can''t or won''t measure results don''t expect sympathy from me or any line manager. But if it crashed the organization, heads rolled.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 25, 2024

Maybe your manager never clarified an important process. Usually, this is going to be a vote or consensus. In consensus, everyone can live with a choice, even if it wasn’t their first option. Or do we want to go for consensus?” (And In a vote, the majority rules. For example: “Okay, this one’s our call.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2014

One of the first things they must do is assemble the complete Buying Decision Team to garner the consensus necessary for change. An external solution is considered only when there is consensus that an internal problem can’t be resolved with familiar resources. We are not facilitating consensus as it’s unique and systemic.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 5, 2012

According to business leadership gurus Tim Elmore and Glenn Llopis , it needs to be a term we associate more with our careers and work life. Managers either cajole or threaten — whatever method seems more productive this month — to enlist staff support for the upcoming week’s planned projects. Passion and Leadership.

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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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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

Transpersonal Leadership is a concept that my colleagues and I at LeaderShape Global have been developing for over 10 years. The next area to consider is the crucial importance of distributed Leadership, which follows naturally from the transpersonal perspective. Anybody can travel the path to Transpersonal Leadership.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

As the Project Manager, I had many hours of meetings with all the key players involved, and diligently forged a consensus on a proposed course of action – so we could present it to our boss with a united front. I know, it’s leadership 101, right? Nothing says “ I’m practicing good leadership, see ?&#

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Just as great coaches don’t win many games without great players, great managers aren’t successful without the right people on their team. Finding, hiring, and developing great performers is the most important part of every manager’s job. Look for unanimous consensus from all the people who participated in the interviews.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 6, 2013

I recently met Nitin Julka , who is passionate about product management. He reached out to see if I would be willing to give him some pointers on how to become a successful product manager. The Product Management Perspective: Product managers play a key role in the success of their products.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 17, 2013

The success of his nighttime ride almost 240 years ago is a testament to effective matrix leadership skills–and a lesson for today’s leaders. And his story has important lessons for anyone concerned about effective matrix leadership. And veteran managers know better than to expect quick, decisive action from a poorly organized matrix.

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LDRLB

JUNE 28, 2013

Michael Roberto is the Trustee Professor of Management at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island. In this interview, we discuss how great leaders balance consensus and conflict in making the best decisions, and how history sometimes precedes the research on great leaders. Listen below or subscribe via iTunes.

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