Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

Part of the attraction for me is the weekly escape to an unfamiliar world – a time, a place and a culture that seem light-years away from the daily challenges I face consulting with businesses on leadership issues. You can read more on mastering this difficult balancing act in the Hay Group 2013 Best Companies for Leadership study.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2014

Buying decisions happen well before buyers consider your solution regardless of their need or the efficacy of your solution, marketing, or content. One of the first things they must do is assemble the complete Buying Decision Team to garner the consensus necessary for change. You just finished reading It''s The Consensus, Stupid* !

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 15, 2024

Your ability to help your organization and teams make effective decisions is a competitive advantage and rare leadership skill. Let’s say your team is discussing a marketing opportunity with some newly available funds. Three questions will help energize and clarify your decision making process.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If we tend to be an outlier on either side of the bell curve, decision making can be holding us back from being successful and getting to the next level of leadership. Slow decision makers who are driven by how others will feel about the decision, look for and desire a consensus decision making process. Slow Decision Outliers.

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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

He has distilled persuasion in to 6 principles that have been widely adopted in the field of marketing. Today we are going see how to apply these skills to real-world situations to master the art of leadership. Principle #6 – Consensus. Principle #1 – Reciprocity. Learn about them and find common bonds.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

He helped to build some of Silicon Valley’s greatest companies including Google, Apple, and Intuit and to create over a trillion dollars in market value. Best Idea, Not Consensus. The goal of consensus leads to “groupthink” and inferior decisions. There isn’t a head at the Round Table , but there is a throne behind it.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2017

Comprising that mindset are the following six leadership characteristics. Traditionally, the organization had lacked a clear, efficient system by which field-based representatives could provide feedback to the marketing department, but a few months into the effort, the organization had its first breakthrough.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 24, 2011

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision? A consensus decision – a decision where the leader themselves isn’t making the decision, but truly the full group comes to the decision collectively.

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The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 6, 2014

The Real Problem Is Your Leadership “Map.”. The distortion in thinking and perceptions –based on mental maps – creates over 80% of the problems at a leadership and organizational level. While your leadership mental maps can actually create many problems in your organization, let’s look at 2 common examples. This meme ….

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

For 150 years, corporations, governments and militaries were built for up-and-down leadership, with incentives and rewards that discouraged cross-organization thinking and, in many cases, actually created or encouraged internal competition. Focus on authentic leadership and eschew passive aggressiveness.

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Lead from Within

JULY 2, 2024

In my role as an executive leadership coach, I’ve observed that teams with a clear and comprehensive charter exhibit enhanced clarity, collaboration, and accountability. 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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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Regular board evaluations and leadership assessments provide valuable insights into the board’s dynamics, functioning, and overall effectiveness. This involves conducting thorough research and gathering information about the organization’s industry, market, and internal dynamics.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

There is much talk today about the need to constantly align and adapt strategy to constantly changing market conditions to insure sustainable competitiveness. Think of culture playing the role of greasing the skids making alignment to market conditions faster and smoother. The following is a guest post by Dr. George H.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Leadership grows and develops through building effective relationships. I highly recommend It’s Not Just Who You Know as guidebook to building effective relationships and increasing your leadership potential. PMs who build consensus and inspire team members develop a high ROI on their products and ROR with their colleagues.

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Lead from Within

MAY 9, 2019

Start early: It can take time to find and prepare a promising candidate for a leadership role. Engage senior leaders: It’s essential to have consensus among the CEO and senior leadership team about the importance of proactive leadership development and succession planning. The Deception Trap of Leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Strong strategic leadership skills, including the ability to inspire and motivate teams, are also crucial in navigating the complexities of the insurance sector. This includes understanding market trends, anticipating risks, and crafting effective risk management strategies.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 28, 2014

Sales, marketing, and social marketing attempt to place solutions and create relationships by supplying great content, discovering likely prospects, and creating trust. We can add these to the sales, marketing, and social models to truly serve our buyers and followers and close more. A speaker at your next conference?

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 25, 2017

That’s Colin Powell’s approach to leadership. The friction of ideas and concepts rubbing against each other can produce a spark of creativity that you can’t get in a consensus environment. The friction of ideas and concepts rubbing against each other can produce a spark of creativity that you can’t get in a consensus environment.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 24, 2017

The world will not wait while you contemplate, take time to gather enough data to be exhaustive in your analysis, and then build consensus around actions.” The market is shifting. Now unless you tell me that you have used data analytics in order to find a new product ground, a new design, and a new market, you are not strategic.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2019

No confusion, no mixed messages, no need for consensus-building or alignment, no persuasion necessary – just a very, very smooth path from sensing to fleeing. The sensing, absorbing, thinking, and deciding functions that you just processed were extremely efficient, and so you were able to get to action right away.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 19, 2013

The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World Joseph L.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. A couple years ago, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Leadership is not an easy task, and even the best leaders are susceptible to errors in thinking that can hinder decision-making and, ultimately, organizational success. Recognizing and avoiding these pitfalls can significantly enhance leadership effectiveness. This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2015

It's possible to use content to facilitate the non-solution-focused consensus and change issues readers must attend to as they ready themselves to make a purchase. Content marketing can help prospective buyers dispense suitable information 1. I get anywhere from 40-51% conversion with my content marketing. Buyers know this.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2014

Consensus stage. Buy-in and consensus necessary. Contact Sharon Drew at sharondrew@sharondrewmorgen.com and add her Buying Facilitation  model to your sales or marketing solutions. How Sales, Marketing and Social Can Facilitate the Decision Path. It’s The Consensus, Stupid*. Choice stage.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The following seven leadership best practices identify what organizations in the top 20 percent of financially performing companies are doing differently from the bottom performers and how much more likely they are to be successful compared to organizations that are not using the identified best practice. .

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LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Or how about this one: “Undisputed marketplace leadership.” Is it market share of products? And how are we defining leadership? Is it a plurality—just the largest market share? And this is a Fortune 500 company that we’re not going to name for various legal reasons. Is it for the industry?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2021

The consensus seems to be that it is alright. With an untold amount of startups in the current atmosphere and a market that seems to change every second, there is a measure of instability that can occur when a company operates on an unstable foundation.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2014

We believe a clear, forward-looking strategy, translatable to the day-to-day activities of all organization members, is critical to realizing success in today’s fast paced market environment. Relate Articles: It’s The Consensus, Stupid*. How Sales, Marketing and Social Can Facilitate the Decision Path.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 5, 2014

What issues would need to be agreed upon for a solution to get group consensus and buy-in? What does the housing market look like for the sale of your house? StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 39 – Making Change Work: A Radical Approach to Change Management, Real Leadership. What would be the time factor?

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Leadership is not an easy task, and even the best leaders are susceptible to errors in thinking that can hinder decision-making and, ultimately, organizational success. Recognizing and avoiding these pitfalls can significantly enhance leadership effectiveness. This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking.

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Dunning Consensus Groupthink Charisma 52

Mark Sanborn

APRIL 28, 2020

That’s when big change blindsides you, It is tedious to keep redefining what the new normal is and the odds of consensus with others is small. Mark Sanborn is an award winning speaker and Leadership Expert in Residence at High Point University, the Premier Life Skills University. Learn more here.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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