Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2024

Here are ten suggestions for booksreleased this year to inspire you and help grow your leadership. Supercommunicators : How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg - (February 2024) Come inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. That's the way of the champion."

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 25, 2024

As norms shift, technology changes, and social standards develop, you and your team can resolve these ambiguous norms and unclear expectations with a conversation. 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. In a vote, the majority rules.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Team leadership is as much about mitigating the risks of these traits as it is about exploiting their potential. Management consultant Kal Bishop found that with creative teams in particular, larger teams were inclined to seek consensus rather than explore novel ideas. But they do perform.

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The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 6, 2014

We need more knowledge or technology to beat our competition. 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. Consensus: Your team, industry peers, the media, etc. This meme ….

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Insurance executives face unique challenges and opportunities with emerging technologies, including AI, evolving regulatory environments, and global economic uncertainties. Strong strategic leadership skills, including the ability to inspire and motivate teams, are also crucial in navigating the complexities of the insurance sector.

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QAspire

MARCH 6, 2013

Face time may be enabled by technology, but the ground rules don’t change. It can be used to build consensus, to educate others or to simply assess progress. All they do is respond to changing priorities and task requests and the relationship between the individual and a leader (or organization) becomes purely transactional.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

Guest post by John Hooker : Everyone knows that an organization can’t function without physical infrastructure communications, transportation, computer technology, and the rest. The third stage is autonomy , in which people acknowledge the validity of different points of view but strive toward a rational consensus.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 3, 2017

The three largest forces on the planet—technology, globalization, and climate change—are all accelerating at once. ☙ Quoting Jeffrey Garten, the former dean of the Yale School of Management: Maybe this is overly romantic, but I think leadership is going to require the ability to come to grips with values and ethics.

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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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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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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Strangely there is a consensus on some things that people who work from home do not miss at all about their old work life. But strangely there is a consensus on some things that both groups do not miss at all about their old work life. Here is a list of the most common non-missed items that people held forth about: The commute.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 4, 2016

As a leadership coach who also trains leadership coaches, I believe that both coaching and being coachable are key skills that can make a difference in this environment. Any of us can use our leadership skills to get involved with organizations that are having impact on the world, that bring people together, and that make a difference.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 18, 2023

” A deeper assessment of Jon’s leadership behavior and team culture showed some of these common “ moose problems :” The real conversations happen in the hallways or office after the meeting. People who disagree, dissent, or push back against the group consensus or the boss are labeled as not being team players.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 16, 2017

Applying technology to provide easy access for societal dialog has the promise of peer-to-peer co-creation of knowledge and rapid consensus solution-building. Today's technology holds the promise of quickly connecting problem solvers with problems, converting actionable knowledge into value that transforms the world.

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Contribute to team consensus decisions. 'Skype' and 'Goto' meetings in particular seem to be growing in popularity as more and more companies gradually begin to realize telecommuting and mobile correspondence via digital technologies empower employees to be more productive. Do you agree? Are you opposed?

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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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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2021

There are numerous ways that technology has adeptly adapted to this, with apps and services across multiple platforms able to aid in employee communications no matter their location. The consensus seems to be that it is alright.

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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? To have greater success, you’d need to begin your initiative – whether it’s sales, change management, leadership, or negotiation – by facilitating the components of systemic change first. What would be the time factor?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 28, 2014

let’s begin listening for, and designing, tools to facilitate the movement along the decision path that change decisions goes through; let’s ensure the right people are all involved (some not so obvious) and address consensus-building. Relate Articles: A Technology Case Study: Implementing What the Customer Wants.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

This dialogue reached a consensus among political parties stipulating that the incumbent Islamists hand over power to a technocratic transitional government. I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. How could I refuse? About the Author.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Simon Sinek @simonsinek / Author and consultant on inspiring leadership / In a nutshell: Know WHY you’re doing what you’re doing “Share one’s passion and purpose as you inspire others” “Hire people who believe what you believe – and they will work for that belief. “Management is not a science, it is an art.” Ctrl.Alt.Del.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Many of these women already held senior leadership positions in large companies. Still, the art of consensus can sometimes slow women down and diminish their leadership credibility. Over the past decade, we've interviewed over 1,700 people to find out how women can be more successful at the highest levels in leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

There’s a growing consensus that companies need strong, independent boards full of qualified directors if they are to sidestep risks and seize opportunities in our complex and dynamic international economy. Boards Global business Leadership Talent management'

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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. Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

When I was the chief marketing officer at Deloitte & Touche, we would have our annual leadership off-site in Las Vegas or Orlando. I remember people practicing their presentations far into the night, and the next day we'd sit for hours in uncomfortable chairs in a huge room listening to our leadership talk about the future of the business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The goal of most executive coaching and leadership development is behavior change—help the individual identify and change the behaviors that are getting in the way of, and reinforce the behaviors associated with, effective leadership. This ultimately yielded a consensus and reasoned decision-making. sis (“practical wisdom”).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. Consensus comes quickly, and only later, when we fail and wonder why, do we realize that the easy agreements and shared conclusions doomed us from the start.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. The Ethereum leadership was able to coordinate with the network stakeholders to create a so-called “hard fork,” a permanent split of the Ethereum blockchain, so that control of the siphoned-off funds would be shifted to a group of trusted leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Lou Gerstner’s arrival at IBM in 1993 is a classic example of leadership through a liminal period. Bossidy, former CEO at AlliedSignal, once said , “We need people who are better at persuading than at barking orders, who know how to coach and build consensus. Business education Informal leadership Leadership' Lawrence A.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

I wanted to accept the consensus as a sign that the company had rounded the corner on its 3-year slog to be more relevant in their market. So the challenging, dissenting voice can, at times, be tied to leadership. Apple's Steve Jobs was once viewed as an ideologue for design and is now acknowledged as the premier technology visionary.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

Three key aspects of Ford's sustainability strategy strike me as critical, and show the company's real leadership: It's based on hard science. The 2011 Ford Explorer, for example, is using EcoBoost engine technology to improve fuel efficiency by 25%. But it's very smart.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Maybe your company tells people to be consensus-builders, but promotes people who are solely authoritative decision makers (behavior-practices gap). Likewise, inspirational leadership, the repetition of value statements, and letting people be themselves are important, but they are by-products of a healthy culture, not the drivers of one.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The rapid pace and impact of these changes did not allow the luxury of time and resources to endlessly research or build consensus around an idea or course of action. Decisive leadership characterized all the firms that emerged as winners. The very survival of many firms was at stake.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. 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. Collaboration is not a style.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2011

Yet the impressive credentials and achievements that have caused them to be dubbed "the model minority" aren't reflected in senior-most leadership positions. There's a pervasive feeling of being "a square peg in a round hole," as one manager puts it, with 48% reporting that conforming to prevailing leadership models is a problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

As the up-and-coming vice president and CEO candidate for a Fortune 500 technology corporation sat before the CEO for his annual review, he was baffled to discover that the feedback from his peers, customers, direct reports, and particularly from board members placed unusual emphasis on one potentially devastating problem: his listening deficit.

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