Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The matrixed teams help companies maintain normal operations while focusing cross-functional departmental resources on big or complex projects. Or, there’s a strong desire to reach a consensus, and every decision requires hours of stakeholdering and escalation. Are Matrix Organizations a Good Idea?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Doing something doesn’t mean you aren’t thinking, but the brain operates much more automatically. They suppress dissent and push for consensus. Build consensus” or “Get everyone on the same page” is another way of saying, “I’m right, and you need to change your thinking.”. It keeps the company relevant and solvent.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Or maybe you work in a matrix environment where every decision requires consensus. What are your thoughts on creating a fast-track decision path for certain operational decisions ” (CURIOSITY)? You’re on the hook for results, and you want to achieve them. But there’s a catch.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2015

Do they act as committed, responsive members of the executive team to present a united voice on how the organization operates, not just how it performs? Consensus Do discussions end with members proactively summarizing options, making recommendations, and end with a clear, mutual, firm decision or action being made?

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

The third stage is autonomy , in which people acknowledge the validity of different points of view but strive toward a rational consensus. It gives those with autonomy the intellectual tools they need to make responsible decisions and build consensus around them. It arrives in mature adulthood, if at all. John Hooker is a T.

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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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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

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. Builds involvement and consensus, supports team members, and advocates for team initiatives. As our context change, we have to grow with it.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

A Transpersonal Leader operates beyond their own ego and personal drivers and balances the needs of all the organization’s stakeholders. They gather differing perspectives and then make the decisions, with the best interests of the organization (not their careers) in mind, without needing a full consensus.”

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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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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2013

If committed leaders can consistently achieve consensus, they will move the alliance forward. Finding consensus is an art form that alliance leaders must master.” The three crucial parts of a charter are: the Purpose section, the Principles section, and the Operating Procedures. Collaborations are not easy.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

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. Make sure everyone on the team understands their level of autonomy and how decisions at every level will be made. What are we not doing so well? Verify expectations. Ask your team.

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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. The Covid pandemic saw remote working adopted en masse for the first time, and therefore provided us with unheralded insight into what worked and what didn’t.

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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

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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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The problem was, Amida was making consultative decisions ( listening to each argument, then making the decision herself ) while the team thought they were making consensus decisions. She had always prided herself on listening carefully to the evidence provided before making a decision. Team Results.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The disruption of business from the port strike is expected to have far-reaching effects if the authorities are unable to reach a consensus and resolve it within a few weeks, so the pressure is on for the port authorities. Image: Pexels U.S. Dockworkers Go on Strike for Better Wages The U.S.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 26, 2018

You need them to operate as a great team, not functionaries. Operational boards are more valuable than governance boards. A lead director can make your job much easier because they can run point on sensitive issues, poll the board for concerns, help build consensus, and give you much needed feedback and guidance. What do you do?

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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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Skip Prichard

APRIL 19, 2021

None of them talks about sales, operations, or any other functions that ordinary leaders tend to lean on and consider as the core drivers of execution. We have to remember that we live in a world now where consensus increasingly has become very important for everyone to secure. They talk about strong leadership first. Oleg Konovalov.

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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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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. In business, as in life, we often have to operate in a fog of uncertainty. Leadership is all about humility. Moving too fast. Needing to know everything.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

I N AN IBM global survey of CEOs, the overwhelming consensus was that more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision, successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity. In a world where we must adapt or die, we need creative solutions. Focus and distance.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 6, 2014

A good leader builds consensus and inspires his team to new heights. He has owned and operated a variety of businesses, worked for hundreds of bosses and supervised thousands of employees. A good leader finds a way to inspire average people to perform at a championship caliber level.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

These individuals probably have some history of working together but they also operate with the same obstructed viewpoint. Coming to a consensus around vision and direction can be time intensive simply because people who don’t interact are likely speaking to each other for the very first time, and frankly don’t trust each other.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 15, 2019

She writes, “The accidents and the resulting media attention together create a real wake-up call for Boeing… what’s required, however, is more than operational fixes. As leader, when you’re trying to build a team consensus or get the team’s input, hold back your opinion until you’ve heard from everyone.

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LDRLB

MARCH 27, 2013

Most leaders often operate under a mindset of unilateral control where the manager or leader feels responsible and accountable for the team and thus dictates to them. However, convey that asking for input doesn’t mean you will necessarily agree or that decisions will be made by consensus.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 10, 2024

As leader, when you’re trying to build a team consensus or get the team’s input, hold back your opinion until you’ve heard from everyone. Get a facilitator outside of your team to run focus groups, conduct confidential interviews, or do a survey of your team or organization to identify and prioritize Moose issues.

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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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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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Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

Every successful business has, at its heart, a theory of the business—an underlying set of supporting objectives and a corporate philosophy that gives people a foundation on which to operate. We cannot achieve and maintain alignment without consensus and conviction about The Main Thing. The Main Thing is critically important.

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HR Digest

MAY 20, 2024

Last month, the Tennessee Volkswagen UAW vote resulted in a 73 percent consensus to join the union and was expected to be the start of a clean sweep across states where the campaign went next. We’ve seen it play out this way every single time a foreign automaker plant has been unionized; not one of those plants remains in operation.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 4, 2016

I participated in a talent review once where the consensus on one leader was that he had an entitlement complex. But as we gain experience, we start to operate from habit rather than creativity. The more you need to collaborate with others to get your job done, the more important it is. No Entitlement. Learner’s Mindset.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 27, 2020

No matter whether your organization saw a boom in business, a need to shift how you operate or was halted altogether, some of the approaches we take as leaders will have to be the same because we are leading people through the same event. All of us have been impacted in some form or fashion. Every Return is Different.

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leaderCommunicator

JUNE 3, 2014

Flip charts and sticky notes flow, ideas get jotted down, and ultimately you arrive at a consensus -- the path forward. operations out of Denver. We’ve all been to the classic planning meeting, at a conference or in an executive’s office, to think through a compelling issue or crisis at an organization.

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