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Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 1 of 4

Strategy Driven

The insightful companies examine their own backyards… applying the discussions, uncoverings and applicabilities to how they will better manage in the future. Recommendations for crisis management and preparedness as part of macro planning are offered. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving.

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Companies Should Take the Lead in Fixing the Middle-Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

Boston-based SkillWorks , founded in 2001, has placed more than half of the 500 displaced workers it has trained in new jobs. New York and Chicago have recently created "one-stop career centers" in the transportation, construction, services, and manufacturing sectors to meet specialized skills-training needs.

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The 787's Problems Run Deeper Than Outsourcing

Harvard Business Review

Outsourcing leads to business model risk — you open the door to outsourcing your profits (in fact, a 2001 Boeing paper that is incredibly prescient and worth the time to read identified exactly this problem). And while outsourcing can certainly lead to problems, I'm not convinced it's the cause of these problems. At least not yet.

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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. For example, Terry Semel, who succeeded Tim Koogle as CEO of Yahoo in 2001, had a media marketing background at Warner Brothers.

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