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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

Or look at a shorter, more visual chart on doomsday forecasts predicting the end of the world (including revised dates — also wrong) published by The Economist in 2015. It often leads to rigid plans and budgets. One of the classic books about the forecasting fallacy was written by Dan Gardner. A chart shows the key differences.

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

Learning to do things “right” is important and all sorts of training exist for doing so, including Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, Plan-Do-Study-Act, Statistical Process Control, and ISO certifications to name just a few. Note particularly the significant and profound difference between quadrants three and four. Effectiveness/Efficiency Matrix.

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

Something reassuring happened Monday after EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy unveiled the Obama administration’s proposed Clean Power Plan , arguably the most important step the U.S. All told, they slashed carbon pollution from electricity by 20% from 2005-2011, led by Washington, which saw a 46% reduction during that period.

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Strategies for Succeeding in Today’s Brazil

Harvard Business Review

The government’s pro-growth policies and abundant spending only increased corporate interest and multinational expansion plans. There are two key strategies that multinational executives operating in Brazil should consider. Each requires leaders to pay particular attention to nuances related to the Brazilian market.

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India's Exploding Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

The event brought together some 250 entrepreneurs and investors for a series of panels, round tables, and a business plan competition. The government is rolling out what it calls its National Broadband Plan , a $4.5 An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011.

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Preparing for the Cyberattack That Will Knock Out U.S. Power Grids

Harvard Business Review

For an example of the kind of disruption such an attack could cause, consider the 2011 Japanese tsunami. Just look at the Ukraine power grid attack in 2015 , where the attackers used several different techniques , such as spear phishing and denial-of-service attacks, that were all readily available on the black market of the internet.

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