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Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

Leadership. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader. by John • September 12, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 4 Comments. How is it possible for three months of crisis management ineptitude to occur in an organization the size of BP with a product as environmentally toxic as oil?

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Risk Management Best Practice 3 – Procedure Annotation and Commitment Tracking

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Lead by Providing Bearing, Room, and Backup

Lead Change Blog

Theunissen and Stubbé (2011) provide an excellent strategy: leading by providing bearing, room, and backup. Yet another aspect of providing backup is to ensure team members keep developing themselves, excellently supported using transformational leadership. Bearing is about sketching the direction the team should move in.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision.

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement.

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The G-20 is 2011's Biggest Political Risk

Harvard Business Review

This enormous change ushers in an era of growing political risk. It is the first item on the Eurasia Group's Top Risks for 2011. No country or bloc seems to want to take on the burden of global leadership. It doesn't have an official name yet, but we propose calling it the "G-Zero," as in zero collaboration.

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The Leadership Blind Spots at Wells Fargo

Harvard Business Review

According to Stumpf’s testimony, a board committee became aware of the fraud “at a high level” back in 2011. Although roughly 1,000 employees had been fired each year since 2011 for these practices, the board only became “very active” on the issue in 2015. ” Deterrents to speaking up.

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