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Living in a Radical State of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

Old efficiency thinking based on engineering and rational market models needs to be replaced by a creative intelligence based on imagining, building and managing new futures. His book CQ — Creative Intelligence , will be published by HarperCollins in 2012.

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The Big Picture of Business: Putting Budgeting Into Perspective, The Bigger Picture of Strategic Planning

Strategy Driven

Have you done scenario planning of measures beyond your immediate control, i.e. external factors which profoundly impact your livelihood? Adjustments must be periodically made to target markets, definition of terms and modification of strategies. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Running a bureaucracy.

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What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

Harvard Business Review

The possibility of a contentious renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has led to delayed or canceled investments in what has been one of Latin America’s most economically stable markets. Renegotiating NAFTA. So, if a company manufactures products in Mexico to export to Canada and the U.S.