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Target’s Fall Guy: Is Your Board Prepared?

N2Growth Blog

The primary reason stated was because of the continued fall-out from the 2013 massive data breach. What if the board does not have technology expertise? Or if their technology expertise is antiquated? Technology expertise in this case, by the way, does not refer to the CEO or former CEO of a technology company.

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Develop Strategic Thinkers Throughout Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, Management Research Group (MRG) completed a large scale global study addressing this question. We evaluated the leadership practices and effectiveness of 60,000 managers and executives in 140+ countries and 26 industries. I would say yes – and that it’s the most important thing you can do as a leader.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. As was discussed in Chapter 8, technology constitutes one tenth of 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture. In 1999, the U.S. Intervention.

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What Really Led to Last Summer’s Most Notorious Firing

Harvard Business Review

In this massive piece, Nicholas Carlson analyzes Armstrong''s rise from his days as the owner of a strawberry business, uncovering a leadership trajectory that culminated in a proxy war with an activist investor and a final realization that his baby — local-news and listings provider Patch — needed to be trimmed, or else. Crisis management'

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The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success

Strategy Driven

Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. There were years where I kept the typewriter on the work station next to the computer. All rights reserved.

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A Cautionary Tale for Regulated Industries

Harvard Business Review

The Justice Department charges of gross negligence were filed before the judge considering whether to approve this private party settlement in order to ensure the issues were preserved for the BP-Department of Justice (DoJ) trial scheduled for January, 2013. DoJ now says this is a highly relevant consideration.