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EMERGENCE – What is Now Needed for Leadership Teams to Become High Performance Teams

Strategy Driven

The creature is covered in wretched mud, dripping stinky black slime, standing on the bank gazing outward. It has been tough for many organizational leadership teams. This was spiced up by employees and leadership team members getting and dealing with Covid. That is how I feel. That is exactly how I think I look.

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Rethink Your Business Continuity Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Amadeo Giannini , the founder of Bank of America, rescued all funds from his bank after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Other banks were in smoldering ruins and unable to operate. The earthquakes in Japan disrupted supply chains and challenged the just-in-time (JIT) management model that has gained popularity.

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The Global Rise of Female Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. That''s 224 million women impacting the global economy — and this survey counts only 67 of the 188 countries recognized by the World Bank.

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How GE and IBM are Playing Global Development to Win

Harvard Business Review

The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If Earlier this year, they raised $325 million in the public markets and this month acquired BancABC , a bank with operations in Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. GE did more than take advantage of growth as it came. It’s neither.

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The Best Cybersecurity Investment You Can Make Is Better Training

Harvard Business Review

With any cyber threat, the first and last line of defense is prepared leaders and employees, whether they are inside an organization or part of an interconnected supply chain. And yet organizational leadership all too often demonstrates outright technology torpitude. When we say all employees have to be risk agile, we mean all.

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Requiring Companies to Disclose Climate Risks Helps Everyone

Harvard Business Review

Policy makers have recognized as much, and in recent years the U.S. ” In such a case, a firm’s leadership may respond sluggishly to evolving risks. The Bank of England’s Mark Carney has also been stressing the importance of addressing these issues. Facing no competition, he becomes a multimillionaire.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. There were no checks and balances for members of the supply train. Employees were better paid than the marketplace, thus forcing many to stay or not question policies.