N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process. Leaders that wait until a problem occurs to deal with it place themselves and their organization at a huge strategic disadvantage.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 16, 2015

Others, full of optimism, forge ahead with gusto, experience meteoric success, and later face a precipitous change in fortune due to a circumstance that could have been planned for. For career and business success, it’s worth pursuing a middle ground—one where we take calculated risks but have a fallback strategy in case Plan A craters.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

Let’s explore the purpose of executive leadership training, the benefits it brings to organizations and how to measure its impact in the long-term. An executive leadership training program is specifically designed to help senior executives develop the skills and competencies necessary to lead at the highest levels of an organization.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

And they will work for you, your people, and your organization. Whatever skills and traits have made you successful at work (Is it organization? The new trainee could have done a first draft of the marketing summary; the groceries could have come from an Amazon standing order. Use your leading professional strengths. Creativity?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

And having the candidate sponsor a major enterprise initiative will give him or her the opportunity to mobilize other leaders across the organization. The company should anticipate some departures and make contingency plans to appoint replacements and reach out to stakeholders.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

On a personal level, “you have genuinely lost some friends” from the organization, says Kevin Coyne, the co-founder and managing director of strategy consulting firm Coyne Partners and a professor at Emory’s Goizueta Business School. ” Even stars may have trouble staying positive. What can I do to help?’”

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

Bonus - Always have a Plan B : Another component of communications strategy that is rarely discussed is how to prevent a message from going bad, and what to do when does. It’s called being prepared and developing a contingency plan. If your expertise, empathy, clarity, etc.

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