Leading Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

For their study, the authors chose a set of major companies that achieved spectacular results over 15 or more years while operating in unstable environments. They call these companies "10Xers" for providing shareholder returns at least 10 times greater than their industry. 10X Leadership Behaviors. Certainly luck plays a part.

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Contingency Plans Collins Creativity Airlines 278

Leading Blog

JUNE 3, 2011

It’s not about PR strategies, or charismatic leadership, or vision, or any specific action by any individual. It’s about the actions that have been programmed into the individuals and teams that make up a company before the crisis starts. Hold fast to your core values and your vision for the company.

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Crisis Contingency Plans Long-term Decentralization 278

Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

It's also used to articulate the challenges an organization has, enabling contingency plans. Marketing (company image, reputation, positioning, market share, growth). Organizational (leadership, accountability, commitment, engagement). Consider exploring these key categories: Strengths and Weaknesses.

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SWOT Debt to Equity Ratio Analysis Supply Chain 118

You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 3, 2014

The trauma brought about by such change happens every day to countless people, people without contingency plans, or any idea how they are going to cope with what has happened to them. Greenberg , Chairman of Marsh & McLennan Companies headquartered in New York, presided over a firm of 58,000 people worldwide.

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Contingency Plans Telecommunications Uncertainty Planning 69

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2020

63% of private companies don’t have a contingency plan in place.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. When a company is content with being merely mediocre it may survive but it will never do extremely well. The company must have an emphasis on high standards, a desire to create and give value to customers, accountability to the employers and to your customers, and the drive to learn. Plan for the future.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

So they looked for companies that started in vulnerable positions and rose to spectacular performance in dangerously fast changing, unstable environments with major events and forces outside of their control. " They called them "10 times companies" because they didn’t merely get by or just become successful.

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Uncertainty Collins Review Books 81

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Find out if your company really values diversity. UNDERSTANDING LEADERSHIP. The coronavirus crisis has shown there’s a leadership deficit around the world. Within organizations, many have formulated contingency plans to avoid COVID-19 disruptions. Are you integrating diversity into your hiring strategy and goals?

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Diversity Company Crisis Contingency Plans 111

You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 20, 2009

The trauma brought about by such change happens every day to countless people, people without contingency plans, or any idea how they are going to cope with what has happened to them. Greenberg , Chairman of Marsh & McLennan Companies headquartered in New York, presided over a firm of 58,000 people worldwide. What about you?

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Performance Review Blog Learning-by-Doing Contingency Plans 43

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. In the second scenario, a planned CEO departure occurs during a time of uncertainty.

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Climate change doesn't just mean that governments and big companies will need to reassess their risk management, or make their infrastructure more resilient. As a result, these leaders conveyed the strength of leadership and values-based decision making that is commonly recognized as good for business.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

So, how can we avoid change fatigue and organizational burnout while still moving our companies forward? Piloting, prototyping, and contingency planning before a change can save weeks or even years of rework. As a result, they are often repeating the same mistakes while using up precious company resources.

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After Action Review Rogers Contingency Plans Leadership 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Indeed, Ukraine’s troubles offered an opportunity to build the leadership capacity of my management team. To manage a crisis, the leadership team must function at its highest capacity. Many foreign companies decided to write off Ukraine. Shift from “fog fear” to “tent time.”

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Crisis Management Contingency Plans Objective 8

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. Communicate more effectively. If your expertise, empathy, clarity, etc. Thanks for stopping by.

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Tips Blog Learning-by-Doing Open-book 417

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

based companies, I’ve spoken with hundreds of high-performing working parents, and, on the hunt for real, feasible solutions, asked the same questions again and again: What advice has been the most valuable to you over the long term as a working parent? So have needed backups ready, and, more important, rehearse them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

In our experience at Bain & Company, however, this strategy-to-performance gap is rarely the result of shortcomings in implementation; it is because the plans are flawed from the start. Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Listen… Before you react to the news, Spreitzer suggests you “listen carefully to what senior leadership is saying about what’s happening, why it’s happening, and what’s the hoped-for outcome.” If you support the new direction your company is taking, it’s worth letting your boss know , says Coyne.

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Restructuring Stress Uncertainty Long-term 8

Rapid BI

OCTOBER 10, 2012

This audit should be company wide and differentiate divisions and levels – as identifying blockages is important. Are messages consistent across the company? Examples of employee communications include: Intranet, website, newsletters, memos, notice boards, press, company magazine, blogs, employee forums. Example plan matrix.

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Planning Strategy How To KPI 60

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

In other words, it's a form of proactive contingency planning — either to completely avoid difficult situations, or prepare for them so that any undesirable consequences are lessened. But these risks also need to be managed — and if you're in a position of leadership, the act of managing them is probably up to you.

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Mark Sanborn

MARCH 22, 2022

Are your contingency plans up to date? Companies wanted to create great experiences for customers. Few companies design and deliver for positive emotion. Compare the four leadership styles below. Does your organization teach resilience? Have you captured and codified what you learned from the Covid crisis?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Top leaders tend to focus more on status updates than on contingency planning. This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. Either candidate’s success could cause sufficient uncertainty for Brazilian businesses to put the brakes on investment plans. miragec/Getty Images.

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