Remove Company Remove Contingency Plans Remove Leadership Remove Technology
article thumbnail

Contingency Planning | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. The two most common outcomes created by a lack of contingency planning are: 1.) watching things grind to a halt as you scramble to evaluate options, and; 2.)

article thumbnail

Leadership Training For Executives

Experience to Lead

This is to be expected; the decisions of c-suite leaders at major companies reach far into the organization’s future and can broadly impact the world at large. This type of work is nuanced and requires leadership skills that are often overlooked in business school. What is an Executive Leadership Training Program?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Some Ideas To Help Accelerate Your SWOT Analysis

Six Disciplines

It''s also used to articulate the challenges an organization has, enabling contingency plans. Marketing (company image, reputation, positioning, market share, growth). Operations (facilities, capacity, distribution channels, supply chain, costs, use of technology). Technological (pace and changes in technology).

SWOT 99
article thumbnail

Managers: What’s Your Plan B?

Lead Change Blog

Several famous people built fortunes here, including Meyer Guggenheim (think: museums and Guggenheim Pavilion at New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center) and David May (May Company department stores). I found myself wondering if better contingency planning could have mitigated the damage. Hindsight is reliably 20/20.

Planning 150
article thumbnail

Ideas To Help Accelerate Your SWOT Analysis

Six Disciplines

It's also used to articulate the challenges an organization has, enabling contingency plans. Marketing (company image, reputation, positioning, market share, growth). Operations (facilities, capacity, distribution channels, supply chain, costs, use of technology). Technological (pace and changes in technology).

SWOT 118
article thumbnail

Book Review: “Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All”

The Practical Leader

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.

article thumbnail

The Rise of the Not-So-Experienced CEO

Harvard Business Review

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.

CEO 12