Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Here are some thoughts to help launch you toward your own leadership league: 1. If you are to be truly successful, your leadership must be grounded in self-awareness and authenticity. Your strategic plan is worthless unless you have a strategic vision. Leadership is not wielding authority; it’s empowering others.

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Contingency Plans Strategic Planning Self-aware Delegation 155

N2Growth Blog

MAY 31, 2017

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you simply cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no – I couldn’t disagree more. Smart leadership creates an environment where yes is not viewed as a weakness, but as an opportunity. What say you?

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Innovation Contingency Plans Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 227

Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 134

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 5, 2013

Typically most managers do not realize there are different styles even though they divide 50/50 in the populations worldwide. You contribute by organizing the new projects and developing efficient systems that ensure the work or product is completed with precision and accuracy. Each is needed but often not identified or respected.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Fear and worry is channeled into preparation, contingency plans, buffers and margins of safety. 10X Leadership Behaviors. They zoom-in and zoom out to manage risk and recognize luck. Productive Paranoia: Highly attuned to threats and changes especially when things are going well. SMaC: Specific, Methodical and Consistent.

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Contingency Plans Collins Creativity Airlines 279

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. Change Management Leadership Leadership Development Leading Change change leadership Change resilience Emotions'

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Contingency Plans Telecommunications Uncertainty Planning 69

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Provide leadership. Plan for the future. When your business has contingency plans for future scenarios you will seldom be caught by surprise. Development of technical abilities, specialties and expertise. Running the business.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

They channel their fear and worry into action, preparing, developing contingency plans, building buffers, and maintaining large margins of safety." They assume conditions will turn against them, at perhaps the worst possible moment.

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Uncertainty Collins Review Books 81

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In the wake of superstorm Sandy, we've heard story after story about the big infrastructural challenges of disaster response, crisis management , and climate change. But what about the impact on individual managers? The time to come up with contingency plans like these is not when hurricane force winds are bearing down on your city.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

In my former position as Managing Director of Philip Morris Ukraine where I was based from January 2012 until February 2015, I was forced to see it as a business crisis that threatened our people, operations, and bottom line. Indeed, Ukraine’s troubles offered an opportunity to build the leadership capacity of my management team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Every manager and team member will be more effective with greater skill in this arena. If times of uncertainty don’t lead to your shining moments of leadership brilliance, acknowledge that. Find a trusted advisor (could even be a team member) who finds change and ambiguity exhilarating to help you with your plan.

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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. And yet we do, cope I mean, under many conditions and through many challenges. What about you? What did you learn?

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Performance Review Blog Learning-by-Doing Contingency Plans 43

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

While developing an understanding of great communication skills is easier than one might think, being able to appropriately draw upon said skills when the chips are down is not always as easy as one might hope for. Communicate more effectively. Classic business theory tells leaders to stay at arms length.

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Tips Blog Learning-by-Doing Open-book 417

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. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

These pieces of advice have helped “move the numbers” as part of broad-scale corporate retention programs I’ve developed. Make friends in the business development team so that you know about the big local client projects coming up and can volunteer for them early (no business travel!). Manage the village.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

Piloting, prototyping, and contingency planning before a change can save weeks or even years of rework. We recommend instituting after-action reviews (AARs) – formal learning sessions that were originally developed in the U.S. Figure 1: Prioritization Grid. Measure Twice, Cut Once. All rights reserved.

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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. Manage your stress. If you’re a manager, this is even more critical.

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Restructuring Stress Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: The organization works tirelessly to create its best forecasts about the future market and competitive landscape. Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future. Value flexibility.

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Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

An MBA student once asked me to give her a simple explanation of the "risk management function." After a few minutes of fumbling, I told her that risk management is the process of identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating the impact of unforeseen (and usually negative) events. and many more.

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Rapid BI

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Internal communications Plan. Increasingly Human Resources (HR) or Organizational Development (OD) teams are being asked to drive and deliver internal communications, but what is an internal communications plan and how do you go about writing and applying one? Why have internal communications plans? Where are you now?

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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. In our survey of 30 Brazil country managers in October, 20 reported increased revenue growth, despite the country’s dysfunctional, scandal-ridden politics.

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