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." This is a very timely, inspiring, and practical book for leading in turbulent times. They assume conditions will turn against them, at perhaps the worst possible moment.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Top leaders tend to focus more on status updates than on contingency planning. At Frontier Strategy Group, we observed that in 2017, executives and boards paid the most attention to risks that dominated global headlines: Brexit, the Trump administration’s trade policy, cybersecurity, and, more recently, North Korea.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

In a world where the best laid plans can go awry, companies that react quickly and effectively come out on top. Rigorous contingency planning is as important as disciplined action planning. Well before the crash, Caterpillar’s CEO insisted that all division heads develop contingency plans for a recession.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Our growing reliance on so many intelligent, connected devices is opening up the possibility of global-scale shutdowns. The good news is that natural disasters themselves, which Munich Re says caused $330 billion in economic losses globally in 2017, provide a template for how to mitigate the growing and catastrophic risk posed by AI.

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Insurance Contingency Plans Globalization Ethics 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2019

Presently, the global tech market is estimated around $5 trillion. Contingency plans are necessary to sidestep such issues. Following we’ll briefly explore several key tech issues your business is likely to encounter today, and how to counteract them. I: Cybercrime. Only let the right people should have access to your data.

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Technology Contingency Plans Gordon Software 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

We believe the peso has further to fall but timing is difficult to predict, so if this region is vital to your business, contingency planning is the order of the day. Economy Finance Global business' (Again, this was a known risk; we forecasted a post-election devaluation last May.)

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

After all, the United States has long pushed the world to accept a system where protection arises after a careful government investigation into a trading partner’s adherence to globally-accepted rules. Trump’s strategy is different. For one, he is not waiting for industries to request protection.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Directors acknowledge cybersecurity as an urgent global issue, but are failing to make the connection between the pervasiveness of cyberthreats and their companies’ vulnerabilities. Why the disconnect between the global- and company-level views? banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Healthcare (e.g.,

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Telecommunications Health Care Contingency Plans Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

percentage points, has likely ushered in a protracted phase of uncertainty for the UK, EU, and global economies. Design contingency plans and reflect any insights in your strategies for growth, geographical footprint, global supply chain, and risk management. The Leave campaign’s victory, with a margin of 3.8

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

However, before we talk about what leaders can do to build trust during Covid, I’d like to talk more generally about what leaders can do before the crisis, whether a global pandemic or any crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

draws its global competitive advantage from its openness to new people and new ideas. Assembled under a set of consistent rules called the Constitution, we compete fiercely and win on a global scale. Employees asked whether we have a contingency plan if they were unable to reenter the U.S. In time, I would become a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The inherently global nature of the internet and the opportunities it offers for mischief, manipulation and mayhem have apparently proven irresistible. Business — both global and entrepreneurial — is the hard target here. If you're outsourcing Web 2.0

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Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

The answer is that we have too much of both and they threaten the nascent global recovery. Prior to the global financial crisis, deflation looked like a uniquely Japanese problem. The policy response to the global financial crisis exacerbated and entwined these trends still further.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

You can't cover every possible contingency, but having a set of options lined up in case things don't work out as expected is a basic rule of good risk management, entrepreneurship , negotiation, career planning, and all number of other endeavors.

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Contingency Plans Crisis Politics GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Are there continuity, backup, and contingency plans? So instead of getting sand in your smartphone by trying to multi-task on the beach, use the time to reflect on how to reinvent vacations for a global mobile era. If anyone is working, it should be the leader. But a little forethought can go a long way.

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Contingency Plans Sharpe Bond Planning 15

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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

While consumer spending has proven resilient, with same-store retail sales rising 6% YOY in April , most multinational corporations are developing contingency plans to mitigate risks to their businesses and reassessing the country’s role in their global market portfolio and supply chains. Renegotiating NAFTA.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

Executives should carefully assess the level of volatility to understand if a change in strategy is really necessary, or whether a short-term contingency plan is the best solution. Such reversals and disruptions are unlikely to subside, but none of them fundamentally reduced the opportunities for MNCs in Nigeria or Kenya.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The operational executives, for their part, when confronted by a subject that typically neither they nor their teams completely grasp, all too often come up with little more than a contingency plan and then sit back and hope nothing goes wrong — meanwhile, excessive risk costs continue to reduce the company's present value.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

unilaterally pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal), building contingency plans, and diversifying their portfolio of markets. Many companies are assessing their exposure to specific policy decisions (e.g., if the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Simulations of security incidents were rehearsed, and contingency plans for mass evacuations or emergency situations were put in place. Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity.

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