Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

To manage these challenges, executives are called on to adopt a long-term perspective on organizational strategy while staying in tune with the present-day needs of clients, customers and team members. Executive education can help create an action plan to navigate complex business challenges and improve decision-making.

Training 52

Training Execution Leadership Emotional Intelligence 52

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2019

To set your business up for the greatest success, you need to understand the sort of issues you’ll deal with regularly, and have some plan of action to handle them. Cybercrime is like the mirror image of “white hat” technology use. IV: Technological Transition Along Moore’s Law Lines. I: Cybercrime. II: Internal Employee Error.

Technology 10

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2019

There is no way a business can thrive without having the right skills to manage whatever resources it has at its disposal. On the other hand, the ones starting from scratch, with nothing but scraps have made it big only with their sheer skill of resource management and colossal intelligence. Come Up With a Contingency Plan.

Resources 10

Resources Contingency Plans How To Accounts Receivable Financing 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

We found that increasing your engagement and productivity at work could be as simple as making a plan for the day. But these positive effects depended on what type of plan employees used and how many interruptions or disruptions they faced in their day-to-day work. You and Your Team Series. Building Good Habits.

Contingency Plans 10

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Have a Plan for When Tech Disaster Strikes. We rely so much on computers and various other forms of technology. All of these things need to be planned for properly. It’s a risk that should be simple to manage. Do you really want to start a business in a location that has a history of flooding or other weather risks?

Insurance 50

Insurance Learning-by-Doing Planning Price 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.

Uncertainty 81

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Plan your day. As Peter Drucker, the management guru, said, “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” Leverage technology. Use technology to help you stay organized, improve efficiency, enhance communication, boost collaboration, and increase accuracy. Establish priorities.

How To 100

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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.

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 14

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.

Crisis 8

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Intelligent Device Recovery Plans. Like the risks associated with natural disasters, companies cannot completely protect against smart-device risks by buying insurance; they must have worst-case scenario recovery plans. Contingency plans must go beyond a natural disaster playbook.

Insurance 8

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors. In the second scenario, a planned CEO departure occurs during a time of uncertainty.

CEO 10

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The biggest mistake I see is companies treating cybersecurity solely as a technology matter for IT departments to solve. That’s why I stress the value of a cyber risk management framework that begins by focusing on the business factors driving growth and profitability and ends with the technology infrastructure.

Contingency Plans 8

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HR Digest

MAY 12, 2024

How to Prevent This Hiring Errors To prevent this common hiring mistake, recruiters should collect information from employees in that particular role or talk to the relevant managers before creating the job description. Ensure your hiring team receives the right training and broadens the diversity of the panel for best results.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 5, 2020

For many businesses, that is a plan for what you would do to get your business back up and running after a disaster strikes. Almost three-quarters of small business owners do not have a written disaster recovery plan. While it is something that you hope you never have to use, having one in place is imperative. Back up documents.

Insurance 67

Insurance Contingency Plans Document Planning 67

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

Manage the village. If it takes a village to raise a child, your job is to build and manage that village the same way you would a project team at work. The same kind of technologies that enable you to compete at work — the calendars, the shared work tools — should be used at home. Think long-term to stay in the game.

Stress 13

Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 13

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.

Tips 417

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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. For example, a major bank tried to do a technological transition of their system without sufficient pre-testing. “Measure twice, cut once” is good advice for more than just tailors and carpenters. About the Authors.

After Action Review 50

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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. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

Execution 8

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

If your company uses digital networks to manage supply chains, customer relationships, internal communications, financials and/or sensitive information that might interest Chinese or Iranian cyberwarriors, then a risk assessment re-think is paramount. Business — both global and entrepreneurial — is the hard target here.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

oil services provider McDermott International plans to build a fabrication yard at a Saudi Aramco shipping complex; Amazon bought the Middle East’s biggest online retailer Souq.com; and Boeing finalized its multi-billion dollar deal with Iran. Since Trump was elected, Dunkin Donuts has opened its first outlet in South Africa; U.S.

Depreciation 8

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