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Jerks, narcissists and psychopaths… oh my. When working for a.

Roundtable Talk

Posted on April 13, 2010 by LeaderTalker | 1 Comment Ah, to have the ability to click your heels together and transport yourself away from a bad boss! ← Fast Friday: words of wisdom from Hugo Sorensen Fast Friday: Words of Wisdom from Renato Discenza CEO of Invest Toronto → Jerks, narcissists and psychopaths… oh my.

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Managers, What's Your Plan For Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

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? And we've heard story after story about the storm's economic toll on supply chains and small businesses.

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Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 1 of 4

Strategy Driven

It’s not enough just to handle a crisis effectively. The follow-through and crisis preparedness planning process helps to divert other crises from transpiring. Recommendations for crisis management and preparedness as part of macro planning are offered. In times of crisis, advisors are called upon more frequently.

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Yes, You Can Predict Supply-Chain Disasters

Harvard Business Review

Toward that end, we recommend that insurers, transportation and manufacturing companies, and local governments form a coalition to coordinate efforts to improve the resilience and responsiveness of supply chains. This selfish instinct is understandable — and is all the more reason we need a system that can help overcome it.

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What Leaders Need To Do To Successfully Resolve A Crisis

Tanveer Naseer

It’s called the Golden Hour Strategy because the intention is to launch all five steps within the first 60-120 minutes of a crisis incident, whatever the crisis happens to be. Crisis response is a management responsibility driven by a simple, sensible, constructive, positive, and clearly achievable strategy.

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Case Study: When Tragedy Strikes Your Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

The fall line, which typically accounted for 80% of T&T’s revenue, was scheduled to go into production in two weeks. Labor and transportation are cheap, quality is relatively good, and all the factories are clustered in a small area. The Dhaka factory had manufactured those products. Pros and Cons. .

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Managing Japan's Power Crisis

Harvard Business Review

The threat to public health is the top concern, of course, but the situation also has widespread business implications: it's disrupting everything from rail transportation to manufacturing activities, including the auto industry.

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