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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. “Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” They define agility and offer leaders a roadmap for navigating change. Leo Tilman is the founder of Tilman & Company, Inc. Northern Command. ” -Sun Tzu.

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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business Review

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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How to Ensure the Success of a Position Your Company Hasn’t Had Before

Harvard Business Review

In these organizations, the sustainability managers have to justify their activities to their peers in other functional areas (who resist the sustainability programs as another corporate imposition). finance, mineral processing, geology). They leverage their discretion to successfully collaborate with internal (i.e.,

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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

CEOs from rival firms); conversely not all inside CEOs have it (CEOs promoted from finance). Instead of decentralizing R&D, recentralize it. One of the changes we learned outside CEOs make is decentralizing R&D. The initiative decentralized R&D in an effort to make the big company “feel small” (e.g.,

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

Second, because it’s centralized, which makes it resistant to change and vulnerable to systems failures and attacks. The unstoppable force of blockchain technology is barreling down on the infrastructure of modern finance. Third, it’s exclusionary, denying billions of people access to basic financial tools.