N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Robust supply chain leadership ensures effective oversight and management of the end-to-end supply chain processes, from procurement to delivery. It involves strategic decision-making, risk mitigation, and fostering collaboration across different functions and stakeholders.

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Chief Procurement Officer Supply Chain CPO Leadership 404

CO2

JANUARY 4, 2024

Diverse Industry Experience : With Minneapolis’ varied economic landscape, these coaches offer a breadth of knowledge across sectors like healthcare and finance, crucial for navigating different industries. Risk Management : Entrepreneurs learn to evaluate risks effectively, balancing bold moves with prudent decision-making.

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Entrepreneur Emotional Intelligence Long-term Diversity 78

CO2

JANUARY 4, 2024

Diverse Industry Experience : With Minneapolis’ varied economic landscape, these coaches offer a breadth of knowledge across sectors like healthcare and finance, crucial for navigating different industries. Risk Management : Entrepreneurs learn to evaluate risks effectively, balancing bold moves with prudent decision-making.

Entrepreneur 78

Entrepreneur Emotional Intelligence Long-term Diversity 78

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Consequently, executive and manager attention and financial support may be disproportionately applied to the capital project(s), particularly in the event of overruns, at the detriment of problem resolution at the organization’s other operating assets. Corporate Risk Analysis, Management, and Mitigation.

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Risk Management Project Organization Management 59

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Diversity is most important for business, the economy and quality of life. I have conducted many diversity audits of companies. I have seen corporate America embrace diversity in many practices, including the workforce and suppliers. Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues.

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Diversity Budgeting Open-book Risk Management 92

Strategy Driven

MAY 21, 2024

These incidents expose the fragility of our aging electrical grids and emphasize the importance of upgrading and strengthening the infrastructure to withstand diverse environmental threats. Innovative Solutions for Energy Resilience Several innovative solutions are being developed to enhance energy resilience.

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Energy Case Study Decentralization System 111

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues Is your company inadvertently pushing good people away? Have you pinpointed all the ways you are driving diversity out of your enterprise? Are some of your best performers leaving? If so, “adverse selection” may be at work in your organization.

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Diversity Leadership Development Development Organization 319

Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

That’s your spot of safety, where your internal risk manager allows you to play.” To take the first step, “you’ll need to get permission from your internal risk manager to take a small step, say to stretch just 10 percent, in showing vulnerability.”. Your diversity is embraced, as is everyone else’s.

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Power Kaplan Risk Management Active Listening 181

HR Digest

JULY 4, 2023

High-profile culture crises, the diversity and inclusion drive, and the ongoing talent war have thrust company culture from the confines of HR cubicles to the strategic forefront. It’s a model that embraces different perspectives, from employees to customers, from middle managers to the CEO.

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Company Middle Management Mission Statement Bottom-up 98

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

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. These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics.

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Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. By seeing the daily changes resulting from the planning, companies are poised to rise above the current daily crises.

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 80

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Automated performance notifications can be configured in several ways and tailored to the communication preference of the individual executive or manager. Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 6 – Diverse Indicators. Risk Management Best Practice 5 – Ongoing Risk Monitoring.

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Metrics Article System Newsletter 52

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

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Leadership Development Development Planning Self-aware 283

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. By developing a qualitative and quantitative filtering mechanism for your decisioning process you can make better decisions in a shorter period of time. As much as you may wish it wasn’t so, as a CEO you’re really only as good as your last decision.

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Blog Analysis CEO Brand 416

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The keystone of effective governance lies within the trapeze act of balancing stakeholder interests, harmonizing corporate objectives, maintaining legal and ethical standards, and ensuring a robust risk management system. These factors form a formidable foundation for effective organizational governance when paired together.

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Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years. There have been books on fundraising and some articles on volunteer management and the business aspects of running non-profit organizations. Diversity of society is reflected in service.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Every day, senior managers are tasked with making very significant strategic decisions for their companies, which usually require support by teams of internal and external experts and a heavy dose of research. They do, however, open us up for biased risk/reward decision-making when applied to today's knowledge-based work.

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Kahneman Risk Management How To Commitment 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2012

Professionally, I help large businesses manage risk by focusing on how their recruiting, compensation, training, and other systems encourage people to behave. Bees are masters at risk management. Take, for example, their approach toward the "too-big-to-fail" risk our financial sector famously took on.

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Diversity Long-term Human Capital Risk Management 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

One such skill is portfolio management , the application of systematic tools for reducing risks and maximizing the return on investments. You then manage the risk and return in the portfolio by adjusting the mix and amount of investments, since it is unlikely that all of them will rise or fall to the same degree simultaneously.

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Management Core Competence Project Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

She must also have the experience and capability to address business-in-society issues—legislation, regulation, investigation, enforcement and litigation — that now create risk and opportunity in all dimensions of corporate activity. Recent global developments underscore the importance of these societal issues.

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CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2019

Some of the biggest threats to your company are going to develop internally. There are going to be issues where security is compromised owing to improper access protocol management pertaining to user names and passwords. Working with MSPs or internal security groups to develop best-practices can be key here.

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Technology Contingency Plans Gordon Software 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

Developing appropriate solutions requires understanding networks comprised of multitudes of heterogeneous layered subnetworks managed by organizations around the world, each with their own policies and incentives. Rather, they develop strategies for managing and coexisting with them in a way that minimizes damage to the overall system.

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Game Theory Incentives Diversity System 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In contrast, 70% of respondents think their boards have effective processes for staying current on the company; 69% for compliance; 66% for financial planning; and 55% for risk management — although we should note that managing risks is a crucial consideration when pursuing innovation.

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

Understanding their go-to "signature" style allows them to then develop situational leadership skills that can adjust to current events and group needs. Middle managers, the business equivalent of an expedition member, generally have the most information about the decisions that need to be made.

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Wilde Leadership Teamwork Leadership Styles 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

companies, the guidelines contain helpful (although not entirely novel or innovative) recommendations such as compensating outside directors with stock, giving non-executive directors unfettered access to management, and discouraging the practice of earnings guidance. Intended to strengthen corporate governance at U.S.

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CEO Groupthink Sharpe Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

The secret isn't rocket science — it's a full-time commitment to the art and science of project management. PMI's Pulse of the Profession Survey shows that more than two-thirds of project-based organizations have created a dedicated Project Management Office to lead such efforts. Connecting to the Strategic Vision.

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Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As one of the most serious industrial accidents in history, the Gulf explosion should be a great case study for corporate leaders across the globe who are trying to manage risk in hazardous activities involving complex technology.

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Report Policies Risk Management Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

The secret isn't rocket science — it's a full-time commitment to the art and science of project management. PMI's Pulse of the Profession Survey shows that more than two-thirds of project-based organizations have created a dedicated Project Management Office to lead such efforts. Connecting to the Strategic Vision.

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Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

To counter those cohesion and performance risks, managing such a globally-dispersed team requires deliberate planning that helps bridge those boundaries. Typically people talk about the importance of stressing commonalities and similarities in the context of diversity of any sort. Structuring "unstructured" time.

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Globalization Team Stress Types of Knowledge 12

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. Business development. The same planning process that nurtures Crisis Preparedness can and must also accommodate for Crisis Management. This is regarded as a premiere textbook case of quality crisis management.

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 72

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

Business development. I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 59

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

Finally, in 1954, Kenneth Arrow, at Stanford, and Gerard Debreu, at the Cowles Commission at Yale, developed the canonical "general-equilibrium" model , for which they later won the Nobel Prize. General-equilibrium theory, as it developed in the 1960s and 1970s, suggests that economies are more like fighter jets.

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Crisis Decentralization Marketing Engineering 19

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Business development has occurred primarily by accident or through market demand. Because of economic realities and the increased numbers of firms providing comparable services, the notion of business development is now a necessity, rather than a luxury. Business development. Business development. by Hank Moore.

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Positioning Company Strategic Planning Guidelines 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In one of the most comprehensive global surveys of corporate directors to date, we found that they were very worried about developing and enacting strategic plans that will enable their organizations to succeed. Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Not competitive threats.

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Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

To keep up, new standards, architectures, and infrastructures will have to develop at the same pace. Internal diversity. A 2013 study found that companies with a diverse workforce – both culturally and in terms of professional experience – “out-innovate and out-perform others. Experts from outside industries.

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Innovation CAGR Diversity Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Our research on boards of directors and corporate governance has shed new light on many board practices and reveals the need for improvement in several areas including skills and selection , succession planning , and diversity. Strategic Challenges and Talent Management. Director Profiles.

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FOB Diversity Talent Management How To 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s no secret that organizations have been increasingly turning to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve decision making across business processes—from research and design to supply chain and risk management. Project management skills. A mastery of project management skills is a must.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Engineering Agility 8