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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. Thus, this mindset must be deliberately developed and nurtured by senior leaders – and exemplified in their own behaviors. “Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” Leo Tilman is the founder of Tilman & Company, Inc.

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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works. Great leaders are like a sponge when it comes to the acquisition of knowledge, the development of new skill sets, and the constant refinement of existing competencies.

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China’s New Development Bank Is a Wake-Up Call for Washington

Harvard Business Review

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. It’s stated mission is to “focus on the development of infrastructure and other productive sectors in Asia.” billion of subscribed capital) or the Asian Development Bank ($162.8

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Getting Ahead by Leading Across

Harvard Business Review

Her peers complained bitterly about her "my way or the highway" approach and often felt blindsided when they heard her present a proposed plan of action to senior management without having solicited their input.

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History Rhymes in the Greek Debt Crisis

Harvard Business Review

It faced a 21% prime rate on its floating debt, falling oil prices, and recession in the developed countries. On August 13, 1982, when Mexican Finance Minister Silva Herzog met with officials of the U.S. Mexico was asked to develop an economic adjustment program in exchange for a "jumbo loan" put together by the banks, the U.S.

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Giving Seriously Ill Patients More Choices About Their Care

Harvard Business Review

” A new clinical model based on an advanced illness-management program one of us (Brad) developed at Sutter Health, an integrated system in Northern California, demonstrates how to increase quality while dramatically reducing costs. Cost savings result from avoiding treatments that patients don’t want, not from rationing care.

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How to Get Health Care Employees Onboard with Change

Harvard Business Review

Clinical and administrative staff often view their work as a vocation as much as a profession, and they are historically suspicious of senior administrators and resistant to strategic agendas. Together we developed an agenda for change and put it into action. He proposed that we try something new.