Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

Effectiveness in leadership is not about having all of the answers but not knowing and accessing the power of those you lead. In The Power of Vulnerability , Barry Kaplan and Jeffrey Manchester explain that the secret to unleashing the power of leaders, teams, and organizations, is through vulnerability. H ANG UP THE CAPE.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

“Agile organizations treat disruption and adversity as opportunities.” Today’s organizations face the unknown on a weekly basis. The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . Would you share an example from an organization doing it right?

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

How do you lead your team in today’s organization? A pure form of self-directed teams is a paradox, in that it would allow a team to go in a direction that doesn’t really fit with the organization. Obviously the Why of the team will need to serve the Why of the organization! Learning, in turn, stimulates mastery.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

Regardless of your industry, leaders and their teams will have to face adversity at some point during the life of their organization. Preparedness and implementing a risk management program are crucial to recovering and resisting the impacts of change, as well as maintaining a competitive advantage.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Take, for example, Rasmus Ankersen. Let’s consider a few examples. A probabilistic HR manager will examine the data about where a company’s best people come from and how they perform throughout their career to identify new sources of talent that may have been overlooked. How many new customers churn after just a few months?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

For far too long, managing risk has been seen as an esoteric business function — designed to control losses and adhere to compliance standards. Senior business leaders and their boards must therefore change the way they think about risk and how they respond to it. Keep a List of Unethical Things You’ll Never Do.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

An MBA student once asked me to give her a simple explanation of the "risk management function." After a few minutes of fumbling, I told her that risk management is the process of identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating the impact of unforeseen (and usually negative) events.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. When I look at top performing organizations, many of them rely on “smart talent&# and relatively complex business models.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Underpinning the philosophy of governance excellence is the knowledge that effective governance fosters trust, propelling an organization’s reputation and sustainable growth. The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

In customer support, for example — each time dialing a new number and grinding your way through the options. PG&E could still have conducted intelligent risk management in the interest of its own shareholders. • We all, having spent time in complex organizations, know how easy it is to pass the buck.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. The biggest surprise after studying the Amazon letters to shareholders written by Jeff Bezos is how much management advice he provides.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

A good portion of time is dedicated to risk management. But, I have seen some leaders who want to get to 100% risk elimination before they move forward with any change. And, again, if you’re change is attempting to make life better for the organization or others, the faster you get started the better.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

industries, and a review of hundreds of academic studies on the psychology of human performance, shows that most leaders and organizations tend to focus on just one type of performance. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The same is true for any team or organization.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Organizations should coordinate management skills into its overall corporate strategy, in order to satisfy customer needs profitably, draw together the components for practical strategies and implement strategic requirements to impact the business. This is my review of how management styles have evolved.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 28, 2020

The trend towards consolidation in industry has become a threat to any business whose leadership has a desire to maintain its own identity and strategic path. Sure, you could decide to sell the business or have it acquired by another organization, but the control of the decision should be yours. The Hidden Threat That Many Do Not See.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Organizations should coordinate management skills into its overall corporate strategy, in order to satisfy customer needs profitably, draw together the components for practical strategies and implement strategic requirements to impact the business. This is my review of how management styles have evolved.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

More recently, CARVER has converted a new community of believers in the business world, including CEOs, financial analysts, and risk management planners, not to mention any number of Fortune 500 security directors. It can be highly useful if you need to, for example, defend a budget request or a strategic plan to company leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

We believe that a next step for investors is to analyze the predictors and drivers of these intangible factors, which means focusing on leadership. Wise, long term investors recognize that leadership affects firm performance. But too often, assessments of leadership are haphazard and narrow.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

We find the debate interesting because it offers a great example of reputation risk – and more specifically, of why such risk has to be assessed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Over the decades, risk management has become a deeply quantitative endeavor. Vision and leadership. Emotional appeal.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

” and “How can I persuade the organization that embracing integrity is a win-win?” ” Many managers can easily recite the business case for ethics: Who doesn’t want better risk management, deeper employee engagement, reduced regulatory costs, public trust, and a lure to purpose-driven Millennials?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

If all organizations face the risk that their people will undertake reckless or unethical behavior, how should they protect themselves? For enterprise risk management, key policies include a statement of risk appetite and explicit risk tolerance levels for critical risks. Create a risk culture.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

We caught up with him at his New York office to talk about the opportunity in risky environments and what CEOs can do to encourage everyone in their organizations to remain creative and keep pushing the envelope — without going too far. I'll take PwC as an example. Let me give you a specific example. What sort of stories?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

So one would think that, in light of this, boards of directors would be actively steering their organizations through the digital revolution, right? Second, our research at Capgemini Consulting with MIT has shown that successful digital transformation is a top-down leadership exercise. According to recent research , it appears not.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

There are all sorts of reasons why so many big organizations can be slow to make changes that everyone agrees need to be made. In other words, most leaders and organizations are really good at quantifying the risks of trying something bold or striking out in a new direction. The solution?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Because better risk management in the future turns on corporate behavior, not just more regulation, and because that risk management is going to be driven from the top of corporations, the answers to these questions of leadership responsibility and accountability for organizational action and culture are of critical importance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Corporate volunteer programs range from one-day community service activities to mini-sabbaticals that send top performers to developing countries to lend their expertise to nonprofit organizations and proven entrepreneurs. Such volunteer assignments can do more than inject excitement into a humdrum job; they can ignite a career.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

But what about the impact on individual managers? Climate change doesn't just mean that governments and big companies will need to reassess their risk management, or make their infrastructure more resilient. Research tells us that employees are most engaged when our leaders and organizations care for our well-being.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Your organization needs a CNEO—a Chief Network Effects Officer—to integrate and align how your enterprise gets value from “ harvesting collective intelligence.”. Network effects, not unlike risk management, transcend traditional enterprise functions and silos. The opportunities are clear; the responsibilities are not.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In fact, it is most often the organizations that demonstrate a “heard mentality&# when rushing to adopt the latest ideas that are the farthest thing away from being innovative. Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

And yet, despite its importance, innovation is a difficult quality to cultivate both in leaders and in organizations. This is a key talent challenge for most organizations, and a talent gap that needs to be closed, starting at the top – with the role of the CEO. Leadership is changing — fast. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

“Employees are charged with conducting their business affairs in accordance with the highest ethical standards,” reads one such example. The most recent National Business Ethics Survey indicates progress as leaders make concerted efforts to pay holistic attention to their organization’s systems. Mark Chussil.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Its purpose is to prevent undue business risk, prevent violations of the spirit and letter of formal rules (financial and legal) and to prevent transgressions of global standards (ethics) which an organization imposes upon itself to enhance sound performance or to promote integrity. Boards Ethics Risk management'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

Many may think of the issue narrowly as rising temperatures, or as something their companies should manage only for philanthropic, good-for-the-planet reasons. What Nike and Coca-Cola leadership get is that the climate issue is a systemic problem, not easily defined in one single way, and it directly and profoundly affects their business.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Any company or organization is like a tree. This is yet another example of niche consultants skewing the client in the wrong directions. As was discussed in Chapter 8, technology constitutes one tenth of 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture. Pro-active change involves the entire organization. by Hank Moore.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Businesses mostly seek to avoid risk. Leaders equate risk with potential failure, so organizations have morphed into hierarchical, fixed systems to constrain variability within an acceptable range that has become progressively narrower. There is no safe innovation, only varying risk and reward. Sunk costs don''t count.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Retail giant Target, for example, estimated its losses from a 2013 data breach at more than $250 million. What’s more, according to a recent survey conducted for BAE Systems of 300 managers in the financial services, insurance, and IT/tech industries in the U.S., And the potential losses are significant.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2012

My answer is "corporate antibodies" — the people and processes that extinguish a new idea as soon as it begins to course through the organization. Corporate antibodies are not just naysayers; they are necessary to protect the company from risk. Getting the General Managers on Board. Senior Leadership Follows Through.

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