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How Smart Leaders Help a Team Work Better Together: Plan Breakdowns

Let's Grow Leaders

You can prepare and make your team work better together by planning for these breakdowns and turning them into opportunities for growth and connection. 4 Ways to Make a Team Work Better Together by Planning for Breakdowns. Plan for and Train Recovery. Planned Failure. So how do you implement planned recovery on your team?

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Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential

Leading Blog

I F you’re looking to expand your thinking, then look no further than Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential by Matt Higgins. For those of us that have always heard, “Always have a Plan B,” burning the boats may sound reckless. Should you process risk? Absolutely.

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How to “Freshen up” your Stale Succession Planning Process

Great Leadership By Dan

I am struggling with how to take our established Succession Process to the next level. We have been using the 9 box and Likely 5 process for a number of years, and I am trying to figure out what is next and how to freshen up the process. How strategic is your process? How transparent is your process?

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Sifting Through Examples of Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

HR Digest

There are many examples of diversity and inclusion in the workplace but we often get caught up in two areas—hiring and leadership. For a genuine focus on diversity and inclusion in the workplace, there need to be many layers to diversity planning. Employees who feel secure are employees who are motivated to work.

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The Changing Landscape of C-Suite Executive Tenures: Insights and Implications

N2Growth Blog

Real-life examples of declining tenure among C-suite executives in Forbes Global 2000 or S&P 500 companies include General Electric (GE) and McDonald’s Corporation, which have witnessed shorter CEO tenures in the last decade. This highlights the importance of succession planning in ensuring smooth leadership transitions.

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Are You Falling for the Myth of "Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail"?

Great Leadership By Dan

Gleb Tsipursky: You probably heard the advice for entrepreneurs that “failing to plan is planning to fail.” Making plans is important, but our gut reaction is to plan for the best-case outcomes, ignoring the high likelihood that things will go wrong. succeeded in meeting the original planned resource expenditure.

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Scenario Planning vs. Forecasting: 6 Questions to Ask to Prepare for a Post-Pandemic Future

Leading Blog

There is often confusion between scenario planning and forecasting, with the terms used interchangeably and inconsistently. Scenario planning is focused on the future and involves defining different stories behind different paths that will lead to that future. the results of a U.S.