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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. “Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” It becomes how we operate on a day-to-day basis.

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Why Labor Protests in France Won’t Stop Macron’s Reforms

Harvard Business Review

The protests have already cost the CEO of Air France his job : He stepped down after workers rejected his proposal of a 7% wage increase over four years (unions want a 6% immediate increase). In 1995 a train strike paralyzed France and forced the government to back down from its proposed reform of the railway sector. GDP grew by 1.9%

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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I'm so curious it's embarrassing, when I visit a house and I pass a bookcase in the hall I cannot resist scanning their shelves to the point of rudeness to see if there's a good book in there which I haven't read yet. All they read is commercial offers, proposals, etc. They haven't read a book in years.

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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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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. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share.

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Giving Seriously Ill Patients More Choices About Their Care

Harvard Business Review

This model doesn’t leave patient choice to chance; it’s hardwired into clinical operations. Consequently, many people, their families, and their physicians resist hospice until all therapeutic options are exhausted. The solution: Help seriously ill people choose exactly what kind of care they want — and want to avoid.

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Managing Risks Means Managing Arguments

Harvard Business Review

Managing risks — especially the hard-to-pin-down, moving-target risks that any financial trading operation has to cope with — inevitably involves arguing. Whether this really was the main reason for JP Morgan's $3 billion (and growing) trading loss or not, it does at least sound like it could be true.