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When the Distancing Ends, How Far Away Will You Be?

Decker Communication

Department of Health and Human Services first declared a public health emergency, many organizations have found their businesses adrift on an uncharted sea of fear and uncertainty. In the two months since the U.S. But the thing about the rope-a-dope is that it depends on the ability to counterattack.

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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 2

Strategy Driven

Performance standards hammered out. Uncertainty regarding the implications of change. A lot of internal strife and no sense of mutual accountability. Task driven but a lot of individual agendas. Performance standards are not agreed upon. Stage 3 – Getting Behind the Game. Increasing ownership of those standards. About the Author.

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When One Person’s High Performance Creates Resentment in Your Team

Harvard Business Review

As the Japanese proverb warns : “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” This is because the inconsistent messages increase interpersonal uncertainty as well as cognitive and emotional burdens. Often with good intentions, managers set up high performers as targets for sabotage, aggression, and exclusion.

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Why Rational People Can’t Succeed as Economic Forecasters

Harvard Business Review

That sounds a lot like Philip Tetlock’s hedgehogs and foxes , where the people who keep hammering at it and don’t care if their forecasts are wrong are more likely to be wrong. Economy Entrepreneurship Managing uncertainty'

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

There was a lot of uncertainty and debate last summer and fall over whether President Obama would appoint Janet Yellen or Larry Summers as Federal Reserve chair. The result was the Fed-Treasury Accord of 1951, which McCabe hammered out with Assistant Treasury Secretary William McChesney Martin.

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How to Design (and Analyze) a Business Experiment

Harvard Business Review

Use a big hammer. Faced with this uncertainty, it may sound appealing to start small in order to avoid disrupting things. By starting with a big hammer, the store would learn whether customers care about local sourcing. Companies experiment when they don’t know what will work best.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

Shiller hammered away on this point in the ‘80s, and in fact Fama also published some of the same observations. Economy Finance Managing uncertainty' When you look at the market extremes, whether it’s 1929 or 1966 or 2000, those very high prices relative to dividends and earnings are not followed by rapid dividend growth.

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