Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. Radical flattening of organizations is a fashionable recipe for dealing with accelerating change and uncertainty. Would you share an example from an organization doing it right?

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” It can help them innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The answer is the sharp and unexpected rise of existential risk. How to successfully deal with a new radical state of uncertainty will require leaders to reset their organizations, reframe their perceptions of problems and opportunities, and, most important, rethink the way they think.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Unquestionably, in times of crisis – when there is great uncertainty – those organizations that proactively build trust up and down the chain of command will weather the storm much better than those that do not. He always brought order out of chaos and uncertainty. Now, let’s talk about what leaders can do during Covid. Mark Brouker.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The credibility of established business processes gives additional assurance to a large process-driven corporation — while allowing the intrapreneur to maintain the razor sharp focus of a start-up looking to nimbly capture a market opportunity. Entrepreneurship Execution Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The sharp recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis and the uncertainty created by the 2011 debt crisis have fundamentally reset the world. The real magic is in process innovation. The innovations of the Aravind Eye Care Hospitals go beyond cataract surgery. The new reality is austerity.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

However, the region has long been volatile and unpredictable (from coups and sharp changes in government policies, to currency shortages, to terrorism and large-scale population displacements), so operating under uncertainty is not new. Many companies are assessing their exposure to specific policy decisions (e.g., if the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

This kind of sharp price movement on seemingly modest news is not a new or isolated occurrence for Apple. That is to say, the uncertainties about Apple’s future trajectory — even over just the next couple of years — are staggering. Apple Disruptive innovation Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

They are dealing with the environment; successfully making the shift from an infrastructure state to a consumer society; becoming an innovative economy; having a positive impact on the world order; and finally, and perhaps most importantly, making the transition from Xi Jinping’s “Seven No’s” to a more sustainable political model.

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