Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

While some may know how to create effective strategies, their businesses still fail because of inappropriate leadership. It is necessary to state that many people do not see ineffective leadership as a weakness in their businesses. This article shows eight ways to improve your strategy and leadership skills to scale your business.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Our thought processes are full of all sorts of cognitive distortions, from catastrophizing (thinking of small problems as enormous impediments) to perfectionism, where anything less than perfect execution causes intense frustration. What an easy create an optimistic frame of mind! What was the best part of your day?

Succession 378

Succession How To Learning-by-Doing Sharpe 378

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A proficient board is a guiding light, offering leadership and oversight to fuel the realization of organizational objectives. Moreover, the board’s critical role extends to risk management, ensuring robust processes are in place to identify, assess, and mitigate risks, bolstering the organization’s success trajectory.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Understanding the Role of a Chief Commercial Officer In the complex world of corporate leadership, a Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) holds a pivotal role. Above all, risk management skills and sound business acumen are required to drive profitable growth and sustainable business expansion.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2013

StrategyDriven is proud to announce the launch of a risk management resource forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help leaders effectively address their most pressing operational risks. Complimentary Resource – Operational Risk Management.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

Managing enterprise risk tolerance. Human resource leadership. Audit management & support. The ability to present security information to direct reports or during a board meeting at a level understood by the audience is of vital importance to the overall risk management to the business.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2024

This strategic maneuver encompasses a spectrum of initiatives, ranging from embracing cloud computing to deploying automation and harnessing the insights gleaned from data analytics to drive informed decision-making processes. This may require prudent financial planning, conservative budgeting, and proactive risk management strategies.

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CO2

JUNE 14, 2023

The pursuit of balance is an essential element of effective leadership, and it applies to both the leaders themselves and the individuals they guide. So, how can you apply the concept of achieving optimal balance in your leadership journey? Leadership Style: Finding the right leadership style is crucial.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the willingness to recognize the need for change, and finally the ability to lead change. Whether overt or covert, you must identify critics of change early in the process if you hope to succeed.

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CO2

JUNE 14, 2023

The pursuit of balance is an essential element of effective leadership, and it applies to both the leaders themselves and the individuals they guide. So, how can you apply the concept of achieving optimal balance in your leadership journey? Leadership Style: Finding the right leadership style is crucial.

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Leadership Development Executive Coaching Development Leadership 60

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 13, 2012

Compliance typically occurs on a day-to-day basis through the performance of common policies, processes, and procedures. You just finished reading Risk Management Best Practice 3 - Procedure Annotation and Commitment Tracking ! Become a StrategyDriven Premium Member for only $9.95 / month or $94.95 / year ! Want to learn more?

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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. That’s your spot of safety, where your internal risk manager allows you to play.” There is a process of clearing that asks five questions; What are the facts? H ANG UP THE CAPE.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

While this can help facilitate risk management , it can also be a hindrance in a constantly changing world. P eople create safety by adapting practices and managing risk dynamically, Gareth believes. I don’t talk about risk management, I talk about uncertainty management.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 30, 2017

Strategic Planning: This program crafts a strategic plan and ongoing strategy execution process, which identifies the initiatives required to move the organization form its current state to the achievement of its long-term vision. The 7 programs include: 1.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The framework follows a “Plan-Do-Check-Act” (PDCA) cycle, with managers them examining the context the supply chain operates in, before ensuring leadership is committed, risk is identified, disruption is planned for, procedures are tested, and the whole process continuously improved upon.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 15, 2016

Embrace your difference and focus more on offense than defense: Think opportunity management, not risk management. 3. Invigorate velocity by working past implementation concepts and focus on delivery strategies: Implementation is process, delivery is advantage. Think strategic investment, not cost containment.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

Businesses regularly establish routines in the way they operate, but when problems arise and they’re thrown a curve ball, those routines and competencies may no longer work for the situation managers find themselves in. One of the quickest ways to learn organizational resilience is to be thrown in the deep end.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 17, 2021

I’ve written a fair amount about management versus leadership. We need good leadership and good management. But this is a leadership blog. And if you want to be a leader, you can’t focus more on managing the organization than you do on leading the organization forward. They let him go.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

If you’re frustrated by your organization’s current strategic planning and execution processes or the outcomes from that work, you’re not alone. Putting the right leadership, talent, organization, and culture capabilities in place to drive change and execute strategy is the priority. Your strategy process must deliver fast!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. Most have done a great job of containing their financial reporting and compliance risks. Managers could keep the organization within acceptable tolerance ranges, driving performance to plan.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

While I rarely meet a CEO who is completely comfortable with turning the hiring process over to HR, most of them still seem to acquiesce and do exactly that…&# Who should do the hiring?&# Smart leaders do more than just hire smart people – they have a smart hiring process and/or methodology.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . The capabilities of agility become ingrained in thought processes, practices and culture only if they are positioned as essential priorities and standards of excellence—and embraced as such by the whole organization.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Systems and Processes. Value-added leadership is a healthy way of life that puts collaborations first. Value-added leadership is a healthy way of life that puts collaborations first. When all succeed, then profitability is much higher and more sustained than under the Hard Nose management style. Culture and Mission.

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

“It permeates the organization’s performance standards, operating processes, training programs, rewards systems, and, most importantly, the decisions and behaviors of everyone from the C-Suite to the shop floor.” StrategyDriven Risk Management Forum. Risk Management Best Practice 4 – Risk Quantification.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. Put simply…not all inputs should weigh equally in one’s decisioning process. By developing a qualitative and quantitative filtering mechanism for your decisioning process you can make better decisions in a shorter period of time.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Visioning is the process where good ideas become something more. Usually, management has not yet articulated their own individual values, let alone those of the organization. This process helps to define and develop value systems to create success. Periodically, test and review the process. What do we want to become?

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Finance leaders; find out how to stop struggling with time-consuming, inaccurate incentive compensation processes. This 4-page guide outlines 7 ways that automated compensation management software improves your ROI: Streamlined data and workflow processes. Major reduction in administrative time and other manual processes.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

If current employees are hesitant to talk, HR should also be conducting exit interviews , particularly in high-risk occupations like healthcare, to identify any areas that may put the company, its customers and consumers at risk. HR can facilitate discussions and task forces for planning and next steps.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

Every company needs it but rarely conducts the process because they’re knee-deep in daily minutia. I know from experience that planning while going through the ‘alligators’ is the most effective way to conduct the process. I’m a big advocate of Strategic Planning and Visioning.

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 77

Lead from Within

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Everything was about checking off the box, just following a process without meaning. When risk comes, will you open the door wide and make it your ally, or will you stand there in fear not answering? Lead From Within: Avoidable risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. The post If Risk Knocks At The Door.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Diversity is a continuing process where we keep the elements mixed. This process creates more job opportunities for multicultural professionals. That philosophy evolved to the Salad Bowl concept. In either, one element still sinks to the bottom. We must now see it as a Mosaic or Patchwork Quilt. Each element blends and supports others.

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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. Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement. link] mikemyatt Well said Tanveer.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The concept delves more deeply than mere regulatory compliance, stretching towards a proactive approach that involves risk anticipation, scenario planning, and sound decision-making processes. 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

PG&E could still have conducted intelligent risk management in the interest of its own shareholders. • Buck-Passing Risk" can be measured in two ways. First, the process risk tracked by metrics such as organizational tolerance for poor clarity in roles, accountability, transparency and limited depth of analysis.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Starting Over – Without being hampered by systems/processes that haven’t worked, you can create as you go. Immediate Feedback – It is far better to succeed or fail. Not knowing where you’re going or how we’re doing causes us to make many more mistakes.

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