Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2023

Not surprising, managers at every level are struggling to adapt to this new dynamic, balancing both employee satisfaction and corporate productivity. From managing people and processes to enabling success. McGowan/Shipley : At every stage of their lives, Gen Z has met with trauma and uncertainty.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

You’re not managing your energy well. You must concentrate on managing your energy because there are so many demands on your time, that you can’t meet them all. Effective time management begins with good energy management. Leadership involves uncertainty. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes. We know that.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 16, 2021

This shows up as people micro-managing or controlling others, obsessively finding mistakes, getting competitive across siloes or even with colleagues within one’s team and becoming overly perfectionistic with how one engages with tasks. Fear will exist for all of us, especially in times of change and uncertainty.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

In emergency management, Hurricane Sandy stands out. In sharp contrast to Hurricane Katrina, the collaboration between military organizations, federal authorities, and state and local agencies during Sandy led to purposeful and decisive support to victims and infrastructure. Why do some flat organizations succeed, and others struggle?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2019

Brexit uncertainty has, according to James Stewart of KPMG, “been sapping business confidence for months, and now it is causing the jobs market to grind to a halt. Brexit and recruitment. With unclear trading conditions ahead, many companies have decided to hit the pause button on new hires.”.

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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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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. To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? There are no short-cuts in management. Michael Fraccaro: That’s an interesting way to frame it.

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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 15, 2013

In 1968, Harvard Business School professor Howard Raiffa published a book called Decision Analysis: Introductory Lectures on Choices Under Uncertainty. Let nature take its course, bailout without bankruptcy, and managed bankruptcy. Overall do you think the GM and Chrysler managed bankruptcies were the right set of decisions?

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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. Consider two managers: one promises 30 percent growth but ends up delivering only 28 percent while the other manager promises 1 percent growth but beats the budget and delivers 2 percent.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

and European elections, to management of the Syrian War, it’s clear that relations between the West and Russia have become increasingly hostile. For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian Jennifer Maravillas for HBR. From the conflict in Ukraine, to Russian meddling in U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

In addition to improving longer-term patient scheduling, these technologies help schedulers manage an infusion center’s day-to-day uncertainty — last-minute add-ons, late cancellations, and no-shows — as well as optimize nurses’ workloads and the timing of breaks. Streamlining ED operations.

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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. As I write this, on Thursday morning, the loss for the week is nearing 10%.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

A seasoned CFO with a sharp mind and an abrasive style, Arthur had lost his job over a disagreement with his company’s new CEO. “I hadn’t realized how much I cared, how much work mattered to me, until then,” he explained, sharing a feeling I have heard many a manager describe. I (Over) Work Therefore I Am.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

Other harm to the companies — time and effort devoted to problems and not business, loss of reputation, uncertainty about the future of leaders — is palpable. Today, Walmart management faces an independent inquiry of outside experts ordered by the board of directors that could spread beyond Mexico.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Building on the work of the neuroscientists who pioneered this field, he uncovers one of our most significant cognitive frailties — poor management of emotion — and explores methods of mitigating it. The above books are enduring in the way that most management books are not. The Halo Effect , by Phil Rosenzweig.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

To keep its sales people motivated despite the sharp ups and downs of the market, one technology company we spoke with shifted a greater proportion of its sales team’s compensation from variable to fixed pay. Their goal is to lower product prices to gain market share away from competitors who import into the country.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

Since 1950, only 3 of 21 have managed the feat, and none have done so since 1978. You can be sure that sharp handicappers have figured out how to take advantage of I'll Have Another's mispricing. Consider that of the 30 horses in a position to win the Triple Crown in the last 130 years, only 11 have succeeded. That's about a 40% rate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

Since 1950, only 3 of 21 have managed the feat, and none have done so since 1978. You can be sure that sharp handicappers have figured out how to take advantage of I'll Have Another's mispricing. Consider that of the 30 horses in a position to win the Triple Crown in the last 130 years, only 11 have succeeded. That's about a 40% rate.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Generate high levels of social engagement, sharing, and brand interaction, which can lead to sharp increases in digital brand advocacy. Uncertainty. Dove’s content engaged strong emotions – even difficult emotions – but managed to win by presenting a more important overarching idea. Specifically: Curiosity. Astonishment.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Our company, Frontier Strategy Group, recently polled 20 Latin America general managers about Venezuela’s contributions to their regional revenues. Part of the decline can be explained by the sharp depreciation of the bolivar, but for the most part it reflects proactive decisions by multinationals to exit the market.

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