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Target’s Fall Guy: Is Your Board Prepared?

N2Growth Blog

The primary reason stated was because of the continued fall-out from the 2013 massive data breach. Crisis Management Leadership Public Relations Talent Management Gregg Steinhafel Target Target Hack Target Hacking News Target Security Breach' Chair, Executive Search, N2growth. And massive it was!

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The Beer formerly known as Albino Rhino

In the CEO Afterlife

Earls said they would re-name the product by April 24, 2013. The story made the rounds in social media. The vast majority thought the complaint, frivolous, and the restaurant chain’s decision to dump the name, gutless. Then again, choosing a completely unrelated brand name falls into the same category.

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February 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

LDRLB

Welcome to the February 2013 Leadership Development Carnival. To help guide your way through, we’ve divided the posts up by the three categories we at LDRLB tend to see the world through: leadership, innovation, and strategy. Leadership. Wally Bock at Three Star Leadership on why Questions are Our Friends.

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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business Review

Medicine involves leadership. Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images.

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Develop Strategic Thinkers Throughout Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, Management Research Group (MRG) completed a large scale global study addressing this question. We evaluated the leadership practices and effectiveness of 60,000 managers and executives in 140+ countries and 26 industries. I would say yes – and that it’s the most important thing you can do as a leader.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 4 of 4

Strategy Driven

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. There are three aspects to Crisis Management and Preparedness. Thinking Through the Strategies.

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What Really Led to Last Summer’s Most Notorious Firing

Harvard Business Review

In this massive piece, Nicholas Carlson analyzes Armstrong''s rise from his days as the owner of a strawberry business, uncovering a leadership trajectory that culminated in a proxy war with an activist investor and a final realization that his baby — local-news and listings provider Patch — needed to be trimmed, or else. Crisis management'