Strategy Driven

MARCH 27, 2013

StrategyDriven advisors work with executives and managers to define their organization’s needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 26, 2012

‘Tis the season for futurists, forecasters, and analysts to line up with seers, fortune tellers, and prophets to earnestly foretell what 2013 has in store for us. Collins and co-author Morton Hansen summarized their findings in Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

StrategyDriven advisors work with executives and managers to define their organization’s needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

I think the most important thing that I look for [when funding a project] is really, who’s that champion?” Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?) What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? Moreover, it’s hard. “I

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

This year, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve System, and central bankers are taking a historical perspective. A July 2013 Congressional research report articulates a challenge for today’s central bankers. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. earlier this month. All rights reserved.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

We often: • Overestimate our contribution to a project; • Have an elevated opinion of our professional skills and standing among our peers; • Exaggerate our project’s impact on profitability by discounting real and hidden costs. They are not afraid of uncertainty or ambiguity, they embrace it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

As uncertainty is increasing and competition is becoming more fierce, executives need to have a broader understanding of competition itself in order to sustain an edge. A current example of uncertainty around relevance concerns blockchain , i.e. the technology behind virtual currencies such as bitcoin. Microzoa/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

For instance, a 2013 Gartner survey found that 64% of enterprises were deploying or planning big data projects, up from 58% the year before. Is big data just another IT project that can be run by a unit head? That uncertainty doesn’t bother companies like Netflix, which exhibit a deep curiosity about their data.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

In light of our different backgrounds, we found common ground in what it takes to build and lead teams up Everest, and how those leadership lessons apply to the high-risk, high-uncertainty environments that business leaders find themselves in today. Everest on Twitter ( @scottderue ), and at the Alpine Ascents Everest 2013 blog.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

All these steps are taken in an effort to eliminate their fears, reduce their uncertainties, and satisfy their doubts. They didn't understand how to sell their project internally and were unable to garner senior executive sponsorship. At other accounts, prospective buyers weren't experienced with purchasing products.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Estimates of future income are full of uncertainty, and choosing an appropriate discount rate is often more art than science. During the dot-com era ( and long after ), Fama argued that the high prices of startups like Amazon.com and Pets.com could be justified as rational gambles in the face of great uncertainty.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Then it was thought that the methods of positive science would sweep all before them: today that project has been abandoned. This post is part of a series of perspectives leading up to the fifth annual Global Drucker Forum in November 2013 in Vienna, Austria. Leadership development Managing people Managing uncertainty'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Since 2013, BizCorps has placed top MBAs in Columbia and Kenya. In his 2012 letter to shareholders, Buffet castigated US CEOs for deferring decisions in the face of uncertainty. “If you are a CEO who has some large, profitable project you are shelving because of short-term worries,” he offered, “call Berkshire.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

“We thought that bias might hurt people when it’s not really clear who did what on a project.” And in 2013, another series of studies by Heilman and Michelle C. So I wondered from anecdotal stories whether women also received less credit for group work,” Sarsons told me.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

His solution, in 2013, was to create a Facebook page called “Residents of Via Fondazza—Bologna” which he promoted by posting flyers in his neighborhood. But Bastiani and the others he had engaged in this project didn’t stop at the end of their own street.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

All these steps are taken in an effort to eliminate their fears, reduce their uncertainties, and satisfy their doubts. They didn't understand how to sell their project internally and were unable to garner senior executive sponsorship. At other accounts, prospective buyers weren't experienced with purchasing products.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, remaining U.S. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

It requires foundational investments in skills, projects, infrastructure, and, often, in cleaning up IT systems. For example, when P&G was making its digital push in 2012 and 2013, it was already well ahead of most companies—and perhaps all of them—in the consumer products industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

What traditional investors don’t like about any of this is the regulatory uncertainty; the high valuations and over-capitalization; the lack of control over financials, strategy, and operations; and the lack of business use-cases. It’s now worth approximately $1,1200 per bitcoin.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2013

Public project labor agreements (PLAs) provide another hurdle, unless their employees choose to pay union dues. Bush’s prohibition on the requirement for project labor agreements on federal projects. Republican Governor Christie is a union supporter, who is up for re-election in November, 2013. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. So in that framework what do is you calculate the beta of your firm or your project with two components of the market return, and one of them is the one that you really worry about. Economy Finance Managing uncertainty' But these changes in thinking take a very long time.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

This uncertainty calls for political leadership. Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. We should run pilots, test performance, and then either build on the experience or end the project. Most Americans also say they would be willing to pay a little more to buy goods produced in the U.S. What about the decline in U.S.

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