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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

Or look at a shorter, more visual chart on doomsday forecasts predicting the end of the world (including revised dates — also wrong) published by The Economist in 2015. Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett, poses a vital question in “Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?”

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The Big Picture of Business – Tribute to a Great Mentor. Remembering Cactus Pryor.

Strategy Driven

I was with Cactus at a remote for Armstrong-Johnson Ford. Senior corporate executives, especially those who rose to the rank of CEO, have had to adapt more in their careers than young people who never rise past mid-management. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. People get what they pay for.

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How to Regain the Lost Art of Reflection

Harvard Business Review

But some CEOs have managed to resist these tendencies. A 2015 Harvard Business School study showed that CEOs’ schedules typically leave them with as little as 15% of their time for working alone. ” Yana Kakar, Global Managing Partner of Dalberg, reserves 3 two-hour blocks of time for reflection each week.

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What CEO Activism Looks Like in the Trump Era

Harvard Business Review

In 2015 and 2016, we witnessed dozens of CEOs speaking up against anti-LGBT laws in a handful of states such as Indiana , Georgia , and North Carolina. For example, Oath/AOL CEO Tim Armstrong tweeted “Hard 2 Believe #charlottesville taking place. Most of these CEOs have been based in the U.S., but many lead global companies.

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