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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

Plan for the future. When your business has contingency plans for future scenarios you will seldom be caught by surprise. Most successful businesses have planned responses to most scenarios because they took the time to think “What If”. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The Little Prince

Joseph Lalonde

Netflix adapted this story into a beautiful, teary-eyed animated feature in 2015. They have contingency plans in place and are ready to use them. Have a backup plan ready. The story of The Little Prince carries over into the movie world beautifully. Not only is The Little Prince an engaging story.

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Why Boards Aren’t Dealing with Cyberthreats

Harvard Business Review

Over 5,000 board members of companies headquartered in more than 60 countries responded to the survey between October 2015 and June 2016. Most responses (80%) were received between October and December 2015. Only 24% rated those processes as “above average” or “excellent.”

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What It Was Like to Be a Manager in Ukraine

Harvard Business Review

In my former position as Managing Director of Philip Morris Ukraine where I was based from January 2012 until February 2015, I was forced to see it as a business crisis that threatened our people, operations, and bottom line. Most of the world views the turmoil in Ukraine as a geopolitical and humanitarian catastrophe.

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7 Myths About Doing Business in Sub-Saharan Africa

Harvard Business Review

It’s 2015, and by now even latecomers among multinational corporations have decided to include African countries in their emerging market portfolios. Executives should carefully assess the level of volatility to understand if a change in strategy is really necessary, or whether a short-term contingency plan is the best solution.