Joseph Lalonde
JANUARY 29, 2023
Frank and Joe were brought into a crew to commit a bank heist. The heist, as one might expect, doesn’t go as planned. This throws off the plan, ultimately resulting in Frank being knocked unconscious for 10 minutes and Joe’s death. He laid out contingency plans. A wrench is thrown into most plans.
Lead Change Blog
JULY 16, 2015
I found myself wondering if better contingency planning could have mitigated the damage. And at the 880-seat Tabor Opera House, patrons enjoyed John Philip Sousa, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera stars, Harry Houdini, and Oscar Wilde.
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Lead Change Blog
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
And, certainly, if you hold a salaried position where the paycheck will appear in your bank account each month regardless of whether or not you dip into your holiday fund, the word “fearful” simply doesn’t enter the mind come holiday time. This may sound odd. How could one be afraid of taking time off to recharge the batteries?
Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
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”. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 22, 2015
A colleague once told me about a particularly memorable vacation she took during her second year as a banking analyst, at another Wall Street firm. Create a contingency plan. If you’re a “pro-vacation manager,” follow the contingency plan you agreed upon. Encourage your employees to make time.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
We believe the peso has further to fall but timing is difficult to predict, so if this region is vital to your business, contingency planning is the order of the day. The excessive bad debt in China’s shadow banking system, however, could lead to a real crisis.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 9, 2015
Interest rates of zero meant that central banks took to targeting asset prices – stocks and bonds – to boost spending. So one solution suggested by a growing number of economists in Europe is for central banks to “helicopter drop” money , and directly finance private sector spending. We need new policies.
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