Next Level Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

My first job out of graduate school was as a first year associate in a Wall Street investment bank whose last of the 10 corporate values they printed in their annual report was, “Have fun!” Decades later, it remains the worst place I ever worked or have seen other people working in in 20 years of leadership development work.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

What About Leadership? Does the essence of leadership really change in the digital age? Or are greater and greater levels of uncertainty causing us to forget the essentials and focus on the latest bright and shiny object? The authors rightly note, “Digital leadership is just leadership, albeit in a somewhat new environment.”.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

The issue at the heart of this uncertainty involves limited access to capital at a time when banks are reluctant to lend. Recent healthcare reform is also adding to economic uncertainty for small businesses. The increase in private sector jobs suggests that retail and factory jobs will continue to climb.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 29, 2018

Ultimately, I suspect the fear of change is really a fear of uncertainty. The problem is with the Mexicans, or the Muslims, or the banks, or the police, or the pharmaceutical companies.” Certainty may get votes, but it isn’t leadership. So why not strive for more: in our work, our relationships, our families, our communities?

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 23, 2021

To thrive in this world in flux, we need to radically reshape our relationship to uncertainty and flip the script to sustain a healthy and productive outlook,” explains April. Yet in a world and future full of uncertainty, no one really knows. Fortunately, her new book shows you how to do exactly that, and how to help others do so too.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 23, 2023

Chapters 9—13 highlight how XQ applies in different contexts, including organizations, leadership, teams, and communities. Abilities can include higher order things like pattern recognition or managing uncertainty. Be sure to note the QR codes at the beginning of each chapter. magazine.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Over the past decade, I organized over twenty, guide-led expeditions designed to build leadership and teamwork skills for Wharton Business School students. Here’s what I found -- guides display six important leadership strengths that work as well in business as they do in the mountains: 1. Guides are trust-builders.

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Scott Mabry

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Recovering the joy of leadership. That first official leadership role. The uncertainty. A long story later I was a freshly minted, front-line supervisor at what was then the largest bank in the world. Do you remember your first or best leadership experiences? What was it like for you? The excitement. The anxiety.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Don’t just follow blindly; Leadership in the New Age requires empathetic leaders equipped with empathetic listening skills; be at ease with uncertainty; accept imperfection and failures and bounce back fast.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 16, 2011

Some economists have been assailed for having financial ties to the big banks that did so much to precipitate the financial crisis. The wisdom that's been lost in economic theory is that uncertainty is both unavoidable and potent. The modern macro "synthesis" tended to give uncertainty only a bit part. Economist L.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 5, 2015

Often times, these discussions reveal both a wariness and a sense of uncertainty regarding the complexity and difficulties involved in trying to reignite the internal motivations of our employees to bring their full selves to the work they do. Is this something that’s hard to do?

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” That’s a point-of-view that’s shared across our senior leadership team. Photo: Mastercard.

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

It is useful to distinction between three motivations for creating partnerships: Optimization and economy of scale, Reduction of risk and uncertainty, Acquisition of particular resources and activities) Cost Structure – The business model elements result in the cost structure. (It

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? You can, however, embrace uncertainty by adjusting your views as new information becomes available. Take, for example, Rasmus Ankersen.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

It is tempting to regard artificial intelligence as a threat to human leadership. There is no reason to believe that leadership will be spared the impact of AI. A shift from the hard to soft elements of leadership is not exclusive to the AI age. Insight Center. Assessing the opportunities and the potential pitfalls.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

News of the United Kingdom’s vote to Leave the European Union shook financial markets Friday, and signalled the start of potentially years of economic uncertainty for Europe. The Bank of England said essentially ‘We planned for this’ and that £250 billion pounds are available to backstop the banks.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

bank CEOs who were born in the U.S., banks between 1994 and 2006. The banking industry experienced a series of profound competitive shocks in the 1990s. The one we used was the Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act (IBBEA) of 1994 that legalized interstate branching in some U.S. Our sample consisted of 610 U.S.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership. But there’s a model of leadership that will. Above all, driving the use of these techniques depends on the stance of leadership. Leadership should make it clear that they are offended by wasting time, as it’s also wasting energy, resources and brain space.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

According to the Gallup Wellbeing Index, 45% of entrepreneurs report feeling stressed , while another study by Bank of America found that running a small business is even more stressful than parenting. There are countless struggles, incredibly difficult days, and uncertainty is certain in the beginning.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

In the research for our book, Not Knowing: The Art of Turning Uncertainty into Opportunity , we spoke to many managers who struggled with feelings of incompetence as they faced challenges associated with their new role. And yet we’re wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty. Leadership and Managing People Book.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

presidential election and amid continued economic uncertainty around the globe. We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. Empathy has never been in more explicit demand from corporate leaders — particularly after a divisive U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

” But being isolated at the top can compromise your decision making and leadership effectiveness, both of which require having as much firsthand information about a situation as possible. She was left with fewer relationships and more uncertainty about what was going on.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

Roosevelt faced one of the most significant leadership challenges in U.S. The nation was gripped in a panic that had people running to the banks to pull out their savings. Leading up to Roosevelt’s inauguration there was yet another run on the banks in February 1933, further eroding the financial system.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Some 15 years ago my colleague Sumantra Ghoshal and I wrote business cases on three companies that were then leaders in their sectors: BP, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Nokia. So yes, be authentic – but don’t break the mold so completely that others need to spend energy figuring out how to engage with your leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Consider those street vendors selling Econet airtime, or the small vendors who make up the agent network at the heart of Kenya’s most profitable bank, Equity Bank. In his 2012 letter to shareholders, Buffet castigated US CEOs for deferring decisions in the face of uncertainty. Let us unburden you.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In the 1980s, however, pioneering women began moving into management roles and into frontline business areas, such as investment banking. They are the ones who set the culture that we experience every day, despite any programmatic efforts by the bank.” Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. Moreover, having regularly defaulted on its debts, few international institutions are willing to lend to the government, forcing it to rely on poorly capitalized local banks. Years of economic mismanagement. Progress on resolving these issues will be slow and incremental.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

Consider the cautionary example of a large bank I recently worked with. These ideas and practices, however, were nowhere to be found in the evaluation criteria of the bank’s employees. This is exactly what the leadership teams at ING did. The team I was engaged with had its agile vocabulary down.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

No one has a perfect model for managing this level of uncertainty. b) Regulations: The regulatory environment, particularly for the banking and financial sectors, went through major changes. Decisive leadership characterized all the firms that emerged as winners. The very survival of many firms was at stake.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Linda once worked with someone in a global investment bank who took over a trading desk where he managed a group of experienced traders. On the other side of that line, however, too much expression of weakness, error, and uncertainty will also diminish people's trust in you. Without those qualities, people are less likely to trust you.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

At a major retail bank, early signals of an emerging rift between factions — manifested in very different networks of information sharing — made it possible to save an acquisition before it came apart. Interestingly, intangible assets are all the rage these days on Wall Street.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I asked each of these leaders a single question about healthy leadership: What healthy habits do you attribute to your success as a leader? Discover a healthy leadership habit of @MichaelHyatt at Click To Tweet. Check out these healthy habits of #leadership experts @MichaelHyatt, @MarkTimm, and @48DaysTeam Click To Tweet.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

You need to create a bank of goodwill when times are good, so that when a crisis comes, a community of advocates is ready to speak up, reassuring critics and reinforcing your message. We all have to get better at overcoming obstacles, dealing with uncertainty, and staying focused in a changing environment. Control what you can.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Well, how’s that working out for ya after 9/11, the banking crisis, Brexit, and Trump? The characteristic of all leadership in the 21st century is now the speed at which it needs to respond to crises as well as doing their day job. That’s the essence of leadership – who you are. Three things always hamper any talk of leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

My colleagues and I at Bain & Company have been tracking this for forty years, and we have never seen companies losing their leadership positions as quickly as they are today. A list of the top 20 banks today contains only seven that were on the list a decade ago. A similar pattern hold for airlines. And for telecom.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

JP Morgan has been getting most of the headlines, but other banks are also investigation. Design Leadership Managing uncertainty' The business news continues to be full of stories of large companies getting into trouble in part because of their complexity. It goes without saying that big companies are complex.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

But China is getting bigger faster than it’s reforming, and there is also uncertainty around whether reform will be successful. They have to play more of a leadership role. They don’t think they’ll be in their corporations that long, and they don’t want to deal with that core uncertainty and its implications. China’s number one.”

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