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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Scott Mabry

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The uncertainty. A long story later I was a freshly minted, front-line supervisor at what was then the largest bank in the world. We were starting up a brand new operation and there were only about 6 employees on the team. Recovering the joy of leadership. What was it like for you? That first official leadership role.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2017

The tips on this page will help you to get things right, and they could push your operation to the next level. At some point, you will need a dedicated office or warehouse for your operation. However, you don’t want to rush into anything until you have lots of cash in the bank. It’s all about taking things steadily.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

Global banks are much stronger and less leveraged than in 2008. Martin Seligman, director of Penn’s Positive Psychology Center, offers a quick and straightforward way to refocus our mind during these turbulent times; A simple exercise to help stay calm in the face of coronavirus uncertainty. Face tough issues head-on.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

But our interviews with board members and CEOs in the banking industry—and decades of research on experts and teams—point to three factors that can compromise the effectiveness of expert-dominated boards, at least in some circumstances. Common sense might suggest that the more experts, the better.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Ever since the forced bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered the financial crisis 10 years ago, regulators, risk managers, and central bankers around the globe have focused on shoring up banks’ ability to withstand financial shocks. Peter Dazeley/Getty Images.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” We’re always looking for ways we can be a positive influence in the markets where we operate. That, I think gets to the heart of what the right culture can do. 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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

percentage points, has likely ushered in a protracted phase of uncertainty for the UK, EU, and global economies. Judging by our interactions with CEOs around the world to date, some of their burning questions are: What are the elements of uncertainty created by Brexit? The Leave campaign’s victory, with a margin of 3.8

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Uncertainty Short-term Supply Chain Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

banks) have ballooned from about $30 billion to around $1.5 Why is all that money sitting at the Fed earning a meager 0.25% nominal interest when those same banks could make a lot more than that by lending it out? The answer is simple: uncertainty about the future. The banks want QE3 as a short-term boost, but will they get it?

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Short-term Banking Long-term Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

To better understand businesses’ financial preparation for and management of disasters, my colleagues and I partnered with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to survey firms in the New York area one year after Hurricane Sandy. Our data include about 950 businesses. In the U.S.,

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Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Nevertheless, the markets have discounted every announcement and have continued to operate in a state of quasi-panic, as they move at a different speed than the political activities. Moreover, European banks are in a difficult position. There are, nevertheless, great uncertainties left as this complex problem continues to unfold.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

We can take some lessons from Bangladesh, where BRAC is heading full steam into mobile banking with bKash (bikash means "growth" in Bengali), which is now the largest mobile banking provider in the country. By the end of 1993, half of the pumps were operating at a loss and many loans were in arrears.

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Technology Microfinance Banking Document 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Interestingly, all these intrusions into business operations typically do not come from the Kremlin but from local officials who seem eager to gain the Kremlin’s favor amid instances of elevated international tensions. This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The economy still hasn’t received a boost from sanctions relief, and many big banks that left the country have not returned. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

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. Manangagwa, even though more pragmatic than Mugabe, has nevertheless worked with Mugabe for years and is operating within a largely similar political system.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Key operational investments sustain existing business operations, helping to avoid any disadvantage. Executives can sometimes struggle differentiating between key operational and support investments.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Senior executives tend to be shielded from organizational problems and data; they are given limited and filtered information about their operations, employees, and customers. This dramatically changed his assessment of how much of the bank’s aid was getting through the local government, to the people who really needed it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Horizon 1 (H1) represents the current core operations of a company that produce the cash flow needed to sustain operations, to meet investor expectations, and to invest in future growth. Since the Three Horizons represent different levels of uncertainty, they need to be managed and valued differently.

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NPV Net Present Value Price Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment. The stock price declined 0.3%

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

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. Its impact was so vast that it drew the U.S. Roosevelt responded decisively to the crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

To enhance financial flexibility, companies have been retaining unprecedented amounts of cash on their balance sheets, calling it "strategic" cash to distinguish it from the "operating" cash that is needed to run the business. Arguments Against Strategic Cash. They emphasize that it can: Lead to Undisciplined Spending.

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Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. Senate Banking Committee to save his competitors. automobile industry. The China-Sparked Crisis. For example , U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Banking and other financial services are now more important to the national economy. Although production is down because the companies operating in the country have evacuated most of their personnel, exports continue from ports under rebel control. This kingdom in the Persian Gulf earns $5 billion from oil, but production is declining.

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Incentives Uncertainty Short-term Politics 14

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. But sometimes it’s a symptom of a deeper problem in your culture, product, or operating model. Control what you can.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

After seven years of operations, we are covering 85 percent of our field operating costs through farmer loan revenue. Only through many small operational innovations have we been able to get to 85 percent. The Social Franchise Model Works in Times of Uncertainty. When we started, that number was 10 percent.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

One of us (Paul) is a strategy scholar and economist; the other (Amy) studies organizational behavior and operations management. Strategy as learning requires senior executives to engage in an ongoing dialogue with operations across all levels and departments. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

We can take some lessons from Bangladesh, where BRAC is heading full steam into mobile banking with bKash (bikash means "growth" in Bengali), which is now the largest mobile banking provider in the country. By the end of 1993, half of the pumps were operating at a loss and many loans were in arrears.

Technology 8

Technology Microfinance Banking Document 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

A list of the top 20 banks today contains only seven that were on the list a decade ago. Repeatability was based on a three-year Bain & Company study of enduring profit and relative competitive ability to adapt in a world of increasing velocity and uncertainty. A similar pattern hold for airlines. And for telecom. And for many others.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Drawing on lessons from the auto industry, banking and beyond, he offered provocative prescriptions for coping in a world in which “the real challenge is to decide what you are doing” in the face of tremendous “technological change or market change.”. Managing uncertainty Managing yourself' This was no mere rhetorical device.

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Drucker Bottom-up Rogers Uncertainty 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Many such “Rocket” companies are poised to become the Alibabas and Amazons for the rest of the world: Jumia, which operates in nine countries across Africa; Namshi in the Middle East; Lazada and Zalora in ASEAN; Jabong in India; and Kaymu in 33 markets across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

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Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

"I find a lot of people paralyzed by their unhappiness with their current reality," says Leonard Schlesinger, the president of Babson College and coauthor of Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future. It's often easier to stay put. The cost of staying outweighed the benefits. It's not often you get that mental silence.".

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Building Personal Strength

JUNE 21, 2011

Back then, colonels and generals talked tough about Vietnam because the worst hadn't happened yet, and because they experienced the war mostly from inside of Tactical Operation Center bunkers inside the perimeter of a base camp - far from where the action was actually taking place. He was a tough-talking colonel. He was all business.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! This has been the biggest contributor to how I operate now. Your leadership is like a bank account. Your leadership is like a bank account – A healthy leadership tip from @cnieuwhof Click To Tweet. What is that!?”

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