Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

Ren's journey guides readers through numerous factors necessary for success, including building a solid team with strategic placement of individuals in carefully selected roles appropriate to their skill sets and crafting the all-important business model.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Are you fundamentally reviewing your business and business model? Turn uncertainty into action—feel the risk and take action anyway. So, thinking at a higher level, are you prepared or preparing for a new future? Do you see this time as an opportunity, rather than a curse? What might you do?

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Given the nascent nature of the technology, the authors accept that it’s difficult to accurately gauge the size of the market, but this uncertainty should not dissuade companies or prompt them to underestimate the importance of it to their business.

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Lead from Within

JULY 31, 2023

So even during times of uncertainty and volatility, staying consistent in your leadership and being intentional about practicing the traits outlined above will keep you on track. A strong leader will regularly assess their business model to determine if their products and services are still meeting the evolving needs of their customers.

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Organisational change is rapidly accelerating, where a 2018 McKinsey report indicated that 80% of executives were concerned about the emerging risk in their business models. This new age is now characterised with greater speed, combined with greater uncertainty and risk.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

Change means uncertainty, which is an uncomfortable state for many. Change is a permanent feature of organizations; resistance is an expected part of the journey. Due to neuroscience research, we understand that change often triggers a threat response in the brain. Reasons for resistance vary, and may include: Loss of status from the change.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Growth has always been fundamental to business success, but it's never been more critical than it is now. Rapid changes in technology, shifting customer expectations, disruptive business models, and quickly evolving regulations force organizations to innovate quickly and invest in new lines of business that will fuel future growth.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The uncertainty and complexity of data in the future underpins the four scenarios produced by the authors: Divergent data nationalism , whereby citizen engagement is low on data issues such as privacy and trust, which gives rise to nationalistic data policies and minimal technological innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In the face of uncertainty and inflated expectations, Gartner research has identified five forces that will keep the pressure on executives to keep learning, testing, and investing in the technology: 1) Board and CEO expectations; 2) Customer expectations; 3) Employee expectations; 4) Regulatory expectations; and 5) Investor expectations.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Generational shifts at workplace combined with business model disruptions is only adding to the woes of being a leader in the current times. Constant learning equips leaders to remain agile in the face of uncertainty (and it sets a great example for people to follow). Work is a tool to develop people who, in turn, do great work.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

New research from Harvard Business School suggests that as well as helping rethink business models, digital technologies can also help organizations rethink their models for sourcing talent. Sourcing talent.

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 6, 2020

Lately I’ve been thinking that the toughest job for most leaders is maintaining your positivity and confidence in a relentless environment of uncertainty. The pressure put on most leaders to quickly adapt business models and keep the company moving forward in a pandemic is absolutely overwhelming.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2022

You can eliminate uncertainty around this question by using a project-based compensation system. If your business model allows for it, give employees the freedom to work on weekends as well, especially if they have to take care of something during the week and don’t want to lose pay.A

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Leading with Trust

JUNE 23, 2019

Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity…over the last several years, the term VUCA has gained momentum in everyday life as a way to describe the fast-changing, chaotic, and unpredictable global environment in which we live and do business. Uncertainty is the extent to which we can reasonably predict the future.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

Despite this, both rises were sudden and unprecedented, forcing financial service providers to update their business models quickly. The uncertainty of these times holds the danger of rising unemployment rates and financial struggles. However, there is a significant difference between them.

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LDRLB

MAY 25, 2012

In his new book, Adaptability: The Art of Winning in An Age of Uncertainty , Max McKeown argues that adaptability is an equal requirement for corporate survival. Border’s inability to see the way online retailing forced a change in business models led to closing its doors and admitting defeat by Amazon.

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LDRLB

MAY 25, 2012

In his new book, Adaptability: The Art of Winning in An Age of Uncertainty , Max McKeown argues that adaptability is an equal requirement for corporate survival. Border’s inability to see the way online retailing forced a change in business models led to closing its doors and admitting defeat by Amazon.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Building Resilience and Adaptability : In today’s ever-changing business landscape, the ability to adapt and be resilient is vital. Coaches help you develop these qualities, ensuring you can navigate and thrive in the face of change and uncertainty.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 21, 2021

There will be no new normal, but rather a willingness to embrace uncertainty. The Test is where you either make it or don’t, where your business model proves out or falls flat. She was an early team leader at Wired magazine, and has also been on the staff of Macworld, PCWorld and Outside magazines. Littman, Camp.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

As Brexit-related uncertainty engulfs the UK, with both the Government and its citizens trying to prepare for an unknown future, elsewhere in Europe there are brighter and more optimistic skies. The E-Residency initiative and its succeeding 2.0

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2019

Teams and agile methodology have become the dominant form of organization for environments featuring high uncertainty and rapid change, where business models are challenged by disrupters. But what does it mean to adopt agile and rapid team-based problem solving, where strategy becomes a problem solving process?

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The decision to disrupt a business model that is working for you requires no small amount of courage. When you do it, you’re saying to people who for their entire careers have been compensated based on the success of their traditional business: “Don’t worry about that too much anymore. Routines and priorities get disrupted.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs. If you only invest in refining today's business model you'll get locked into it.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Today’s innovators know that services, business models, collaboration, relationships, networks, knowledge, and social capital are the keys to the future. Role model these things every day. Innovation today is as much about how you deliver value as it is about what it is you offer to the market.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Today’s innovators know that services, business models, collaboration, relationships, networks, knowledge, and social capital are the keys to the future. Role model these things every day. Open up to surprise – innovation leadership is about living with uncertainty and using ambiguity as a tool to find clarity and direction.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 3, 2015

They thrive in uncertainty. Combining sound judgment with imaginative vision, Producers think up entirely new products, services, strategies, and business models. Self-made billionaires have what the authors call the Producer mind-set.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

One way to create a hurdle is to introduce uncertainty into your product. Uncertainty pricing is a powerful driver of new sales. Discount travel company Priceline is now valued at over $61 billion based on a business model of using uncertainty to sell to the budget-minded. How much should I bid? Not really.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

Any leader facing high levels of ambiguity needs to do two apparently paradoxical things: First, get comfortable with the idea of not having all the answers, and second, take steps to reduce the uncertainty. Netflix has used the uncertainty of changing market conditions to explore options that may have once seemed unthinkable.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

. “Culture” can sound like a catchall, a convenient way to place the blame outside the realm of policy, but I am talking about one specific dimension of culture: avoiding uncertainty. Greece tops this index of uncertainty-avoidance across all countries, scoring 100 out of 100. And it all starts in school.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Your business model might be flawless and your product might be the best on the market but if you compromise on understanding how to improve internal communication at work, you might find your business going nowhere as your employees sit scattered and uncertain about how to proceed.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

“All businesses sooner or later face the need to reconstruct their future,” explain the authors of the book, The Phoenix Encounter Method. They will need to destroy part or all of the incumbent business model in order to build their breakthrough, future-ready organization.” These are the leaders with the Phoenix Attitude.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

“All businesses sooner or later face the need to reconstruct their future,” explain the authors of the new book, The Phoenix Encounter Method. They will need to destroy part or all of the incumbent business model in order to build their breakthrough, future-ready organization.” These are the leaders with the Phoenix Attitude.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 10, 2016

When a leader has integrity, people aren’t left to guess the leader’s true intention, which often creates ambiguity, uncertainty and anxiety. Trust is strengthened when a Servant Leader demonstrates integrity by saying what he/she believes and feels. Trust is also strengthened when a Servant Leader does what he/she declared would be done.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

According to the October 2013 Harvard Business Review, the major obstacles to business model innovation are fear and uncertainty. Eighty percent of corporate executives rank business model innovation ahead of the development of new products and services in terms of importance.

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Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme. I first encountered the idea of developing a one-page business model in 2007 when I came across the Osterwalder model on the web.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs. If you only invest in refining today's business model you'll get locked into it.

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Most leaders are taught to avoid uncertainty. Could we be overlooking – even resisting – one of the most essential catalysts of personal and business breakthroughs? During OpenTable’s early days, the online restaurant reservation service received a big blow to its business model. Surprise is the enemy.

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