Career Contingency Plans Management Marketing 
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 5, 2010
This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process. The two most common outcomes created by a lack of contingency planning are: 1.) watching things grind to a halt as you scramble to evaluate options, and; 2.)
Lead Change Blog
JULY 16, 2015
Others, full of optimism, forge ahead with gusto, experience meteoric success, and later face a precipitous change in fortune due to a circumstance that could have been planned for. For career and business success, it’s worth pursuing a middle ground—one where we take calculated risks but have a fallback strategy in case Plan A craters.
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Experience to Lead
MAY 30, 2023
To manage these challenges, executives are called on to adopt a long-term perspective on organizational strategy while staying in tune with the present-day needs of clients, customers and team members. This can help executives build a network of contacts and develop relationships that will be valuable throughout their careers.
Strategy Driven
AUGUST 12, 2017
Being an entrepreneur is not a career choice that means you can stay static. Get a marketing BBA degree or a management MBA, or any other business related degree. If you plan everything correctly and do all the research, calling on advice from others and your new knowledge, you can easily start new business ventures.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 9, 2017
Manage the village. If it takes a village to raise a child, your job is to build and manage that village the same way you would a project team at work. The new trainee could have done a first draft of the marketing summary; the groceries could have come from an Amazon standing order. Think long-term to stay in the game.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 26, 2014
Given that senior leaders often share the same worldview as the departing CEO and could prove to be out of touch with the changes sweeping through the industry, the board looks to the third level of management. The company should anticipate some departures and make contingency plans to appoint replacements and reach out to stakeholders.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 23, 2015
On a personal level, “you have genuinely lost some friends” from the organization, says Kevin Coyne, the co-founder and managing director of strategy consulting firm Coyne Partners and a professor at Emory’s Goizueta Business School. Manage your stress. ” Even stars may have trouble staying positive.
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