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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. General Charles Jacoby is a military leader whose career culminated as four-star Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. In some cases, failing to come up with a viable vision and strategy for the new environment leads to mediocrity or extinction.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The hierarchy of knowledge is as follows: Gut Instincts : This is an experiential and/or emotional filter that may often times have no current underpinning of hard analytical support. Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk. Is the source reliable and credible?

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Deep questions: What diving teaches us about uncertainty and risk

Chartered Management Institute

Since founding the Human Diver in 2016, Gareth has given risk training to a wide variety of organisations, from oil and gas and construction to pharmaceuticals and software. In all sectors, tensions exist between competing pressures such as resources, finance, time and workload. Instead, they may rely on set procedures and paperwork.

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Will Economics Finally Get Its Paradigm Shift?

Harvard Business Review

When evidence piles up that contradicts the paradigm, a science sometimes needs to go through the painful process of a paradigm shift. That evidence has just kept on piling up in finance. Economy Finance Risk management' In macroeconomics, too. Maybe that’s just me.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The net result of being a late stage trend follower is that you will likely experience little more than yet another in a long line of great adventures that ended in frustration due to the time wasted and the investment squandered. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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Questions and Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The comment I left on Dan’s post was as follows: “Thought provoking post to be sure…However my belief is that the most powerful question of all is the one that works within the context of the situation at hand. I strongly recommend to all CEOs that they routinely ask team members the following questions: Why? (my

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Why the TSA Screening Revolt is Like Poison Ivy

Harvard Business Review

The reasoning went as follows (I have approximated Kinsleys numbers to make the arithmetic easier). If the discount airlines are ten times more dangerous, this rises to 1 in a million, but you make up for this by saving $50 per flight. The reasoning went as follows (I have approximated Kinsleys numbers to make the arithmetic easier).