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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Most leaders are taught to avoid uncertainty. Creating game changers – whether products, services, or new business models – requires leaders to live with uncertainty, embrace ambiguity, and respond to both good and bad surprises along the way. Charting new territory involves using uncertainty as a tool to discover direction.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

There was so much fear and uncertainty. Ironically, or providentially, I had just graduated from the Defense Language Institute in Monterey and was preparing to go into the intel field to catch these kinds of "bad guys." It was a humbling time to serve in uniform.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

Because they give people like CEOs and politicians the idea that everything is understood and under control, these models often have the perverse effect of generating new, unanticipated problems. Any system that involves human behavior, like economics or finance, is inherently self-referential. But admitting uncertainty is not enough.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

The best CEOs are excellent at growing and running a company within a known business model. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. You’re comfortable with uncertainty.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Behavioral science research tell us that households, small business owners, and CEOs of multinationals alike are prone to overweight recent adverse events, follow the decisions of their peers , compartmentalize risks , and engage in many other behaviors that economists have traditionally considered peculiar. In the U.S.,

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? Leaders are not perfect, and as CEO, trust me when I tell you that you’re going to have your fair share of bad days.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Lots of control is something that many CEOs have, but Zuckerberg will have something else entirely: he can't be terminated. But in most cases, CEOs don't own such a claim and yet still have quite a lot of control. That's a given, not an uncertainty. But perhaps the most significant thing is the control structure (novel).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

In more practical terms, the CEO of business operations managed operational integration discussions, which allowed the COO to focus on delivering excellent service for our client partners. A deal team is made up of professionals covering all aspects of the integration, including experts from business operations, legal, tech, and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

To build a sustainable business that will succeed in the long-term you must seek backing from market participants who are aligned with this vision. It is time that you revisit whether your communication strategy is the right one in achieving this alignment.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Last year, Jeff Smisek, the former CEO of United Airlines, received a separation payment of $4.875 million in cash along with additional equity awards and other benefits for a total of close to $37 million after being ousted from his company. Golden parachutes can’t seem to stay out of the news.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Strive Masiyiwa was interviewing him to be CEO of the Nigeria telecoms venture lead by Econet Group, which Strive founded and chairs. ’” Under a different CEO, Econet Wireless Nigeria went on to build a nationwide network of street-side airtime sales. “Where are the stores?” Let us unburden you.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

A few years ago, Brad Anderson , then CEO of Best Buy, told me something both provocative and profound. Usually, if you search, there are opportunities in your current job and at your current level to display your ability to drive change, even if you are in a support function like finance or human resources.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In our surveys, more than 66% of CEOs said they expect their companies to change their business model in the next three years, with 62% reporting they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their business more digital.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Knowing that the business leader is in a volatile part of the world, malicious third parties can formulate an attack by harnessing the fear and uncertainty that accompanies such travel. According to PWC and KPMG, only 53% of companies have employee security-awareness and training programs, and only 50% of CEOs feel prepared for a cyberattack.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

That is to say, the uncertainties about Apple’s future trajectory — even over just the next couple of years — are staggering. Which raises the question of what if any heed CEO Tim Cook should pay that stock price. Apple Disruptive innovation Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. The repercussions of all this uncertainty are dramatic in terms of cost and material use. We know it's important and that we're supposed to reduce it by increasing "turns.". As Robert F.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. After I personally asked CEOs to join me in accelerating job creation at their own companies , Starbucks asked itself how it might further use the company's scale for good. We must act not because making a positive difference is a nice thing to do.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

In other cases, highly compensated boards literally run a company into the ground by churning through CEO after CEO (lack of strategic alignment). Another high-performing board immersed itself into a global financial services firm's complex financing activities, as it successfully navigated a financial crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

CEOs and financial-sector stars make the vast majority of their money in asset-price-linked jackpots, not annual paychecks. Compensation Finance Managing uncertainty' But I also wonder if asset values have come to play such a big role in modern economic life that we’ve forgotten what those assets are for.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Paul Bulcke, Nestle’s CEO, was quoted by Fortune as saying , “This is a case where you can be so right and yet so wrong… We live in an ambiguous world. Nestle lost $277 million in sales and paid $70 million in a recall. The damage to the brand name has been even larger — half a billion dollars.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Can we harness the information age to develop some sort of calamine lotion to soothe our hysteria in the face of uncertainty? Can we harness the information age to develop some sort of calamine lotion to soothe our hysteria in the face of uncertainty?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

I refuse to dignify this attack with a response,” said Henry Guillart, the CEO, just hours after Hughes had given his initial negative presentation at an investor conference in New York. sensed a deep discomfort in the CEO, as if Henry was afraid to tangle publicly with Hughes. That decision turned out to have serious consequences.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

There was a lot of uncertainty and debate last summer and fall over whether President Obama would appoint Janet Yellen or Larry Summers as Federal Reserve chair. Martin was a former stockbroker and New York Stock Exchange president who took graduate classes in finance at Columbia while working on Wall Street in the 1930s.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

CEO George Fisher’s resignation in 2000, following a famously frustrated push for digital, set the stage for successors Dan Carp and Antonio Perez to reincarnate the company. . “That’ll never be my company,” we say, confident of our own willingness to adapt: But this story is wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

Freelancing can come with a lot of uncertainty — you may not always know who your next client is going to be or how much you’re going to earn in the coming year. “We were lucky that my husband had a good job and we’d been smart about our finances. I had an assistant, IT support.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

As a former fund company CEO, I witnessed this first hand. Was the company's success a result of the CEO's talent, or would it have been the same if she had taken a two-year sabbatical? One of the most significant weaknesses of human thinking reveals itself in picking a "good" mutual fund.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Though the CEO may be driving, anyone sitting on the bow can get a direct line to the captain to suggest a change of direction. Between your idea and the helm, there are legal departments, finance departments, marketing departments, other business units, channel partners, and sometimes even your customers. The boat can turn on a dime.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. We decry CEOs for the same reasons that we formerly sainted and canonized them. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

In each country, following recent elections and referendums, they are facing political, social, and economic uncertainties we would never have imagined just a year ago. The 21st-Century CEO. The second World War had left business slow and finances strained. The executives I’m meeting are understandably nervous.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

We asked Hamdi Ulukaya, the Turkish-born founder and CEO of the yogurt company Chobani, whether he was ever afraid while building his multibillion-dollar business. But uncertainty is real and constant. Uncertainty and ambiguity are defining features of the challenge of entrepreneurship. Even success can provoke anxiety.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Gray areas are situations with high uncertainty and serious human stakes. Imagine, for example, that you’re a pharmaceutical CEO deciding whether to recall a new drug. A recent exchange between Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, and an activist shareholder dramatized these legal realities. How should you make this decision?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success , Will Thorndike described how share buybacks had helped drive several of the most remarkable corporate successes of the past half century. The approach of the CEOs in the book was entirely different. Apple Finance Managing uncertainty'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success , Will Thorndike described how share buybacks had helped drive several of the most remarkable corporate successes of the past half century. The approach of the CEOs in the book was entirely different. Apple Finance Managing uncertainty'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

But it is also a complex market, with a reputation for corruption, uncertainty, and bureaucracy. No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up) — your world is awash with data.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

CEO activism, the growing trend of top executives speaking out on sensitive social and political issues, has been labeled the “ new normal.” There are conflicting views of how CEOs should proceed. fotog/Getty Images. ” But behind the scenes, executives do not feel in control. At a time when the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Founders face a wide range of decisions when building their startups: market decisions, product decisions, financing decisions, and many more. They decided to split the equity unequally, with the founder-CEO receiving more than twice the stake of the cofounder with the lowest stake. That’s understandable, but perilous.

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