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Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader. The sudden, unexpected and potentially catastrophic event that threatens a business is a CEO’s greatest challenge. Everyone watched as CEO Tony Hayward made blunder after blunder while BP’s crude killed. Main menu Home. Leadership.

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Exploring Alternate Futures Can Help Identify Future Leaders

N2Growth Blog

In their annual survey on the management and planning tools used by thousands of companies around the world, Bain and Company show a consistent and deserved popularity of scenario planning. Those who know scenario planning know that its value isn’t in “predicting the future.” Some companies do.

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Is Your Company Ready to Protect Its Reputation from Deep Fakes?

Harvard Business Review

The end result of this manipulated reality may be that people no longer believe what they hear from a world leader, a celebrity, or a CEO. An obvious scenario, one that some companies might find themselves dealing with in the not-too-distant future, is a faked video of their CEO making racist or sexist comments, or bribing a politician.

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Living in a Radical State of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

Old efficiency thinking based on engineering and rational market models needs to be replaced by a creative intelligence based on imagining, building and managing new futures. A former assistant managing editor for Business Week , he is professor of Innovation and Design at Parsons The New School for Design.

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CIOs: Scenario Planning Can Save Your Job

Harvard Business Review

It''s the rare CIO who applies scenario planning to the business of IT. Yet, in a function driven by innovation and the uncertainties surrounding the application and implication of future technologies, not using scenarios is tantamount to management malpractice. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs). IT management'

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China’s Slowdown: The First Stage of the Bullwhip Effect

Harvard Business Review

Ford CEO Alan Mulally tried to mitigate the impending bullwhip during the 2008 financial crisis by imploring the U.S. Demand forecasting may become more challenging as demand patterns change, and companies may be advised to look into forecasting methods based on scenario planning rather than historical patterns.

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Make Your Strategy More Agile

Harvard Business Review

Sure, the value of an in-depth discovery phase; comprehensive, quantitative, and qualitative research; stakeholder interviews; scenario planning; and alignment are undisputed. And how often have you crafted a meticulous three-year strategic plan, only to have it become obsolete after a few months, or even weeks?