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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce. Few are better in a crisis than Buckingham – she is steady, but also possesses the ability to see around corners. General and specific observations of the culture they’ve had a hand in shaping. About Jeffrey Cohn.

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How Jamie Dimon Became a Risk Factor

Harvard Business Review

It''s a lawyerly, exhaustive, exhausting rundown of all the things that could possibly weigh on the earnings of a giant global bank, from regulatory changes to loans going bad to a liquidity crisis to the possibility that "one or more of its employees causes a significant operational breakdown or failure."

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 4 of 4

Strategy Driven

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. Next comes Crisis Planning.

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Why Multinationals Are Doubling Down on Russia

Harvard Business Review

Russia’s industrialization also means that the market offers substantial opportunities in diverse B2B sectors such as mining, oil and gas, metallurgy, chemicals, light industry, and consumer durables. Today’s crisis is different. This worked, because both crises were short-lived (lasting approximately 1-1.5

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Who's Really Responsible for P&G's Succession Problems?

Harvard Business Review

Because succession planning is one of the most important and consequential functions tasked to any board, we wanted to learn more about what boards were doing. Given the boards'' responsibility for succession planning, one would expect them to give the subject plenty of time and consideration. Succession planning'

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Obama Gave a Monumental Climate Change Speech, But It's Still Not Enough

Harvard Business Review

And while the plan will have large impacts on business, it''s not a big enough vision to meet the scale of our climate challenge. But when all the elements of the president''s plans are combined, carbon energy will less appealing relative to cleaner options. But the plan we have on the table isn''t fully up to the task we face.

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How to Help Process Owners Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Appoint process owners not just to address a crisis, but to improve performance on broad customer-defined measures that cut across functions and need sustained attention. For example, Air Products set up process owners for each of the major steps in its supply chain, including plan, source, make, build, and fulfill.

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