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A Failure To Act – The Leader’s 5 Most Damaging Inactions

Lead Change Blog

Failure To Inform – It’s difficult enough to gain competitive intelligence; why would we withhold our own? Editor’s Note: Scott is donating December 2015 proceeds from the sale of his book, Make It Matter: How Managers Can Motivate by Creating Meaning , to the United Way. We admire and applaud your generosity, Scott!

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Only Half of Companies Actually Use the Competitive Intelligence They Collect

Harvard Business Review

For more than 30 years, most large corporations worldwide have adopted competitive intelligence (CI) as a way to expedite good decisions. We recently conducted a survey of CI managers and analysts who’ve been through our training program to see how much their findings influenced major company decisions, and why.

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Use Your Sales Force’s Competitive Intelligence Wisely

Harvard Business Review

Your job as a manager is to know what your customers will do next month or next year. That competitive intelligence can not only help individual salespeople become more effective, it can also help your company make better strategic decisions. The strategic value of competitive intelligence can be far-reaching.

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Managing Risks Means Managing Arguments

Harvard Business Review

Managing risks — especially the hard-to-pin-down, moving-target risks that any financial trading operation has to cope with — inevitably involves arguing. The words "risk management" usually evokes less subjective, more data-driven pursuits. But data and objectivity can only get you so far.

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A guide to great development moves

Great Leadership By Dan

There are inherent risks and pitfalls that can be avoided or need to be managed. This guide was developed as a way to ensure successful 2X2X2 executive developmental job changes and be a vaccination against possible derailment. I discovered that this is what’s really required of a General Manager – you can’t know it all.”

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JP Morgan's Loss: Bigger than "Risk Management"

Harvard Business Review

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Each requires customized risk management processes. The compliance-oriented risk manager of a failed U.K.

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How a Food-Ordering App Broke into a Crowded Market

Harvard Business Review

The idea for the business came to Nadav Sharon, a former Israeli Navy cook living in San Francisco and managing a small family pizzeria, when he realized how much time he was wasting taking endless phone orders. But Eat24 managed to bootstrap their app anyway. Here’s how. Don’t follow competitors.