Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Plan for the future. When your business has contingency plans for future scenarios you will seldom be caught by surprise. Most successful businesses have planned responses to most scenarios because they took the time to think “What If”.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As currencies and stock markets have tumbled in emerging markets, the business media has been dominated by cries of an “Emerging-Markets Crisis.” The media uses “emerging-markets crisis” as shorthand, but recent market turmoil was actually about relatively few countries. But these risks were known months ago.

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Crisis Marketing Contingency Plans Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The other (Ranu) has been involved in responses to such public health disasters as the Ebola crisis in Africa, Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. All health systems have contingency plans and run drills for emergencies like a hurricane. Establish clear and trusted sources of information.

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Health Care Crisis Contingency Plans Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

In my former position as Managing Director of Philip Morris Ukraine where I was based from January 2012 until February 2015, I was forced to see it as a business crisis that threatened our people, operations, and bottom line. Indeed, Ukraine’s troubles offered an opportunity to build the leadership capacity of my management team.

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Crisis Management Contingency Plans Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In the wake of superstorm Sandy, we've heard story after story about the big infrastructural challenges of disaster response, crisis management , and climate change. But what about the impact on individual managers? Please let us know if you've seen other examples of how managers prepared for Sandy or stepped up afterward.

Planning 8

Planning Management Supply Chain Contingency Plans 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Simulations of security incidents were rehearsed, and contingency plans for mass evacuations or emergency situations were put in place. Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity.

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Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 14

You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 20, 2009

The trauma brought about by such change happens every day to countless people, people without contingency plans, or any idea how they are going to cope with what has happened to them. link] LeadershipNews: A Leadership Crisis or a Branding Issue? And yet we do, cope I mean, under many conditions and through many challenges.

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Performance Review Blog Learning-by-Doing Contingency Plans 43

Strategy Driven

MAY 29, 2020

While you can’t completely insulate yourself from every single eventuality, there are steps you can take to ensure that you have the right insight and contingency plans in place should the worst happen. Creating A Communications Plan. Not many small businesses can afford to shut down indefinitely if a crisis occurs.

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Insurance Contingency Plans Norton Crisis 66

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

Manage the village. If it takes a village to raise a child, your job is to build and manage that village the same way you would a project team at work. Downloading “life hack” apps onto your phone can help you move from “overwhelmed and exhausted” to “busy but managing.”

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Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 12

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

Bonus - Always have a Plan B : Another component of communications strategy that is rarely discussed is how to prevent a message from going bad, and what to do when does. It’s called being prepared and developing a contingency plan. If your expertise, empathy, clarity, etc.

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Tips Blog Learning-by-Doing Open-book 417

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 31, 2011

Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating the Risk Intelligent Enterprise Frederick Funston and Stephen Wagner John Wilkey & Sons, Inc. 2010) Risk unmanaged is risk exacerbated I am among those who find a wealth of excellent advice every time I pick up my copy of The Art of War and re-read a passage or two [.].

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Uncertainty Review Books Advice 75

Rapid BI

OCTOBER 10, 2012

What are the roles and responsibilities of leaders, managers, employees and communication professionals? Most effective organizations that operate structured approaches to internal communications appoint a dedicated communications manager. Part of your plan may include the creation of an emergency notification cascade system.

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Planning Strategy How To KPI 61

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Following the company’s go-private transaction in October 2013 , Dell put in place new models for strategy development, resource allocation, and performance management. Any deviation from management’s forecast meant failure, regardless of how effectively the strategy was executed. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

You can't cover every possible contingency, but having a set of options lined up in case things don't work out as expected is a basic rule of good risk management, entrepreneurship , negotiation, career planning, and all number of other endeavors. When crisis hit, they figured, it would be someone else's problem.

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Contingency Plans Crisis Politics GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Top leaders tend to focus more on status updates than on contingency planning. conflict in the Middle East or Africa renewing the migrant crisis in Europe. In our survey of 30 Brazil country managers in October, 20 reported increased revenue growth, despite the country’s dysfunctional, scandal-ridden politics.

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