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Leadership Training For Executives

Experience to Lead

To manage these challenges, executives are called on to adopt a long-term perspective on organizational strategy while staying in tune with the present-day needs of clients, customers and team members. A Virtual Learning Expedition is a live online experience that will bring senior managers to the next level.

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Preparing Your Business for COVID-19

Lead Change Blog

Switch your relationship management and networking to virtual venues. Expect that there will be a variety of event cancellations and travel changes. You should, too. Shift your team meetings and other corporate events to virtual forums. There will be changes even in social norms.

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Book Review: “Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All”

The Practical Leader

Where’s that time traveling machine to go back and make those investments? They channel their fear and worry into action, preparing, developing contingency plans, building buffers, and maintaining large margins of safety." Every 10X case beat its industry index by at least 10 times."

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Managing Risk in Career Decisions

Harvard Business Review

You'll be required to move halfway across the country, and there'll be more business travel. He talked with management consultants and private equity firms — the fields where he'd worked a decade before. Is there a contingency plan? Should you take the plunge? Should you make a big bet or play it safe?

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Why Quants Should Manage Your Supply Chain Risk

Harvard Business Review

When ash clouds from the Icelandic volcano darkened the skies over Europe, planes were grounded, interrupting business travel and disrupting air freight. Generally, the experts trying to address this issue take for granted that risk is a cost managers want to avoid and portray risk management as an attempt to avoid this potential cost.

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Balancing Parenting and Work Stress: A Guide

Harvard Business Review

A strong organizer juggles the myriad demands and endless details of their dual role effectively with task lists on their phone; the creative thinker comes up with an unusual but happy child care arrangement that accommodates their frequent last-minute business travel. Manage the village. Think long-term to stay in the game.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

A couple of years ago, my wife and I were traveling in Europe and visited a close personal friend, Rick, who was employed as a public affairs officer on a U.S. Even seasoned leaders get this wrong, and numerous opportunities to improve trust are lost. Let me give you a quick example of a leader who got it wrong. military base.