N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. Whenever some crisis loomed on the Voyager, she was known barking out: “Options?” ” to the crew.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Decisioning by consensus usually results in no decision being made, or an intellectually dishonest, watered-down decision that is so full of compromises, hedges and caveats that a non-decision might have been preferable.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

But they also know that reputations can damaged by more than the operational risks that can be managed with functional redundancies, or the financial risks that can be countered by hedging, investing in futures markets, and global currency diversification. It should be no surprise that most “best practice” crisis-recovery examples (e.g.,

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Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

This is more than a nightmare for the affected firm's public relations department. Earlier this year, Goldman Sachs dumped terabytes of information on government investigators looking into the causes of the financial crisis. government has been opened for all to explore. It is a risk to business operations and profitability.

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Gordon Hedge Public Relations Document 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Yet look through the 22-page " Proposal for Expanding the Dialogue around the Ideas of Muammar Qadhafi " that Monitor prepared in 2007, and it sure sounds like public relations: As is the case of many individuals who are prominent actors in the world, Qadhafi is well known but is poorly understood, particularly in the West.

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PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 9