LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Most leaders are taught to avoid uncertainty. Creating game changers – whether products, services, or new business models – requires leaders to live with uncertainty, embrace ambiguity, and respond to both good and bad surprises along the way. Charting new territory involves using uncertainty as a tool to discover direction.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

There was so much fear and uncertainty. God Bless [link] mikemyatt Thanks for the sharing the powerful reminder of what that day was like from someone who experienced it first hand. " Mike, this is the most powerful sentiment expressed thus far. It was a humbling time to serve in uniform. They will not be forgotten!!!

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Now comes Act Two: Frustrated with the lack of progress, the manager decided to organize a working session for all of the product managers and their engineers, along with people from supply chain and finance. Given all of these fears and uncertainties, it''s no wonder that many managers hesitate to utilize their convening authority.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

In 2009, Godrej & Boyce launched ChotuKool , a $70 refrigerator targeting the 85% of Indians who found existing models too bulky, expensive, and power hungry. The portable, battery-powered refrigerator has been a huge hit. Geopolitical uncertainty remains an issue; infrastructure and cultural barriers might constrain growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

This is a huge divergence from the traditional norm for chief roles, but the CE is a necessary position of power to ensure that a company innovates. The Chief Entrepreneur is an executive as powerful as the CEO, with clear leadership over radical innovation within the company. You’re comfortable with uncertainty.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Fortunately, demonstrating your skills in this area doesn't demand that you singlehandedly develop a new breakthrough product or revise the company's overall business model. Senior-level decision makers aren't looking for someone at your level to make "roll the dice" bets that can have a significant negative impact on company performance.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

I’ve developed this framework based on the experiences that my collaborators and I have had implementing prediction systems over the last 25 years in domains like finance, healthcare, education, and sports. The framework differentiates problems along two independent dimensions: predictability and cost per error.

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Uncertainty Simon Cost Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

The complexity and uncertainty of forging new ground makes it easy to get lost. A designated project space displaying these results at key milestones in the process will augment the creativity and decision-making power of your team and will serve as a crash course for stakeholders who need to be brought up to speed.

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Innovation Brand Project Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Posing that question continues to be a powerful way to catalyze important strategic conversations. The uncertainty that increasingly characterizes our world means that companies need to attract, retain, and develop motivated innovators who can help to imagine and realize new growth opportunities. And short-term numbers at that.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

As a result, Moscow has introduced various excise taxes and is contemplating a hike in the VAT rate (from 18% to as much as 24%) and higher income taxes (to either raise the flat rate from 13% to up to 20%, or to create progressive scale) that will hurt the spending power of consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. Mnangagwa is clear that he wants to rebuild the economy and start fresh with foreign businesses.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

We found that boards tend to progress from good-to-great along a four-phase continuum: 1) foundational, 2) developed, 3) advanced, and 4) strategic. The continuum essentially represents a corporate hierarchy of needs, akin to the famous personal-development hierarchy created by psychologist Abraham Maslow.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

It has been one of the most powerful and trusted brands in that market and held a commanding 63% market share. What insights will cause an executive — in R&D or Marketing or Finance — to not only change his or her perspective, but to be able to juggle different perspectives? billion sales in India.

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Planning Competitive Intelligence Pharmaceuticals Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Some powerful Iranian institutions are highly suspicious of Western influence.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

Exit from the Euro would only increase that capital scarcity, as the foreign exchange uncertainties would need to be factored in. This, more than anything else, explains why Greece been unable to benefit from lower wage costs in developing its economy. contraction today, there was no one in the finance ministry actually making policy.

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Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. To us, there are few better examples at demonstrating the power of the Lean Startup. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. George is one of the most thoughtful people you will ever meet.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

What made this presentation so powerful was it was more than just an act put on for the benefit of the attendees, it was completely authentic and the audience knew it. Let me be clear – don’t underestimate the power of a positive attitude. The simple truth is that people strongly desire to work with and for great leaders.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Some had established businesses, and others were in the early stages of developing their business. In contrast, when entrepreneurs worried about the potential of their idea or their personal ability to develop a successful venture, they tended to be affected more negatively and become less proactive. ” one entrepreneur told us.

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Chris Brady

AUGUST 4, 2010

  EverywhereI’ve gone, every place through which we’ve managed to squeeze the clunky whitemini-bus, every wrong turn, wrong way, blocked intersection, illegal entry, parkingcalamity, and driving uncertainty has brought about not a single angry word,mean gesture, or unfriendly response.

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Open-book Travel Letter Blog 66

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

And in some cases, the turmoil surrounding the Arab Spring has shown that a social franchise is the only effective model in times of great uncertainty. Establishing EFE as a franchise has been an interesting journey, and one that has given me valuable insights into developing a successful social franchise. Build a strong, local board.

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Franchising Uncertainty NGO Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Both practices have long developed insights into their customers based on data and analytics. The marketing and sales team of one major technology vendor, for instance, partnered with risk to assemble a range of financing packages to help its mid-market clients fund upgrades, manage invoice payments, and smooth cash flows.

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Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

After a year-long analysis of seven developed countries and six sectors , we have concluded that demand matters for productivity growth and that increasing demand is key to restarting growth across advanced economies. a decade later — was due to weak demand and uncertainty. First, the economies of scale effect. in 2014 to 2020.

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Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. What we do with fear and uncertainty determines who we are.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

But it is also a complex market, with a reputation for corruption, uncertainty, and bureaucracy. No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up) — your world is awash with data.

Books 8

Books Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage Storytelling 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

After a year of uncertainty and tumult, Congress finally got around to making some crucial decisions in the last month of 2010. Extended many energy and business credits and incentives, such as the Research & Development credit. Extends unemployment insurance coverage through 2011. Stay tuned for more excitement!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

” Eighty years ago, John Maynard Keynes introduced the concept of irreducible uncertainty, distinguishing between events one can reasonably calculate probabilities for, such as the spin of a roulette wheel, and those which remain inherently unknown, such as war in ten years’ time. Two areas are of particular concern.

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Crisis Uncertainty Finance Price 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

We have been working with businesses to develop a strategic framework for when to take a stand on social issues. Employees are now a company’s most powerful interest group. What to do, now that the neutral middle ground has become a quicksand? It draws on the work of R. At a time when the U.S. So the paradoxes multiply.

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CEO Politics Policies Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

But the crowdfunding jewel is fool's gold, and is inherently incapable of harnessing "people-to-people power" and the "wisdom of crowds" to "democratize access to capital for entrepreneurs" in order to "create wealth and make things happen," as crowdfunding sites publicly proclaim. I am referring only to equity crowdfunding.

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Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Now, powerful analytical tools are driving that organizational calculus. For example, it can take five years or more to develop today’s high potentials into leadership roles. A “hedgehog” approach to organization and talent strategy can be a trap, even when supported by powerful predictive analytics.

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Uncertainty Finance Agility Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Now, powerful analytical tools are driving that organizational calculus. For example, it can take five years or more to develop today’s high potentials into leadership roles. A “hedgehog” approach to organization and talent strategy can be a trap, even when supported by powerful predictive analytics. Increasingly, you cannot.

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Human Resources Information Technology Uncertainty Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

Few have developed the understanding that the bark is merely the outermost layer of a tree. In the six decades since Berlin's essay was published, hedgehogs have come to dominate academia, medicine, finance, law, and many other professional domains. There are many who have deeply studied its nooks, grooves, coloration, and texture.

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Hammer Real Estate Uncertainty Career 19

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Either candidate’s success could cause sufficient uncertainty for Brazilian businesses to put the brakes on investment plans. Europe’s migrant crisis illustrates how events in developing countries create ripple effects that ultimately affect global business. Navy for the better part of a century.

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Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

These broad components were: Citizens/People Components: the four components in this category are: inclusivity, environment and quality of life, state of talent and the human condition, talent development. One of the key areas where the government needs to narrow the gap is in the robustness of the economy and the quality of its institutions.

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Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 9