Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Good intentions and political correctness are not enough. It is good business to recognize opportunities for practice development. There are many good reasons why diversity relates to your livelihood: Embracing diversity is politically correct. Look at the issues and how they affect the total person. Actions are always required.

Diversity 89

Diversity Budgeting Open-book Risk Management 89

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement.

Business Model 344

Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Developed during World War II, CARVER (then one letter shorter and known as CARVE) was originally used by analysts to determine where bomber pilots could most effectively drop their munitions on enemy targets. (One It can be highly useful if you need to, for example, defend a budget request or a strategic plan to company leadership.

Tools 10

Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

She must also have the experience and capability to address business-in-society issues—legislation, regulation, investigation, enforcement and litigation — that now create risk and opportunity in all dimensions of corporate activity. Recent global developments underscore the importance of these societal issues.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

Blog 413

Blog Innovation Brand Strategic Planning 413

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Unfortunately, failing to assess the risk of the status quo does not mean the risks won’t materialize—it just means you won’t be adequately prepared when they do. If you are a member of a leadership team facing a critical strategic decision, you have an obligation to address these biases before inaction leaves your business irrelevant.

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Due Diligence Proposal Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Recent incidents with Japan and the air defense identification zone resulted in a very significant US response: trips by Secretary Hagel, President Obama, announcements on the US Defense Treaty pertaining to the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands issue – ultimately leading to the US and Japan developing a much closer relationship. China’s number one.”

Long-term 8

Long-term Politics Globalization Uncertainty 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If as a leader you don’t take the time to get to know your team members on a very personal basis you simply won’t build the trust necessary to successfully weather the seasons of leadership. How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? to hit your objectives?

Team Building 284

Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

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. Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. Most importantly, executives have to follow developments closely.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Criticizing others may be cloaked as a subtle or even polite dialog. We can dispense with all that employee training and professional development. Some people and organizations go to great extremes to place spins, rationalize or save face. Often, sweeping generalizations involve making far-fetched excuses or scapegoating someone else.

Budgeting 76

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 76

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

This is even more critical for an organization like NASA that has many high-risk projects and an ever-shrinking budget; Have active executive project sponsors; and. Maintain a constant focus on talent development for their teams and, in particular, their project leaders. Continuing Talent Development.

Project 15

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

This is even more critical for an organization like NASA that has many high-risk projects and an ever-shrinking budget; Have active executive project sponsors; and. Maintain a constant focus on talent development for their teams and, in particular, their project leaders. Continuing Talent Development.

Project 13

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

It was originally seen as a good thing – a way of allowing organizations to survive changes in leadership, and to resist the capriciousness of powerful individual leaders with vested interests. Everyone we spoke to in the company was polite, helpful, and increasingly apologetic. And yet somehow they couldn’t pay us.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Chief Financial Officer Delegation Globalization 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Business development. “Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.” They don’t have a clearly unique product, but instead rally behind ideas that are not fully developed. Employees are not empowered to make decisions or take risks.

Strategy 60

Strategy P&L Strategic Planning Tactics 60

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

In 2014, global political volatility reached an intensity not seen since the end of the Cold War. What are the biggest political and economic risks heading into the year ahead? Europe is at the top of your risk list for 2015. You notice it’s the politics of Europe, not the economics of Europe. Iran and Syria.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Politics Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

Unfortunately, we can't expect smoother sailing in years to come because, for the first time in seven decades, we now live in a world without global leadership. Nor are China or other emerging powers ready to fill the leadership vacuum. Not all pivot states are developing countries. So we've entered a period of transition.

Tourism 14

Tourism Crisis Globalization Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Experience: Buyers use a solution, increasingly in pilots or proof of concepts, and develop perceptions about its value based on that usage. The cross-functional communication and coordination that is required to navigate this change is the job of leadership.

B2B 8

B2B AIDA AIDAS Disintermediation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They devote far more time to internal execution and competitive risks than to external risks that can change the playing field. This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. Leftist presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is well ahead in the polls.

Market Risk 8

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Are corporate boards as polarized politically as the general population? Female directors are much more evenly split between the two main political parties. The ideological divisions we’re seeing in the political arena have permeated the boardroom.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8