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Scenario Planning vs. Forecasting: 6 Questions to Ask to Prepare for a Post-Pandemic Future

Leading Blog

There is often confusion between scenario planning and forecasting, with the terms used interchangeably and inconsistently. Scenario planning is focused on the future and involves defining different stories behind different paths that will lead to that future.

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Exploring Alternate Futures Can Help Identify Future Leaders

N2Growth Blog

Scenarios and scenario-based planning are widely recognized as valuable tools in setting organizations’ visions and strategies. Shell is the most famed for their scenarios and their process for developing them and using them. Those who know scenario planning know that its value isn’t in “predicting the future.”

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Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future

Leading Blog

We can develop scenarios to “identify and test how and where the future and the present meet.” Different from experiments that “reveal immediate internal features of a complex system, scenarios explore where the internal organization meets the external environment, where uncertainties lurk beyond anyone’s control.”.

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Five Leadership Lessons from the Garden

Lead Change Blog

Scenario planning, a strategy first employed by Royal Dutch Shell, brings experts from a wide range of fields together to discuss actions if different scenarios take place. Scenario planning allows you to think out—in advance—various options.

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How Do You Combine Patience and Urgency?

Next Level Blog

It’s as true in business and leadership as it is in yoga and the rest of life. Running the plays requires urgency; developing the playbook requires patience. Have the patience to develop a new playbook and train your team with it before you send them into the urgency of the game. They can, and should, work together.

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How to Become a Master Persuasive Storyteller

Skip Prichard

Leadership Tip: Great communicators start by asking “What story does my presentation want to tell?” In the depths of the COVID-19 lockdown, executives at Salesforce developed a long-term scenario-planning tool to help enterprise customers rediscover their decision-making confidence in a world turned upside down.

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Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

Leadership. by John • September 12, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 4 Comments. Not many years after the Tylenol fiasco, a massive batch of sour coffee that made some people nauseous became my ultimate test of leadership. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Did you like this? Share it: Tweet.