Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 22, 2020

Effective strategic leadership – and the ability to solve strategic leadership challenges – requires different skills and perspectives than those required by day-to-day operational leadership. Operational leaders must meet short-term targets, master their functional area, and create stability for focused execution. Think strategically.

Leadership 106

Leadership How To Long-term Short-term 106

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

For example, sometimes when a senior manager makes a request, it causes a cascade of activity that is far beyond what she intended. To minimize their negative impact, there are two steps that managers can take: Plan ahead (as much as you can). Author's Note: My colleague Holly Newman contributed ideas and research for this post.

Airlines 11

Airlines Supply Chain Scenario Planning Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. Read more from Korn Ferry: How to Develop Leaders Who Can Drive Strategic Change.

Organization 8

Organization SPM Content Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The essence of the phenomenon is the fact that each stage in the supply chain plans its capital projects and operations, including inventory levels, based on its future expectations. Macroeconomic data during the 2008 financial crisis show the bullwhip effect operating on a much broader scale. For example , U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

By using the technology to play the role of customer, investor, product developer, factory worker, and so on — making the kinds of choices they must make — board members could see the business (somewhat literally) from various stakeholders’ vantage points. (Some headsets really immerse you in the experience.)

Scenario Planning 8

Scenario Planning Tools Technology Compliance 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. Business development. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Next comes Crisis Planning.

Crisis Management 77

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 77

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Steve Jobs, a regular meditator, made use of mindfulness practice to challenge operating assumptions at Apple and to enhance creative insight in planning. But it’s also possible to build mindfulness directly into planning exercises. It can’t hurt.

Strategy 8

Strategy Goleman Strategic Planning Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. They will not, it must be noted, alter how the role of manufacturing evolves as economies develop.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Business development. Questions to follow in Budgeting as part of Strategic Planning and Visioning processes include: Does this process increase your accountability to funding sources and to the public? Are budgeting measures used to manage performance? Is the performance management system focused upon outcomes?

Strategic Planning 68

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 68

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

The sooner firms have a Brexit plan, the faster they can focus on managing these competitive dynamics. How to Plan for Brexit. In some ways, the UK in this Brexit environment resembles the uncertain operating environment of some emerging markets. Understand possible scenarios.

Planning 8

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Developments in the Middle East — first the removal of long-time Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011 and now Hosni Mubarak's stepping down in Egypt — suggest that authoritarian regimes in the region are not immune to "people power."

Strategy 13

Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 13

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2019

It’s about coming up with possible scenarios for the future given these developments. Futurists use tools that systematize these recommendations including scenario planning, environmental scanning, Delphi surveying, and individual software programs like Fibres, Futures Platform, and Athena.

Flextime 74

Flextime How To Scenario Planning Consultative 74

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

of the votes were in favor, providing a strong signal that climate change is an important financial risk and that shareholders want to know more about what companies are doing to transform their operations and products to remain competitive in a low-carbon world.

Tips 8

Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Multinational companies operating in Mexico are facing a great deal of uncertainty. Many of the companies we work with that have operations in Mexico have taken up scenario planning to prepare for a range of potential economic and political changes in the country that could affect their businesses. Renegotiating NAFTA.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 8