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End Game First

Leading Blog

But at some point, you will need to step back and observe what is happening so you can develop your strategic end game plan. That’s part and parcel for this phase of a crisis. It’s hard to know when you’ve become too comfortable with your current situation to objectively step outside of it. And that’s normal.

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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company. While delivering millions of dollars in profits, these projects have helped develop a cadre of leaders who can inspire teams to achieve big goals.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs. Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. The innovation portfolio.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. Only local zoning rules could inhibit future real estate magnates from building in the objectively safer parts of the city and protecting the populace by building more units higher up. What will this adaptation look like?

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How to Earn Your Manager’s Respect

Harvard Business Review

.” It progresses to being viewed as an employee deserving of “interesting and challenging assignments,” and finally as an employee that your manager, “wants to invest in and develop because he thinks you have a bright future.” ” Wanting respect is one thing; getting it is another. Here are some strategies.

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Explain Your New Strategy By Emphasizing What It Isn’t

Harvard Business Review

Then ask the student to “compare and contrast” the vacuum salesman’s approach with a peace negotiator’s tactic of asking for a small and relatively unimportant parcel of land before requesting a large payment of reparations. As a result, most leaders score a C- in strategy comprehension. Does this sound familiar?