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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

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. What's funny is that it really doesn't matter what the motivations are for doing so, the outcomes are rarely good.

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How to deal with cyber-attacks: publicly or privately?

Strategy Driven

In terms of the bigger picture, the lack of reliable data pertaining to attacks on private companies leads to lopsided analysis regarding the multifaceted aims and motives driving these attacks, resulting in a sort of half-finished portrait of the threat landscape. About the Author.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

A leader’s purpose and job is to give direction and purpose and motivate his people. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Your clearly defined purpose can also center the attention and be a source of inspiration for your employees. Provide leadership. The business you’re in.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. Before, tricky problems would be redirected to a risk manager. It could take weeks for the risk manager to review the case.

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The Behavioral Economics of Why Executives Underinvest in Cybersecurity

Harvard Business Review

That’s why cybersecurity efforts have to focus on risk management , not risk mitigation. We’ve uncovered insights about why people put errors into code, fail to install software updates, and poorly manage access permissions. (We But this pessimistic outlook makes for a very tough sell.

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Global Team Leaders Must Deliberately Create "Moments"

Harvard Business Review

To counter those cohesion and performance risks, managing such a globally-dispersed team requires deliberate planning that helps bridge those boundaries. Such insights give teammates a better understanding of their colleagues' attitudes, behaviors, and motivations, fostering the development of trust.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Statistics Tree: Understanding Figures and What They Symbolize, Relating Directly to Your Business Success

Strategy Driven

That 2% includes all the doctors, lawyers, accountants and engineers… those of us who actually advise. Retaining good employees, involving training, motivation and incentives, is yet another matter. Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years.