Lead Change Blog

JULY 9, 2019

What about in your finances, or in your relationships? Randy shares: “Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity… these are words commonly used to describe the fast-paced and chaotic world in which we live. Jesse Stoner of Seapoint Center shared How to Use Mental Imagery to Achieve Your Goals.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Team Building 224

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Share company struggles, successes and finances. Please share the finances in a manner that is easy to understand. As the Senior Leadership defining the large thematic goals is your job. You need to have a shared Goal for this and a known + usable procedure for deciding and accomplishing the goal. how do we know?

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Planning Strategic Planning Team Building Executive Coaching 137

LDRLB

JANUARY 14, 2013

It’s usually an individual endeavor focused on fitness, friendships, or finances. The goal is to use whatever information you can find, and then apply your instincts to fill in the gaps. The goal is to sponsor and conduct low-risk experiments to test and validate a variety of new opportunities. Comprehensive data rarely exist.

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Strategy Leadership Innovation Uncertainty 160

Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Our lives are full of multiple interdependent decisions as we try to navigate complex interactions with multiple competing goals. In all sectors, tensions exist between competing pressures such as resources, finance, time and workload. I don’t talk about risk management, I talk about uncertainty management.

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Uncertainty Risk Management Training Compliance 52

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

At this moment, most organizations are focused on helping their customers and employees with immediate safety and security needs, recognizing the immediate short-term financial impact on their end goals. According to a recent survey in USA Today, Americans are far more worried about their finances than their health amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 59

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Despite the desire to stay in bed and sleep away the rest of your days, a lob loss also marks a time of great uncertainty where you need to plan out what to do after the termination. Try to customize your cover letter for each role to fully commit to the values and goals of the company you are applying to.

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Letter Career Planning Review 52

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Finance Without Fear : A Guide to Creating and Managing a Profitable Business by William S. Hettinger and John Dolan-Heitlinger Finance Without Fear should be read by anyone starting or managing a business. The easy-to-read style helps remove the fear of finance for the entrepreneur, the small business owner, and the manager.

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Finance Uncertainty Case Study Competitive Advantage 50

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

At this moment, most organizations are focused on helping their customers and employees with immediate safety and security needs, recognizing the immediate short-term financial impact on their end goals. According to a recent survey in USA Today, Americans are far more worried about their finances than their health amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

HR Digest

OCTOBER 15, 2020

They fret over the upcoming election and its potential impact on their families and finances. We’ve seen it in past periods of economic uncertainty. New metrics should measure employees’ performance in meeting those goals. Workers aren’t just worried about losing their jobs or taking pay cuts. It’s likely coming.

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Productivity Products Metrics Survey 76

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

. “Culture” can sound like a catchall, a convenient way to place the blame outside the realm of policy, but I am talking about one specific dimension of culture: avoiding uncertainty. Greece tops this index of uncertainty-avoidance across all countries, scoring 100 out of 100. And it all starts in school.

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Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. Radical flattening of organizations is a fashionable recipe for dealing with accelerating change and uncertainty. We define risk intelligence as the organizational ability to think holistically about risk and uncertainty, speak a common language and effectively use forward?looking

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Agility How To Decentralization Morale 87

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I am just going to put an example that will immensely help you understand the significance and uncertainty of starting a new company. The business structure should aim at the organizational goals, vision, and mission that your organization needs. This also helps you in setting employee goals and OKR to measure performance.

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Company How To Banking Finance 95

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Finance professors Eugene Fama and Kenneth French find somewhat depressingly ( PDF ) that luck matters more. In a more complex sport, like soccer, where the success of a pass or a shot on goal depends on other players, the weather, the field, and our own skill — luck and skill interact completely. What about J.K. Skill or luck?

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Skills White Paper Uncertainty Sports 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

rogue traders in finance). blaming subordinates for any failure), undermining cooperation, psychological safety, trust in coworkers, and the ability to admit uncertainty or mistakes. Effective interventions require authentic and meaningful connections to core organizational values and goals.

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Organization Cooper Bottom-up Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The first order explanation is that the founding CEO didn't have the wealth to keep the revenue stream and so had to sell the claim to finance the company's expansion: they gave up a large share of the claim on revenue but kept control. That's a given, not an uncertainty. Every goal he has set for himself has panned out.

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IPO Incentives Entrepreneur Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Usually, if you search, there are opportunities in your current job and at your current level to display your ability to drive change, even if you are in a support function like finance or human resources.

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Innovation Merchandising How To Proposal 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. The same happens when an engineer is tightly managed on their code velocity — in making sure to reach their goal, the engineer becomes far less likely to be creative or raise problems. Set learning goals.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Tackling climate change — and thus keeping the world inhabitable — is an achievable goal, but it will become prohibitively expensive if we wait to act. It’s easy to point out a big flaw with the stranded assets discussion: uncertainty. Economy Finance Sustainability'

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Discounted Cash Flow NGO Conference Banking 11

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. Through a combination of efficiency projects and the use of renewable energy, we are on pace to reach our carbon emissions goal ahead of schedule. In fact, we are more than 90% of the way to our 2025 emissions reduction goal. The HR Digest: C.

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Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

The complexity and uncertainty of forging new ground makes it easy to get lost. Make thinking visible to help teams stay on track and reinforce their goals. She specializes in helping C-level executives find and articulate their vision and successfully use strategic communication to achieve their growth goals.

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Innovation Brand Project Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Venture capitalists finance structured experiments — with relatively modest amounts of money and time — intended to produce valuable outcomes. Venture capital is active, staged commitment of capital to multiple high-potential, high-uncertainty investments with great potential. Failure is inevitable and healthy.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Core Competence Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Furthermore, economic decision-making has become increasingly politicized as the government has prioritized political goals (i.e. But based on the experience and strategies of our clients, there are ways that they can manage the uncertainty. This will likely continue to make business planning even more difficult.

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Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The junk bond market made financing large takeovers possible and even the biggest among the Fortune 500 firms were no longer safe from a forced acquisition. They weren’t initially designed to reward an executive who simply chooses to walk away or is forced out in the wake of scandal. By 1986 about a third of the largest 250 U.S.

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Golden Parachute Hostile Takeover Airlines Execution 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The escalating crisis of confidence around the world is a phenomenon linked not only the global financial crisis but also to the uncertainty surrounding many governments — from the Middle East's transitional democracies and Europe's debt-strapped countries to the U.S.'s s inability to collaboratively solve its own serious problems.

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Health Care Innovation Crisis Brainstorming 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

To manage the uncertainty, the committee increased the number of price tiers across events, as mentioned, but did not assign a fixed number of seats to each tier. One of the explicit goals in pricing the Games was to limit negative media attention. After all, they financed and endured the construction. Promote transparency.

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Price Committee Sports Transportation 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Investors once bought stocks purely for the dividends; now dividends are usually an afterthought, with price appreciation the main goal. Compensation Finance Managing uncertainty' Accounting has moved from a basis in history and income to one in which prices are marked to market. It might seem like a petty little requirement.

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Insurance Price Uncertainty System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

In other words, the goal for strategic intelligence is not to collect market information to make plans , but to use that information to generate insights that in turn support ever-changing perspectives. We must start to think differently about how business, management, and strategic intelligence works. What builds management perspectives?

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Planning Competitive Intelligence Pharmaceuticals Brand 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Financial uncertainty plagues the lives of individuals and small business owners alike. Reflect on your goals and make the best decision depending on the time, energy, money, and skills you are willing to give to this investment venture. Such services require minimum efforts from your part, but they do not come cheap.

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How To Long-term Short-term Budgeting 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

The blind spot in its strategy and the root cause of its collapse, was its failure to see how progress in the other components of its ecosystem would eliminate the value of the end goal.

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Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Our research found that worries concerning opportunity costs, personal financial security, or ability to obtain funding for the venture were all positively associated with an entrepreneur’s persistence in pursuing their goals. Fear of failure can also change the nature of goals that entrepreneurs set for themselves.

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Entrepreneur Self-aware Tacit Knowledge Mentor 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Between your idea and the helm, there are legal departments, finance departments, marketing departments, other business units, channel partners, and sometimes even your customers. That is where the budget is determined, and the processes decided upon.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Our research of more than 1,800 organizations over the last two years suggests at least five reasons for this: Business Uncertainty. Eisenman is Dean of Babson Executive Education and co-author of I Didn't See It Coming , a book on how executives can manage their companies and careers amid business uncertainty.

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Team Short-term Proposal Uncertainty 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Social entrepreneurs often grapple with the decision of whether to establish their organizations as nonprofit or for-profit in order to reach their goals. Early last year, we were able to close a Series A round of financing from Khosla Impact Fund and Capricorn Investment Group, giving us a launchpad by which to try this new structure.

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NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

What we do with fear and uncertainty determines who we are. A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed. There was no definable style in place, backed by Vision, strategies, corporate sensitivities, goals and beliefs.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

But it is also a complex market, with a reputation for corruption, uncertainty, and bureaucracy. No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up) — your world is awash with data.

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Books Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage Storytelling 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

It’s no longer the domain of tech companies, as industries from manufacturing to finance are entering a tech-driven phase. Adjust strategies to meet goals. Respond to uncertainty with speed and flexibility. However, those goals must be clearly stated and understood by the staff at every level. #2

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Agility Process Management McKinsey 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Adjusting to new economic realities as well as political and economic uncertainties will require making their supply chains much more resilient. All this adds up to an unprecedented level of uncertainty about trade policies and their effect. Its medium-term goal — if its first U.S. presidential election.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10