Lead Change Blog

JULY 9, 2019

What about in your finances, or in your relationships? Too many commentators (whether authors, consultants, and business people) refer to leadership being a process of using power to influence how others think and act. Shelley Row of Insightful Leadership shared Four Anchors to Weather Any Storm.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Finance for the Now Normal: financial stability in the hotel industry CMI Sri Lanka recently hosted a webinar titled 'Finance for the NOW NORMAL' with Mr Nirmalan Nagendra FCMI FIH, who is a senior Hospitality Finance Professional and Consultant for KPMG.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 14, 2013

It’s usually an individual endeavor focused on fitness, friendships, or finances. And in today’s 2013 environment, uncertainty has never been greater. Ask yourself: What surprises have we experienced that influenced where we are today? The New Year brings about resolutions to redefine the status quo.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

Both are important, but they are far more difficult to achieve than many understand because they are, to a significant extent, influenced by culture. “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.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

There was so much fear and uncertainty. I appreciate your post and using your influence in such a meaningful way. Ironically, or providentially, I had just graduated from the Defense Language Institute in Monterey and was preparing to go into the intel field to catch these kinds of "bad guys." I Think Not.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

“An appreciation of the parallels between recent and historical events greatly influenced how I and many of my colleagues around the world responded to the crisis,” Mr. Bernanke said. Trusts, however, were financed by consumer deposits, while the toxic asset of 2008 were securities contracts held by investment banks.).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

In the European Union, government VCs allocated €3,621,000,000 to finance innovation and growth in small and medium-size businesses from 2007 to 2013. Women were also denied financing to a greater extent than men, with close to 53% of women having their applications dismissed, compared with 38% of men.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

At a macro level, there is evidence that it negatively influences analysts’ reports, thereby distorting the market. Earnings guidance attracts investors focused on the short-term, and tempts executives to engineer quarterly earnings to meet the expectations that they have issued.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In 1968, Harvard Business School professor Howard Raiffa published a book called Decision Analysis: Introductory Lectures on Choices Under Uncertainty. So I constantly put the question to my colleagues: Suppose government finance was not an option, what would be the best thing to do? High Stakes Decisions Are Rarely Dispassionate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Emotional intelligence determines how you interact with others, maintain relationships, stay motivated, make decisions, manage your emotions, influence others, and much more. uncertainty. The stronger your emotions, the more likely they are to dictate your behavior. Some common sources of stress we are all familiar with include: work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Seeing the world through the same lens means you can’t anticipate critical questions, factors and influences that should be considered as you think about the market, the product or service you’ll offer, and how to pivot intelligently as your company faces new or unexpected pressures. It’s easy – too easy! –

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

A 30-something entrepreneur in the Bay area, he had just closed a multi-million dollar round of Series A financing for his startup. Epigenetics (“above” or “beyond” genetics) studies the influence of our environment on gene expression. Steve should have been celebrating. This doesn’t happen overnight.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

That has coincided with marketing’s increased influence on strategy, driven by the unprecedented level of insights into customer behavior and trends that are now possible through analytics. The ability to offer financing gave the technology vendor a point of differentiation that helped it beat its revenue projection for the year.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

The core argument to compel institutional investors to change how they influence companies and where they invest their money is simple: as the world pivots away from carbon-based energy to avoid devastating climate change, fossil fuel assets, like coal plants or off-shore oil rigs, will be “stranded” — a wonky term for “worthless.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

But based on the experience and strategies of our clients, there are ways that they can manage the uncertainty. that could influence the economy (e.g. Most firms we work with feel a sense of powerlessness to handle the changing conditions in Russia. Then, firms need to think through the types of political and macroeconomic events (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Smisek, for example, resigned in the scandal of a federal investigation into whether United Airlines had unduly influenced David Samson, the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (Samson eventually pleaded guilty to a bribery charge this year). Firms began adopting golden parachute-style payout packages in the late 1970s.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms. The entrepreneur's task is to manage this uncertainty, while recognizing that certain risks cannot be influenced by their actions. Entrepreneurs face a Catch-22. On the one hand, it can be difficult to reduce risk without resources.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

The complexity and uncertainty of forging new ground makes it easy to get lost. Use them as the basis for storytelling that inspires and educates all the groups in the organization that are responsible for developing to-market strategies or interaction with customers no matter where they influence the customer experience.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. And Lars has taken some of these ideas and applied them in finance.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

Although the empirical evidence is mixed, this argument has intuitive logic: Because investors abhor uncertainty, knowing management's expectations is a valuable data point that can strengthen their confidence in the investment. After weighing the pros and cons, I come down on the side of not providing guidance.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

But it's much more difficult to predict revenues, as it requires understanding how complexities such as customer needs, the economy, and the effectiveness of your and your competitor's salespeople, influence a sales force's ability to generate sales.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

Exit from the Euro would only increase that capital scarcity, as the foreign exchange uncertainties would need to be factored in. And it all revolves around a statist model, with politicians creating influence zones. contraction today, there was no one in the finance ministry actually making policy. In a country slipping from 1.8%

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Some powerful Iranian institutions are highly suspicious of Western influence.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

The impact of her lack of leadership and management skills resulted in a tremendous amount of mistrust, uncertainty and poor moral. Her attitude of retaining only good followers resulted in the loss of numerous well-experienced and efficient people. A poor manager or supervisor is more than just an organizational problem. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

"I find a lot of people paralyzed by their unhappiness with their current reality," says Leonard Schlesinger, the president of Babson College and coauthor of Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future. It's often easier to stay put.

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Reputation Case Study Short-term Cost 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Furthermore, the final outcome of this alignment process (a signed term sheet and then definitive legal agreements) is frequently influenced by what areas of investment are considered hot at any given moment, and this can vary from month to month and even week to week, making standardization even more elusive.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Emotional intelligence involves both awareness of one’s feelings and being able to control their influence on thought and behavior. Practicing self-awareness can help curb the potent influences of negative emotions on goal setting and decision-making. But uncertainty is real and constant. Problem solving.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

The problem lies in how our minds are geared to underestimate the role of randomness in our lives — the profound but hidden influence of the uncontrollable and unpredictable. As a former fund company CEO, I witnessed this first hand.

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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. It’s time for them to rethink their supply-chain strategies. presidential election.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Workers are freely using the tools of this hyper-transparent era — including petitions and email leaks — to land punishing blows against corporate reputations and finances, in the process emerging as companies’ most powerful interest group. At a time when the U.S. Polarization heightens risk.

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