Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

A Lot of Uncertainty, Survey Finds. A Lot of Uncertainty, Survey Finds. Learn some short-term actions and some longer-term initiatives you can take toward the sustained, hard work our organizations and people deserve. . ” Find Diana on Twitter at @DianaPMAuthor. ” Connect with Paula on Twitter @biggreenpen.

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Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 2, 2020

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. The leaders surveyed rated themselves in terms of their effectiveness in the 13 critical leadership competencies.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This ready supply of stable income made the inherent uncertainty of entrepreneurship a difficult sell. A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office is a good case in point, with the blame placed on access to finance and regulatory hurdles. Better alternatives. Opportunity costs.

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Entrepreneur Long-term Cost of Capital Engineering 83

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Addressing the AGM as the President for the second term, Kaushal said: “confronting the ‘New Abnormal’ is about creating a better tomorrow. Management and sustainability Health and safety has been considered important for businesses for a long time, but it is highly technical and not central to the dialogue around sustainability – until now.

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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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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. Scott Cook, Founder of Intuit, credits this unusual mantra as one of the pillars of his company’s long-term success.

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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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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Furthermore, our study also highlights an important cost of homeownership: For instance, buying a home will constrain your labor mobility, and in the long run that may adversely affect your labor income.” ” Precarious finances. “Our study highlights an important cost of home ownership,” the researchers explain.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 17, 2012

It’s the reason why some companies have managed to thrive and expand their market base despite the uncertainties present in today’s global economy, because they’re not simply reacting to what’s going on around them. Will it be how much profit their company has made last year or last quarter?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2020

The investment market dealing with precious metals has barely made the cut in terms of popularity among people, and it’s not something many people tap into, if they do hear about it, it’s mostly for either gold, silver or palladium. One of the rarest precious metals in the category today is platinum.

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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. It also requires that the applicant look for another job as the assistance cannot be provided long-term.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2020

When it comes to the repayment schedule, secured personal loans are more often seen to be long term as opposed to the unsecured ones. If the loan is not paid on time, a huge amount of interest is charged to reduce the uncertainty of loss. Again, this is because unsecured personal loans are riskier.

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Credit Scoring Banking Comparison Long-term 65

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

When it comes to the repayment schedule, secured personal loans are more often seen to be long term as opposed to the unsecured ones. If the loan is not paid on time, a huge amount of interest is charged to reduce the uncertainty of loss. Again, this is because unsecured personal loans are riskier.

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Credit Scoring Banking Comparison Long-term 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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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

But don’t be discouraged; for many the hard work is worth it when you consider the freedom over your own time and finances. If you want your business to be a success, you need to make a long-term commitment to it, so you’d better make sure it’s something that you truly feel passionate about.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 31, 2011

Even if the government had the deep pockets to finance our recovery, it’s a national shame that Washington, D.C. For much of our nation’s history, business by and large was America’s heart and soul, focused on the long-term good. should be expected to ride to our rescue. .

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2020

With all of the economic uncertainty caused by the pandemic, families and individuals should seriously consider taking advantage of all available resources to avoid long-term personal and professional consequences.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

According to a study conducted by the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, diversity in terms of gender, race, and ethnicity has proven to be beneficial for companies operating in the United States. “We looked at their experiences and not just their demographic background—the more functional aspect of diversity. ” .”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

This raises the question of whether retaining strategic cash makes economic sense and should be viewed as a legitimate corporate finance tool in today's environment. As long as the CFO can stipulate that the company does not intend to repatriate the cash, it avoids the incremental tax that will be levied due to the territorial system of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

but on the whole, the practice is not a helpful way of building a sustainable business that is geared to succeed in the long-term. By now it is well understood that the short-term focus by shareholders on quarterly earnings can impair firms’ ability to create long-term value.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

What wielders of the term seldom do, though, is say exactly what they mean by it. Fama is convinced that financial bubbles don’t exist, and until the dot-com era he was able to keep most of his colleagues in academic finance from even using the word “bubble.” And the definitions that do get offered can vary pretty dramatically.

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Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

I’ve developed this framework based on the experiences that my collaborators and I have had implementing prediction systems over the last 25 years in domains like finance, healthcare, education, and sports. The framework differentiates problems along two independent dimensions: predictability and cost per error.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Despite the need for credit to finance recovery, disasters can also constrain the capacity of lenders to supply it because so many households and businesses are affected at once. Challenge risk financing conventions. Businesses likely need new forms of risk financing.

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Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Think of stress as a monster, who lives in your body and feeds on uncertainty. What will happen if the company doesn’t get its financing? As the uncertainty grows, so does the monster. But do so on your terms. I held it together long enough to drop them off at our apartment. Instead, dance with it. Let it out.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Also, with technological innovation, there will always be a high degree of uncertainty regarding the kind of talent your company will need in the future. General Electric has been particularly forward-thinking regarding the new skills it will need to be successful over the long term.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

A key target for Ceres’ work, and the main audience at the conference, is the group of institutional investors who manage tens of trillions of dollars in assets for long-term performance. It’s easy to point out a big flaw with the stranded assets discussion: uncertainty. Economy Finance Sustainability' coal market.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

When you view this reaction in terms of expectations, it makes a bit more sense. Long ago, a central bank’s job may have been as simple as taking away the punch bowl just as the party gets going, to paraphrase William McChesney Martin, the Fed’s chairman from 1951 to 1970. It] elevated the long-term asset value expectation.”.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Political uncertainties and the absence of strong leadership contributed to social fragmentation. There have been as many as 16 prime ministers in Japan since 1990, while the average term of each prime minister has been just around one year. Both countries’ uncertainties in political leadership are also alike.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Finances make people twitchy – and are another source of conflict. That especially is true in times of business uncertainty, which is omnipresent in start-ups. But by and large, it’s not a sustainable strategy for long-term success. It’s easy – too easy! – Can B-school partnerships ever work?

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Company Venture Funding Banking Education 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Some residents seem to view Ellison’s actions with suspicion and uncertainty. One: "Anyone who works in finance will sense, at least at first, the pressure to know more than he does." "You will be paid a lot more to forget your uneasy feelings." But not everyone likes being part of someone else’s cool engineering project.

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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. They also stressed that not long ago that they had been quite profitable, and their major problem was the magnitude of the recession and the associated drop in demand.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

and EU increased sanctions on Russia that same year, Russian authorities raided the Russian headquarters of Ikea , which has long struggled with interference from the Russian government. But based on the experience and strategies of our clients, there are ways that they can manage the uncertainty.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

And short-term numbers at that. Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

There are more chances to expand than ever before, despite many market uncertainties. The office you use, the office equipment you bought when you first started your business, the cash and financing options you have, employees filling key roles, and other assets of your business are equally important and are worth protecting.

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Insurance How To Finance Market Segmentation 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Not all these have proven to be as stable as investors might have liked, with riots, coups, military takeovers, and surprise election results introducing uncertainty. In both places, we know the instability will worsen macroeconomic performance in the short term. Tunisia and Egypt are cases in point.

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NPV Short-term Discount Politics 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

An "earn-your-way" strategy is sometimes necessary in markets with high uncertainty or when a company is cash-strapped. But when leaders take this conservative growth approach even when there is reasonable certainty of success and available financing, they undersize their sales forces and forfeit opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

In more practical terms, the CEO of business operations managed operational integration discussions, which allowed the COO to focus on delivering excellent service for our client partners. A deal team is made up of professionals covering all aspects of the integration, including experts from business operations, legal, tech, and finance.

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