Career Advancement

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Facing change and uncertainty can feel scary, but your awareness of the oncoming changes will help you prepare to negotiate them with grace and skill. Thus, coaching ability will be one of the most essential skills for future leaders—particularly since good coaches will help their teams successfully navigate the changes in store.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. A Lot of Uncertainty, Survey Finds. A Lot of Uncertainty, Survey Finds. Team Building. Communication. That’s not always a good thing.

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Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

Facing change and uncertainty can feel scary, but your awareness of the oncoming changes will help you prepare to negotiate them with grace and skill. Thus, coaching ability will be one of the most essential skills for future leaders—particularly since good coaches will help their teams successfully navigate the changes in store.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Fortunately, we have a group of experienced leaders who have been grappling with the challenges of uncertainty for many years: successful entrepreneurs. What resources do I have – human connections, material, knowledge, experiences, expertise, finances, etc. This is one way that expert entrepreneurs deal with uncertainty.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 29, 2016

Months, and even years, may pass in a significant opportunity with a large account: And as time adds up in pursuits, doubt, uncertainty, risks, and costs do as well. The commitment of finances, organizational energy, and resources – human and otherwise – can be daunting. You just finished reading Put Time on Your Team !

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 9, 2019

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, team building, and more. Sean Glaze of Great Results Team Building provided TWO Powerful Questions to Use Instead of Asking “What’s Wrong?”. What about in your finances, or in your relationships?

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

This can give you and your team more room for operating and allows you to scale up the entire operation. Technology can always be used to improve a business, and it is a smart way of expanding because it can streamline the operation, make work easier for your team and even improve the quality of the product/service that you provide.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 16, 2013

In 4 Strategic Planning Co-creation Steps & Benefits by Alan Kay, he responded to a common objection in using co-creation ( working with a team or people who will be impacted) to develop plans. Share company struggles, successes and finances. Please share the finances in a manner that is easy to understand. Photo Credit.

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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. We work closely with many leaders who are running functions or divisions in large organizations.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 14, 2013

It’s usually an individual endeavor focused on fitness, friendships, or finances. When it comes to business, great things can also happen when we apply the catalytic energy of the New Year to our teams and organizations. And in today’s 2013 environment, uncertainty has never been greater.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Unfortunately, the coronavirus, leaving one with no time to prepare, has thrown many organizations into a turmoil, where they must decide whether to sink or swim, in terms of making through the economic shock/uncertainty. It cannot be dismissed that employment and wage still remain dominant concerns of both employees and employers.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2020

The organizations that have best weathered the COVID-19 storm entered it with strong balance sheets in three functions: Not only do they have a strong financial balance sheet, they also have strong balance sheets with their team members and strong balance sheets with their customers. Empathize with their team’s point-of-view.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Unfortunately, the coronavirus, leaving one with no time to prepare, has thrown many organizations into a turmoil, where they must decide whether to sink or swim, in terms of making through the economic shock/uncertainty. It cannot be dismissed that employment and wage still remain dominant concerns of both employees and employers.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 17, 2012

Why do the goals that you’ve set out for your team to accomplish matter? 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.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. At the outset, the whole organization must be educated on what agility means and on what it takes for a leader, a team, or a whole company to be agile. Radical flattening of organizations is a fashionable recipe for dealing with accelerating change and uncertainty.

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Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Either as a member of the product team or as the "gate keeper," you might make this decision based on a gut feeling, prior experience, a partial understanding of the ecosystem, OR, increasingly, based on Product Intelligence. How Does This Change the New Product Development Process? Reduce Investments of Time + Money.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Most leaders are taught to avoid uncertainty. Creating game changers – whether products, services, or new business models – requires leaders to live with uncertainty, embrace ambiguity, and respond to both good and bad surprises along the way. Cook and his team went to work and created QuickBooks. Surprise is the enemy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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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 25, 2015

You have the charm, charisma, enthusiasm, hard work, and marketing mind to encourage and drive your teams to think anything is possible. You’re comfortable with uncertainty. You guide and support your own team of entrepreneurs. You are responsible for creating the habitat for your team to experiment, fail, and learn.

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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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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. working on a team with a cut-throat “each to his own” philosophy), the “fight or flight” stress team of biochemical reactions in the body kicks into gear.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2019

However many employees may be put off by the uncertainty of not always being paid. This could include setting a yearly target that the whole team must aspire to or individual targets. For businesses in which payment is not always guaranteed from week to week, commission pay may be more appropriate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

While keeping CX top of mind throughout the whole M&A process is challenging, the benefits are undeniable: It keeps your most coveted customers and your team intact. We did this by making sure communication and clarity were a high priority with our teams, to ensure there was no information vacuum consumed with gossip.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Finance professors Eugene Fama and Kenneth French find somewhat depressingly ( PDF ) that luck matters more. That's why betting on sports is still fun, even if you know every last statistic about a team. For example, much was made this bowl season of Stanford football team's repertoire of over 350 plays. What about J.K.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. How do you think it was possible and what were the steps you took as a CHRO to motivate employees to work as a team and achieve it? Our global team is made up of individuals from different backgrounds, experiences, cultures and skillsets. The HR Digest: C.

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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. For example, research demonstrates a common characteristic among innovative teams: psychological safety.

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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." Two: Working in finance does not involve joining "a team of professionals committed to the success of your bank."

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

You and Your Team Series. uncertainty. Over time these reactions can lead to acute anxiety, depression, irritability, fatigue, and other health problems from heart disease to lowered immune response. Resilience. Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure. Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan. David Kopans. relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

And as I’ve argued before , it’s certainly tempting to imagine that your Batman-and-Robin duo might be the team to beat the odds but it’s just not going to happen (at least for 99.998 percent of new entrepreneurs). Finances make people twitchy – and are another source of conflict. The first issue is sharing the same blinders.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Over the past few years a local team of R&D scientists has re-imagined the product, putting the Oreo brand on products with wafer form factors and using flavors that are more suited to local tastes. Geopolitical uncertainty remains an issue; infrastructure and cultural barriers might constrain growth. Have you heard of Tencent?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

So a huge reported gain will lead the company to study the week in great depth, seeking to understand the contributions to share gain from its actions (such as promotions) that week, residual effects of earlier actions, competitor error, and so forth (even though there is uncertainty surrounding this estimate).

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

To explain, let me share a quick example, in two acts: In Act One, the manager of a corporate engineering group was tasked with reducing the cost of common materials used by a number of different product teams. Given all of these fears and uncertainties, it''s no wonder that many managers hesitate to utilize their convening authority.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Their leaders are building a diverse, adaptable range of team capabilities — allocating people and resources based on the work that needs to be done, regardless of where resources sit in the organizational structure. Drive Digitalization — Or At Least Don’t Be a Drag.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. The same is true for any team or organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

This includes communication within the core team, broadly in your organization, and with key stakeholders outside the organization, including your distribution channel partners, suppliers, journalists, investors and of course, existing and potential customers. The complexity and uncertainty of forging new ground makes it easy to get lost.

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