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Scenario Planning vs. Forecasting: 6 Questions to Ask to Prepare for a Post-Pandemic Future

Leading Blog

There is often confusion between scenario planning and forecasting, with the terms used interchangeably and inconsistently. Scenario planning is focused on the future and involves defining different stories behind different paths that will lead to that future.

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Scenario Mapping Your Life

The Horizons Tracker

Scenario planning was first popularized by Herman Khan in the 1950s at the RAND corporation as a way to describe the future by outlining various ways in which it could potentially unfold. ” Scenarios of your life. It’s an approach that futurist April Rinne believes can equally be applied to our careers.

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How Do You Combine Patience and Urgency?

Next Level Blog

Patience Prepares the Ground for Urgency : To act with urgency on the right things in the right ways first requires the patience to step back and determine what’s going on, what you’re trying to do and how you need to proceed to accomplish that goal. It’s the patience to step back and assess followed by the urgency to act.

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Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

this was how to deny them their goal. Separately, but on the same topic, a question for you, John: How do you feel about “scenario planning” exercises as a way to try to imagine and think through the most probable crises that may confront a particular company or organization? But it is not.

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Board Performance Optimization: Beyond Compliance Towards Excellence

N2Growth Blog

The concept delves more deeply than mere regulatory compliance, stretching towards a proactive approach that involves risk anticipation, scenario planning, and sound decision-making processes. Essentially, they serve as the guiding light, steering the organization toward its goals and objectives.

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4 Signs That Your Focus Is Holding You Back at Work

Harvard Business Review

Not Reaching Your Goals. Reaching your goals may seem to be an all-consuming focused activity, but much research indicates that the unfocus network is key to goal achievement. Imagining your goals helps you reach them. For example, you may be strategizing on a project that requires scenario planning.

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What a Good Moonshot Is Really For

Harvard Business Review

Kennedy captured the world''s imagination when he said, "This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth." Reading Kennedy''s quote raises the spirit; a more typical corporate goal of increasing return on invested capital from 13.4%