Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? Probabilistic risk managers will think about the future of how they work.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

If current employees are hesitant to talk, HR should also be conducting exit interviews , particularly in high-risk occupations like healthcare, to identify any areas that may put the company, its customers and consumers at risk. And 37 people would still be alive.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. The first key in understanding how to make great decisions is learning how to synthesize the overwhelming amount incoming information leaders must deal with on a daily basis, while making the best decisions possible in a timely fashion.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

Those of us who grew up working on typewriters know how to master the medium. I took that typewriter mentality with me when I had to compose a brochure and do the desktop publishing graphics in the same two-hour window where I was learning how to work on a computer.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

As the scale and complexity of the cyber threat landscape is revealed, so too is the general lack of cybersecurity readiness in organizations, even those that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on state-of-the-art technology. Spending millions on security technology can certainly make an executive feel safe.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Executives in any business, however, can learn valuable lessons in crisis leadership: One critical concept that we share with the participants in the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) at Harvard is that every crisis includes many situations , each with different contingencies and considerations. Are you ready?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

More recently, CARVER has converted a new community of believers in the business world, including CEOs, financial analysts, and risk management planners, not to mention any number of Fortune 500 security directors. It can be highly useful if you need to, for example, defend a budget request or a strategic plan to company leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

How to Fix the Problems. Boards Leadership Succession planning' And when it came to actually implementing diversity, we discovered a stark difference: only 17% of directors on FOB boards said their board had adopted measures that successfully advanced diversity on the board (vs. 41% of non-FOB directors).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. We asked the management team if we could eliminate the narrow metrics and bonuses, which rewarded only tactical performance, and focus more on the adaptive. Before, tricky problems would be redirected to a risk manager.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Not only do great CEOs understand how to recruit a top executive team, but they also understand how to build cohesion among team members through collaboration while addressing specific situational and contextual needs. And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Your organization needs a CNEO—a Chief Network Effects Officer—to integrate and align how your enterprise gets value from “ harvesting collective intelligence.”. Network effects, not unlike risk management, transcend traditional enterprise functions and silos. Information & technology Leadership Social media'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

They are far less adept at reckoning honestly with the risks of staying the course. In a very real sense, the first job of leadership is to identify and overcome the costs of complacency. One representative example from the Depression: General Motors had to figure out how to maintain its upscale Buick brand in a sinking economy.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We’ve got the latest technology. Our company has got the most up to date technology. Companies spend disproportionate amounts of money on technology and neglect their people, processes and policies. Technology represents less than 1% of an organization’s pie chart. Our people were hired to do their jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. This loss aversion prevents taking appropriate risks.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. Contingency : Nothing is without risk, and when you think something is without risk, that is when you’re most likely to end-up in trouble.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

It is just as important how, when and why we communicate with each other: Shows that the company is a seamless concept… an integrated team working for the good of customers. Indicates sophistication by each representative… that every team player knows how to utilize each other for mutual benefit.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

When we see how far we have come, it gives further direction for the future. Technology is but one tool of the trade. In the 1940s, technology brought us the 45-RPM and 33-1/3-RPM records… adding up to the ‘mother speed’ of 78-RPM. Ideas make the future happen. Been There… Learned from It.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Leadership is changing — fast. And this factor is likely to loom even larger in the future because many of the benefits of new technologies increase as more people join in. Practice developing the exact wording of statements, and figure out how to craft the most effective messages, before you need to do it in real time.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

Those of us who grew up working on typewriters know how to master the medium. I took that typewriter mentality with me when I had to compose a brochure and do the desktop publishing graphics in the same two-hour window where I was learning how to work on a computer.

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 57

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

With these changes in mind, understanding where customers are, and how to interact with them appropriately in a given stream, are now central to effective selling. The cross-functional communication and coordination that is required to navigate this change is the job of leadership. The sales force is more important than ever.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

Few companies, it would appear, pay enough attention to teaching people how to lead teams. The Pulse Survey found that only two in five organizations have a formal process for developing project managers. Continuing Talent Development.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

Few companies, it would appear, pay enough attention to teaching people how to lead teams. The Pulse Survey found that only two in five organizations have a formal process for developing project managers. Continuing Talent Development.

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