Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Value-added leadership is a healthy way of life that puts collaborations first. When all succeed, then profitability is much higher and more sustained than under the Hard Nose management style. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment. You provide leadership for progress, rather than following along.

Leadership 50

Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision.

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Blog Analysis CEO Brand 396

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 298

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Exploring Key Factors Influencing Effective Governance First and foremost, it is crucial to comprehend that governance is not a single-dimensional concept but a complex amalgamation of factors working in harmony. The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team.

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Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

They are risk managers who believe in protecting what was rather than embracing what is, and what will be. . The truth is the farther up the org chart one resides, the more influence one possesses, the more leverage one creates, and the more one can accomplish via social media. Whether you Tweet, Blog, Facebook, YouTube, etc.,

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Media CEO Brand Blog 298

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

It is important to teach business domestically and internationally that: We must understand how to use power and influence for positive change. We must learn to benefit from change management, not to become victims of it. It is an ongoing dialog that companies have with themselves. Ethics and profits are not conflicting goals.

Ethics 51

Ethics Mission Statement Strategic Planning Benchmarking 51

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

Clark and Jorge Pedraza, in their book, The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan (third edition), recommend you do your assessment using the 5Cs : Customers : First line, customer chain, end users, influencers Collaborators : Suppliers, allies, government/community leaders Capabilities : Human, operational, financial, technical, key assets Competitors (..)

Organization 50

Organization SWOT How To Politics 50

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 1, 2015

Clark and Jorge Pedraza, in their book, The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan (third edition), recommend you do your assessment using the 5Cs : Customers : First line, customer chain, end users, influencers Collaborators : Suppliers, allies, government/community leaders Capabilities : Human, operational, financial, technical, key assets Competitors (..)

Organization 50

Organization SWOT How To Politics 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2022

We often assume things are more evenly distributed than they actually are — and this influences how we make decisions and manage risk.

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Influence Management Risk Management Strategy 20

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

In examining what took them so long to react, Stumpf’s comments portray a leadership team that refused to believe the sales fraud could be systemic in a culture such as theirs. Instead, he called this an operations and compliance issue, perhaps not realizing that both of those functions influence corporate culture.

Banking 10

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2018

Since 92% of all problems in companies stem from poor management decisions, do a better job of training managers to be leaders. Each one influences the other and the whole of the enterprise. Always recognize the Big Picture aspect to all business decisions. Always remember and trust that the customer is king.

Company 51

Company Self-aware Creativity Marketing 51

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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Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 11

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Pop culture influences of non-profit icons, events and campaigns. Quotes on community stewardship, leadership and related topics. This parallels a chapter in my previous book, “Pop Icons and Business Legends,” where I covered a 400-year history of business. Strategic planning, how-to instructions. Communications programs for NPOs.

Strategic Planning 51

Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

In my opinion, the following redress is a shortlist of measures Walmart managers might undertake to begin accomplishing this feat: Incorporate reputation risk management into the corporate strategy. Most PR firms only offer cosmetic remedies to firefight reputation threats as they arise. RSS Feed: [link].

Engineering 14

Engineering PR How To Reputation 14

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I often observe ego centered conflicts among senior executives, which turn into a competition for turf, budget, power, influence, control, and ultimately survival. Where do you see “X&# account in > and what can we do to (improve customer satisfaction, increase influence with key stakeholders, increase the life-cycle value, etc.)?

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

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. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

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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Crisis How To Crisis Management Media 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Bayes has even influenced the design of machine learning techniques, notably the naive Bayes classifier. Probabilistic risk managers will think about the future of how they work. Bayes is relevant to modern leaders because it can help them develop an approach to uncertainty that is less deterministic and more probabilistic.

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 308

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points. But the potential impact and influence of network effects goes far beyond unique selling propositions and user experience.

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Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

These organizations are fully committed to letting algorithmic autonomy take the enterprise to new frontiers of innovation, profitability, and risk. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power. Machine learning algorithms stress-test and risk-manage other machine learning algorithms.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Bezos invited Collins to Amazon a few months before Collin’s book was published in 2001 to teach the senior leadership team the flywheel concept.

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Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 85

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

And so what I see here is China, vastly bigger than the Philippines and Vietnam, with not only more military capacity, but much more economic capacity and influence over those markets, seeing if they can improve their situation on the ground, and not minding so much if the cost is that a couple of noses get bloodied. China’s number one.”

Long-term 8

Long-term Politics Globalization Uncertainty 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Sales rankings vary, with various influencers. You should do with business with them because they are a “winner,” so they claim. In reality, no single market shift speaks completely for itself. Many factors contribute toward long-term success, which is a road filled with ups and downs. Everything is subject to interpretation.

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Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 77

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Employees’ influence within technology corporations is growing; present and past Facebook employees (including former president Sean Parker) likewise have publicly condemned the company’s leadership for its lax data privacy practices; at Google some employees have left the company in protest of its policies.

Ethics 8

Ethics Technology Short-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

It stands to reason that good project management requires active executive sponsorship. In fact, according to the Pulse Survey, executive sponsorship is the greatest factor influencing project success rates. NASA is one organization that has in fact put a lot of effort into predicting which individuals would succeed as project leaders.

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Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

It stands to reason that good project management requires active executive sponsorship. In fact, according to the Pulse Survey, executive sponsorship is the greatest factor influencing project success rates. NASA is one organization that has in fact put a lot of effort into predicting which individuals would succeed as project leaders.

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Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. Since then, the CSO’s role has most definitely grown and gained influence, as this Atlantic article explores by featuring CSOs from MGM, EMC, Owens-Corning, and elsewhere.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Employees are not empowered to make decisions or take risks. Management remains isolated or unrealistic, possessing limited leadership development and people skills. There exists an overall naivete about the marketplace, reflected by unrealistic sales policies, quotas and sales management. Business Development.

Strategy 60

Strategy P&L Strategic Planning Tactics 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Execution risk: A wrong execution model or poor execution can make a project run too long and cost too much, leading to a total loss of focus and a reduction in value creation. Leadership risk: Psychology has found that "for most people, the fear of losing $100 is more intense than the hope of gaining $150", and IT leaders are no exception.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

One other difference of note: although risk management was somewhat more of a concern for New Zealand than global directors, a substantially smaller percentage of New Zealand board members (13% versus 29% globally) indicated that their companies had a Chief Risk Officer in place.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Analysis Globalization Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. What would this leadership look like over time? What are the greatest predictors of success for a talent management practice?

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Whether it is populist policy from governments that want to maintain approval, or more hostile sentiment toward foreign companies as a result of the leadership’s geopolitical leanings, many countries will shift more toward nationalism in the marketplace. What does business leadership look like in this changed context?

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Politics Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

And you are naïve or spending too much time on your smartphone if you believe that a combination of economics, solution identification, product application, risk management, and political journey through the buyer’s organization is now handled predominately online in most buying scenarios and without knowledgeable and savvy sales help.

B2B 8

B2B AIDA AIDAS Disintermediation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

Unfortunately, we can't expect smoother sailing in years to come because, for the first time in seven decades, we now live in a world without global leadership. Nor are China or other emerging powers ready to fill the leadership vacuum. So we've entered a period of transition. The old order, call it a U.S. slowdown with minimal damage.

Tourism 14

Tourism Crisis Globalization Politics 14