The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 12, 2022

Institutional investors, such as hedge funds, are increasingly active in terms of their attempt to influence the direction of the firms they invest in. While in a recent article , I highlighted how this interest can successfully influence the strategy of a firm, recent research from INSEAD highlights how this can have consequences.

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Hedge Short-term Attrition Human Capital 123

CO2

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Here’s how business coaching can create a significant impact: Increased Efficiency : By identifying areas of inefficiency, business coaching helps streamline operations. Enhanced Time Management : Coaches aid in refining your daily operations to focus on critical tasks. The goal is to optimize processes for peak performance.

Leadership Development 78

Leadership Development Development Succession Execution 78

Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

Digital Maturity is about continually realigning your organization and updating your strategic plan to account for changes in the technological landscape that affect your business.”. Or are greater and greater levels of uncertainty causing us to forget the essentials and focus on the latest bright and shiny object? Digital Maturity.

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Maturity Organization Technology Early Adopters 304

Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

Businesses regularly establish routines in the way they operate, but when problems arise and they’re thrown a curve ball, those routines and competencies may no longer work for the situation managers find themselves in. In turn, this creates space for a resilient workplace culture to flourish and generate sustainable ways of operating.

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Learning-by-Doing Travel Competitive Advantage Crisis 52

N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

The key to speaking this aspect of the vernacular defines how you can use your hedgehog concept to shape how a society behaves from your ability to become so radical that new norms will birth from your behavioral influences. WHEN do we plan to arrive? Describe what they must become (Impact Plans). WHERE are we going?

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Execution Objective Learning-by-Doing System 345

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Onboarding, in its essence, is a systematic, comprehensive, and planned procedure aimed at welcoming new employees into an organization. It’s about creating a pathway for new hires to understand, adapt, and align with the company’s ethos, vision, and operational methodologies.

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Software Efficiency Process Training 52

HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

Their astute observations on the dynamics between employers and employees, influenced by demographic shifts and economic fluctuations, resonate in the turbulent aftermath of the COVID-19 era. (L-R): Imagine practicing complex procedures in a simulated operating room or mastering new sales techniques in a virtual customer interaction.

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CEO Altman McCarthy Supply Chain 52

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

In an era that encompasses mistrust of business, uncertainties about the economy and growing disillusionments within society’s structure, it is vital for every organization to determine, analyze, fine-tune and communicate their value systems. It is an ongoing dialog that companies have with themselves.

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Ethics Mission Statement Strategic Planning Benchmarking 51

Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

What is more, the adoption of new technologies will facilitate oil and gas operations. For this to happen, we’ll have to see more decisive emission-reduction plans. The US is poised to chip away at the influence of these old fossil fuel goliaths. Even offshore drilling hasn’t delivered on its potential yet.

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Industry Energy Offshoring Technology 75

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

These blind spots can often be unproblematic until moments of instability or uncertainty suddenly become detrimental. This research also revealed that self-awareness could lead to better performance by enabling leaders to understand exactly how they operate and how they can achieve optimal results through behavioral changes.

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Executive Coaching Execution Self-aware Company 318

Experience to Lead

DECEMBER 18, 2023

While it’s great to have passionate, well-meaning people at the table, trying to get a definite answer or a solid plan of action from multiple contrasting viewpoints can become a near-impossible uphill climb. Have you ever been in a discussion where people were doing more talking than listening?It’s It’s confusing, to say the least.

Leadership Development 52

Leadership Development Development Leadership Long-term 52

The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 20, 2020

However, a deeper dive into the plans being presented by our federal, state and local governments make it quite clear that whatever we return to will be very different from what we collectively remember as “the past.”. At one level or another, we have essentially become numbed by the uncertainty and fear we have been feeling.

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Long-term Short-term Crisis Crisis Management 52

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

What we can see now is that what began as an emergency response has led to a more profound change in operating models, with remote working and flexible structures becoming more finessed. COVID-19 has changed this perspective completely.

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Crisis Management Committee Hotels Webinar 52

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 27, 2015

Identify and rally ‘change champions’ in your organization Now before we can put into action measures to cure a toxic workplace, we need to first understand something about how our brain operates. Rather, it labels anything that creates ambiguity or uncertainty as a threat and consequently, something we should avoid.

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Commitment Uncertainty Environment Morale 100

Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain.

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Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 134

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

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. Here are their responses: 1. Here are their responses: 1.

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Leadership Development Development Planning Self-aware 283

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Eric Pennington explains “why you must move forward, even if uncertainty surrounds and confounds you.&#. It’s an effective way to keep them engaged and focused on operational goals.&#. Here’s Succession planning: Always a good outcome? I’d recommend you do to!

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Leadership Blog Human Resources Mission Statement 199

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

You’re working on a new venture and you know you’ve got to create a plan to execute it. That process might work for conventional or ongoing business lines, but new ventures, which are less predictable, require a different set of planning and control tools. Where Did Discovery-Driven Planning Originate? Linear plans.

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Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 8

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

It is useful to distinction between three motivations for creating partnerships: Optimization and economy of scale, Reduction of risk and uncertainty, Acquisition of particular resources and activities) Cost Structure – The business model elements result in the cost structure. (It

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Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

When similar journeys are decided on by leaders in the driver’s seat of their organizations, the challenge to accomplish such a task means that CEOs must be able to navigate their way around the VUCA minefields (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) and instruct their senior teams how to do the same. 3) WHERE are you going?

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CEO Succession Tips How To 393

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Fortunately, we can make decisions that help minimize the influence of bad luck on our lives. ” But our goal isn’t simply to minimize the influence of luck; it’s to minimize the chance that bad luck will lead to an unacceptable circumstances, be that starving, divorce, failing to achieve the autonomy you crave, etc.

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Career Planning Kahneman Uncertainty 8

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership. Be Confident and Real People don't want to follow leaders who show uncertainty and anxiety. Czar "I rescue troubled companies.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

percentage points, has likely ushered in a protracted phase of uncertainty for the UK, EU, and global economies. Judging by our interactions with CEOs around the world to date, some of their burning questions are: What are the elements of uncertainty created by Brexit? The Leave campaign’s victory, with a margin of 3.8

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Uncertainty Short-term Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Interestingly, all these intrusions into business operations typically do not come from the Kremlin but from local officials who seem eager to gain the Kremlin’s favor amid instances of elevated international tensions. This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products.

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Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Fortitude – tolerance for stress, uncertainty, or chaos. Obviously, your behavior is one of the most important influences on your teams and your culture. This means allowing people to influence decisions to the extent that the outcome of a decision will influence them. 5) Operational Transparency -.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In essence, digital investments should be planned and managed according to their current and future contribution to business performance. With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Strategic investments are critical to future business success.

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Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2014

They powerfully influence the morale of those who will stay. There were major overlaps in corporate and operational management positions, but most employees would be retained. He acknowledged the tough choices and the real stress of uncertainty. Leadership Managing people Managing uncertainty Mergers & Acquisitions'

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Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty How To Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

Members of this elite club wield a disproportionate amount of influence, which is why most executives want to join. Insiders tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty. They must plan for the long-term while minding the short-term, grow the top line yet ensure the bottom line stays healthy, and minimize risks while making risky bets.

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How To CEO P&L Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

All the originally appealing simplicity vanished into uncertainty. Traditional operations research process optimization, for example, seldom embraces A/B testing or incorporates customer recommendation engines. But customers can now consider incentives – discounts, promotions, special plans, etc.

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Process Competitive Advantage Outsourcing Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The " fog of war " describes the uncertainty faced by soldiers in the field of battle. The traditional tools of management — strategy and planning — are no longer sufficient. Strategy and planning are like high beams on a car; they just bounce off the fog. So Special Operations went with a third option.

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Self-aware Guidelines Objective Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Internal social networks help companies engage people in defining the go-forward plan by asking for smart ideas that can be put to use to support the transformation. Similar employee crowdsourcing efforts have been used to redefine company values (at IBM) and generate ideas for cutting operational costs (at BASF).

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Media Management CEO Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

“Resistance to our plans would surface.” It is an oft-forgotten feature of human nature that if you want to influence someone, a good start is to show they have influenced you. Influence comes through interaction. You need to create space for people to make sense and have influence through iterative dialogue.

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Execution Strategy Webinar Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Despite studies showing that succession is an essential part of strategic planning, many companies ignore leadership development to focus on more immediate challenges. Credibility is especially important, as building trust and confidence among colleagues leads to an ability to influence a wide array of stakeholders.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Leadership Pipeline 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I plan distractions; I do not allow distractions to ruin my plan. The biggest takeaway is nearly everyone has an intentional plan for all seven areas. 3) Mental – My role as host of The Ziglar Show requires me to study the messages of today’s top world influencers, and it’s a dramatic gift. Just the two of us.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Map the interdependencies between different teams where your central players contribute, in order to understand and plan for potential risks.

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Agility Team How To Project 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets. Some powerful Iranian institutions are highly suspicious of Western influence. How to Plan for Doing Business in Iran.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

As a business that operates in many of the countries where these needs are most evident and pressing, we must help ensure those rights are realized. Find the one that has the expertise and experience in the particular field that you are aiming to influence. The Social Franchise Model Works in Times of Uncertainty.

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