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Exploring Alternate Futures Can Help Identify Future Leaders

N2Growth Blog

In their annual survey on the management and planning tools used by thousands of companies around the world, Bain and Company show a consistent and deserved popularity of scenario planning. Those who know scenario planning know that its value isn’t in “predicting the future.” Some companies do.

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The Window of Corporate Innovation Opportunity

Innovation Excellence

Let me share with you a key learning from my innovation work in and with diverse companies over the years. In brief, this notion can be delineated as follows: Sustainable, effective and impactful corporate innovation. One issue has been on my mind for quite some time. It can be termed pretty catchy as: Window of Corporate Opportunity.

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4 Steps To Become An Aware Leader

The Horizons Tracker

As Don Moore and Max Bazerman explain in Decision Leadership, they’re able to look at data objectively; avoid being misdirected by those who seek to deceive; are aware of things that appear too good to be true; and are generally able to think a few steps ahead.

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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. The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team.

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Mindfulness as a Management Technique Goes Back to at Least the 1970s

Harvard Business Review

Through his unique lens, he came to create what we know as scenario planning — a widely used strategic planning practice that now spans all sectors. An HBR contributor, he wrote two seminal articles about Shell and scenario planning in 1985. Planning well, in his estimation, required “training the mind.”

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

The Empathy Map looks like this: In this chapter the authors walk you through processes to arrive a enhanced design like Customer Insights, ideation, providing an introduction to the value of visual thinking, how to use prototyping, story telling, and Scenario Planning.

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How to Overcome Strategic Leadership Challenges

Center for Creative Leadership

What makes strategic leadership different than leadership in general? Effective strategic leadership – and the ability to solve strategic leadership challenges – requires different skills and perspectives than those required by day-to-day operational leadership. The Importance of Strategic Leadership Today.