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. What if the costs exceed projections, and the benefits fall short of projections? They make bad decisions.

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Blog Analysis CEO Brand 416

Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

Risk management and compliance. Project development and management. Asset management and operational programs improvement. NTE Solutions’ project teams work collaboratively across disciplines to provide high-value solutions to clients in the power, water and oil & gas industries. About StrategyDriven.

Energy 58

Energy Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer Compliance 58

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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Leadership Development Development Planning Self-aware 283

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2018

No, he has the problem and is projecting it on the paying customers. Where mid-managers buy the hype of the marketing slogans but stonewall the progress that would enable the company to live up to its claims. “Every one of them has a problem today.” He then pointed to others standing in line, not yet having been served.

Company 51

Company Self-aware Creativity Marketing 51

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

I should move on to other new projects.” Do you have a detailed, written analysis of your market area? Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. I’m ready to move on. Is there a Big Picture?

Entrepreneur 51

Entrepreneur Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting 51

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The management that takes steps to “fix themselves” rather than always projecting problems upon other people will have a successful organization. These are my concluding pieces of leadership advice. Leadership and executive development skills are steadily learned and continually sharpened. About the Author.

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Mentor Learning-by-Doing Open-book Career 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

I support cause related marketing and have advised many corporations on setting up such programs. I say it is not, and I’m an expert on cause-related marketing. He was simply rationalizing a corporate marketing initiative. Do not run your “foundation” out of a corporate marketing department. He was not listening.

Franchising 75

Franchising Marketing Strategy Strategic Planning 75

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

How do you get a five-ton spacecraft safely to Saturn and land a probe on its largest moon when your project involves three space agencies, 17 countries, 18 separate scientific payloads, and 250 scientists working across 10 time zones? Maintain a constant focus on talent development for their teams and, in particular, their project leaders.

Project 15

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

How do you get a five-ton spacecraft safely to Saturn and land a probe on its largest moon when your project involves three space agencies, 17 countries, 18 separate scientific payloads, and 250 scientists working across 10 time zones? Maintain a constant focus on talent development for their teams and, in particular, their project leaders.

Project 13

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk. Roughly 80% said they would cut back on spending in areas such as R&D; 55% said they would delay starting a new project, “even if this entails a small sacrifice in value.” Related Video.

Organization 12

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software. Data scientists in business process algorithmization scenarios are project managers. That was the challenge.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Such initiatives give employees a chance to develop new skills, the company an opportunity to scope out new business in emerging markets, and the local organization the benefits of corporate expertise and relationships. (By In short, corporate volunteer programs deliver more than a karmic paycheck.

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Participative Library Entrepreneur Survey 14

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. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections. via n2growth.com [.]

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 412

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We have annual sales projections. In reality, no single market shift speaks completely for itself. Learn to manage change, rather than become a victim of it. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets.

Budgeting 78

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 78

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Poor controls over risk and valuations. Manipulation of energy markets. It means “process mapping” the myriad business functions; assessing business, legal and ethical risks at various points; mitigating that risk through education, checks and balances; and ensuring that problems are discovered early and handled promptly.

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Prevention of leaks in customer information and losses in company market position. Protection of status and utilization of organizational working knowledge, management’s activities and relationships with regulators. Crises can have many liabilities upon companies, including loss of profits and market share.

Crisis Management 81

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 81

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

We recall compiling the case notes or sales projections just before the presentation meeting. Having too much time to get projects accomplished tends to breed procrastination. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets.

Energy 59

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 59

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

” But when the new site appeared, I asked and answered a different question: “Should I learn to navigate the new CBSSports.com, or take the opportunity to learn to navigate market leader ESPN.com?” The same thing can happen in an individual’s career, too, if they take on the wrong project.

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Proposal Sports Learning-by-Doing Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Savage is the author of The Flaw of Averages (Wiley, 2009) and of an HBR article with the same title , chairman of Vector Economics , Inc (VectorEconomics.com), an adjunct faculty member at Stanford and Cambridge, and a frequent lecturer on risk modeling.

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Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Although Contect had launched as a specialist in small but steady installation jobs with high margins and low risk, it was now a full-service construction company that did design, construction, lighting, ventilation, water, waste processing, and IT infrastructure for much bigger, more complex projects. Now Vera was getting worked up.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

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.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2012

We began by lining up the biggest sponsor to champion the project, identifying the most powerful naysayers to help us mitigate the risks we were about to introduce, and then systematically recruiting our general management structure to do the real legwork. Getting the General Managers on Board. How did we do it?

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Innovation CFO Learning-by-Doing Brainstorming 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

That distinction is not made in most of economics and most of the other cognitive sciences, and people believe that they can model or reduce all uncertainty to risk. What’s the problem with the way that turkey approached risk management? You tell a story that I guess is borrowed from Nassim Taleb , about a turkey.

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

And because Europe is the world’s largest single common market, all of this redounds very negatively to the global scene. Russia is your number two risk. That doesn’t necessarily mean there will be a default, but it absolutely leads to more capital flight from Russia and the kind of market sentiment that can drive a panic.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Politics Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

This is driven by the successes of product-design leaders like Apple, and a macroeconomic environment that demands better risk management. I've found shortcutting this process, or failing to explore how design can align with strategy, will only limit market and financial success. Increase profitability? Improve lives?

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Prahalad Budgeting Creativity Fashion 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They devote far more time to internal execution and competitive risks than to external risks that can change the playing field. This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. real GDP growth rate for the region, but there is more business risk than many expect.

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Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9