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Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk

Harvard Business Review

.” Embracing market risk in our careers is a high-percentage move. We are increasingly aware of the importance of assuming market risk when it comes to starting or growing a business, but assuming market risk is also a critical accelerant of the personal disruption that fuels individual career growth.

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Carey Pellock on HR Leadership for A Better World

HR Digest

They grounded us throughout the pandemic, and we continue to rely on them to bring our teams together, irrespective of the challenges we face. . But the pandemic also gave our leadership an important gift – a pause to really see and appreciate the extraordinary team we have assembled here at Neustar. What’s next for Neustar?

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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. But how is this done? Duke and James D.

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How CMOs and CROs Can Be Allies

Harvard Business Review

Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and Chief Risk Officers (CROs) may seem to have little in common. But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. Both practices have long developed insights into their customers based on data and analytics.

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The Status Quo Is Risky, Too

Harvard Business Review

If your team’s strategy can be summed up by the English wartime slogan “Keep Calm and Carry On,” you need some new approaches to tackle their resistance. Martin describes how executive teams carefully explore the risk of different courses of action, but neglect to make a similar assessment of the risk of staying the course.

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Stop Trying to Predict Which New Products Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Is market performance predictable for a specific product or class of products? And, if prediction falls outside of an acceptable range, we should hold our teams accountable for predicting poorly. respectively, suggesting that market risk is the major driver of our inability to predict.

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Can Your C-Suite Handle Big Data?

Harvard Business Review

Adding a chief marketing officer (CMO) became crucial as new channels and media raised the complexity of brand building, while Chief strategy officers (CSOs) joined top teams to help grapple with complex and fast-changing global markets. Six top-team tasks. Establishing new mind-sets. Mobilizing resources.