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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. . Our values informed our guiding principles, developed by our CEO and implemented by our Executive Committee, for operating through COVID-19. What’s next for Neustar?

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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. 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. But how is this done?

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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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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.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

“The venture capital model works well when the primary risk is finance risk — as the entrepreneurial team works to scale their business model — but it doesn’t work so well when technological risk and market risk coincide,” Errol Arkilic, an investor that specializes in hard tech ventures, told me.

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3 Emerging Market Risks Companies Should Watch for in 2018

Harvard Business Review

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. Top leaders tend to focus more on status updates than on contingency planning.