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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. Debriefing also supports the development of better leaders and more cohesive teams. But how is this done? Duke and James D.

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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

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. Look at the variance of your new-market products.

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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.