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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. Only local zoning rules could inhibit future real estate magnates from building in the objectively safer parts of the city and protecting the populace by building more units higher up. What will this adaptation look like?

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs. As its name implies, the objective of the future-state portfolio is to paint a picture of the organization 10 or 20 years into the future.

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Explain Your New Strategy By Emphasizing What It Isn’t

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey and Company reported similar findings from its Organizational Health Index as did Timothy Devinney at Australia’s University of Technology in a recent experiment. They do a fine job of requiring leaders to spell out what the strategic objectives are , but they rarely require leaders to get clear about what they are not.