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University President Search: Bridging Academic Vision and Operational Reality

N2Growth Blog

The selection and appointment of the president shape the university’s strategic direction and operational realities for years to come, regardless of how many years they serve in the role. Operational realities, on the other hand, pertain to the practical aspects of running an organization of any size.

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Leading in Complexity and Uncertainty with Anu Rathninde

Let's Grow Leaders

Many leaders expect an organization to operate like a machine, but that leads to failure. Complexity and uncertainty mean unpredictable business outcomes, yet decisions are made based on assumptions of certainty that don’t include the interdependence and emergence of your employees, customers, supply chain, and eventually, success.

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Crisis Management in the Digital Age: Lessons for 2024’s Unpredictable Economy

N2Growth Blog

There is friction between globalization and regional autonomy, a conflict between the desire for sustainability and the lure of rapid development, ongoing political uncertainties, and the ever-increasing impact of digital technology. Corporations can navigate economic uncertainties and volatility through digital modeling.

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Radical Uncertainty: Why Your Projects Fall Flat and What to Do About It

Leading Blog

That’s until I picked up the book Radical Uncertainty , a guide to improving your decision-making beyond numbers. Radical Uncertainty argues that there is an overall mistake embedded in models: they all begin by considering how you might make a decision if you have complete and perfect knowledge of the world.

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How To Lead In Uncertainty

CO2

In the last few months, the world has been learning devastating lessons from uncertainty. The Cliff of Uncertainty. As a multi-disciplinary partnership, we at CO2 Partners have found Dave Snowden’s Cynefin framework to be helpful in better understanding the operating environment of an organization.

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Operations in an Era of Radical Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

Operations have always been foundational to competitive advantage, but the nature of this relationship is shifting: Historically, the strategic goal of operations was to achieve scale in order to create a sustainable efficiency advantage.

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Managing Employee Fear During Times of Uncertainty

CEO Insider

Needless to say, 2020 has been nothing short of complicated and chaotic as COVID-19 forced businesses to change their operations overnight to adhere to stay-at-home orders and protect employees. This year has CEOs and leaders operating with no playbook, figuring out how […]. alone and not the CEOWORLD magazine.