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Contingency Planning | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process. The two most common outcomes created by a lack of contingency planning are: 1.) watching things grind to a halt as you scramble to evaluate options, and; 2.)

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Disaster and Contingency Planning Lessons from the ICU

Lead Change Blog

The post Disaster and Contingency Planning Lessons from the ICU appeared first on Lead Change. My mom would probably have been a “three” under the Memorial “triage” system, at best a two. A crisis is not the time to decide who is a one and who isn’t.

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How to Lead a Team That Suddenly Has to Work From Home

Let's Grow Leaders

This week we’ve received so many calls from leaders trying to figure out remote working contingency plans and from managers faced with implementing these new work from home policies. If you’re also trying to make the best of a new work-from-home scene, perhaps […].

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Project Management: How to Hold the Best Accountability Conversations

Let's Grow Leaders

And in between, you’ve got scope creep, stakeholder politics, and vaguely supported contingency plans. You’re pressured from above to produce results and from below to cultivate relationships with your project teams. You can become […].

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My Business After Hurricane Sandy: Creating a Contingency Plan

Women on Business

Hurricane Sandy was a monumental, hopefully once in a lifetime, storm. As the hurricane approached the East Coast many people frantically prepared to keep their families safe and supplies stocked. There was a run on the stores as people purchased enough food to last for a week, water to drink and gas to run generators and cars.

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The Complete List of Reasons Leaders Fail

Leadership Freak

The paranoid think about what could go wrong and make contingency plans. Leading contingency plans Leadership organizational values' Bitterness, grudges, and resentment. People fail. Successful leaders allow fresh starts. Task rather than people focus. Accepting complexity. Lack of political awareness.

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7 Ways Overconfidence is Sabotoging Your Career

Let's Grow Leaders

You’ve Got No Plan B. You’re so confident you’re on the fast track, you stop networking or creating contingency plans. When you think you know what to do, it’s easy to ignore data that doesn’t fit your plan. You just didn’t anticipate what happened next. You Ignore Data.

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