Lead from Within

OCTOBER 14, 2024

As an executive leadership coach, I have had the privilege of guiding many leaders through the nuances of integrating AI into their strategic thinking. Here are three ways in which AI can significantly enhance your leadership decision-making: Data-Driven Insights : AI algorithms can analyze vast amounts of data from various sources.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Scenarios and scenario-based planning are widely recognized as valuable tools in setting organizations’ visions and strategies. Shell is the most famed for their scenarios and their process for developing them and using them. Those who know scenario planning know that its value isn’t in “predicting the future.”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

We can develop scenarios to “identify and test how and where the future and the present meet.” Different from experiments that “reveal immediate internal features of a complex system, scenarios explore where the internal organization meets the external environment, where uncertainties lurk beyond anyone’s control.”.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The concept delves more deeply than mere regulatory compliance, stretching towards a proactive approach that involves risk anticipation, scenario planning, and sound decision-making processes. The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team.

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Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 22, 2020

What makes strategic leadership different than leadership in general? Effective strategic leadership – and the ability to solve strategic leadership challenges – requires different skills and perspectives than those required by day-to-day operational leadership. The Importance of Strategic Leadership Today.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 4, 2016

Scenario planning, a strategy first employed by Royal Dutch Shell, brings experts from a wide range of fields together to discuss actions if different scenarios take place. Scenario planning allows you to think out—in advance—various options.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 20, 2021

It’s as true in business and leadership as it is in yoga and the rest of life. Running the plays requires urgency; developing the playbook requires patience. Have the patience to develop a new playbook and train your team with it before you send them into the urgency of the game. They can, and should, work together.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

The art of making farsighted decisions “with as much wisdom as possible lies not in forcing that map to match some existing template, but instead in developing the kind of keen vision required to see the situation as it truly is. And the best way to develop that vision is to get different pairs of eyes on the problem.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2024

Just as archers are taught to concentrate intensely and channel all their energy into the perfect shot through rigorous mental training, including meditation and self-talk, businesspeople can use similar techniques to develop transformative focus.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Leadership Tip: Great communicators start by asking “What story does my presentation want to tell?” In the depths of the COVID-19 lockdown, executives at Salesforce developed a long-term scenario-planning tool to help enterprise customers rediscover their decision-making confidence in a world turned upside down.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Leadership. by John • September 12, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 4 Comments. Not many years after the Tylenol fiasco, a massive batch of sour coffee that made some people nauseous became my ultimate test of leadership. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Did you like this? Share it: Tweet.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Based on their work experience in the new role, they can inform the HR from an outsider’s perspective what skills a candidate needs from day one and what skills can be provided through proper training & development. As for the list of required skill set, organizations need to realize that many of these skills are transferable.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. Leaders today would be wise to learn from the past and to view strategic planning and mindfulness together. Planning well, in his estimation, required “training the mind.”

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Business development. The process of strategy development is not esoteric. Next comes Crisis Planning. What-if scenario planning is similar to the processes utilized in overall company strategic planning and visioning. The crisis plan must be part of the bigger process, not an adjunct or afterthought.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Business development. Have you done scenario planning of measures beyond your immediate control, i.e. external factors which profoundly impact your livelihood? Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. But the sprint format isn’t just for development and design anymore. Can you run fast and go deep at the same time?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Read more from Korn Ferry: How to Develop Leaders Who Can Drive Strategic Change. This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment. But for traditional firms, they’re a whole new world.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Mindfulness meditation — the practice of cultivating deliberate focused attention on the present moment – has caught on as a way to bring focus, authenticity, and intention to the practice of leadership. Explore alternative scenarios: It’s also possible to inject an element of mindfulness without meditating at all.

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