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

In their annual survey on the management and planning tools used by thousands of companies around the world, Bain and Company show a consistent and deserved popularity of scenario planning. Those who know scenario planning know that its value isn’t in “predicting the future.” Some companies do.

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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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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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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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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Leadership. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader. by John • September 12, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 4 Comments. How is it possible for three months of crisis management ineptitude to occur in an organization the size of BP with a product as environmentally toxic as oil?

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 7, 2020

A structured strategy for managing workforce can bring consistency into overall operations during today’s challenging times by putting people first. At the heart of any organization’s talent management strategy is headcount planning to ensure that it has the right number of talent with the right skills.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2024

Just as archers break the skill of using a bow and arrow to hit a target from distance into component parts, such as stance or aim, executives can break the task of “becoming a better leader” into specific, actionable, and manageable steps.

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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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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

The Empathy Map looks like this: In this chapter the authors walk you through processes to arrive a enhanced design like Customer Insights, ideation, providing an introduction to the value of visual thinking, how to use prototyping, story telling, and Scenario Planning. This final chapter puts it all together.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

To make the best decisions, managers need access to real-time data about their supply chain, but the limitations of legacy technologies can thwart the goal of end-to-end transparency. New digital technologies that have the potential to take over supply chain management entirely are disrupting traditional ways of working.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. There are three aspects to Crisis Management and Preparedness. Next comes Crisis Planning. by Hank Moore.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Questions to follow in Budgeting as part of Strategic Planning and Visioning processes include: Does this process increase your accountability to funding sources and to the public? Are budgeting measures used to manage performance? Is the performance management system focused upon outcomes? Collaborate with others.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 10, 2019

One issue has been on my mind for quite some time. Let me share with you a key learning from my innovation work in and with diverse companies over the years. It can be termed pretty catchy as: Window of Corporate Opportunity. In brief, this notion can be delineated as follows: Sustainable, effective and impactful corporate innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning. Strategy-making can now happen in real time. It’s an entirely different animal.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Scenario planning is impossible. They told me that in the world where there are no precedents, you have to trust your own judgment. There are multiple ways of getting around each challenge, and a variety of consequences that can come from your actions. So instead you simply move forward in the way you know in your heart to be right.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

No country or bloc seems to want to take on the burden of global leadership. For example, when it comes to preparation for a possible showdown involving North Korea, there has been no discussion or scenario planning between American and Chinese top brass — not a recipe for good crisis management.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Sure, the value of an in-depth discovery phase; comprehensive, quantitative, and qualitative research; stakeholder interviews; scenario planning; and alignment are undisputed. And how often have you crafted a meticulous three-year strategic plan, only to have it become obsolete after a few months, or even weeks?

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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. But it’s also possible to build mindfulness directly into planning exercises.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment. Agile businesses run planning and execution in parallel, investing in scenario planning so they can act promptly when opportunities arise.

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