Uncertainty

How to Be a Better Leader Amid Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity

Angus Fletcher, Thomas L. Gaines, Brittany Loney

What practices can we develop to best navigate volatile environments?

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Investing in Growth Through Uncertainty

Ranjay Gulati

How can you avoid the protective reflex of focusing on managing costs in order to continue investing despite uncertainty?

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How One Hospital Has Succeeded in a World of Bundled Payments

Derek A. Haas, Jamie Chang

An interesting case study on how an American hospital completely reviewed the way the medical staff should address risks when it shifted to fixed-fee care billing.

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Our Brains Were Not Built for This Much Uncertainty

Heidi Grant, Tal Goldhamer

A useful and reassuring reminder that our brain isn’t designed to take on high uncertainty levels, complete with advice on how to better cope with that fact.

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Does Your Cyber Insurance Cover a State-Sponsored Attack?

Jon Bateman

Should you subscribe to an insurance policy to cover the possibility of a cyber-attack committed by a state? 

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Insider threat: The human element of cyberrisk

Tucker Bailey, Brian Kolo, Karthik Rajagopalan, David Ware

Numerous attacks benefit from relays within the company itself—whether intentionally or not. How can you better apprehend this phenomenon and contain it?

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From Risk to Resilience: Learning to Deal With Disruption

Joseph Fiksel, Mikaella Polyviou, Keely L. Croxton, Timothy J. Pettit

Be ready to face disruption in your supply chain.

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Managing the people side of risk

Alexis Krivkovich, Cindy Levy

The best practices adopted by thirty-odd large companies to manage human risks in their organization. 

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3 Ways to Take Action in the Face of Uncertainty

Jonathan Berman

Who better than an ex-Director of the CIA to tell us how to support teams in an uncertain context? Discover David H. Petraeus’s three tips to advance through uncertainty.

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Resilience in a Hotter World

Andrew Winston

How can we get ready to face the disturbances related to climate change?

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