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Even the best laid plans can fail when leaders encounter situations they didn’t expect. Through Scenario Planning, leaders can account for a wide range of possible situations. They can pressure test their plans and make sure they aren’t caught unaware or without a backup strategy.
The idea of providing a service, offering a product, or giving people access to a program for a limited time period has been a mainstay of marketing for over a century. Since the 1950s, advertisers have created limited-edition and limited-time campaigns to stimulate demand in food, beverages, household goods, and mail-order catalogs.
And they work.
Quantum computing is predicted to change the world as much, if not more, than artificial intelligence.
But the concept of quantum computing (what it is and how it works) is extremely complex and difficult to grasp for many people.
Let’s use it to show how the best leaders make the complex simple...
In the library of approaches to help people improve, critique plays a unique role. Whereas criticism typically points out flaws in performance and how to correct them, and feedback provides information to guide learning and improvement that can be accepted or rejected, the purpose of critique is different.
Team members who propose a new approach or originate an innovative idea or program deserve high credit and a chance to showcase their proposal. But unfortunately, in many cases, they lack the skills, experience, or talent to execute on their own idea.
Team members who propose a new approach or originate an innovative idea or program deserve high credit and a chance to showcase their proposal. But unfortunately, in many cases, they lack the skills, experience, or talent to execute on their own idea.