Leadership Skills
Handle the Corporate Heat Like an Actual Firefighter
Leaders can apply four key principles from FDNY firefighters to contend with “fires” in the business world.
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Developing Strategy
Scenario Planning Amid Radical Uncertainty
In today’s political climate, change can happen faster than leaders expect. Use scenario planning to manage uncertainty.
Developing Strategy
When Wait and See Is Smart Strategy
Amid political uncertainty, leaders must learn when to delay actions — and how to avoid drifting.
Leadership Skills
10 Strategies for Leading in Uncertain Times
Apply these strategies to steer your company through a volatile and disruptive business environment.
Crisis Management
How to Supercharge Your Crisis Training
Leaders can learn to prepare for unprecedented disruptions by participating in dynamic simulations of crisis scenarios.
Developing Strategy
How to Strategize in an Out-of-Control World
In a time of political disruption, leaders must learn to recognize, manage, and respond to the resulting business risks.
Crisis Management
How to Build a Cyber Crisis Communications Plan
Cyber resilience demands the creation of a thorough, well-rehearsed crisis communications plan.
Developing Strategy
How Ghost Scenarios Haunt Strategy Execution
Executives must confront a strategic planning blind spot: their assumptions about the future business context.
Developing Strategy
How to Make Sense of Irrational Competitors
Business leaders who write competitors’ actions off as irrational risk getting blind-sided.
Developing Strategy
Strategizing Across Organizations
Solving big, systemic problems will require organizations to come together to develop strategies as a group.
Supply Chains & Logistics
Accelerating Supply Chain Scenario Planning
Companies can use data and collaborative scenario plans to enhance supply chain responsiveness.
Boards & Corporate Governance
Using Scenario Planning to Reshape Strategy
A new approach to scenario planning can help companies reframe their long-term strategies.
Create Your Company’s Future
Recently, MIT SMR readers have been looking for information on scenario planning — a trend that may reflect current social, political, and economic uncertainty. This trend led to our Summer 2017 special report on creating your company’s future.
Developing Strategy
Scenario Planning: A Tool for Strategic Thinking
How can companies combat the overconfidence and tunnel vision common to so much decision making?
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