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The financial risks of a blunder are alarming; the reputational risks even worse. Knowing when to say no becomes crucial.
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199 |
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The lower someone’s rank in the organizational hierarchy, the greater their risk of stress-related problems, not the other way around.
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36 |
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…sometimes, listening to conventional wisdom is the riskiest step of all.
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132 |
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If we ask people what they want in a product or show them a concept and seek their reaction, we run a very high risk of failure if we take their responses literally.
|
004 |
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…the focus group is really an unfocused instrument. We ask for so much information from it in such a short space of time that there is a great risk… that the forest will get lost in the trees.
|
065 |
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…it is an accepted fact that social isolation ranks up there with cigarette smoking, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure as risk factors for an early demise.
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036 |
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…we so hate to wait that we risk our lives to avoid it. Waiting is painful. Slow hurts.
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123 |
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…the ritual of strategic planning, which assumes ‘the future will be more or less like the present,’ is more hindrance than help. – Gary Hamel
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111 |
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The risks of acting too slowly [are] higher than the risks of letting competent people make judgment calls.
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209 |
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When leaders publicly change their minds, it shows that they’re smart enough to realize they made a mistake, secure enough to admit the mistake, and willing to risk their reputation to do the right thing.
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079 |
