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Creative leaders don’t fear risk — they turn it into a money-making strategy

In 2008, at the height of the global recession, Hyundai Motor Company, like all other auto companies, was reeling from the sharp drop-off in vehicle sales. Fearful of losing their jobs and dismayed by the sudden plunge in the value of their homes, consumers were in no mood to consider big-ticket pur...
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Ford Forced to Stop F-150 Production Because of Supplier Fire

Ford suspended all production Wednesday of its profit-driving F-150 pickup, the nation’s best-selling vehicle for more than 35 years, because of a “black swan” parts shortage. The production halt was caused by a fire May 2 at a parts factory in small-town Michigan that rippled thro...
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Apple’s Cobalt Play: A Lesson in Competitive Strategy, Navigating Uncertainty and Securing the Supply Chain

Another Apple Trifecta? If recent reports of Apple being engaged in discussions with cobalt suppliers are true (and I bet they are) then we are about to witness another lesson in how to gain competitive advantage as Apple simultaneously executes competitive strategy, uncertainty navigation and suppl...
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Gary Lynch shows how to turn risk into reward and uncertainty into opportunity

MORRISTOWN, N.J. (PRWEB) September 11, 2017 — What does the executive chairman of Starbucks and the CEO of Waymo have in common? According to risk management and market analysist Gary Lynch, they have uniquely looked beyond the numbers and leveraged uncertainty in their respective fields....
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Now Scheduling: Single Point or Failure: The Next Step

After a decade of learning and working with many of the world’s top leaders and risk experts I have concluded that risk must be part of the business’s competitive strategy, i.e. to create and sustain profitability. That is why I developed this workshop, to develop strategies and methods for exec...
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