Don’t surrender to uncertainty!

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I hope senior management do not get persuaded to divert their attention to studying ‘complexity’ in the hope of understanding recent economic turmoil.  “‘Power curves’: What natural and economic disasters have in common” argues that “parallels between financial crises and natural disasters–such as earthquakes or forest fires–suggest that the economy, just like complex natural systems, is inherently unstable and prone to occasional huge failures that are very hard or impossible to foresee. Proponents of this school of thinking are ...

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More on strategy in the crisis

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More from McKinsey Quarterly on the crisis A new era for management. Links in this intro article seem not to work, so here are direct links to articles I found useful, plus one on consumer sectors that may do better or worse than others.

LEADING THROUGH UNCERTAINTY

STRATEGY IN A ‘STRUCTURAL BREAK’

THE DOWNTURN’S NEW RULES FOR MARKETERS

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