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List of Recommended Books We have reviewed the following books to ensure their relevance and practicality in each of their major categories. Action Learning Benchmarking Boards of Directors Business Development Business Ethics Business Insurance Business Planning Business Research Business Writing Capacity Building Career Development Coaching (Personal and Professional) Consulting Continuous Improvement Creativity Crisis Management Customer …

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Making a Cyber Breach Crisis Management Plan These days, protecting your organization from cybercrime is just as, and possibly even more important than securing your physical facility. Cybersecurity is always evolving and you need to keep up with best practices to help prevent data breaches that could compromise your company’s reputation. With that said, it’s …

Crisis prevention saves lives, saves money, and saves reputation. Yet the majority of organizations neglect it until a major crisis hits. It shouldn’t take a dose of pain to spur you into action. In this popular article, Bernstein Crisis Management president Jonathan Bernstein lays out The 10 Steps of Crisis Prevention that can get you started …

Research shows that successful social enterprises often share common characteristics. There are many theories why some social enterprises flourish while others languish. Is it leadership, business planning, funding, market, or timing that makes a successful social enterprise? Joining Vision and Action is dedicated to providing social enterprises, nonprofits, and government agencies with the tools and …

Protect this most valuable asset You simply can’t afford to ignore your online reputation. Stakeholders, both current and potential, will be searching your name, looking through reviews, and investigating your social media presence before choosing to do business with you. Yet, so often company leadership has little to no interest in making sure this vital …

A participant in a listserve observed that ”the realm of ‘planning’ is (often) made infinitely more complicated because different words are used to mean the same thing and the same words are used to mean different things.” Indeed, there is great diversity in the use of terms like “visioning,” “mission” and “strategic planning.” So I …