Podcasts by IBJs Beyond COVID

Use a 'crisis journal' to track key decisions you make as information changes from 2020-05-27T01:06:14

Are you keeping a crisis journal? A detailed log of the decisions your company is making and why, plus all the circumstances—internal and external—that affected those decisions?

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The complications of moving your staff back to the office from 2020-05-19T01:19:51

FirstPerson, a human resources consulting firm in Indianapolis, is talking to customers about how to bring their employees back to work — all while setting up its own process for doing so.

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The magic of a one-page business plan from 2020-05-11T22:00

How long is your business plan? Does it fit on one page? Leadership coach Craig P. Anderson says too many companies create business plans that are dozens, if not hundreds of pages long and are j...

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Renegotiating in the midst of the coronavirus from 2020-05-05T01:19:56

As Indiana begins the process of reopening its economy, there are no doubt plenty of contracts you may need to renegotiate. Maybe it’s a lease for your space or a vendor in your supply chain. Ma...

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Leaders are created in crisis. You can be one of them. from 2020-04-28T00:10:37

Nancy Koehn—a historian, Harvard Business School professor and our guest on Beyond COVID—did a deep dive into history’s most outstanding leaders and what they tell us about the qualities of lead...

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Want your company to be agile? Start by making your people feel stable. from 2020-04-20T23:55:04

There may be no more important time to be agile than now, when the entire economy has been disrupted and nothing about the way we do business is normal. But new research finds the single most im...

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Indy Chamber is trying to help companies stay on their feet through the shutdown from 2020-04-13T21:21:29

As big events like conventions and the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments started canceling last month, leaving the small business across the city reeling, the Indy Chamber sprang into action to offer...

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Why a 90-day sprint is key to getting your company ready for the economy to restart from 2020-04-07T11:40:27

So many business leaders and entrepreneurs are understandably scrambling to cope with the immediate problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting shutdowns. But Matt Neff, an Ind...

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