N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. A close examination of truly great leaders will reveal that, to the one, they all have a strong bias toward action. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Decisioning by consensus usually results in no decision being made, or an intellectually dishonest, watered-down decision that is so full of compromises, hedges and caveats that a non-decision might have been preferable. I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

If anything, he views HBO’s move less like sedition and more like uncertain hedging, and one that could help platform players ultimately continue to thrive. And that means the recent HBO and CBS announcements are less a harbinger and more of a hedge. Or as Hazlett calls it, “a straddle.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2012

In one of Oatley and Mar's studies in 2006 , 94 subjects were asked to guess the emotional state of a person from a photograph of their eyes. media empire. Meanwhile, their hedge-fund-manager best friend is involved in big-time stock manipulation. Full disclosure: my husband is the author ).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

While articles in the media have focused on the impossibility of getting by on such low wages, little attention has been paid to the company’s enormous appetite for stock buybacks. In the period 2006 through 2014, the total pay of McDonald’s CEO varied from a low of $3.6 million in 2014 to a high of $12.6

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

We rightfully add safety systems to things like planes and oil rigs, and hedge the bets of major banks, in an effort to encourage them to run safely yet ever-more efficiently. The reasons are rooted partly in the pernicious nature of complexity, and partly in the way that human beings psychologically respond to risk.

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