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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

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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. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

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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. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Our Freedom.

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How Hedge Funds Create Criminals

Harvard Business Review

Hedge funds are playing the role of Wall Street villain again. Then came the November 22, 2010 raids of three hedge fund headquarters by FBI agents who seized documents and confiscated BlackBerries. Now authorities are serving subpoenas on other, larger hedge and mutual funds. Killing Conscience.

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The Salary Gap Between Stingy and Generous Companies Is Growing

Harvard Business Review

The increasing inequality between companies is sharpest in finance, insurance, and real estate, followed by communications. So rising inequality is less about every CEO getting paid more than it is about the top finance executives leaving their peers in the dust. And it is most pronounced for the highest paid workers. Making the top 0.1%

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

In 2010 it was $900 million — seventh place. After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money. His response: “While I think using 13Fs to track hedge fund stock-pickers works great, in my mind it works less so for the activist guys.”

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Greece’s Problem Is More Complicated than Austerity

Harvard Business Review

Although former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis made eloquent appeals about the need to rethink macro, he said very little about changing how the economy is run. contraction today, there was no one in the finance ministry actually making policy. The record on economic policy-making is equally disappointing. So what about that debt?

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Managing Risks Means Managing Arguments

Harvard Business Review

The tick-borne illness kept JPMorgan Chase's Ina Drew out of the office for extended periods in 2010 and 2011. That discord in 2010 and 2011 contributed to the chief investment office's losing trades in 2012, the current and former bankers said. So it was Lyme disease that did it! When that happens, everybody loses.