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Learn or Die

Leading Blog

Our ability (and willingness) to learn impacts our personal and business growth, operational excellence, and our capacity to innovate. A particularly fascinating and eye-opening chapter is on Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world. More than ever, it truly is learn or die. We learn from each other.

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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

N2Growth Blog

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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The Internet Shouldn’t Run on Dirty Energy

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, data centers represented 2% of all electricity use in the United States. Clean energy can provide a hedge against rising and more volatile electricity prices. The internet may seem to exist in the ether, but its plumbing includes a vast network of data centers, also known as server farms, which need power to function.

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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.

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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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Can JP Morgan Transparently Police Itself?

Harvard Business Review

(For a discussion of the importance of deferred compensation to sound risk management and the proper purpose, scope and implementation of discretionary corporate "recovery" policies see my 2010 piece here.).

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