CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500. I had a chance to discuss the parallels between driving and leadership with Peter Hajas , who knows a lot about both.

Hedge 60

Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 60

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Today’s world is one of sharp contrasts. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Silent Killer #6: Modern Indentured Servitude. As a society, we have more choices, opportunities, wealth, and prosperity than at any other point in human history. companies more than $31 billion each year in lost productive time.

Productivity 71

Productivity Products Six Sigma Chief Executive Officer 71

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

tool knife from the rig on my body armor and let the pristinely sharp blade slice effortlessly through the tape and label—while being ever so careful to avoid harming whatever wonders lay inside. Enough examination of the outside of the package—time to figure out what it contained! I drew my standard-issue Gerber?tool

Emotional Intelligence 150

Emotional Intelligence Participative Short-term Letter 150

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

A recent story in the New York Times highlighted a pair of high school students who had experienced considerable success as app developers. Unfortunately, app development came at the expense of schoolwork, resulting in a sharp decline in one developer’s grades as the pair headed into the college application season.

Development 9

Development Levitt Real Estate IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

of private-sector workers were union members in 2013. Since unions fell into sharp decline in the private sector in the 1970s, the private-sector wage gap between blacks and whites has grown. Now union membership is down to 11.2% of the U.S. workforce, and it’s increasingly concentrated in the public sector — only 6.7% does, too.

Politics 11

Politics Sharpe Education Hotels 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

It confirms the fairly well known fact that early-stage venture capital deals are booming — the number of first fundings increased 150% between 2009 and 2012, before plateauing in 2013 and reverting some by 2014. The data show a sharp increase in the share of cities that receive at least some first-round venture capital.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Sharpe Bottom-up Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good. Keep a laser sharp focus on gross margin. But here it is midyear and the signals are decidedly more positive.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

In 2012 and 2013, not only did our speaker rosters comprise more than 50% women and people of color, but the number of conference attendees doubled each year. Our conference in December 2013 had roughly 43% as many speakers as Davos does this month, but these ideas apply to events of any size. Have a farm system.

Conference 11

Conference Stage-Gate Proposal Ries 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Congress, however, wisely left the internet out of that experiment , letting fixed and mobile broadband access markets to develop largely on their own. This has helped contribute to the development of innovative Internet-based businesses , where 11 of the top 15 Internet businesses, most started in the last decade, are U.S.

Price 8

Price How To Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

A 2013 Pew Research survey found that business executives ranked ninth out of 10 professions in terms of social contribution, only placing ahead of lawyers. has recently experienced a rise in income inequality to levels last seen in the 1920s, and other countries, especially developed ones, have registered similar if less dramatic increases.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8