Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 13, 2011

Pretty soon, I’ll need hedge clippers from Black & Decker. Again, thanks for the good advice. For you older folk, pay attention to hair that appears in strange places (nose/ears/face/hands) — I get more scared as I get older and see my hair migrate from my head to the Twilight Zones of my face. at 5:29 PM Good tips.

Succession 225

Succession Sharpe Licensing Hedge 225

Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

This is excellent advice. One person near the end partially hedged their opinion and said maybe we should give her another chance. After we discussed her interview a bit I asked everyone whether we should hire her. Almost everyone said no – because her interview was horrible.

Human Resources 47

Human Resources Deming Resources System 47

Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

This is excellent advice. One person near the end partially hedged their opinion and said maybe we should give her another chance. After we discussed her interview a bit I asked everyone whether we should hire her. Almost everyone said no – because her interview was horrible.

Human Resources 28

Human Resources Deming Resources System 28

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.

Blog 347

Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 347

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2016

One college student who wrote to me for advice was planning to drop out at the end of the semester to start his own social media business, but he was getting blowback from his peers. Similarly, you should take your colleagues’ advice with a grain of salt, especially if it reflects on them and their choices in some way.

Career 8

Career Hedge CFO Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

There’s a lot of conflicting advice out there on giving corrective feedback. I dug into our archives for our best, research- and experience-based advice on what to do, and what to avoid. Instead, separate your negative commentary from your praise, and don’t hedge. Never, ever, ever feed someone a “sandwich.”

Hedge 14

Hedge Advice Budgeting Tips 14

Frank Sonnenberg Online

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Hedge your bets to protect your downside. Think about what you’d do if you were faced with tough times. For example, take steps to remain healthy, reduce overhead costs, and expand your social network. Be cautious. If you place all your eggs in one basket, any fall will be a messy one. Remain grounded. Don’t let success go to your head.

How To 105

How To Hedge Learning-by-Doing Energy 105

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Online and algorithmic investment and financial advice is easy to come by these days, usually under the moniker of “robo-advisor.” Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

While this is great advice for a cash-constrained startup with little reputation, brand image, or a large group of premium-paying loyal customers to loose, this is not a smart strategy for Apple. Nor are its current businesses doing too badly. Apple does it right rather than fast. Innovation Strategy'

Creativity 15

Creativity Supply Chain Hedge Brand 15

Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 27, 2018

They’re fearful their business is going to go under and they hedge their bets. Why even ask for help if you’re not willing to hear the person out and take their advice? Take their advice. And see where their advice takes you. – Leadership lessons from Crazy Rich Asians Click To Tweet.

Leadership 240

Leadership Hotels Proposal Planning 240

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

’” Halpern then asked for a fifteen-minute video call in which he would offer the bloggers some free website-marketing advice. If my advice worked for them, I asked them to post the video.” “It was just trying to hedge my bets, so if nobody bought, I could walk away from it.” I think I can help.’”

Audience 8

Audience Video Marketing Hedge 8

Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

He started the Khan Academy as a way to tutor his cousins remotely — while he was a hedge fund analyst in Boston, and they were students in New Orleans. It was clear there was a huge unmet need, so Sal left his hedge fund job and started Khan Academy with the mission of providing a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

Hedge 314

Hedge Class Video Career 314

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Almost as soon as Ron Johnson was fired by JC Penney, blame for the retailer’s annus horribilis shifted to board member and billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman, who had lured Johnson to Penney from Apple in 2011. Now Ackman is out too , and Fraser P.

Fraser 15

Fraser Management Hedge Simon 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Again, my best advice is to start small. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? The process I just described doesn't work for big data initiatives because it's designed for cases where all the facts are known, all the risks are identified, and all steps are clear — exactly what you won't find with a big data initiative. More >>.

CIO 15

CIO Hedge Fashion Follow-up 15

Frank Sonnenberg Online

APRIL 20, 2021

Ray Dalio, American billionaire, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist, said, “Hire right, because the penalties of hiring wrong are huge.”. How will a perception of favoritism affect their ability to lead? How will this strategy impact the long-term competitiveness of organizations or even of nations?

Diversity 133

Diversity Hedge Morale Long-term 133

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

Your brand is also a powerful hedge against professional misfortune. For instance, you could volunteer to host a lunch-and-learn about a topic you’ve been researching, start writing for the company newsletter, or offer advice or respond to queries on the corporate intranet.

Brand 15

Brand Development Reputation Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

So here's some advice on how to make the best of this role and do a better job of seeing the future. It's natural for advisers to hedge rather than deliver bad news or make specific predictions that may not come to pass. Most CIOs don't like being cast in the role of corporate psychic, but there's nothing they can do about it.

CIO 14

CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Advice for how to gracefully handle mistakes often emphasizes 1) taking responsibility for the error, 2) presenting a plan for the remedy, and then 3) fixing what was wrong. Although these directions sound simple, they can be extremely difficult to execute in real life. One case in point I came across recently was Brad.

Letter 8

Letter Price Hedge Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Samsung could have used the following advice: Lower the hype. Despite this grand vision, Samsung is hedging its bets just in case the breaking away move does not pan out by keeping its key branding elements (especially the design and naming) more or less intact.

Brand 8

Brand Customer Loyalty Hedge Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

However, the firm's core offering in most other markets was supply chain advice. The company then dedicated engineering resources to add that quirky feature, a more cost-effective approach than engineering a complex suite of features as a hedge that at least one of them might address a real customer need.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 13

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Freedom Financial recommends entrepreneurs to hedge against that risk by putting time into other ventures, putting money into other investments, or sometimes even maintaining full-time employment. Get professional financial advice. Statistically speaking, entrepreneurship has a high risk of failing.

Entrepreneur 52

Entrepreneur Tips Succession Management 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

hedge funds? But if the respected strategy firm Monitor calls up and asks you to meet with Libya's leader — who appears to be considering a late-in-life reinvention — to offer him advice , well, that's something different. Without such rules and bounds, in fact, capitalism doesn't seem to work very well. scam artists?

PR 9

PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

As best I can tell, there are three levels of bubble danger (they correlate somewhat with Hyman Minsky's three stages of economic danger: Ponzi, speculative, and hedge finance). My sense is that any company that finances itself this way is a fraud, so the best advice for executives is probably turn yourselves in. The Ponzi bubble.

Company 13

Company Finance Price IPO 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Again, my best advice is to start small. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? The process I just described doesn't work for big data initiatives because it's designed for cases where all the facts are known, all the risks are identified, and all steps are clear — exactly what you won't find with a big data initiative. More >>.

CIO 8

CIO Hedge Fashion Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Andrew Carnegie’s advice in the 1889 essay “Wealth” was to spend the first part of your life getting as much education as possible, to spend the second part making all the money you could, and to spend the last part giving it all away for worthwhile causes. Now I think both can be used as methods for changing the world.”

Learning Curve 8

Learning Curve Hedge CEO Education 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Any advice for once you’re in that position, you have a seat at the table, but the other people around the table are really just not buying what you’re selling? Silver: If you can’t present your ideas to at least a modestly larger audience, then it’s not going to do you very much good.

Mentor 19

Mentor Career Uncertainty Learning-by-Doing 19

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Consciously attempt to act on these four pieces of advice and I think you can only get better at anticipating the big things (and small things) that will come next. Of course, the wisest among us will always hedge our forecasts with qualifiers such as “will likely” or “is apt to.”

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

When acclaimed hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones revealed his opinion that women become much less effective as stock traders or investors once they have children, he was, in a sense, suggesting that the distraction of motherhood—a distinctly feminine condition—exceeds that of other attention-siphoning activities.

Presenteeism 8

Presenteeism Hedge Report Construction 8

Frank Sonnenberg Online

JULY 23, 2019

Hedge your bets to protect your downside. Think about what you’d do if you were faced with tough times. For example, take steps to remain healthy, reduce overhead costs, and expand your social network. Be cautious. If you place all your eggs in one basket, any fall will be a messy one. Remain grounded. Don’t let success go to your head.

Hedge 87

Hedge Learning-by-Doing Blog Succession 87

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

’ It’s the best advice I’ve ever gotten. ” Educator Salman Kahn – who left his hedge-fund job to found the wildly successful online learning nonprofit Kahn Academy – talked with us about the importance of work-life balance. If it were a year down the road, I would do it.’

Career 13

Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Creativity 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

He has shown that asset prices have a tendency to overshoot, but he’s nonetheless generally a big believer in financial markets , frequently arguing that what we need are more markets and more ways to hedge our risks. His research also played a big role in the creation and rise of the index investing industry in general.

CAPM 8

CAPM Finance Price Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

I''m content to be on the sidelines, with my father relying on me for advice. He makes his own decisions," I hedged. This morning I was certain what my advice would be. When I was getting my MBA at Stanford, I met and married the wonderful Daniel Wanandi, and we now run a language school in Jakarta. Bold Action. Mr. Tueni spoke.

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Rich Gee Group

APRIL 17, 2023

To illustrate this point, Grant shares a range of compelling stories, from the demise of BlackBerry to a heart-wrenching tale of a mother who lost her son due to incorrect medical advice. The unwillingness to rethink assumptions and beliefs in each case led to negative consequences. But how can we learn to think like scientists?

Books 195

Books Open-book Hedge Construction 195

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

For women with leadership ambitions, there is no shortage of advice for how to reach the top. hedge fund partner, told me: “If you want balance, go be a yoga Nidra instructor.” Alexandra, the hedge fund partner, had colleagues who were obsessed with American football, but as she told me: “I never talk about sports.

Energy 13

Energy Hedge Parcell Career 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

You might have sought them out for advice, to bounce ideas off them, to help you evaluate opportunities, or to help you strategize important moves. Most-senior hedge fund people and competitors. Don’t worry about who they should be. Only name people to whom you have actually turned for this help recently. lawyers, accountants).

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

You want it to be diversified, and you want to keep adding to it, or it won’t be an adequate hedge,” she counsels. Create a personal board of directors or circle of mentors outside of your company to act as a sounding board and source of advice and introductions. One manager compares her sponsor strategy to her investment portfolio.

Mentor 8

Mentor Hedge Human Capital Career 8