Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

Stephen Curry has built his NBA career on taking shots that others don’t: three-pointers from a crazy distance. ” Embracing market risk in our careers is a high-percentage move. However, many people don’t know what assuming market risk looks like when applied to their career. Henrik Sorensen/Getty Images.

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Career Market Risk Chemicals Banking 15

HR Digest

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Unstable Income While flexibility is desirable, knowing what the gig economy is will tell you that regular work is an uncertainty. A full-time job brings a sense of stability in that sense, providing certainty that a set amount of money will reach your bank or your wallet at the end of the month.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Oil prices had fallen, the peso was devalued, interest rates were high, and some banks were nationalized. John Templeton , in the early stage of his career, bought 100 shares of selected companies, trading at less than $1, in 1939, the onset of World War II. He made loans to people from a makeshift desk, with no luxury of a bank hall.

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Uncertainty Entrepreneur Banking Price 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

. “Culture” can sound like a catchall, a convenient way to place the blame outside the realm of policy, but I am talking about one specific dimension of culture: avoiding uncertainty. Greece tops this index of uncertainty-avoidance across all countries, scoring 100 out of 100. And it all starts in school.

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Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I invited my friend Peter Cappelli, a Wharton professor, author of Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty, and a recognized world authority on human capital, to discuss his new approach to talent management. The problem for talent management is to deal with and manage that uncertainty. So, what do we do instead?

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Attrition Talent Management Human Capital Supply Chain 107

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

Manager, do you think you will be moving on?"), or brown-nosing ("I hope to be well along my career within this fine company") and it assumes that you are going to indeed like working at "this fine company" and that they are going to enjoy having you. So are we saying career planning is waste of time? It's not career planning.

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Career Planning Real Estate Letter 15

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” We’ve also made development conversations a point of emphasis, as an important way to help employees identify, explore and connect with learning opportunities as they navigate their career journey at Mastercard.

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

As a result, we tend to extrapolate prior trends into future estimates in many domains, ranging from career and compensation expectations to global macroeconomic projections. Might our inability to understand the inherent nature of growth as unsustainable also be affecting our ability to navigate investing, economic, and career uncertainty?

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Banking Tversky Real Estate Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. Spending time early in your career in a frontier market has a lasting impact on all your subsequent management decisions. At worst, they misjudge or simply stay out of markets vastly different from their own.

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Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? You can, however, embrace uncertainty by adjusting your views as new information becomes available. Take, for example, Rasmus Ankersen.

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 308

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

There was a lot of uncertainty and debate last summer and fall over whether President Obama would appoint Janet Yellen or Larry Summers as Federal Reserve chair. What wasn’t really up in the air was whether the new head of the world’s most powerful central bank would have a doctorate in economics. pretty much ever since.

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Banking Rogers Career Education 9

Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

If you’re making a big career change, gaining new qualifications or re-training will help to support your new business. According to the Gallup Wellbeing Index, 45% of entrepreneurs report feeling stressed , while another study by Bank of America found that running a small business is even more stressful than parenting.

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Tips Learning-by-Doing Industry Long-term 95

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In the 1980s, however, pioneering women began moving into management roles and into frontline business areas, such as investment banking. Career progression analysis also shows that at each level, men are promoted at materially higher rates than women. ” What explains the poor career prospects of women in financial services?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

Similar controversies have erupted in recent years following the publication of Anne Marie Slaughter’s essay “ Why Women Still Can’t Have It All ,” or news of an investment bank intern’s death. This loosening of long-term bonds has brought more uncertainty to all workers, and more freedom to a fortunate few.

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Long-term Loyalty Uncertainty Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Talk to people in such professional service industries as private banking, auditing, consulting, even engineering, and you begin to hear concerns about the commoditization of professional knowledge. It affects career potential, skills development and the entire value-chain of organizations that serve the expertise business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Some residents seem to view Ellison’s actions with suspicion and uncertainty. Two: Working in finance does not involve joining "a team of professionals committed to the success of your bank." So for those embarking on a career in finance, Lewis has one last piece of advice: "Watch yourself, because no one else will.".

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Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

Farkas, former chairman of giant mortgage lender Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, in April was found guilty for his role in one of the largest bank fraud schemes in American history. These talented leaders were highly successful in their respective fields and at the peak of their careers. Values-centered leadership.

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Ethics Stress Charisma Crisis 16

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I follow 6 principles on a daily basis, which I know has made a significant impact on my career success. 6) Career – I’ve always known what I wanted to do and been engaged in work I truly believe in, but I’ve sabotaged myself with too much idealism and not enough business wisdom. Your leadership is like a bank account.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Quitting a job can negatively impact your career and disrupt your personal life. I find a lot of people paralyzed by their unhappiness with their current reality," says Leonard Schlesinger, the president of Babson College and coauthor of Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future. It's often easier to stay put.

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Reputation Case Study Short-term Cost 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The answers “I am not up to much” and “I have some time on my hands, actually” are not going to do much for your internal status and career. The CEO of a large, global bank once told me: “It is very easy for someone in my position to be very busy all the time. Sit down and think them through.

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Strategy Long-term Short-term Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has spent his career focusing on the ways in which we get things right , or could at least learn to. HBR: Most of us are used to hearing about how bad we are at making decisions under conditions of uncertainty, and how our intuitions often lead us astray. But most of our problems are about uncertainty.

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Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

Securing those rights and protections is important, but it’s not clear that these changes alone will turn gig work into a stable, well-respected career. Dwindling benefits, frequent layoffs, ever-expanding workloads, and a pervasive sense of uncertainty have diminished the allure of these once-sought-after positions.

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Insurance Career Class Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

Over the last 17 years, I have served as an executive coach to hundreds of senior women leaders, many of them working in heavily male-dominated environments such as banking, the military, and the police force. Paradoxically, I find that women who focus on their career as their main goal are less likely to be truly impactful as a leader.

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Energy Hedge Parcell Career 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Before I knew it I was presenting the ideas in my book to Steve Black, who at the time headed up investment banking at JP Morgan Chase. And in 2004 Paolo Pellegrini, a VP at the investment bank Lazard Freres, was fired — then took on a low-level position at a hedge fund after a lucky phone call. She was right. Lucky thing, that.

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

If you're wondering what to do next in your career, you're hardly alone. Members of generations whose defining experiences were of commitment and rebellion struggle to make sense of a generation whose members' defining experiences are of uncertainty and flux. Both involve uncertainty and signal prestige. They still do.

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