N2Growth Blog

MAY 24, 2012

While both perspectives cover some of the same ground, the article in The Journal hedges a bit too much for my taste. Moreover, I will comment on what I believe to be appropriate and inappropriate use of speech, and I’ll do it all without pulling any punches. By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JULY 23, 2019

The truth is, there are things you can do to prepare for that eventuality — and you should. There may be very little you can do to prevent tough times, but you can control the way you respond to them. Think about what you’d do if you were faced with tough times. Hedge your bets to protect your downside. Be practical.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Do you have great vision? Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&# Are you a master of strategy?

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

Our ability to do that – and get it right – is our greatest opportunity to grow our business and our people and play a meaningful role in society. I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” That, I think gets to the heart of what the right culture can do.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

Managers spend far too little time learning about the existing conditions the people in the organization face, coaching those employees and working on improving the management system to help employees do great work. One person near the end partially hedged their opinion and said maybe we should give her another chance.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

Managers spend far too little time learning about the existing conditions the people in the organization face, coaching those employees and working on improving the management system to help employees do great work. One person near the end partially hedged their opinion and said maybe we should give her another chance.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

While the thought that all employees should have an equal say may get some air time in business school, I have found that often times the theoretical discussions that take place in halls of academia have little to do with the realities that exist in the world of business. Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Every year, HBR interviews 10 people who’ve had fascinating careers. In the end, what you do will come through. Your work is what you’re there for, and you should do it regardless. “If a colleague opts to do poor work when he could have performed very well, that upsets me.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

How do those without extensive training in statistics equip themselves with the skills necessary to thrive (or even just survive) in our age of “big data”? What kind of education do I have to go back and make sure that I have? What do I study? How much education do I need? So it’s by experience.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2018

People are quick to blame themselves for failure, and companies hedge against it even if they pay lip service to the noble concept of trial and error. What can you do if you, like Alex, want to face your fear of screwing up and push beyond it to success? Learning to Learn. You Can Learn and Get Work Done at the Same Time.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

About 44 million people report having some kind of side hustle, and of those who do, 36% say they earn more than $500 a month from it. Entrepreneurship, even in the form of part-time work to complement a traditional day job, can provide a useful hedge against economic uncertainty and a way to develop new skills.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We all know developing a personal brand is valuable, since a strong reputation can put you on the radar for exciting career opportunities. Your brand is also a powerful hedge against professional misfortune. and add value to, what you’re doing now. But personal branding has some unique challenges for female professionals.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

To be successful, we must now do the very thing we were always taught not to: be disruptive. If you play disruptively as you go into the workplace, you'll be doing the upending. In school, in order to get the grade, you learned to provide the authority figure — the teacher — what he or she wanted. You won't be.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. These advances all point toward the total automation of our lives, including the way we work and do business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

” We collected data from a private online knowledge-sharing platform where buy-side (hedge fund, mutual fund) investment professionals (analysts, portfolio managers) share their investment recommendations to buy and sell a given security, along with the analysis supporting their position, with other members of this platform.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Yet in today’s rapidly evolving, 24/7 workplaces, it’s not always clear what managers should do to create the most satisfying work experiences and the happiest employees. If you supervise others, make sure you do the following: Manage individuals, not teams. But it’s important to customize your interactions with them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Bridgewater Associates, which was founded by Ray Dalio in 1975, is the largest hedge fund in the world, managing almost $160 billion. That’s relevant to what we do, and I think it’s relevant to all decision making. Making matters worse, we often do not realize that such biases weaken our judgments and decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder. So how do you jumpstart collaboration without transforming the pay or promotion system? The organizational stars have tremendous autonomy over key work decisions. Drive down collaboration costs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Such plans frequently include giving managers financial incentives to do what they should have done before — concentrating on the most promising lines, selling off dud businesses, and "leaning down" operations, often including headcount. Vulture capitalism ," as Governor Perry has suggested?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

The answer to excessive micromanaging , we’re often told, is to learn to trust our reports, empowering them to make decisions for themselves. Superbosses live to learn and invent. If you came to Jay with an idea for how things could be done better, he would say, ‘Go ahead and do it.’”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Culture relates to what “should” I do, and not to what “can” I do. I’m also hoping that I had something to do with them. As I reflected upon my career at Goldman Sachs, though, what stood out was the importance of its organizational structure. Like a gentle breeze, culture may be hard to see, but you can feel it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

We can’t get jobs—much less careers. Even if you want to concede the weak point that the best the world can do is creating soul-sucking McJobs for the poorest, then the problem is that even the lucky “winners” of this game that our not-quite-leaders call an “economy” are getting the bad end of a worse deal. Think again. Not baby steps.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Play is our learning instinct, and it’s tied to curiosity, experimentation, and exploring challenging problems. For example, a teacher with potential may be doing his job because he eventually wants to become a principal. When you do something to avoid disappointing yourself or others, you’re acting on emotional pressure.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Those are two of the findings from Meaningful Brands , a little study we do at my Lab. That business, or any other institution, dictates life to you (Oh, wait, that's what they already do — just not in ways that benefit anyone who isn't already the Gangnam-Style scion of a mummified vampire hedge fund quadrillionaire).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

At the same time, so much of what we do is all about the intangible, emotional attributes that really drive fan passion and engagement — that’s what fuels our business, and always has. How do you keep the business itself running steadily, when team performance can change so much year-to-year?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The main strengths of my network as it exists today are: The main weaknesses of my network as it exists today are: What can a network do for you? Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. In fact, few of us do. List their names or initials, without reading further.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

By learning to lean in, speak out, negotiate, delegate, and a dozen other behaviors, women everywhere are launching themselves through the glass ceilings of their organizations, landing jobs at or near the C-suite level. hedge fund partner, told me: “If you want balance, go be a yoga Nidra instructor.” As Alexandra, a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The top trophy hire in data science is elusive, and it’s no surprise: a “full-stack” data scientist has mastery of machine learning, statistics, and analytics. Today’s fashion in data science favors flashy sophistication with a dash of sci-fi, making AI and machine learning the darlings of the job market.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In my 36-year career, I haven’t met a single person truly at the top end of the talent distribution who is highly motivated by compensation. I learned this one by making a mistake. At your level, you can do pretty much whatever you want.” Talented people spend all their time doing really hard things.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Companies have a role to play in addressing this challenge, and doing so needn’t come at the expense of performance. Examples of this phenomenon have emerged already: The world’s largest hedge fund is developing a capability for an algorithm to make hiring and firing decisions.

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