Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

When I had a leadership position with a team I had us have the whole team sit in the interviews with potential candidates (the team members were all early in their careers and in this and other ways I tried to help them learn and develop their skills). Guest post by John Hunter , founder of curiouscat.com (in 1996). This is excellent advice.

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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.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 332

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Or [you] want to build better election models because you’re curious and you think the current products out there aren’t as strong as they could be. Now, if you feel like you’re expressing yourself and getting the gist of something and you’re still not being listened to, then maybe it’s time to change careers.

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Mentor Career Uncertainty Learning-by-Doing 19

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

For example, lower income shoppers appear willing to pay more now to hedge future costs. One such category was over-the-counter family planning products, better known as birth control. Between 2008 and 2010, prices of these products grew 17%, while sales grew by 14%. cost per meal) or at an individual unit level.

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Retail P&L Merchandising Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

are making a choice that will shape the rest of their lives: which career to pursue after graduation. Yet these career choices affect not only the students themselves but also the rest of society. What policies can encourage talented workers to choose socially beneficial careers? This fall, college seniors across the U.S.

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Policies Career Hedge Human Capital 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.

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Hedge Class Video Career 314

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

But there’s more than one kind of successful organization, and there are many kinds of productive workplaces. Which means that all of us, no matter where we are in our careers or what sort of work we do, have to reflect on the kind of workplace that works for us. The ethos is up-or-out, sink-or-swim, rank-and-yank.

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Health Care How To Hedge Environment 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

But portfolio careers aren’t only for stay-at-home parents looking to freelance a few hours a day while their kids are in school or grad students moonlighting as Uber drivers and Task Rabbits. Here are five reasons it can make a dramatic difference for your career. Hedge against uncertainty. Gary John Norman/Getty Images.

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Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

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. Though nervous about the process, Alex’s desire to become a CEO was an approach goal because it focused on what he wanted to achieve in his career rather than what he hoped to avoid.

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How To Learning-by-Doing CEO Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

For example, if you are suggesting cost reduction and balance sheet restructuring to GE, where activist investor Nelson Peltz, one of the founders of hedge fund Trian Fund Management, has a major stake, your pitch has a very different meaning than it would at News Corporation, where Rupert Murdoch still has effective control of the company.

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Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

And when it comes to promotion, look past rigid competency models and career ladders for growth opportunities tailored to the ambitions, talents, and capacities of each person. Be available and accessible for one-on-one conversations. Deliver lessons cued to individual developmental needs. “You could always get to see him.

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Hedge Real Estate Film Motivation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

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. That focus “is the only way that you can build a solid base and then conquer other traffic channels or other products,” he says.

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Webinar How To Audience Hedge 14

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Virtually everything the company makes, and is thinking about making, is highly influenced by this huge team of footwear, product, fashion, store, graphic, interaction, and brand designers. Neither hedge fund managers, nor venture capitalists, nor mutual fund managers came anywhere close to these results.

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Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Guitarist Keith Richards could casually drop in an interview that this may very well likely be the band''s last tour (the "hedge" in the wording is intentional). Now, as seats remain unsold, promoters can release more of these $85 seats, explaining that additional seats opened up due to production issues. Marketing'

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Price Discount Brand Merchandising 8

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. And, in fact, the more power we have, and the higher we ascend in our careers, the less self-aware we become. Its size and success are not the only interesting thing about the company.

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Self-aware Travel Open-book Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Former employees of the now defunct Lehman Brothers have talked about how voicing dissent there was considered a career-breaker. They never released the product. Excessive group-think is now recognized to have underpinned President Kennedy''s disastrous authorization of a CIA-backed landing at Cuba''s Bay of Pigs.

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Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Former employees of the now defunct Lehman Brothers have talked about how voicing dissent there was considered a career-breaker. They never released the product. Excessive group-think is now recognized to have underpinned President Kennedy’s disastrous authorization of a CIA-backed landing at Cuba’s Bay of Pigs.

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Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

We can’t get jobs—much less careers. haven’t kept track with productivity. The world’s leaders have coolly, calmly, rationally, senselessly decided that bankers, CEOs, lobbyists, billionaires, the astrologers formerly known as economists, corporate “people”, robots, and hedge funds are worth more to society than…the young.

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Transportation Education Hedge Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Dirk, who had spent his career in sales, started the business for that very reason. Lately he had been consumed with the company's newest venture, an adjacent software product that helps businesses collaboratively create content. We can evolve the product to better meet their needs — or try using longer contract terms.

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Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

And why does a top hedge fund manager "earn" enough to pay for thousands of teachers? Take it — and then damn your first year's bonus, make your first major project redesigning a product line that matters. Remind me: why is an average investment banker worth, say, a hundred times as much as an average teacher? Can it be resolved?

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Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 21

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Dirk, who had spent his career in sales, started the business for that very reason. Lately he had been consumed with the company's newest venture, an adjacent software product that helps businesses collaboratively create content. We can evolve the product to better meet their needs — or try using longer contract terms.

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Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

And why does a top hedge fund manager "earn" enough to pay for thousands of teachers? Take it — and then damn your first year's bonus, make your first major project redesigning a product line that matters. Remind me: why is an average investment banker is worth, say, a hundred times as much as an average teacher? You're fired.

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Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. Jones, and Brian Uzzi, “The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge,” Science 316, no. Most-senior hedge fund people and competitors. Stefan Wuchty, Benjamin F. 5827 (2007): 1036–1039. Have lunch.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

” With the coding chops to build both prototypes and production systems that work and the stubborn resilience to fail every hour for several years if that’s what it takes, machine learning specialists know that they won’t find the perfect solution in a textbook. Engineering excellence is a must. The result?

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Organization Engineering Learning-by-Doing Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

That way, when the going is good, you can maximize your upside yield on assets like ticket sales and merchandise, and when the team isn’t performing quite as well, you have a hedge in place to protect your downside risk. If you could give your younger self one piece of career advice, what would it be? We want to win.

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Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

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). That the job of managers isn't just to "deliver product" — but to impact lives.

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Media Fashion IPO Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

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. But perhaps more important, companies that invest in workers will discover opportunities to improve their productivity and products or services.

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Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

3) hedge bets by building products and services on multiple platforms in order to compete on the same terms as digital giants in ways that are least likely to get regulated. Too often policy makers will use the battle against digital giants to further their political careers without taking a holistic view of the market.

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Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 131