HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” It’s about belonging.

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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). 25 years after this presentation, this is still true in my opinion.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Are you a master of strategy? 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. My question is: “What strategy might help to encourage leaders to run daily with what you say here?”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

At a recent dinner party, I was speaking with a friend who had just been promoted to vice president at a well-known New York hedge fund. Many of those I interviewed echoed her sense of hollowness, a sense that seemed to be largely career- and situation-agnostic. Gone are the days where working for LargeCo meant a career for life.

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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). 25 years after this presentation, this is still true in my opinion.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I have been generally well regarded throughout my career for building extremely effective teams, and what I can share with you is that team building is not about equality at all. It is not too difficult to get your crew all oaring together when these characteristics are firmly in place because they now know which direction to row.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Many retailers are responding with across-the-board price promotion strategies. Our findings suggest that a more precise strategy that carefully raises and lowers prices for the right shoppers in the right categories can drive profitable growth for the retailer and the category overall. cost per meal) or at an individual unit level.

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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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Frank Sonnenberg Online

APRIL 20, 2021

I’ve hired a lot of people in my career. How will this strategy impact the long-term competitiveness of organizations or even of nations? Ray Dalio, American billionaire, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist, said, “Hire right, because the penalties of hiring wrong are huge.”. What do you look for in a job candidate?

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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. Sometimes this strategy even works.

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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. Sometimes this strategy even works.

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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. Here are five strategies to keep in mind. That was my strategy as well. How do you know what to focus on? How do you assess your expertise?

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Webinar How To Audience Hedge 13

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. Here are three strategies that can help ensure your talents are recognized. Yulia Reznikov/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth. But applied to U.S. Why’s that?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

For some, the path forward is clear: the math experts will be snapped up by hedge funds, the software engineers will have their pick of start-ups, and elite investment banks and consultancies will duke it out for the top MBAs. Career planning Education Job search' Fourteen years ago, that was me. Expert in ancient Roman politics?

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Brand How To Hedge Film 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

To better understand how design leads to returns, my company, Motiv Strategies, and the Design Management Institute worked together to produce a new tool that tracks the results of design-centric companies against those that are not. ” Design Strategy' Design is expected and trusted to lead Nike.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

These “ superbosses ,” as I called them, spanned dozens of industries and included legendary figures such as fast casual restaurant magnate Norman Brinker, packaged foods titan Michael Miles, tech mogul Larry Ellison, hedge fund pioneer Julian Robertson, media icon Oprah Winfrey, and a host of others. Julian Robertson did.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

I couldn't believe some of the people I was seeing from McKinsey," recalls a partner at another strategy firm. When strategy consulting firms first got going in the 1970s and 1980s, it was probably easier for the hotshot MBAs they hired to look with disdain at the poor Joes they were nominally attempting to help.

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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). The funk that the Rolling Stones are in the midst of is yet another reminder of why pricing is such an important strategy for companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Dirk, who had spent his career in sales, started the business for that very reason. It feels like we're hedging our bets rather than placing one.". Dirk, with all due respect, you know that the strategy experts say we can't be all things to all people," Josh said. That's what we've been doing," Jane said. "It Dirk asked.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Dirk, who had spent his career in sales, started the business for that very reason. It feels like we're hedging our bets rather than placing one.". Dirk, with all due respect, you know that the strategy experts say we can't be all things to all people," Josh said. That's what we've been doing," Jane said. "It Dirk asked.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In a recent strategy meeting we attended with the leaders of a Fortune-500 company, the word “culture” came up 27 times in 90 minutes. In one hedge fund, the highest performing portfolio managers had higher total motivation. The third most sensitive element is the career ladder in an organization.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. Most-senior hedge fund people and competitors. In the next three weeks, reconnect with people outside the com­pany who may shed useful light on your work, industry, or career. There’s no other way to put it. Have lunch.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The obvious targets were people in the field of innovation — those working in strategy, R&D, business development, and entrepreneurship. Your strategy," he said, "was to knock on the one door that other innovation thinkers did not.". A side-door strategy , I thought. In response, I usually tell the following story.

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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. There is a grain of truth to this — but only a grain. Over this combined quarter-century of experience, I developed three rules for managing top-end talent.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Consider disrupting yourself when it comes to these five areas — areas where the skills you honed as a high-achieving student are likely doing you a disservice in your career: 1. She might never have known how much she enjoyed business strategy — or how good she was at it — if she hadn't taken that chance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

This “2+1 Rule” pertains for every career stage, from entry level to executive. One manager compares her sponsor strategy to her investment portfolio. You want it to be diversified, and you want to keep adding to it, or it won’t be an adequate hedge,” she counsels. Career planning Managing yourself Networking'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We talk about things like yield management, demand curves, and perishable inventory — factors that dictate our pricing strategies. If you could give your younger self one piece of career advice, what would it be? Strategy execution Managing uncertainty Managing organizations' We want to win.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

That your next corporate strategy, summed in PowerPoint slide 447, consists of a grand plan to mass-produce the meaning of life in a twenty-four-pack of cans that can be found in aisle 47,935 of your nearest decrepit tubelit big-box store. Now, let's talk about meggings , and their even less fortunately named cousin, mantyhose.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

His new book, Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Surviving and Thriving in a World of Digital Giants is a compelling book for leaders thinking about strategy and positioning their companies for what’s next. His columns are read by millions, and he is a frequent keynote speaker at some of the major tech conferences. ” -Jack Welch.

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