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Small Firms Shifting Horizons As A Result Of Brexit

The Horizons Tracker

Sectors such as chemicals, food and drink, and textiles were among the most enthusiastic shifters. The researchers suggest that the desire for small firms to move could be because they have a smaller order book that doesn’t allow them to hedge their risk in the way larger firms can.

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To Become More Adaptable, Take a Lesson from Biology

Harvard Business Review

While there's much chatter in the management world about the need to be adaptable, only a few creative companies and innovative managers have probed the natural world for its adaptability secrets. Adaptable systems make multiple copies of everything and modify the copies to hedge against uncertainty. Redundancy.