Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Our ability (and willingness) to learn impacts our personal and business growth, operational excellence, and our capacity to innovate. A particularly fascinating and eye-opening chapter is on Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world. More than ever, it truly is learn or die. We learn from each other.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. Parenting (done well) and leadership have much in common.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. When an employee sees you committing any act of dishonesty or two-facedness, they’ll assume that you’ll do the same to them.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. When an employee sees you committing any act of dishonesty or two-facedness, they’ll assume that you’ll do the same to them.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Only a few days before, hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor-Jones created a stir by remarking at a conference that women will never rival men as traders because babies are a "focus killer". Here are two of many examples we came across that show how anyone can lead with a more feminine ethos: Empathy Is Innovation. households.

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Sample Hedge Restructuring Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

First, making significant amounts of your own power at zero variable cost is more than nice; it’s a hedge against volatility and smooths out expenses, which makes business planning easier. Consider Walmart’s significant commitments to energy efficiency and renewables. In this way, Tim Cook is onto something important.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

9, armed with about 1% of Apple’s outstanding stock, the hedge-fund activist published an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, urging him to accelerate the company’s stock repurchases by making a tender offer. Another hedge-fund activist, David Einhorn, was then playing that role). Apple Economy Innovation' Carl Icahn is not.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Most major producers with large balance sheets will likely hedge their bets and attempt both. These trends will require oil producers to shift their focus away from transportation and diversify towards innovative petrochemical products to capture market share in diverse end uses such as clothing and construction materials.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

The old model — get a job, earn money, pay back — is being replaced by an earlier commitment to change. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Wendy Kopp, who founded Teach For America , and Linda Rottenberg, who founded Endeavor are just two well-known examples.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Those employees work at two of Britain’s most-admired retailers, John Lewis department stores and Waitrose supermarkets, each of which has carved out a powerful bond with customers, both of which have unveiled big innovations in terms of branding, merchandising, and e-commerce.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

for 10+ years; deployment of design as an integrated function across the entire enterprise; evidence that design investments and influence are increasing; clear reporting structure and operating model for design; experienced design executives at the helm directing design activities; and tangible senior leadership-level commitment for design.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. Process and decision owners determine the resource allocations and whether autonomy should lead to greater innovation, optimization, or both. The Autonomous/Autonomy Advisor.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

And the choice to hold on to cash or use it to repurchase shares, rather than invest profits in new opportunities for innovation and expansion, has had real consequences for our economy that have contributed to the current political upheaval. -based companies using questionable corporate practices that are entirely legal.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

While perhaps an extreme example, this type of setup is prized by the likes of Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer, who says that people are "more collaborative and innovative when they’re together. But people who had been praised instead for their creativity were 40% less likely to escalate their commitment than those who hadn''t been praised.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2011

The idea that economists hedge their bets or disagree constantly with one another is a feature of the discipline. Let's start by considering what Groupon's innovation isn't. Harry Truman famously begged for a one-handed economist. He was sick of his economic advisers saying "on the other hand." So Groupon is in the memory business.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

.” In this case, it’s also the scene of a fierce and long-running battle between Apple loyalists and skeptics , joined over the past couple of years by a few activist hedge fund managers badgering the company to give them more money. Apple Disruptive innovation Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

To gain more insights into a specific firm, investors have shown more interest in intangibles like strategy, brand, innovation, systems integration, collaboration, and so on. People manager: To what extent do leaders build competence, commitment, and contribution of their people today and tomorrow?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

As prominent hedge fund manager Bill Ackman told me, “When I graduated from business school I thought business was about making money and philanthropy was about doing good. Now I think both can be used as methods for changing the world.” ” Sir Ronald Cohen, the father of British venture capital, agrees.

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Learning Curve Hedge CEO Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

When it comes to planning, multinationals shouldn’t apply quick fixes to mitigate short-term operational risks (for instance, financial hedging to manage exchange rate fluctuations, or cursory assessment of distributors to evaluate their supply chains). How to Plan for Brexit.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

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. Recursive processes.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2016

It animates us as people and fuels organizational innovation, value creation, and growth. Aside from hedge funds, risk arbitrage, FX traders and other derivatives solely established to make money on the margins, no company that sells a product or a service of any sort was founded strictly to turn a profit.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

But that will not in any way deter hedge-fund activists from demanding that companies do stock buybacks so that they can time their stock sales to take advantage of short-term, buyback-induced, stock-price boosts. Yet Icahn has never invested in Apple’s value-creating capabilities that increase innovation and productivity.

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