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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? Probabilistic risk managers will think about the future of how they work. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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 critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development.

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Purpose Point of View

Strategy Driven

It drives large efforts from spearheading a movement to bringing a game-changing product or technology to market. As technology rapidly brings us into the broader world – and the world into our living rooms – for many it brings with it a sense of loss of control and a corresponding disruption in our sense of identity and place.

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Guest Post: An Entrepreneur's Thoughts on Market Incentives & Foreign Aid

Mills Scofield

MedInternational was started in 2011 to raise the standard of healthcare in resource-poor regions of the world by sharing and maintaining appropriate hospital technology in these areas, initially Zanzibar, Tanzania. See what two not yet 20 year olds were able to do and sustain. by Chia Han Sheng on Sunday, August 19, 2012.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. To be blunt, the concept of equality in the workplace has only made team building more difficult as employees seem to have a sense of undeserved entitlement with regard to their roles and responsibilities.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Does a robot manage your money? And, will they shake up the trillion-dollar corporate consulting and advisory industry? A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. At the end of 2016, Fitch Ratings estimated that all robo-advisors managed under U.S.$100B

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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

If 19th-century urban planners had had access to big data, machine learning techniques, and modern management theory, these tools would not have helped them. Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. They simply would have confirmed their existing concerns.