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Post-Covid Work Trends and the Future of Work

HR Digest

The crisis has disrupted the earlier efficiency models. A recent Gartner survey says that global M&A activity increased after the financial crisis, and many companies were nationalized to avoid failure. Reason being an ability to hedge their bets and get a foothold in diverse markets and manage risks better.

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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. When an organization stops learning they begin dying.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Team building, group dynamics, talent management, leadership development, and any number of other functional areas are much more about clarity, focus, aligning expectations, and defining roles than creating equality.

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Public Pension Funds Perform Better When They Keep Politics at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Interference by elected officials — from imposition of local economic development obligations to excessive constraints on head count and compensation that impede recruitment of talented staff — has contributed to poor investment choices, higher total costs, diminished organizations, and disappointing performance at some institutions.

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The False Promise of the Single Metric

Harvard Business Review

I know firsthand how challenging it can be to take a holistic approach, especially when your organization is in crisis. Unprofitable, but still promising, product lines were cut, timber stocks were reduced to a bare minimum, employee numbers were razored, and long-term development activities were curtailed.

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Idle Funds are the Devil's Playground

Harvard Business Review

The "Asian Contagion" currency crisis that depressed Thailand, Indonesian, South Korean and other currencies by as much as 70% was not yet over. vision of financial world order; as Time magazine reported, he was "bursting with hubris over its booming equity markets and its just-announced 5.6% Treasury, was describing the U.S.

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Every Leader Needs a Challenger in Chief

Harvard Business Review

Stuart Roden, Co Fund Manager of Lansdowne Partners'' flagship fund, one of the world''s largest hedge funds, tells me he sees one of his primary roles as being the person who challenges his staff to consider how they could be wrong, and then assess how this might impact on their decision-making. They never released the product.