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Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

Harvard Business Review

Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Capital has likewise used mindfulness not only as a tool for increasing productivity but also enhancing situational awareness as a strategist. Google’s Chade-Meng Tan , has developed dozens of such workplace meditation modules that could fit neatly into planning retreats.

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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

But we now see insurers exploiting geographically refined data to more precisely estimate land parcel risk. Municipal governments seek to plan development in terms of decades, while insurance companies are reticent to move beyond an annual time scale when assessing property risk.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. Drawing on a powerful tool from the finance world, they conceived of those collections operating as portfolios — each with a specific business objective and time horizon.