Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2017

In a VUCA World, partnerships are hedges against risk, but they will also be more attractive ways to innovate and grow scale. The goal is experiment to learn in an open, low-cost, and repetative way that allows for time to discover which questions to ask. The authors have created a score card to direct your development efforts.

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Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing Hedge Long-term 173

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

The vast majority of leaders who thrive develop calm-under-fire. Often leaders simply state a vision such as “Our goal is to be the premier math and science eLearning site for K-12 students.” They add, with logical precision, how they will achieve that goal through technology, content partnerships, and educational videos.

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Storytelling Video Hedge Career 278

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

A particularly fascinating and eye-opening chapter is on Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world. As Ray sees it, achieving one’s goals is more likely to occur if one strives to be an independent thinker by learning. They bring about deliberate, nonjudgmental, non-defensive open-minded exchange.

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Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hedge Case Study 281

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The name of hedge fund billionaire Raymond Dalio triggers emotions of adoration, admiration, and even dislike. He also capitalized on the mistake to develop new methods that can be used to achieve desired goals. That’s the effect success has on people. These are the hallmarks of a true leader, be it in business or politics.

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Hedge Leadership Learning-by-Doing Micromanagement 50

HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Performance evaluation and work goals also need to be recalibrated to suit the new work norms. Reason being an ability to hedge their bets and get a foothold in diverse markets and manage risks better. It says there will be a similar acceleration of M&A and nationalization of companies post-covid.

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Trends Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Crisis 105

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

3) hedge bets by building products and services on multiple platforms in order to compete on the same terms as digital giants in ways that are least likely to get regulated. This enables organizations to develop a competitive advantage. 2) provide customers transparency and value exchange for their personal data.

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Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 130

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Before deciding on a strategy, you’ll want to identify your goals, risk profile, and potential returns. For example, investors can use physical precious metals as a hedge against currency devaluation or inflation. These assets can also be used as a store of value and a potential hedge against geopolitical risks.

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Hedge Price Short-term Reputation 121

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

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. You deserve input – but that done not mean that 100% agreement is the goal. Consensus isn’t the goal.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 333

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2018

People are quick to blame themselves for failure, and companies hedge against it even if they pay lip service to the noble concept of trial and error. Set approach goals (not avoidance goals). Psychologists have found that creating approach goals, or positively reframing avoidance goals, is beneficial for well-being.

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How To Learning-by-Doing CEO Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

To deal with this problem, over the course of thirty-five years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world, I have developed a simple, practical framework that recognizes all three competing challenges managers face when leading innovation. • Good Box 3 hedging strategies are important. . And that is OK.

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Innovation Hedge Management Govindarajan 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

If the world is to become ever more efficient and reach global climate goals, internet power will need to play its part. Leading companies are learning that sourcing renewable energy for data centers is a low-cost way to demonstrate commitment to global climate goals while adding reliability and predictability to energy consumption.

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Energy Globalization Hedge Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

For example, at Morgan Stanley, Jeff McMillan and his team aim to improve working relationships with their wealth management clients by analyzing everything from client goals and portfolios to available investment products to email. Here, the goal is not to provide content but to provide direction toward content. Infomediate.

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Company Insurance Content Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Even senior executives who want to stay in their corporate jobs should strongly consider developing at least one side income stream, whether it’s consulting, speaking, coaching, or creating some other product or service. Hedge against uncertainty. Here are five reasons it can make a dramatic difference for your career.

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Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Some people are intrinsically motivated to exceed their job descriptions in order to support organizational goals. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Good acts build up credits which act as a hedge against the debits of future bad acts. We all want our employees to be engaged and motivated. Insight Center. Empower employees.

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Licensing Morale Motivation Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

As a hedge fund manager who applied data-driven trading strategies once said, “You can spend endless time and resources only to find eventually a bug in your data.”. All too often analysts study historical data to develop a model that explains that data and then apply the model to the exact same data to make a prediction about the future.

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Credit Scoring Price Market Segmentation How To 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Developed during World War II, CARVER (then one letter shorter and known as CARVE) was originally used by analysts to determine where bomber pilots could most effectively drop their munitions on enemy targets. To consider another example, say a hedge fund is looking to acquire a tech company that claims to have a leading-edge technology.

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Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

They are developing horizontally, not vertically, with vast areas of low sprawl reaching out for miles from Sao Paolo, Lagos, New Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta, and many others. As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap.

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Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

As one industry insider told us, “I am in the business of making money, I don’t care who you are, as long as you can help me in that goal.” Given the general underrepresentation of women among investment professionals, especially in hedge funds, it was not surprising that only about 4.2%

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Objective Metrics Sample Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

As complex systems, they require systems of measurement to track progress against key goals. 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. Companies should be managed much more holistically.

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Metrics Long-term Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

What does it mean to articulate and instill a vision compelling enough to inspire sacrifice, stimulate innovation, and hedge against expediency? What tactics or capabilities might we develop to earn some slack from investors? How could we embed social goals into an organization's innovation agenda and processes?

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Short-term Long-term Ethics Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

Why isn’t more of that cash going into developing businesses for long-term gains — the big, outsized gains that come from big bets on the future? The normal culprits for short-termism are short-term-minded hedge-fund managers and activist shareholders, as well as CEOs worried about big bet investments with uncertain paybacks.

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Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. An integrated strategy machine is the collection of resources, both technological and human, that act in concert to develop and execute business strategies.

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Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

As a hedge fund manager who applied data-driven trading strategies once said, “You can spend endless time and resources only to find eventually a bug in your data.” Using predictive models of demand developed during growth years or for a price sensitive market segment may fail miserably when market conditions change.

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Credit Scoring Price Market Segmentation How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

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Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

The Kahn Academy, founded by Salman Kahn (a former hedge fund manager), is a not-for-profit, online venture that is currently revolutionizing K-12 education. And Hart is not the only one who has developed this skill. These developments stand in sharp contrast to what Apple has focused on.

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Video Education Christensen Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

At least seven hedge fund managers earned more than $1 billion just in 2009. In 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit set a series of ambitious development goals for 2015 , among them reducing by half the number of people living in extreme poverty, suffering from hunger and lacking access to clean drinking water.

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Hedge Cost Energy Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2012

For instance, in fMRI studies of people reading fiction, neuroscientists detect activity in the pre-frontal cortex — a part of the brain involved with setting goals — when the participants read about characters setting a new goal. Meanwhile, their hedge-fund-manager best friend is involved in big-time stock manipulation.

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Emotional Intelligence Real Estate Hedge Bottom-up 20

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

When pressed, Owens tried to hedge his answer, but the media portrayed him as calling the President a liar. The President’s conflict with Owens was a surprise to everyone because the two assumed that their casual friendship and shared goal of promoting financial stimulus was enough to guarantee shared talking points on this key issue.

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Ethics Hedge Diversity CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

These spending choices require tradeoffs, so entrepreneurs must first develop a strategy for allocating limited resources across a wide range of available options. After managing a sleeve of a successful hedge fund in London for five years, and building ample savings, Colin was ready for his own shop. The first is Colin.

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Strategy Budgeting Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

For some, the path forward is clear: the math experts will be snapped up by hedge funds, the software engineers will have their pick of start-ups, and elite investment banks and consultancies will duke it out for the top MBAs. But it was very relevant to my development as a human being.

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Brand How To Hedge Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Whyte kept them on the defensive by peppering them with personal opinions and demanding lofty goals that could not be met. We are not even talking about hostile directors sometimes forced onto the board by a hedge fund trying to take control of a company or about partisan factions that have formed for whatever reason.

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Chief Operating Officer Hedge Micromanagement Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2015

We have worked with banks willing to take on toxic assets (again) and hedge funds willing to take a $100 million gamble on a failing company. Truly forward-thinking leaders recognize that one of the best business strategies is developing the mindfulness of their workforce.

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Stress Hedge Training Cost 8

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. From Method to Warby Parker, they list positive societal impact alongside profit as a top-line goal.

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Learning Curve Hedge CEO Education 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This sweeping development known as “common ownership” – the same firms owning the competing firms in the same industry – is relatively new. There’s evidence of this dynamic in the tension between smaller undiversified investors (such as hedge funds) and large asset management companies.

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CEO Asset Management Cooper Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Their goal was to hit the lowest possible price point, and to appeal to “digital native” customers. Create your own internal robo-advisory service : Companies could develop their own robotic or semi-robotic advice for key decision domains. There are likely to be corporate equivalents of these functions.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could accept lower returns in exchange for accomplishing social goals. Even in the most hard-nosed of private equity firms or hedge funds you will find that people align with strategies that mean something to them, that they’re passionate about. Noble: With family offices, there is this intergenerational play.

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Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

Now consider a different vision: maybe crafting a fine meal, to be accompanied by local, award-winning microbrewed beer your friends have brought over, and then walking back to the studio where you're designing a building whose goal is nothing less than rivaling the Sagrada Familia. Becoming, not just being.

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GDP Hamel Industry Construction 21