Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The name of hedge fund billionaire Raymond Dalio triggers emotions of adoration, admiration, and even dislike. Here are five leadership lessons that you can learn from Dalio. It gives you much time and room to focus on the bigger picture of managing your business. That’s the effect success has on people. With a net worth of $18.7

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CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

I had a chance to discuss the parallels between driving and leadership with Peter Hajas , who knows a lot about both. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 7, 2011

  It's a perfect time of year for it as lots of folks are still mapping out their development game plan for 2011. .    It's a perfect time of year for it as lots of folks are still mapping out their development game plan for 2011. Leading a business, like life, is an ongoing series of transitions. Click Here.

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CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

I had a chance to discuss the parallels between driving and leadership with Peter Hajas , who knows a lot about both. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

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CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

I had a chance to discuss the parallels between driving and leadership with Peter Hajas , who knows a lot about both. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

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Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 78

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

In order to maximize our learning we have to be sensitive to and manage our emotions.” A particularly fascinating and eye-opening chapter is on Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world. The author admits that “ To become a better learner, I had to quiet my ego. ” Negative thinking is toxic to learning. “In

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Businesses and companies now need to rethink how to manage post-covid work trends like their remote workforce, hiring policies, skills, and experience needs. Reason being an ability to hedge their bets and get a foothold in diverse markets and manage risks better. The Covid-19 pandemic has reset the way the world works.

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CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

I had a chance to discuss the parallels between driving and leadership with Peter Hajas , who knows a lot about both. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

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Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 60

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

I had a chance to discuss the parallels between driving and leadership with Peter Hajas , who knows a lot about both. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

Hedge 60

Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 60

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh?

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 24, 2010

By Guest Authors from Booz & Company : Partner, Paul Leinwand and Managing Director, Cesare Mainardi . Winners, on the other hand, define the fundamental identity of the company by developing a clear idea of what they do best and how they create value for customers. As a result, they forgo the right to win in any market. .

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

There are many ways in which the management of our organizations needs to improve ( understanding how to use data effectively , systems thinking…) and one of those important areas is in managing people. One person near the end partially hedged their opinion and said maybe we should give her another chance.

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Human Resources Deming Resources System 47

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.”

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

There are many ways in which the management of our organizations needs to improve ( understanding how to use data effectively , systems thinking…) and one of those important areas is in managing people. One person near the end partially hedged their opinion and said maybe we should give her another chance.

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Human Resources Deming Resources System 28

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

But it turns out there are very few that are great and relentless at people development. When it comes to preparing organizations for a complex, high-speed future, many people who work in those organizations, or in management science, talk about the imperative for “ continuous improvement ” in operations. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

The uncertain nature of trade policy has left many leadership teams reluctant to act. Leadership teams can limit the negative consequences of a possible NAFTA withdrawal and currency moves by adopting an approach that anticipates several future scenarios. Options and hedges. political upheaval. Three Types of Action to Consider.

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Supply Chain Hedge Automotive Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

We believe that a next step for investors is to analyze the predictors and drivers of these intangible factors, which means focusing on leadership. Wise, long term investors recognize that leadership affects firm performance. But too often, assessments of leadership are haphazard and narrow.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Developing great communication skills is a key to professional success. Yet, these skills are rarely taught–if at all–until professionals are already in senior management. Leadership webinar' Communication skills have always been instrumental for senior leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Ackman''s short-selling campaign against vitamin distributor Herbalife has blown up in his face, with the company''s stock up more than 75% since he unveiled his position last December and some of his most prominent hedge fund competitors profiting from his misery.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. He wrote a short document titled Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager and used it to train his team on his basic expectations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Convincing employees to go above and beyond the call of duty may be the epitome of personnel management. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. How talent management is changing. Surveying 180 teams of employees and managers at U.S. Good acts build up credits which act as a hedge against the debits of future bad acts.

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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". Today''s work requires a new leadership paradigm. Gender Leadership Managing people Managing yourself' households.

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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. (One It can be highly useful if you need to, for example, defend a budget request or a strategic plan to company leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

hedge funds. It was beset by destabilizing changes to leadership, a lack of appropriate capability, poor coordination, over-complexity, underdeveloped plans in continual flux, and poor budgeting. We continually find that most major transformation initiatives end up being managed as IT projects, with responsibility abdicated to the CIO.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

I once sat through a lengthy presentation where the senior manager politely asked the presenter to summarize his point in one or two sentences. Managers often deal with problems that have no right answer, which leads us to collect more and more data. We can't afford to wade through reams of material and convoluted arguments.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Seems like strategic management 101, but oftentimes companies are unable to ask this question due to turf battles or leadership blind spots. However, managers and focus groups liked a separate scented additive compound that came out of this research stream. Unfortunately, the project wasn't able to hit the former target.

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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. Julian Robertson did.

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Delegation Real Estate Micromanagement Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Whyte considered himself an expert on productivity management, but his condescending attitude and disproportionate use of airtime made the entire board unproductive. We are not critical of directors who disagree with management strategy or voice alternative directions. Does the director bring few ideas or leads on business development?

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Chief Operating Officer Hedge Micromanagement Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Southwest’s decision in 2007 to hedge against increases in the price of jet fuel proved remarkably prescient. In the popular mind, there’s a lot of luck and inspired leadership behind successful choices like Southwest’s. The leadership teams at AOL and Time Warner were hardly boneheaded. Each time, no turnaround materialized.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

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 killed it!”

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Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

The decor varies greatly in the offices of the 550 CEOs, government officials, and heads of NGOs interviewed as part of our research on leadership — but hands down, photos are the most popular accessory. When pressed, Owens tried to hedge his answer, but the media portrayed him as calling the President a liar.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

In line with these steps, many of which have broken with decades of established policymaking inside the Kingdom, there have also been major changes to Saudi government structure and personnel, signaling the current leadership’s drive to ostensibly move ahead with more policy reform at the top.

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Politics Human Capital Price Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. Give you a sounding board to flesh out your ideas. The list goes on.

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