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5 Leadership Lessons I Learned from A Billionaire Investor: Ray Dalio

Strategy Driven

The name of hedge fund billionaire Raymond Dalio triggers emotions of adoration, admiration, and even dislike. This should not deter you, and if anything, it should motivate you to be a better version of yourself. billion, Dalio started investing at the age of 12 and his life has revolved around finance. With a net worth of $18.7

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I have found that highly productive executives and companies clearly understand the value, leverage, efficiency, and economies of scale that are generated by assembling highly focused, motivated, and productive teams. They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation.

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What to Do When People Don’t Support Your Next Career Move

Harvard Business Review

Consider their motivations. Hedge against the downside. Understanding the potential risks enables you to do a much better job hedging against them. If you’re planning to launch a startup, for instance, your colleagues might have highlighted concerns about your finance skills. Mark Bonchek.

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The Fastest-Growing Cause for Shareholders Is Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Ask someone to name the demands that activist hedge funds make of companies and they’ll likely list corporate governance issues like board changes and executive compensation, or perhaps some form of restructuring. A substantial amount of investor activism appears to be motivated by social or environmental aims.

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Greece’s Problem Is More Complicated than Austerity

Harvard Business Review

The problem is compounded by the fact that many groups have strong motivations for preserving the status quo. Although former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis made eloquent appeals about the need to rethink macro, he said very little about changing how the economy is run. The record on economic policy-making is equally disappointing.

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What Good Is Impact Investing?

Harvard Business Review

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. Drexler: Now for the flip side, of course people and institutions in most cases are motivated by more than just financial returns. Private equity or hedge funds through the ‘80s and the ‘90s, exactly the same story.

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A Brief History of America’s Attitude Toward Taxes

Harvard Business Review

Financing WWII could have been used as an excuse for these highly confiscatory rates, but rather than dropping after the end of war, they continued to rise. Instead, the new theory was basically that all income should be considered to be the product of exercising talent and that people should be taxed less so that they had a motive to work.

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