Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Of the array of skills that comprise leadership, the ability to craft and communicate strategic vision is simultaneously the most valuable and least well-practiced. That changed when I met retired Sensormatic CEO Bob Vanourek at the Leadership Forum at Sliver Bay. The following is a guest piece by Jeremey Donovan.

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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. Find the Best Partners. Partnerships are hard. Learn by Experimenting.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

.” This kind of planning results in squandered resources and missed goals and objectives. Certainly, this kind of planning makes the leadership team feel good and important, but, the resulting plan is laden with complex theory and does little to engage and inform the rank and file.

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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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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. But the organizational expansion is bound to create challenges of operation and management and higher leadership skills. .

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

He started the Khan Academy as a way to tutor his cousins remotely — while he was a hedge fund analyst in Boston, and they were students in New Orleans. It was clear there was a huge unmet need, so Sal left his hedge fund job and started Khan Academy with the mission of providing a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

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

APRIL 20, 2021

The question that comes to mind is, should workforce diversity replace the goal of hiring the best candidate? Ray Dalio, American billionaire, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist, said, “Hire right, because the penalties of hiring wrong are huge.”. How will a perception of favoritism affect their ability to lead?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

” the CEO of the hedge fund yelled at one of his portfolio managers. One CEO I know resisted his urge to come down hard on people after a difficult year when the company didn’t achieve its goals. So, back to the hedge fund CEO’s question: How do you reverse a losing streak? Leadership Giving feedback'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Eliminating stock-based compensation would help reduce the incentive for executive leadership to focus on the short term. Many companies face quarterly or even more immediate pressure from their shareholders (increasingly made up of hedge funds, program traders, and day traders) to deliver short-term performance.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? Their key performance metric became “expected goals” for and against a team, based on the quality and quantity of chances created during a match. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Some people are intrinsically motivated to exceed their job descriptions in order to support organizational goals. Good acts build up credits which act as a hedge against the debits of future bad acts. And make sure that senior leadership models organizational citizenship without the rewards of bonus pay or other perks.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hedge against uncertainty. And, as with Achan’s boss, they’re likely to see it as a positive indicator for leadership potential. Not every entrepreneurial side venture works out, so this likely shouldn’t be your primary goal. Here are five reasons it can make a dramatic difference for your career.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

We asked him about setting audacious goals. “The goals are only considered to be audacious by other people. We asked him how he sees leadership: “You’ve got to understand an issue very well and be able to simplify it and make people understand it and believe in it the way you do. Don’t give me this b t.’”

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

This is partly due to the tendency to grow more than needed as a hedge against weather and disease and fluctuating wholesale and retail orders. As owners of private label food products and shelf space, large food retailers can play a leadership role here. Food waste starts at farms in the value chain. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

In this massive piece, Nicholas Carlson analyzes Armstrong''s rise from his days as the owner of a strawberry business, uncovering a leadership trajectory that culminated in a proxy war with an activist investor and a final realization that his baby — local-news and listings provider Patch — needed to be trimmed, or else.

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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. Corporate social responsibility Leadership Social enterprise'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In scores of conversations I've had with business leaders, pension fund trustees, asset managers, employer associations, and NGOs since I first issued this call in HBR , everyone has agreed with the goal. What we continue to struggle with is how to build this essential managerial muscle.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

For example, a teacher driven by purpose values or identifies with the goal of educating and empowering children. In one hedge fund, the highest performing portfolio managers had higher total motivation. Purpose is when the direct outcome of the work fits your identity. You work because you value the work’s impact.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

On a scale of one to five, how important is having a good network to your ability to accomplish your goals? 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. Give you a sounding board to flesh out your ideas. The list goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

For women with leadership ambitions, there is no shortage of advice for how to reach the top. hedge fund partner, told me: “If you want balance, go be a yoga Nidra instructor.” Senior leadership teams are often political, and failures typically have much larger consequences. tomas robertson/unsplash.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Success in each box requires a different set of skills, attitudes, practices, and leadership. The more attention a company pays to Box 2, the more room there is for the Box 3 to achieve its goals. • Good Box 3 hedging strategies are important. You need to develop a process for hedging risk. And that is OK.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

You can’t predict or control the future, but you can control your organization’s alignment in terms of mission, vision, goals, and strategy. Internally, examine culture, leadership, process, and people, as well as the value proposition you offer to customers. GPSing can be used by individuals, of course, or by organizations as a whole.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We offer such a roadmap here, the outcome of a research project , at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, with 25 CEOs and their practices for mastering short-term pressures and creating long-term social and economic value, even in the toughest conditions. Adopt a Both/And Performance Mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

In an earlier post , Kishore Sengupta and Ludo Van der Heyden were able to discern some leadership lessons from the race — that you need more than determination and courage to get you ahead. Leaders need to draw up a list of all the bad things that can happen, build cash reserves, hedge, and acquire options, to prepare for the worst.

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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. What leadership challenges do you foresee in the years ahead that future leaders should prepare for? Leaders must take a dynamic approach to leadership.

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