Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The name of hedge fund billionaire Raymond Dalio triggers emotions of adoration, admiration, and even dislike. It gives you much time and room to focus on the bigger picture of managing your business. Secondly, employees are more productive when they are left to their jobs with little to no micro-management. Be open-minded.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Be Innovative and engaging, not flat and uninspired – countless management consultants employ the same old, tired planning processes that generate little interest or energy. Management teams want automated and integrated techniques that enable analytics and scenario testing.

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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. As Ray sees it, achieving one’s goals is more likely to occur if one strives to be an independent thinker by learning.

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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. Performance evaluation and work goals also need to be recalibrated to suit the new work norms. The Covid-19 pandemic has reset the way the world works. Humanizing or not.

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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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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. As humans, we often make a decision a second but re quire weeks, months, and maybe even years for management approval. What role do you see AI playing?

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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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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. To be blunt, the concept of equality in the workplace has only made team building more difficult as employees seem to have a sense of undeserved entitlement with regard to their roles and responsibilities.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2018

In Billions, he is taking on Axelrod, a (corrupt) hedge fun tycoon. Ever felt like your previous management was a little ‘out of touch’ when it came to the day-to-day running of the company? This show is also great for getting to grips with supply chain management as well as the basics of product design. I Give It a Year.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

What’s missing from the managerial toolkit is a way for managers to allocate their—and their organization’s—time and attention and resources on a day-to-day basis across the competing demands of managing today’s requirements and tomorrow’s possibilities. Excerpted from. The Three-Box Solution.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

This is a classic story of unintended consequences — inadvertently short-circuiting long-term management — to the detriment of companies, investors, and the economy. As earnings goals became harder to hit with internal growth, the company used most of its money for share buybacks to achieve its three-year earnings-per-share goals.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Yet in today’s rapidly evolving, 24/7 workplaces, it’s not always clear what managers should do to create the most satisfying work experiences and the happiest employees. If you supervise others, make sure you do the following: Manage individuals, not teams. But this is also the manager’s responsibility.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

Instead, separate your negative commentary from your praise, and don’t hedge. This creates a toxic cocktail of emotions even the most mellow employee will have trouble managing. The adage “praise in public, criticize in private” is an old management mantra. Ask “What are your goals?”

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

Hedge fund activist Bill Ackman posed that question recently in his fund’s annual letter to investors. At the same time, clients withdrew $207 billion overall from actively managed funds, according to the research firm Morningstar. In the same way, index funds don’t selectively buy more shares when managers perform well.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Yet most remain uneasy or uninvolved when it comes to talking about and managing money. When she's not at work managing a portfolio that consistently outperforms relevant benchmarks, you can find her at home buying and bearing bonds. For example, Intuit helps small businesses to better manage their books — creating jobs.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Imagine that you are choosing between two similar mutual funds, one managed by Marcus and the other by Tanya. 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.” Tooga/Getty Images.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

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. Having takeovers proceed only if the longer-term shareholders feel it is appropriate is the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

More recently, CARVER has converted a new community of believers in the business world, including CEOs, financial analysts, and risk management planners, not to mention any number of Fortune 500 security directors. 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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

While big data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things garner the lion’s share of media attention, using data to its full potential is much more about management than it is about technology. In working with companies on getting more from their data, I advise managers to explore seven methods to put data to work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Managers and boards are often pushed by investors, fund managers, and analysts to focus intently on a single measure of success, such as shareholder value or profit, and then they do everything they can to maximize it. Companies should be managed much more holistically. I was once a CEO leading a corporate turnaround.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

As a senior analyst in this investment firm — and a good one — he knew a lot about the company he was about to pitch to the management committee. It's also a sign of commitment to the team and to the larger purpose and goals of the organization. Second, don't hedge. But hedging dilutes and confuses the message.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

” the CEO of the hedge fund yelled at one of his portfolio managers. ” The portfolio manager muttered a weak defense which the CEO promptly and easily tore to shreds. When the manager left his office, the CEO turned to me, exasperated. “Why?” “Why would you increase that investment?

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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. Some people are intrinsically motivated to exceed their job descriptions in order to support organizational goals. How talent management is changing. Surveying 180 teams of employees and managers at U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

CEOs live in fear of activist hedge funds, and politicians worry about their effects on workers. Rather than berating management publicly, these funds have led quiet discussions behind closed doors. They seek to win management over by sharing well-researched analysis and connecting them to a network of potential partners.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The global economy and the Internet have heightened our sense of interconnectedness and sharpened our awareness that when a business focuses only on enriching investors, it implies that managers view the interests of customers, employees, communities and the fate of the planet as little more than cost trade-offs in a quarter-by-quarter game.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

These organizations are a collection of hard-driving, fiercely competitive individuals who measure their success against personal goals, and even against one another. Many investment banks and hedge funds operate this way, as do some law firms, consulting outfits, and tech titans. The ethos is up-or-out, sink-or-swim, rank-and-yank.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. Failure is sometimes lauded as a key to successful innovation, but it takes a psychic toll on the manager. One of my students at London Business School joined a hedge fund and was bummed when he was laid off at the start of the financial crisis. David Kopans.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

It has implications that extend far beyond the company’s stated goal to design single-purpose apps that fit mobile usage and the bottleneck of screen mobile device real estate. Can a company built on the ideas of scale and network effects unbundle its offering into multiple brands and still thrive? Facebook is about to find out.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

To turn things around, senior management brought in a new general manager, an industry expert named Phillip who had previously run the consumer products practice for a large consulting firm. Managing people Managing yourself' Phillip turned out to be a classic complexifier. Have we agreed on the key priorities?

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

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. Both Colin and Serena should have more carefully and conservatively forecast the timeline for expected revenues and managed their costs accordingly. The first is Colin.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

To borrow a term from Wharton management professor Michael Useem, Owens is most definitely a member of the global elite’s “ inner circle.”. When pressed, Owens tried to hedge his answer, but the media portrayed him as calling the President a liar. Back in February 2009, Owens’s ties were severely tested.

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