Eric Jacobson

APRIL 17, 2021

According to Kristi Hedges , author of the book, The Power of Presence , a good story includes these seven elements : Has a clear moral or purpose. Has a personal connection to the storyteller and/or the audience. Includes common reference points the audience can understand. Involves detailed characters and imagery.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 26, 2020

At the end of each year, I select my choice for the best new leadership book for that year, and then highlight that book on my blog. Well, only five months into 2017, I had already found a new leadership book so good that I couldn't wait until year-end 2017 to share it. And, shows you how to inspire those you lead. Be Personal.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You throw away your backup plans and your push forward, no longer bogged down by the infinite ways in which we hedge our own successes.”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2019

Cross-Cultural Leadership: How to Avoid Making People Lose Face by Aad Boot @LeadershipWatch. How to Take Charge of Your Remote Meetings via @LetsGrowLeaders. CX’s Biggest Problem is Finding the RIGHT Problem via @customerthink How do we hedge against bad problem framing? Can You Pass the Fitzgerald Test?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

David Bornstein, How to Change the World. Avoid hedges, disclaimers, disfluencies, and tag questions. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it’s a masterpiece. Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for lack of an audience, close after a week. All ideas need to be sold; up, down, and across.

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Influence Handbook How To Hedge 269

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 2, 2018

In your leadership role you are often called upon to be a trusted advisor.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 29, 2017

At the end of each year, I select my choice for the best new leadership book for that year, and then highlight that book on my blog. Well, we're only five months into 2017 and there is a new leadership book so good that I can't wait until year-end to share it with you. And, shows you how to inspire those you lead. Be Personal.

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Decker Communication

MARCH 5, 2020

It’s a topic we discuss in Leadership Presence for Women and in the spirit of International Women’s Day , here’s a few do’s and don’ts for making your next ask. In the next week, ask for something you need without hesitation or hedging! Let’s start with the don’t’s: Don’t hedge. You’re ready. You’ve got the opportunity.

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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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Leadership Hedge Sharpe Executive Coaching 120

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. Real leaders know how to choose the members of their team. That’s the effect success has on people. With a net worth of $18.7 No harm in making mistakes.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2020

There is no precedent on how to come back from a world-wide pandemic. But I am choosing to hedge my bets on culture. The beauty of placing your bet on culture is that it will tell you how to move forward. This seems to be the burning question on everyone’s mind and no one seems to have an answer. But we have to move forward.

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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

Next Level Blog

JANUARY 7, 2011

Main | Leaders, Your Words Matter » January 07, 2011 Next Level Tips for Women Leaders Last month, I was interviewed by Kristi Hedges, executive coach and columnist for WomenEntrepeneur.com , on how women leading their own businesses can develop themselves for next level performance.  Click Here.

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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 reciprocity-based model, I give you something, and at some later point in time, I trust that I will learn how to get even more value back in return.” In a VUCA World, partnerships are hedges against risk, but they will also be more attractive ways to innovate and grow scale. It’s what the authors call “smart giving.” “The

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Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing Hedge Long-term 172

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.

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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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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. and second, How does none build a better team or organization that continuous learns better and faster than the competition? Being smart is really about knowing how to learn.

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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. It’s critical for business leaders to understand that large-scale shifts are changing how people work and how business gets done,” says Brian Kropp, vice president, Gartner.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 13, 2011

Pretty soon, I’ll need hedge clippers from Black & Decker. How To Pick Yourself Up After You Fail. How To Survive In A High Performance Workplace. How To Be More Productive When You Work From Home. How To Make Wonderful Mistakes. Also, good dental hygiene is important too. Next post: Creating A Life Plan.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

[pinit count=”horizontal”] How to Prepare for Tough Times There may be very little you can do to prevent tough times, but you can control the way you respond to them. Hedge your bets to protect your downside. Check out Franks NEW book, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others.

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How To Hedge Learning-by-Doing Energy 105

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

Way to play: They make a deliberate choice about how to add value in the market – e.g., as a value player, an experience provider, an aggregator, etc. . Hedging bets with multiple options, which reinforces complexity and raises costs. How coherent is your company?

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 27, 2018

A Reel Leadership Article What do you get when you cross My Big Fat Greek Wedding with a cast of Asians? Crazy Rich Asians is also a great movie to learn leadership lessons from. Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Crazy Rich Asians. – Leadership lessons from Crazy Rich Asians Click To Tweet. He was in to not lose.

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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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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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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 3, 2011

Eliminating stock-based compensation would help reduce the incentive for executive leadership to focus on the short term. The answer finally popped into my brain (funny how that works). But there is a residual problem which has long frustrated me. As usual, the solution won't be easy to pull off (but that has never stopped me).

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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

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. Leadership & Managing People Book. The list goes on. Adapted from.

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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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Frank Sonnenberg Online

APRIL 20, 2021

How will a perception of favoritism affect their ability to lead? How will this strategy impact the long-term competitiveness of organizations or even of nations? Ray Dalio, American billionaire, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist, said, “Hire right, because the penalties of hiring wrong are huge.”.

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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. Let’s say the chief security officer for an oil and gas company is deciding how to allocate their budget across multiple locations and assets. Here’s an example.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Indeed, I know Silicon Valley and (admittedly younger) hedge fund quant teams who bond and boost morale through their Minecraft bouts. But there’s something to be said for people who can succeed in intensely competitive environments and clearly know how to navigate in hostile virtual worlds. Collaboration Hiring Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

With these doubts in mind, many of us hedge our bets, avoid uncomfortable discussions, and surround the message with so much fluff that the real conclusion is barely visible. So how can you get better at clearly conveying a message or helping your people develop this skill? What are your suggestions for learning how to say less?

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