Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2019

CX’s Biggest Problem is Finding the RIGHT Problem via @customerthink How do we hedge against bad problem framing? How to Create a Culture of Innovation from @Ex2Lead. Why Authenticity is the New Charisma by @SusanMazza. How to Take Charge of Your Remote Meetings via @LetsGrowLeaders. Conform to the Culture Just Enough by @edbatista.

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Mauborgne Charisma Hedge Teamwork 223

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 8, 2022

Hedging bets. Some of the world’s most innovative and successful entrepreneurs started their companies as hybrid entrepreneurs,” the researchers explain. Research from the University of Southern California suggests this is a misguided opinion, however.

Entrepreneur 122

Entrepreneur Hedge Long-term Commitment 122

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 24, 2021

The researchers examined the hedge fund industry in the US to test how working with a star would affect the appraisal of non-star performers both when projects went well and when they went badly. The researchers gathered data from Eurekahedge, which is an investment research firm that compiles data on both hedge funds and fund managers.

Hedge 91

Hedge Project Succession Industry 91

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 31, 2022

While traditional management theory suggests that flexible staffing can be a valuable hedge against uncertainty in both demand and volume, the paper reminds us that this can place a considerable toll on the workforce and result in a much higher loss of talent due to the high turnover.

Hedge 129

Hedge Human Capital Stress Short-term 129

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 12, 2015

Nick is the author of The Nature of Value: How to Invest in the Adaptive Economy (Columbia University Press 2014) and was involved in a technical confidential project with one of the world’s largest global macroeconomic hedge funds.

Hedge 70

Hedge Risk Management Media Innovation 70

Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2017

Reciprocity and advantage will spark new business models for innovation and growth. In a VUCA World, partnerships are hedges against risk, but they will also be more attractive ways to innovate and grow scale. Most business is transactional but “reciprocity is the practice of exchanging with others for mutual benefit.

Competitive Advantage 175

Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing Hedge Long-term 175

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 7, 2015

Nick is the author of The Nature of Value: How to Invest in the Adaptive Economy (Columbia University Press 2014) and involved in a technical confidential project with one of the world’s largest global macroeconomic hedge funds. Meanwhile, […].

Hedge 70

Hedge Drucker Risk Management Media 70

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 29, 2023

This affords them greater opportunities to earn in different ways, while the diversity also hedges against any risks of economic downturns. The very nature of the gig economy lends itself to the so-called “portfolio career”, whereby freelancers have various strings to their bow.

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Career Hedge Commitment Film 127

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The analysis also found that posing direct questions to the group about people’s intentions was also useful as this encourages everyone to make a commitment while also identifying anyone who is hedging their bets.

Cooper 135

Cooper Information Hedge Consensus 135

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.” Innovation needs time to achieve escape velocity and build up enough momentum to withstand forces of resistance. “You have to give yourself no escape route, no chance to ever turn back.

How To 84

How To Commitment Hedge Resistance 84

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Public companies can have tens, hundreds, or even thousands of individual and institutional shareholders, like mutual fund companies, pension funds, or hedge funds. You may have the most innovative business idea. For example, suppose you have an innovative business idea that you need financing for.

Management 92

Management Hedge Efficiency Finance 92

Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2020

It primarily involves investing in mutual funds and hedge funds, which offer the opportunity to invest where you may not be able to meet the minimum capital alone. This type of funding involves higher minimum capital in comparison with other types of private equity funding and involves longer investment terms too.

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Finance Hedge Restructuring 66

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.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

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. By including a Culture By Design perspective in your planning approach you hedge the bet that the organization can succeed in the execution of its plans.

Strategy 150

Strategy Strategic Planning Span of Control Hedge 150

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Our ability (and willingness) to learn impacts our personal and business growth, operational excellence, and our capacity to innovate. A particularly fascinating and eye-opening chapter is on Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world. More than ever, it truly is learn or die. We learn from each other.

Open-book 282

Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hedge Case Study 282

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

2 Comments so far william czander on May 31st, 2010 Happiness coaches are part of the great conspiracy that began some 20 years ago when CEO’s , hedge fund managers and bankers discovered if they outsourced jobs to China and India it would increase the bottom line and they would all get rich. Remember “smile or your fired”.

Organization 186

Organization Outsourcing Leadership Hedge 186

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 2, 2020

The researchers suggest that the desire for small firms to move could be because they have a smaller order book that doesn’t allow them to hedge their risk in the way larger firms can. Sectors such as chemicals, food and drink, and textiles were among the most enthusiastic shifters.

Supply Chain 85

Supply Chain Hedge Credit Risk Bureaucracy 85

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 25, 2019

Interestingly however, they believe that a blockchain-empowered timebank can help to hedge against the growing tide of AI-driven technologies that they believe will depersonalize communities.

Banking 65

Banking Hedge Proposal Bond 65

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

” Given the scale of the sector, the researchers speculate that automation is likely to result in a few hundred thousand jobs being lost, although they hedge this by stating that many of these jobs are badly paid and generally unpleasant in nature. “We

Osborne 75

Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 75

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&# While the aforementioned qualities are certainly admirable, they are only valuable if they influence or create action.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 332

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 19, 2021

It’s a narrative that paints a picture of investors backing perhaps a single startup in an industry, but research from Wharton highlights how VCs increasingly hedge their bets across a number of startups, and what’s more, this practice actually improves the efficiency of innovation in that sector. Supporting innovation.

Efficiency 126

Efficiency Innovation Venture Capitalist Hedge 126

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” It can help them innovate. The HR Digest: Can you share with The HR Digest readers some innovative recruiting strategies that allow Mastercard to compete for talent in America and abroad?

Resources 40

Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 333

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

When executives complain about activist hedge funds, it’s often under the cover of short-termism. Keusch looked at the impact of activist hedge funds from 1994 to 2012, to see what impact they had on management. None of this should let activist hedge funds off the hook in terms of their broader impact on the economy.

CEO 8

CEO Hedge Reputation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. However, a decade of research finds that hedge fund activism raises firm value by 7%, with no long-term reversal. What about innovation?

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Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

In this, we see a new approach to innovation at Apple, a risk driven approach where Apple sows many seeds, hedges its bets and will reap the most promising opportunity. Innovation Strategy' This is decidedly different and likely superior to Apple’s know-it-all approach under Steve Jobs.

Creativity 16

Creativity Supply Chain Hedge Brand 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Innovators more intent on inventing the future than predicting it should look hard at how cutting-edge scientists now computationally massage their big data. AH, not AI, will increasingly inspire tomorrow’s breakthrough innovation. The breakthrough innovator’s hypothesis doesn’t have to come from a human.

Engineering 8

Engineering Core Competence Information Technology Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Intuit had many failures as part of their innovation process. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility.

Business Model 16

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California. Rising sea levels flood Manhattan in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 , prompting hedge fund managers and real estate investors to create a new intertidal market index.

Stephenson 15

Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

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". Here are two of many examples we came across that show how anyone can lead with a more feminine ethos: Empathy Is Innovation. households.

Sample 14

Sample Hedge Restructuring Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The idea is to create a new and separate division that meets competition while ensuring that new innovations are as minimally disruptive (in the old sense of the world) to the core business as possible. Here is the problem: none of the three disruptors I have outlined here are traditional Christensen-style innovations.

Christensen 8

Christensen Hedge Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hedge against uncertainty. Intrigued by technology and innovation, Achan took the initiative to develop two iPhone apps. Indeed, the Center for Talent Innovation’s research on sponsorship shows that one of the best ways to attract a coveted senior-level sponsor is to develop a strong personal brand. Grow your income.

Execution 8

Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Fatigue may be setting in for some Western investors’ interest in African innovation, particularly those that have yet to reap rewards to brag about. Innovation in Distribution. We recently interviewed 100 entrepreneurs to find out which ventures are most likely to thrive. Top of the Pyramid.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Innovation at GE was on a roll. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. ” Instead of lean innovation programs, there is a mandate to cut $2 billion in expenses by the end of next year, lift profits, and raise the dividend. Then it wasn’t. Comstock is out.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8