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.

Hedge 78

Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 78

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.

Hedge 78

Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 78

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. That’s the effect success has on people. You do not climb your way up without meeting people who have mixed feelings about you. With a net worth of $18.7

Hedge 50

Hedge Leadership Learning-by-Doing Micromanagement 50

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.

Storytelling 278

Storytelling Video Hedge Career 278

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.

Hedge 60

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.

Hedge 60

Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 60

HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Digital transformation is the key to post-covid work trends as organizations try various strategies that provide better outcomes. The pivot has definitely forced organizations to explore the critical competencies that employees need to collaborate digitally and be prepared to adjust employee experience strategies.

Trends 105

Trends Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Crisis 105

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2020

But I am choosing to hedge my bets on culture. Author, speaker and entrepreneur, Chris Meroff, has made a career of testing new leadership ideas to see what works—and what doesn’t—in service-oriented leadership. Culture is critical to the success of a business, but it takes time and intentionality.

Hedge 129

Hedge Banking Diversity Stress 129

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

MAY 24, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. While both perspectives cover some of the same ground, the article in The Journal hedges a bit too much for my taste. .” Regardless of your station in life, vocabulary absolutely matters…It matters to an even greater degree for those in positions of leadership.

Audience 419

Audience Hedge Fashion Bottom-up 419

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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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 324

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.” “You have to give yourself no escape route, no chance to ever turn back. Question: You say you can predict CEO failure based on one thing. What is it? Higgins : Winners are iterative creatures.

How To 84

How To Commitment Hedge Resistance 84

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 13, 2011

Pretty soon, I’ll need hedge clippers from Black & Decker. For you older folk, pay attention to hair that appears in strange places (nose/ears/face/hands) — I get more scared as I get older and see my hair migrate from my head to the Twilight Zones of my face. Also, good dental hygiene is important too. Unported License.

Succession 225

Succession Sharpe Licensing Hedge 225

Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

When I had a leadership position with a team I had us have the whole team sit in the interviews with potential candidates (the team members were all early in their careers and in this and other ways I tried to help them learn and develop their skills). 25 years after this presentation, this is still true in my opinion.

Human Resources 47

Human Resources Deming Resources System 47

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.”

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

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.

Consensus 325

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 325

Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

When I had a leadership position with a team I had us have the whole team sit in the interviews with potential candidates (the team members were all early in their careers and in this and other ways I tried to help them learn and develop their skills). 25 years after this presentation, this is still true in my opinion.

Human Resources 28

Human Resources Deming Resources System 28

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

This powerful minority is activist hedge funds. With all due respect to hedge fund managers, the nature of their job is take large positions in a few companies, do everything possible to raise the share price, then get out. This means that hedge fund interests clash with those of long-term, diversified, prosocial investors.

Long-term 10

Long-term Hedge Strategy Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

The uncertain nature of trade policy has left many leadership teams reluctant to act. Successful companies thrive in uncertainty by incorporating change into their strategy. Companies that develop a strategy for these uncertainties will be able to pivot faster than the competition when details about a new trade agreement become clear.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Hedge Automotive Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

To gain more insights into a specific firm, investors have shown more interest in intangibles like strategy, brand, innovation, systems integration, collaboration, and so on. We believe that a next step for investors is to analyze the predictors and drivers of these intangible factors, which means focusing on leadership.

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

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.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

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.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The firm also estimated that more than a hundred hedge funds have now migrated into the activist camp. Even Microsoft is soon to have a hedge-fund activist, ValueAct Capital Management’s president G. How should directors best work with the activists in guiding company strategy and taking major decisions? Boards Leadership'

Hedge 8

Hedge Sharpe Short-term Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility. If you only invest in refining today's business model you'll get locked into it.

Business Model 16

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

In the course of research for their recent book , Harvard scholars Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey (and three other researchers including myself) studied three highly successful companies – Bridgewater (hedge funds), Decurion (movie theaters, real estate, and senior living), and Next Jump (e-commerce). In this sense, culture is strategy.

Development 8

Development Company Hedge Real Estate 8

Frank Sonnenberg Online

APRIL 20, 2021

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.”. Will I be able to make that same assumption in the future?

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Diversity Hedge Morale Long-term 132

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

To better understand how design leads to returns, my company, Motiv Strategies, and the Design Management Institute worked together to produce a new tool that tracks the results of design-centric companies against those that are not. Starting with a list of over 75 publicly-traded U.S. Design is expected and trusted to lead Nike.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

” the CEO of the hedge fund yelled at one of his portfolio managers. Maybe it’s help defining a stronger strategy, or brainstorming different tactics, or identifying what went right. So, back to the hedge fund CEO’s question: How do you reverse a losing streak? Leadership Giving feedback' “Why?”

Hedge 8

Hedge Tactics CEO Project 8

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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Hedge Class Video Career 314

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

While larger companies may be able to hedge the costs associated with key inputs and smooth out any cyclical costs, smaller businesses may struggle to achieve this. High inflation makes it incredibly difficult to plan and invest for any business, as it has an impact not only across the supply chain but also on consumer spending.

Supply Chain 94

Supply Chain Charan Short-term Long-term 94

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

We propose a four-pronged strategy to help retailers reduce food waste as it occurs in food farming and food production, in the stores themselves, and during consumption. 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. In the U.S.,

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility. If you only invest in refining today's business model you'll get locked into it.

Business Model 8

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Whether that kind of leadership positions a company for long-term success is a different question. More recently, the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative , led by Starbucks, the Aspen Institute, and FSG, a nonprofit strategy consulting firm that Professor Porter and I founded, has brought together three dozen leading U.S.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

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.

Tools 11

Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

No strategy is static. However, this may have been a hedging strategy as Starbucks built up its own digital capability, including a popular app and payment system. As Immelt has noted, GE’s transformation required having new talent throughout GE, not just in IT, plus new leadership styles and a new culture.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

We are not critical of directors who disagree with management strategy or voice alternative directions. 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. Boards Leadership Managing people'

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Hedge Micromanagement Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

But they also know that reputations can damaged by more than the operational risks that can be managed with functional redundancies, or the financial risks that can be countered by hedging, investing in futures markets, and global currency diversification. Vision and leadership. Emotional appeal. Products and services.

Reputation 9

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 9