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Post-Covid Work Trends and the Future of Work

HR Digest

Businesses and companies now need to rethink how to manage post-covid work trends like their remote workforce, hiring policies, skills, and experience needs. Reason being an ability to hedge their bets and get a foothold in diverse markets and manage risks better. The Covid-19 pandemic has reset the way the world works.

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5 Leadership Lessons I Learned from A Billionaire Investor: Ray Dalio

Strategy Driven

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.

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Why the “F” Bomb Shouldn’t Be Dropped

N2Growth Blog

While both perspectives cover some of the same ground, the article in The Journal hedges a bit too much for my taste. I’ve traveled the world (23 countries and counting), spent years in athletic locker rooms, served in the military, and have been in my fair share of interesting places.

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The Man Who Is Changing The World.

Rich Gee Group

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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Why Quants Should Manage Your Supply Chain Risk

Harvard Business Review

When ash clouds from the Icelandic volcano darkened the skies over Europe, planes were grounded, interrupting business travel and disrupting air freight. Generally, the experts trying to address this issue take for granted that risk is a cost managers want to avoid and portray risk management as an attempt to avoid this potential cost.

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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

If 19th-century urban planners had had access to big data, machine learning techniques, and modern management theory, these tools would not have helped them. 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.

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Five Rules for Innovating in a Shaky Economy

Harvard Business Review

Companies can do five things to hedge their bets in turbulent times while opening up options for the future: 1. However many big projects become inflexible, travelling on rails to a fixed destination. This is no way to nurture the growth prospects of tomorrow.