Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

T HE INNOVATION WE PRIZE at successful start-ups is a mindset that is brought into the start-up and not necessarily the inherent quality of every start-up. Re-creating these mindsets inside an established company is challenging because they result partly from the unique pressures and circumstances under which start-ups operate.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Author Kristi Hedges , in her book, The Power of Presence , provides these explanations of the roles of a coach and of a mentor and how they differ from each other: The Coach shows empathy through a mixture of tough love and strong support. The Mentor makes you feel that your success is always top of mind.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

If automation is restricted to Sun Belt states (including Florida, Texas and Arizona)—because the technology may not initially work well in rough weather—about 10% of the operator hours will be affected,” they explain. The data contained information on trucking shipments and the operator hours required to fulfill those shipments. “Our

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Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 73

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Author Kristi Hedges , in her book, The Power of Presence , provides these explanations of the roles of a coach and of a mentor and how they differ from each other: The Coach shows empathy through a mixture of tough love and strong support. The Mentor makes you feel that your success is always top of mind.

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Mentor Hedge Operations Career 97

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 28, 2017

Author Kristi Hedges , in her book, The Power of Presence , provides these explanations of the roles of a coach and of a mentor and how they differ from each other: The Coach shows empathy through a mixture of tough love and strong support. The Mentor makes you feel that your success is always top of mind.

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Mentor Hedge Operations Career 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2020

When your business is successful, it’s natural to want it to grow, and that’s no different in the lawn care business. After all, with so many happy customers under your belt, there’s no reason to deprive potential new clients of your skillfully manicured lawns and pristinely trimmed hedges. Prioritize Efficiency.

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Quality Software Efficiency Hedge 76

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Author Kristi Hedges , in her book, The Power of Presence , provides these explanations of the roles of a coach and of a mentor and how they differ from each other: The Coach shows empathy through a mixture of tough love and strong support. The Mentor makes you feel that your success is always top of mind.

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Mentor Hedge Operations Career 88

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Clearly, it’s time for a new strategic planning paradigm to emerge – one that features the right set of “ next practices ” that your organization can embrace to dramatically increase its success. If you don’t, you run the risk that the current company culture will only hold you back from success.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Span of Control Hedge 150

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.

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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.

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Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hedge Case Study 281

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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Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Author Kristi Hedges , in her new book, The Power of Presence , provides these explanations of the roles of a coach and of a mentor and how they differ from each other: The Coach shows empathy through a mixture of tough love and strong support. The Mentor makes you feel that your success is always top of mind.

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Mentor Hedge Operations Career 68

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Author Kristi Hedges , in her book, The Power of Presence , provides these explanations of the roles of a coach and of a mentor and how they differ from each other: The Coach shows empathy through a mixture of tough love and strong support. The Mentor makes you feel that your success is always top of mind.

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Mentor Hedge Operations Career 51

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The success of institutional-investment firms is socioeconomically vital: Their task is to grow the financial assets needed to fund retirements, development, education, scientific research, and many other capabilities associated with pensions, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, and the like.

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Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2018

If pitching for investment isn’t already nerve-wracking enough, imagine doing in front of some of the countries most successful business people and on TV. In Billions, he is taking on Axelrod, a (corrupt) hedge fun tycoon. Dragons Den. That’s what the brave entrepreneurs on Dragons Den have to do. I Give It a Year. Shark Tank.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Why not embrace a more expansive logic of success in which nobody wins unless everybody wins? It may sound lofty, even a bit naïve, but there is a model for how a more robust and sustainable definition of success can work — and it’s been working for a long time.

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Definition Company Succession Airlines 8

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” We’re always looking for ways we can be a positive influence in the markets where we operate.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Decisioning by consensus usually results in no decision being made, or an intellectually dishonest, watered-down decision that is so full of compromises, hedges and caveats that a non-decision might have been preferable. Where levels of responsibility and consequences for success or failure fall differently on various participants.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

Successful companies thrive in uncertainty by incorporating change into their strategy. For example, California-based berry producer Driscoll’s has invested extensively in Mexican berry operations because of the year-round availability of high-quality fruit, lower labor costs, and local know-how. Options and hedges.

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Supply Chain Hedge Uncertainty Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

When it comes to preparing organizations for a complex, high-speed future, many people who work in those organizations, or in management science, talk about the imperative for “ continuous improvement ” in operations. One crucial measure of this success is adaptability.

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Development Company Hedge Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Ackman''s short-selling campaign against vitamin distributor Herbalife has blown up in his face, with the company''s stock up more than 75% since he unveiled his position last December and some of his most prominent hedge fund competitors profiting from his misery.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

But there’s more than one kind of successful organization, and there are many kinds of productive workplaces. Do we hunger for individual achievement and personal recognition, or do we revel in team spirit and collective success? The formula for business success starts with what’s right for the people in the business.

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Health Care How To Hedge Environment 14

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2017

To achieve and sustain success, entrepreneurs must be skilled in a variety of areas. Freedom Financial provides five key areas of finance that are critical for entrepreneurs to have a greater chance at success. Freedom Financial provides five key areas of finance that are critical for entrepreneurs to have a greater chance at success.

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Entrepreneur Tips Succession Management 53

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Here are the six likeliest reasons I could come up with: Luck: This has been the baseline academic explanation for investing success for five decades now. And maybe random chance does explain a lot of Icahn’s success. But, well, what else is there to say about that? Why’s that?

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

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. It’s common sense, but it bears repeating, given how many companies don’t operate that way.

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Metrics Long-term Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. This shortfall resulted in its parent, Co-operative Group, ceding control of the bank to bondholders, including U.S. hedge funds. This is clearly where the Co-operative Bank’s program floundered. billion capital shortfall announced by the U.K.’s It is based on four questions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

First, making significant amounts of your own power at zero variable cost is more than nice; it’s a hedge against volatility and smooths out expenses, which makes business planning easier. Pushing back on relentless pressure to do only what seems right in the quarter is critical for success in a volatile world. I’m thrilled.

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CEO ROI Environment Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. A successful strategy machine must be able to improve itself over time. kenneth andersson FOR HBR. Nevertheless, overreliance on models was its downfall.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

It may not be fair, and you may not want to hear it, but chances are that previous leaders have poisoned the ground on which you’re trying to grow a successful business. And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating. People are a key investment in any organization, and in our experience teaching is crucial to ensuring their success. Automated systems are usually very bad at recognizing context. Who will lose their job?

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Skills Morale Ethics System 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Success begets not only further success but also harder-to-meet market expectations. In terms of sales volume, product line diversity, operating system flexibility, R&D spending, and even customer loyalty , Samsung has emerged as a fierce competitor that has bested former industry champions like Nokia and Apple.

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Brand Customer Loyalty Hedge Wilde 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

It may not be fair, and you may not want to hear it, but chances are that previous leaders have poisoned the ground on which you’re trying to grow a successful business. And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

The successful CEOs in our study displayed an odd behavior that we labeled " productive paranoia." The successful CEOs in our study were hyper-vigilant about threats around them (the paranoia part) and also took action to mitigate those threats, whether in the form of building buffers or hedging (the productive part).

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Management Licensing Crisis Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Southwest’s decision in 2007 to hedge against increases in the price of jet fuel proved remarkably prescient. In the popular mind, there’s a lot of luck and inspired leadership behind successful choices like Southwest’s. The success of Apple Computer and Facebook stems in part from their highly streamlined decision-making models.

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Hedge Restructuring Execution Download 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Companies are both operators and investors. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. Shift to providing advice on business models, not just strategy and operations. Analytics are growing in every business function and industry.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

Managing risks — especially the hard-to-pin-down, moving-target risks that any financial trading operation has to cope with — inevitably involves arguing. Whether this really was the main reason for JP Morgan's $3 billion (and growing) trading loss or not, it does at least sound like it could be true.

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