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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. A close examination of truly great leaders will reveal that, to the one, they all have a strong bias toward action.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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.

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Could WikiLeaks Expose Your Corporate Brain?

Harvard Business Review

This is more than a nightmare for the affected firm's public relations department. And sophisticated hedge funds that employ armies of programmers to come up with anything that can give them an edge would have a field day searching for signs of strength or weakness or for any talk of upcoming deals.

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Don’t Trust Your Company’s Reputation to the Quants

Harvard Business Review

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. Public relations Risk management Transparency'

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Monitor, Libya, and the Perils of a Blurred-Line World

Harvard Business Review

Yet look through the 22-page " Proposal for Expanding the Dialogue around the Ideas of Muammar Qadhafi " that Monitor prepared in 2007, and it sure sounds like public relations: As is the case of many individuals who are prominent actors in the world, Qadhafi is well known but is poorly understood, particularly in the West.

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Former Skeptics Can Be Your Best Spokespeople

Harvard Business Review

Two of the four converts hedge (“I don’t agree with Hillary on everything”) before praising her intelligence and experience. In a series of conversations leading up to the U.S. But the suggestion seems to be that the decision to vote for Hillary may be a one-time thing.