Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Advocacy,” says John Daly, “is an exhausting but necessary skill.” Avoid hedges, disclaimers, disfluencies, and tag questions. —David Bornstein, How to Change the World. All ideas need to be sold; up, down, and across. You have to become an advocate. Daly defines advocacy as “persuading people who matter to care about your issue.

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Influence Handbook How To Hedge 272

N2Growth Blog

MAY 24, 2012

While both perspectives cover some of the same ground, the article in The Journal hedges a bit too much for my taste. Poor Anger Management : People who are not quick on their feet, or do not possess adequate conflict resolution skills, often revert to profanity as a safety net of sorts.

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Audience Hedge Fashion Bottom-up 419

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2024

There are going to be all different types of models and different types of tools and technology…So errors, trading, hedging research; every app, every database you can be applying AI. It’s a living, breathing thing. It’s going to change.

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Hedge McKinsey Technology Learning-by-Doing 52

Next Level Blog

JANUARY 7, 2011

Main | Leaders, Your Words Matter » January 07, 2011 Next Level Tips for Women Leaders Last month, I was interviewed by Kristi Hedges, executive coach and columnist for WomenEntrepeneur.com , on how women leading their own businesses can develop themselves for next level performance. 

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Tips Hedge Executive Coaching Letter 169

HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2020

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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Trends Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Crisis 105

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2020

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. When your business is successful, it’s natural to want it to grow, and that’s no different in the lawn care business.

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Quality Software Efficiency Hedge 75

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The name of hedge fund billionaire Raymond Dalio triggers emotions of adoration, admiration, and even dislike. The key to this is the ability to recognize talented employees who bring a particular skill set on the table. That’s the effect success has on people. These are the hallmarks of a true leader, be it in business or politics.

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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. Here, I use the labels of the indispensable ‘Pixar Pitch’ to summarize Salman’s story: ACT I: Once upon a time, I was an analyst at a Boston-based hedge fund.

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Storytelling Video Hedge Career 278

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2020

But I am choosing to hedge my bets on culture. Culture is critical to the success of a business, but it takes time and intentionality. In survival mode, time is a tough thing to sacrifice. I am constantly tempted to abandon culture and fight for survival. Roulette is a great example of the constant temptation we, as leaders, face every day.

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Hedge Banking Diversity Stress 133

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

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. He’s skilled at analyzing terrain (both physical and financial) and making quick and effective decisions.

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Leadership Hedge Sharpe Executive Coaching 120

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

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. He’s skilled at analyzing terrain (both physical and financial) and making quick and effective decisions.

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Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 78

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

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. He’s skilled at analyzing terrain (both physical and financial) and making quick and effective decisions.

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Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 78

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

” In what follows we’ll share seven skills that can not only make you unable to be automated, but will make you employable no matter what the future holds. adults’ total media usage is nearly 12 hours a day, on average, communication skills are essential for getting people’s attention and moving them to action.

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Skills Morale Ethics System 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 coach is not afraid to push you because she sees the best in you.

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Mentor Hedge Operations Career 69

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

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. He’s skilled at analyzing terrain (both physical and financial) and making quick and effective decisions.

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Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 60

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

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. He’s skilled at analyzing terrain (both physical and financial) and making quick and effective decisions.

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Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 60

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Developing great communication skills is a key to professional success. Communication skills have always been instrumental for senior leaders. Professionals today are expected to show polished “executive” communications skills earlier in their careers, to a wider network of audiences.

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Skills Career Webinar Hedge 8

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

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.” That requires us to invest in developing both current and future skills.

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Maybe you like the idea of long term investments which includes things like stocks and shares and even fixed terms savings and hedge funds. Many people have decided to turn a hobby into a job, especially with things like blogging, writing, or using a skill that you have developed over time. Turn a hobby into a job.

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Long-term Short-term Hedge Construction 50

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). Both were excellent employees during that time.

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Human Resources Deming Resources System 47

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). Both were excellent employees during that time.

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Human Resources Deming Resources System 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

What if the top companies were attracting all the most skilled workers, and that’s why they were paying more? In his October HBR article on skyrocketing executive pay, Roger Martin relates a startling fact: “The top 25 hedge fund managers in 2010 raked in four times the earnings of all the CEOs of the Fortune 500 combined.”.

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Bryson Hedge Company Real Estate 12

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

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. ” to the crew.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 332

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Entrepreneurship, even in the form of part-time work to complement a traditional day job, can provide a useful hedge against economic uncertainty and a way to develop new skills. ” Invest in skill building. But the sticking point for many is figuring out what your side venture should be. That was my strategy as well.

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Webinar How To Audience Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Turning from evidence on liquidity to evidence on short-term investors, activist hedge funds are seen as the epitome of the latter – allegedly stripping assets and piling on debt to make a quick buck. However, a decade of research finds that hedge fund activism raises firm value by 7%, with no long-term reversal.

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Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

We’re surrounded by people (and companies) exaggerating their skills or knowledge or features — and we’re often guilty of it ourselves. After one hedge fund I know had a horrendous quarter, the managers wrote to clients, saying that they were concentrating 70% of the entire fund into only five stocks.

Hedge 8

Hedge Real Estate Marketing Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth. Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze."

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

Your brand is also a powerful hedge against professional misfortune. Help others understand the truth about your journey by developing a clear and concise elevator pitch that explains how your previous skills connect with. and add value to, what you’re doing now. To start, chart it out on paper. Share your ideas publicly.

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Brand Development Reputation Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2016

Hedge against the downside. Understanding the potential risks enables you to do a much better job hedging against them. If you’re planning to launch a startup, for instance, your colleagues might have highlighted concerns about your finance skills. How Leaders Can Let Go Without Losing Control. Mark Bonchek.

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Career Hedge CFO Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Instead, new computer technologies require major new skills. Workers who learn these skills see their wages grow, but many workers have difficulty acquiring the new skills. Indeed, even within occupations, many workers are having difficulty learning the skills needed to work effectively with new computer systems.

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Policies Technology Hedge Banking 8

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).

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Development Company Hedge Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Yet the skill to turn a "presentation" into a "tweet" remains elusive for many. With these doubts in mind, many of us hedge our bets, avoid uncomfortable discussions, and surround the message with so much fluff that the real conclusion is barely visible. Why is it so difficult for people to get to the point?

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Audience Hedge Consensus Analysis 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

” We collected data from a private online knowledge-sharing platform where buy-side (hedge fund, mutual fund) investment professionals (analysts, portfolio managers) share their investment recommendations to buy and sell a given security, along with the analysis supporting their position, with other members of this platform. (If

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Objective Metrics Sample Hedge 8

Frank Sonnenberg Online

APRIL 20, 2021

Train skill.”. Ray Dalio, American billionaire, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist, said, “Hire right, because the penalties of hiring wrong are huge.”. As Peter Schutz, former president and CEO of Porsche, said, “Hire character. Until recently, I thought that was pretty obvious. I simply hired the best person for the job.

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Diversity Hedge Morale Long-term 132

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

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hedge against uncertainty. Learn new skills. Entrepreneurial side ventures can be a powerful way to learn new skills and distinguish yourself from the competition. Here are five reasons it can make a dramatic difference for your career. You and Your Team Series. Learning to Learn. Erika Andersen. Liane Davey. Monique Valcour.

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Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Demonstrable talent and success at games that mix competitive fire with social skills make a desirable human capital combination. The cognitive and social skills demanded in complex multiplayer games can be every bit as subtle, sophisticated and challenging as stud poker or bridge.

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Human Capital Game Theory Bond Hedge 8