The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 8, 2022

Hedging bets. With the pandemic prompting many people to reassess their lives and career, this reduced barrier to entry has prompted many to dip their toes into the entrepreneurial waters. Indeed, the study suggests that entrepreneurs who keep a day job are around a third more likely to succeed than those who go all in.

Entrepreneur 122

Entrepreneur Hedge Long-term Commitment 122

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

3) hedge bets by building products and services on multiple platforms in order to compete on the same terms as digital giants in ways that are least likely to get regulated. This enables organizations to develop a competitive advantage. 2) provide customers transparency and value exchange for their personal data.

Disintermediation 134

Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 134

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It may be something you love and cherish, or it may be something that you just fell into because you weren’t sure what direction to take with your career. However, many of us can agree that often we want more for our future, and there are thankfully things that you can do, either alongside your current job or as a change of career entirely.

Long-term 50

Long-term Short-term Hedge Career 50

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

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. Louis to develop a customized, cyber skills program for employees. That, I think gets to the heart of what the right culture can do.

Resources 40

Resources Human Resources Learning-by-Doing Leadership Pipeline 40

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.

Human Resources 47

Human Resources Deming Resources System 47

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Let's start off with a pop quiz: Who is the CEO of your career? I'm not sure why I'm asked so often for career advice — guess it could be my job title (chief talent officer), or the well-documented ebbs and flows of my own journey. Finally, optimize your career-life fit. I was reminded (once again) of this just last week.

Career 17

Career CEO Hedge Agility 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We all know developing a personal brand is valuable, since a strong reputation can put you on the radar for exciting career opportunities. Your brand is also a powerful hedge against professional misfortune. ” So how can you, as a woman, navigate this conundrum and develop a robust personal brand?

Brand 15

Brand Development Reputation Self-aware 15

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.

Human Resources 28

Human Resources Deming Resources System 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

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

Skills 8

Skills Career Webinar Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The obvious targets were people in the field of innovation — those working in strategy, R&D, business development, and entrepreneurship. They partnered up with IBM to develop OS/2 , and decimated the Windows team. Ask for the keys to career success and you'll get logical explanations, recommendations, pathways and approaches.

Succession 21

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 21

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Consider disrupting yourself when it comes to these five areas — areas where the skills you honed as a high-achieving student are likely doing you a disservice in your career: 1. Welcome a less proscribed, full of surprise, career path. A career path is far less scripted, and often full of surprises.

Career 12

Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Class 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2018

People are quick to blame themselves for failure, and companies hedge against it even if they pay lip service to the noble concept of trial and error. Though nervous about the process, Alex’s desire to become a CEO was an approach goal because it focused on what he wanted to achieve in his career rather than what he hoped to avoid.

How To 15

How To Learning-by-Doing CEO Hedge 15

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. ” Don’t just come up with a clever notion; make sure people actually want it before you spend a lot of money developing it.

Webinar 15

Webinar How To Audience Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In my 36-year career, I haven’t met a single person truly at the top end of the talent distribution who is highly motivated by compensation. Over this combined quarter-century of experience, I developed three rules for managing top-end talent. There is a grain of truth to this — but only a grain.

Management 15

Management Class Talent Management Fashion 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

First, private citizens, particularly younger people, are choosing different types of career paths. Soon after, when Khan began tutoring his niece in mathematics while working at a hedge fund, he hit upon the idea of developing short video tutorials on YouTube.

Bond 15

Bond Education Finance Video 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

This “2+1 Rule” pertains for every career stage, from entry level to executive. You want it to be diversified, and you want to keep adding to it, or it won’t be an adequate hedge,” she counsels. Volunteer for formal mentoring programs as a mentor, or sign up for a high-profile position in another leadership development program.

Mentor 9

Mentor Hedge Human Capital Career 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Former employees of the now defunct Lehman Brothers have talked about how voicing dissent there was considered a career-breaker. Whereas if it''s worse — i.e. if we''re told that rather than having a 10% chance of developing cancer, we actually have a 30% chance — we tend to ignore this new information ?

Consensus 12

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Former employees of the now defunct Lehman Brothers have talked about how voicing dissent there was considered a career-breaker. Whereas if it’s worse — i.e. if we’re told that rather than having a 10% chance of developing cancer, we actually have a 30% chance — we tend to ignore this new information ?

Consensus 12

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

For some, the path forward is clear: the math experts will be snapped up by hedge funds, the software engineers will have their pick of start-ups, and elite investment banks and consultancies will duke it out for the top MBAs. But it was very relevant to my development as a human being. Career planning Education Job search'

Brand 9

Brand How To Hedge Film 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

But portfolio careers aren’t only for stay-at-home parents looking to freelance a few hours a day while their kids are in school or grad students moonlighting as Uber drivers and Task Rabbits. Here are five reasons it can make a dramatic difference for your career. Hedge against uncertainty. Monique Valcour.

Execution 8

Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. To be sure, robots will help people develop these types of skills, but a person – preferably you – will possess them.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Dirk, who had spent his career in sales, started the business for that very reason. It feels like we're hedging our bets rather than placing one.". Serge was their lead developer. Just give us the software development perspective," she said. He firmly believed that cold-calling and spamming were destroying marketing.

Case Study 16

Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Dirk, who had spent his career in sales, started the business for that very reason. It feels like we're hedging our bets rather than placing one.". Serge was their lead developer. Just give us the software development perspective," she said. He firmly believed that cold-calling and spamming were destroying marketing.

Case Study 15

Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Take Jim Owens, one of our interview subjects, who spent his entire career with Illinois-based Caterpillar. When pressed, Owens tried to hedge his answer, but the media portrayed him as calling the President a liar. Developing Mindful Leaders for the C-Suite. But when they come apart, they can do a lot of harm.

Ethics 10

Ethics Hedge Diversity CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Instead of asking an analyst to develop their statistics or machine learning skills, consider encouraging them to seek the heights of their own discipline first. To this end, one way to spot a good analyst is that they use softened, hedging language. In data science, excellence in one area beats mediocrity in two.

Organization 15

Organization Engineering Learning-by-Doing Storytelling 15

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.

Objective 8

Objective Metrics Sample Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

These “ superbosses ,” as I called them, spanned dozens of industries and included legendary figures such as fast casual restaurant magnate Norman Brinker, packaged foods titan Michael Miles, tech mogul Larry Ellison, hedge fund pioneer Julian Robertson, media icon Oprah Winfrey, and a host of others. Julian Robertson did.

Delegation 8

Delegation Real Estate Micromanagement Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder. Costs naturally drop as people gain experience collaborating and develop the trusted relationships that smooth the process, but you should take steps to lower those costs more quickly.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

That way, when the going is good, you can maximize your upside yield on assets like ticket sales and merchandise, and when the team isn’t performing quite as well, you have a hedge in place to protect your downside risk. If you could give your younger self one piece of career advice, what would it be? We want to win.

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In one hedge fund, the highest performing portfolio managers had higher total motivation. Gore & Associates gives people free time and resources to develop new ideas. The third most sensitive element is the career ladder in an organization. And the impact isn’t limited to customer satisfaction.

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Examples of this phenomenon have emerged already: The world’s largest hedge fund is developing a capability for an algorithm to make hiring and firing decisions. Greater investment in reskilling has a strong business case and will benefit workers in the form of higher wages and greater long-term career opportunities.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8