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.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I have been generally well regarded throughout my career for building extremely effective teams, and what I can share with you is that team building is not about equality at all. It is not too difficult to get your crew all oaring together when these characteristics are firmly in place because they now know which direction to row.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

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.

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Career CEO Hedge Agility 17

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.” We’ve also made development conversations a point of emphasis, as an important way to help employees identify, explore and connect with learning opportunities as they navigate their career journey at Mastercard.

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

We're playing in two major markets. Andrew had been one of her first hires at SparkPlace, a two-year-old provider of internet marketing software, and he'd continued to impress her. Founder and CEO Dirk Middleton liked him, too, especially after Andrew coined what would become the company slogan: Marketing is broken.

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Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 16

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

We're playing in two major markets. Andrew had been one of her first hires at SparkPlace, a two-year-old provider of internet marketing software, and he'd continued to impress her. Founder and CEO Dirk Middleton liked him, too, especially after Andrew coined what would become the company slogan: Marketing is broken.

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Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

His book, The Signal and the Noise , explains the power of statistical modeling to improve our predictions about everything from the weather to sports to the stock market. Perhaps no one has done more for the cause of data-driven decision-making in the minds of the public than Nate Silver. Don’t take a job where you feel bored.

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Mentor Career Uncertainty Learning-by-Doing 22

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Every year, HBR interviews 10 people who’ve had fascinating careers. My career would not have been the same had the crash not occurred.” We asked her how she knew when a dramatic career move was the right one. ” Leadership Career planning' Here, a few highlights from 2014. Do what you think is right.”

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Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Creativity 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

For example, lower income shoppers appear willing to pay more now to hedge future costs. Lower income shoppers are also willing to pay more for categories that they see as an investment in their careers and future income. Is the category a hedge, an investment with a greater benefit payoff or a cost to be managed?

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Retail P&L Merchandising Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Once the book had been written, I had to market it. And, since innovation was on everyone 's mind, I was soon also working with chief innovation officers and heads of strategy, business development, and emerging markets — anything that required innovation. Your organization, career, even life can change in a single moment.

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 21

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

And the words we use to describe men versus women differ in significant ways that can affect their careers. Such words impact the identities that young girls and women form, pushing many of them to feel that they need to be “nice,” a pressure they carry into their careers. emyerson/Getty Images. Words matter.

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Letter Hedge Short-term Quality 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

In school, being disruptive might get you sent to the principal's office, but in business, disruption is a proven path to success , describing innovations that take root at the low end of the market, or create a new market, and then eventually upend an industry. Welcome a less proscribed, full of surprise, career path.

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Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Class 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

Which means that all of us, no matter where we are in our careers or what sort of work we do, have to reflect on the kind of workplace that works for us. Many investment banks and hedge funds operate this way, as do some law firms, consulting outfits, and tech titans. The ethos is up-or-out, sink-or-swim, rank-and-yank.

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Health Care How To Hedge Environment 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

And why does a top hedge fund manager "earn" enough to pay for thousands of teachers? Remind me: why is an average investment banker worth, say, a hundred times as much as an average teacher? Is there a trade-off between meaning and money? And if there is, how does one master — and perhaps — resolve it? Can it be resolved?

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Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 22

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. Facebook ads or search engine marketing might be appealing possibilities, but for now, they’re too much.

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Webinar How To Audience Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

First, private citizens, particularly younger people, are choosing different types of career paths. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Fortunately, we are witnessing three fundamental changes that offer hope. Take the story of Salman Khan and the eponymous Khan Academy.

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Bond Education Finance Video 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

Competitors whispered that Gupta was committing the most un-McKinsey-like of sins: cutting price to get into new markets. As the stock market began to take off, though, and options rained down on corporate execs, the compensation tables began to turn, certainly for the top ranks. The desire to be an insider.

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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. At its peak the company had a market value of $303 billion and by 2007 around four in 10 handsets bought worldwide were made by Nokia. And how about our propensity to become overly attached to the past?

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Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Aimee, a senior executive at a global financial services firm, had carefully cultivated her network of sponsors and supporters over 15 years, but recently, she watched helplessly as waves of market dislocation, structural reorganizations, and headcount reductions battered the industry and shredded her connections.

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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. At its peak the company had a market value of $303 billion and by 2007 around four in 10 handsets bought worldwide were made by Nokia. And how about our propensity to become overly attached to the past?

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Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

are making a choice that will shape the rest of their lives: which career to pursue after graduation. Yet these career choices affect not only the students themselves but also the rest of society. The job market does not account for all social value. This fall, college seniors across the U.S. Some spillovers are quite large.

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Policies Career Hedge Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career. His game plan instead looks something like this: Buy stock in a company.

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In fact, no other company function is allowed to second guess the design team’s direction when it comes to the emotional and functional benefits for consumers, the interpretation of market trends, and, of course, aesthetics. Design is expected and trusted to lead Nike. This is not to say that design “runs” the company, however.

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Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

It’s no wonder, then, that young people are anxious about their ability to compete in the job market. Moreover, we have found that the defining characteristic of executive decisions is that there is no right answer, and the options are laden with emotional consequences: Whose career will soar? Whose will be gored?

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Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Today’s fashion in data science favors flashy sophistication with a dash of sci-fi, making AI and machine learning the darlings of the job market. To this end, one way to spot a good analyst is that they use softened, hedging language. Encourage them to grow to the heights of their chosen career (and not someone else’s).

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Organization Engineering Learning-by-Doing Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Take Jim Owens, one of our interview subjects, who spent his entire career with Illinois-based Caterpillar. As they’d flown to Peoria together on Air Force One, Owens had explicitly stated that the layoffs were an outcome of an international market crash, and the stimulus plan was irrelevant to this particular factory.

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Ethics Hedge Diversity CEO 10

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.

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Objective Metrics Sample Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Guitarist Keith Richards could casually drop in an interview that this may very well likely be the band''s last tour (the "hedge" in the wording is intentional). Marketing' The most common remedy to this malady is to maintain price but add value, so customers feel they''re getting more for their money.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

And why does a top hedge fund manager "earn" enough to pay for thousands of teachers? Remind me: why is an average investment banker is worth, say, a hundred times as much as an average teacher? Is there a trade-off between meaning and money? And if there is, how does one master — and perhaps — resolve it? Can it be resolved?

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Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 11

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. Harness your internal sales data to show people that smart collaboration is not just a nice-to-have — it’s a strategic advantage for capturing market share.

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Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We have a global audience that has an unending thirst for mobile content, and a sophisticated CRM database that allows us to be a state-of-the-art marketing operation. Our pricing, as I mentioned earlier, is demand-driven and what the market will bear, and generally the market will bear a lot. We want to win.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. Most-senior hedge fund people and competitors. In the next three weeks, reconnect with people outside the com­pany who may shed useful light on your work, industry, or career. Learn more about your market value.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 5, 2023

In The Technology Trap, Oxford academic Carl Benedikt Frey argues that mobility is a valuable hedge against the rise of automation as it allows people to move to where jobs exist should their livelihoods be disrupted. Obviously, there are various barriers to such mobility, such as housing and transport scarcity.

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Licensing Hedge Transportation Long-term 124

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

How do you become a market leader in the midst of rapid change? You predict that we will have only 100 dominant players in 50 markets by 2050. In fact, many of their leaders have forgotten how they got there – mission, talent, offering, and markets. Another indication of the speed and extent of dominance is market cap.

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

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

There’s urgency here because we believe the role of technology in the labor market will become more pronounced as artificial intelligence and machine learning affect white-collar jobs in much the same way that robotics has affected blue-collar jobs.

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