Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. 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.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

This narrow focus on raising stock price by any means possible keeps companies from making long-term investments, protecting the interests of essential stakeholders like employees or customers, or taking much account of social welfare and ethical considerations in making business decisions. This powerful minority is activist hedge funds.

Long-term 12

Long-term Hedge Strategy Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance.

Compliance 16

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2011

Is there any head of a hedge fund who has stood up publicly, the way Warren Buffett now has, and said, "It's absurd that I should be paying lower taxes than someone who earns $30,000 a year"? We reward and admire the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

Hedge 19

Hedge Social Capital Class Mentor 19

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

We believe that a next step for investors is to analyze the predictors and drivers of these intangible factors, which means focusing on leadership. Wise, long term investors recognize that leadership affects firm performance. But too often, assessments of leadership are haphazard and narrow.

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

The decor varies greatly in the offices of the 550 CEOs, government officials, and heads of NGOs interviewed as part of our research on leadership — but hands down, photos are the most popular accessory. When pressed, Owens tried to hedge his answer, but the media portrayed him as calling the President a liar.

Ethics 10

Ethics Hedge Diversity CEO 10

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.

Hedge 312

Hedge Class Video Career 312

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 13, 2011

Pretty soon, I’ll need hedge clippers from Black & Decker. For you older folk, pay attention to hair that appears in strange places (nose/ears/face/hands) — I get more scared as I get older and see my hair migrate from my head to the Twilight Zones of my face. Also, good dental hygiene is important too. Unported License.

Succession 223

Succession Sharpe Licensing Hedge 223

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh?

Blog 387

Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

To find out, we designed a pair of studies that would measure the ethical repercussions of externally motivated organizational citizenship. Good acts build up credits which act as a hedge against the debits of future bad acts. But can pushing too hard to create “good soldiers” lead to unintended consequences?

Licensing 8

Licensing Morale Motivation Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Likewise, understanding the context, business model, competition, and leadership of a client or an employer makes your understanding of content more useful. An ethical compass. As computers become more capable, executives are realizing just how important ethics and the capacity for moral judgement are in the field of applied AI.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics Learning-by-Doing 15