Stop Hedging – It Makes You Sound Weak
Leadership Freak
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
How to stop hedging? Yesterday, a leader I respect said, “I almost teared up.” Then I spoke directly, “You didn’t almost tear up. Either you did or you didn’t.”
Want Better Influence at Work? Avoid These Communication Mistakes
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 22, 2021
3 Communication Mistakes That Sabotage Your Leadership Influence at Work. In fact, we often notice some of the most successful leaders in our leadership programs using self-deprecating humor brilliantly. When I think of “hedging words,” I think of the scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz. Pre-Apologies. Glad you agree.
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Executive Search Firms in Finance: Unlocking Fiscal Leadership
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 24, 2023
These firms’ expertise and extensive networks help organizations identify and attract top talent for critical leadership roles. Every organization has unique dynamics and strategic goals, from investment banks to hedge funds and private equity firms.
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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2024
Leading Blog
JUNE 1, 2024
H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2024 curated just for you. These professional risk-takers—poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true believers and blue-chip art collectors—can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the twenty-first century.
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Executive Search for Nonprofits: Creating Lasting Impact Through Leadership
N2Growth Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
The Importance of Effective Leadership in Nonprofits Effective leadership is vital for the success and sustainability of any organization – no less for nonprofit organizations. Strong leadership is invaluable to the success and impact of any organization, nonprofit or otherwise.
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Negativity Loops Destroy Intention
Leading Blog
JULY 6, 2012
Kristi Hedges is an expert in executive presence. Hedges says, “People who maintain optimistic thoughts gain resilience. When you find yourself in a stressful situation and caught in a downward negative spiral, Hedges recommends that you: Stay vigilant and recognize when it’s purely pessimism and not constructive.
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Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential
Leading Blog
MARCH 10, 2023
You throw away your backup plans and you push forward, no longer bogged down by the infinite ways in which we hedge our own success. Leaning into your differences—those things that make you unique—will help you to not hedge your bets. To accomplish something great, you have to give yourself no escape route, no chance to turn back.
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How The Best Leaders Energize People Every Day
Eric Jacobson
APRIL 17, 2025
It read as follows: At the end of each year, I select my choice for the best new leadership book for that year and then highlight that book on my blog. Well, we're only five months into 2017 and there is a new leadership book so good that I can't wait until year-end to share it with you. And shows you how to inspire those you lead.
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Knowing How Your People Think Is a Superpower
Sales Wolf Blog
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Ray Dalio built Bridgewater into one of the largest hedge funds in the world by mastering this skill, and it is time you did too. Let’s get straight to the point: if you are leading a team without understanding how your people think, you are setting yourself up for failure.
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Eight Times To Tell Stories In The Workplace
Eric Jacobson
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
"Stories strengthen communications and presence for leaders," explains Kristi Hedges , author of the book, The Power of Presence. She recommends you consider adding stories to your communications when you : Want to motivate others and paint a picture of what's possible.
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The Prisoner’s (Hedge Fund) Dilemma
CO2
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
SAC Manager Arrested for Insider Trading at Hedge Fund. If you speak to most hedge fund managers, they will tell you what they create is efficient markets. The payoffs hedge fund employees are real, but the business has the feel of a game. Most businesses actually produce something. Back in March, one SAC Manager (Michael S.
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Winning Teams Know to Trust Their Team Members
Leading Blog
JUNE 12, 2023
Supply planners shouldn’t be forced to guess which of the demand mix, volume, or timing in the plan is going to come true, and which are hedges against possible poor performance from the manufacturing organization. The manufacturing organization is rarely an open bar, so to speak. They know the pitfalls of second-guessing the demand plan.
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Use a 360-Degree Approach to Get Feedback on Leading Change
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 31, 2021
Getting feedback is like asking someone to hold up a mirror for you to see how others experience your leadership. In my new book, Mission-Critical Leadership: How Smart Managers Lead Well in All Directions , I suggest using a 360-degree approach to obtain this feedback. 360-Degree Feedback Assessments. Development Plans.
Sustainable Leadership and Organizations: The Ideas of Martin Seligman
Michael Lee Stallard
MAY 30, 2010
2 Comments so far william czander on May 31st, 2010 Happiness coaches are part of the great conspiracy that began some 20 years ago when CEO’s , hedge fund managers and bankers discovered if they outsourced jobs to China and India it would increase the bottom line and they would all get rich. Remember “smile or your fired”.
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LeadershipNow 140: April 2019 Compilation
Leading Blog
APRIL 30, 2019
Cross-Cultural Leadership: How to Avoid Making People Lose Face by Aad Boot @LeadershipWatch. CX’s Biggest Problem is Finding the RIGHT Problem via @customerthink How do we hedge against bad problem framing? Culture Leadership Charge - Insights into a Healthy Work Culture by @scedmonds. Can You Pass the Fitzgerald Test?
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252 How Big Companies Can (and do) Innovate Like a Start-Up
Leading Blog
MARCH 18, 2019
In Creative Construction , Gary Pisano says that when big organizations fail to innovate, the root cause is often related to “management practice and leadership than with organizational scale per se.” The best strategy when facing high degrees of uncertainty is to hedge and build options for the future.”. One size does not fit all.
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Gender Stereotypes Influence How Investors Respond To Activist CEOs
The Horizons Tracker
MARCH 23, 2025
One of the key insights from the research is that investors’ judgments are not based on the effectiveness of the CEOs responses to shareholder activismefforts by investors, often hedge funds, to influence corporate changebut on whether those responses fit gender-based assumptions about leadership.
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Why the “F” Bomb Shouldn’t Be Dropped
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. Regardless of your station in life, vocabulary absolutely matters…It matters to an even greater degree for those in positions of leadership. Okay, I know business is far less formal today than in times past. .”
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Advocacy: How to Champion Ideas and Influence Others
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
Avoid hedges, disclaimers, disfluencies, and tag questions. Even the most experienced advocate will be able to refine their skills and increase their influence by incorporating the advice found in this handbook. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.
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5 Things A Leader Should Pray For
Joseph Lalonde
JULY 21, 2014
Being leaders of faith, I must raise the question: Are you praying daily in your leadership roles? Covering your family in prayer creates a hedge of protection around them. Leadership faith leadership prayer' It’s exciting to see other leaders living out their faith as well. Image by C. If not, why not?
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Using Storytelling To Craft And Communicate Your Strategic Vision
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. That changed when I met retired Sensormatic CEO Bob Vanourek at the Leadership Forum at Sliver Bay. The following is a guest piece by Jeremey Donovan.
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Next Level Tips for Women Leaders
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. Click Here.
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169 Trust is a Funny Thing
Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2017
We may hesitate, hedge, obfuscate or even feel that we have to lie. At the leadership level, however, there was disorganization, or a cutthroat culture, or a lack of appreciation. Trust is a funny thing because it’s not tangible and yet its absence is obvious. We may avoid situations entirely. When you ask, “Why aren’t you still there?”
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For CEOs, Safe Decisions Aren’t Always Safe
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2017
I’m not suggesting decisions be made in callous fashion or with reckless abandon, but neither do I believe every decision needs to be hedged, every expectation needs to be lowered, or every constituency needs to be pandered to. I’ve always said, “managing expectations is gamesmanship – aligning them is leadership.”
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Leadership Lesson from an Off-Road Champion Driver
CO2
DECEMBER 1, 2014
I had a chance to discuss the parallels between driving and leadership with Peter Hajas , who knows a lot about both. 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.
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120 The Different Roles Of A Coach And A Mentor
Eric Jacobson
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
Author Kristi Hedges , in her 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. Coaching Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Mentoring'
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119 Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers
Leading Blog
APRIL 5, 2019
Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? Walsh is the CEO of Tomorrow, a global consultancy on designing companies for the 21 st century. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?
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Leader Isolation: 6 Ways to Conquer Loneliness at the Top
RapidStart Leadership
JUNE 13, 2017
Leadership can bring with it a sense of isolation. This can be particularly true of new leaders and those chosen from among a peer group to take on a formal leadership position. As Tony Blair says, “The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. Cultivate a mentor.
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203 The Reciprocity Advantage
Leading Blog
APRIL 24, 2017
In a VUCA World, partnerships are hedges against risk, but they will also be more attractive ways to innovate and grow scale. Find the Best Partners. Partnerships are hard. So don’t form one unless you by doing so you are doing something that you could never do alone.
The Differences Between A Coach And A Mentor
Eric Jacobson
DECEMBER 17, 2013
Author Kristi Hedges , in her 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. Coaching Coaching Employees Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Mentoring'
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The Inspiration Code
Eric Jacobson
MARCH 26, 2020
At the end of each year, I select my choice for the best new leadership book for that year, and then highlight that book on my blog. Well, only five months into 2017, I had already found a new leadership book so good that I couldn't wait until year-end 2017 to share it. Kristi Hedges But, first, what exactly is inspiration?
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How To Be An Inspirational Leader
Eric Jacobson
APRIL 28, 2021
Today, I bring back one of my most-read blog posts from a few years ago: At the end of each year, I select my choice for the best new leadership book for that year, and then highlight that book on my blog. Well, we're only five months into 2017 and there is a new leadership book so good that I can't wait until year-end to share it with you.
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How To Energize People Everyday
Eric Jacobson
JUNE 5, 2021
It read as follows: At the end of each year, I select my choice for the best new leadership book for that year, and then highlight that book on my blog. Well, we're only five months into 2017 and there is a new leadership book so good that I can't wait until year-end to share it with you. And, shows you how to inspire those you lead.
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How To Inspire And Energize People Every Day
Eric Jacobson
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
It read as follows: At the end of each year, I select my choice for the best new leadership book for that year, and then highlight that book on my blog. Well, we're only five months into 2017 and there is a new leadership book so good that I can't wait until year-end to share it with you. And, shows you how to inspire those you lead.
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Today's Leadership Quotes
Eric Jacobson
APRIL 7, 2018
Today's three leadership quotes come from Kristi Hedges , author of the book, The Power Of Presence. A vision will go nowhere unless the leader feels it in her bones. You don't lose your credibility from failure but from how you handle it. Executive presence means much more than making a fantastic first impression.
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Today's Leadership Quotes
Eric Jacobson
AUGUST 22, 2018
Today's three leadership quotes come from Kristi Hedges , author of the book, The Power Of Presence. A vision will go nowhere unless the leader feels it in her bones. You don't lose your credibility from failure but from how you handle it. Executive presence means much more than making a fantastic first impression.
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50 Lead with a Coherent Strategy
Coaching Tip
DECEMBER 24, 2010
Hedging bets with multiple options, which reinforces complexity and raises costs. Falling into the “adjacent market trap,” i.e., expanding into markets that are seemingly related but for which the company doesn’t have the capabilities to compete effectively. Bringing on more fixed assets, instead of building market-leading capabilities.
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Leadership Lesson from an Off-Road Champion Driver
CO2
DECEMBER 1, 2014
I had a chance to discuss the parallels between driving and leadership with Peter Hajas , who knows a lot about both. 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.
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Leadership Lesson from an Off-Road Champion Driver
CO2
DECEMBER 1, 2014
I had a chance to discuss the parallels between driving and leadership with Peter Hajas , who knows a lot about both. 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.
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Video Blog: Make the Ask
Decker Communication
MARCH 5, 2020
It’s a topic we discuss in Leadership Presence for Women and in the spirit of International Women’s Day , here’s a few do’s and don’ts for making your next ask. In the next week, ask for something you need without hesitation or hedging! Let’s start with the don’t’s: Don’t hedge. You’re ready. You’ve got the opportunity.
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How The Best Leaders Energize People Every Day
Eric Jacobson
MAY 29, 2017
At the end of each year, I select my choice for the best new leadership book for that year, and then highlight that book on my blog. Well, we're only five months into 2017 and there is a new leadership book so good that I can't wait until year-end to share it with you. Kristi Hedges But, first, what exactly is inspiration?
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56 Today's Leadership Quotes
Eric Jacobson
APRIL 27, 2019
Today's three leadership quotes come from Kristi Hedges , author of the book, The Power Of Presence. A vision will go nowhere unless the leader feels it in her bones. You don't lose your credibility from failure but from how you handle it. Executive presence means much more than making a fantastic first impression.
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Today's Leadership Quotes
Eric Jacobson
JULY 29, 2018
Today's three leadership quotes come from Kristi Hedges , author of the book, The Power Of Presence. A vision will go nowhere unless the leader feels it in her bones. You don't lose your credibility from failure but from how you handle it. Executive presence means much more than making a fantastic first impression.
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