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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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. More and more, companies are leaning towards the reduced workweek to maintain a competitive edge.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Product and Service Portfolio: They choose products and services that leverage their distinctive capabilities, and are optimally suited to their target customers. They avoid adding markets, products, or services that require new or disparate capabilities.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 13, 2011

Pretty soon, I’ll need hedge clippers from Black & Decker. How To Be More Productive When You Work From Home. 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. Smile or Die!

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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?

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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). Guest post by John Hunter , founder of curiouscat.com (in 1996). This is excellent advice.

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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). Guest post by John Hunter , founder of curiouscat.com (in 1996). This is excellent advice.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

Changes could range from adjustments to the rules of origin for product content, and more-stringent labor standards, to the extreme of withdrawal and a return to World Trade Organization most-favored-nation tariffs. The uncertain nature of trade policy has left many leadership teams reluctant to act. Options and hedges.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

It can be highly useful if you need to, for example, defend a budget request or a strategic plan to company leadership. To consider another example, say a hedge fund is looking to acquire a tech company that claims to have a leading-edge technology.

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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.

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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. He wrote a short document titled Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager and used it to train his team on his basic expectations. Emotional competence.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Eliminating stock-based compensation would help reduce the incentive for executive leadership to focus on the short term. Many companies face quarterly or even more immediate pressure from their shareholders (increasingly made up of hedge funds, program traders, and day traders) to deliver short-term performance.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Rising sea levels flood Manhattan in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 , prompting hedge fund managers and real estate investors to create a new intertidal market index. They make us more efficient and productive. But assumptions are notoriously hard to beat back, and for a very good reason: They’re useful.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The firm also estimated that more than a hundred hedge funds have now migrated into the activist camp. Even Microsoft is soon to have a hedge-fund activist, ValueAct Capital Management’s president G. Boards Leadership' Law firm Wachtell Lipton identified 27 activist-investor initiatives in 2000, but more than 200 in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

According to the Guardian , approximately 45% of all fruits and vegetables, 35% of fish and seafood, 30% of cereals, and 20% of meat and dairy products are wasted by suppliers, retailers, and consumers every year. Advancements in automation and software capabilities have made inventory management scalable across more SKUs and product types.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Seems like strategic management 101, but oftentimes companies are unable to ask this question due to turf battles or leadership blind spots. By adding the compound to a product line that was already in development, the company was able to create more buzz and profits from a new category-defying line, scented household decorative products.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Consider the reputation damage caused by product failure at GM, or unpopular workplace practices at Walmart, or the multibillion dollar fines for fraud levied against Bank of America – which, not incidentally, came in dead last in a recent Harris Interactive reputation ranking. Products and services. Vision and leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Organizations that manage digital networks (we call them network orchestrators) are different from traditional product and service providers. Instagram is an exciting marketing channel; GoPro’s account helps keep users engaged with the company and lets GoPro know how people use its products.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Even senior executives who want to stay in their corporate jobs should strongly consider developing at least one side income stream, whether it’s consulting, speaking, coaching, or creating some other product or service. Hedge against uncertainty. Here are five reasons it can make a dramatic difference for your career.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

for 10+ years; deployment of design as an integrated function across the entire enterprise; evidence that design investments and influence are increasing; clear reporting structure and operating model for design; experienced design executives at the helm directing design activities; and tangible senior leadership-level commitment for design.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Consider the case of director Frank Whyte (as we’ll call him): “You show a 3 percent increase in productivity,” Whyte snapped at the executive vice president of the largest division of a very successful consumer-goods company and likely CEO successor. Boards Leadership Managing people' And he always delved into minutia.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Southwest’s decision in 2007 to hedge against increases in the price of jet fuel proved remarkably prescient. In the popular mind, there’s a lot of luck and inspired leadership behind successful choices like Southwest’s. The leadership teams at AOL and Time Warner were hardly boneheaded.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Abigail Noble: The other thing that we’re seeing is from the customer side — that they want things that have social impact and environmental responsibility and products that serve those needs. Whether it’s Warby Parker eyeglasses or Method home products or any one of a variety of other consumer products.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Escalating wealth driven by a bull market cannot be divorced from the atrophying of the middle class when stock repurchases and cash reserves nudge earnings per share and stock prices higher but do nothing to create employment or increase national productivity. -based companies using questionable corporate practices that are entirely legal.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Contrary to the adverse experience of some governing boards, activist investors can actually prove to be a leadership asset on the board rather than a disruptive force—providing the boardroom is well-managed and led. In doing so, activist investors are not just benefitting from a company’s leadership.

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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? Take it — and then damn your first year's bonus, make your first major project redesigning a product line that matters. Remind me: why is an average investment banker worth, say, a hundred times as much as an average teacher? Can it be resolved?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Stuart Roden, Co Fund Manager of Lansdowne Partners'' flagship fund, one of the world''s largest hedge funds, tells me he sees one of his primary roles as being the person who challenges his staff to consider how they could be wrong, and then assess how this might impact on their decision-making. They never released the product.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Stuart Roden, Co Fund Manager of Lansdowne Partners’ flagship fund, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, tells me he sees one of his primary roles as being the person who challenges his staff to consider how they could be wrong, and then assess how this might impact on their decision-making. They never released the product.

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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? Take it — and then damn your first year's bonus, make your first major project redesigning a product line that matters. Remind me: why is an average investment banker is worth, say, a hundred times as much as an average teacher? You're fired.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

Joe Bower and Lynn Paine “had me at hello” (to quote Jerry Maguire ) with their new HBR article, “ The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership.” If you sell your shares to an activist hedge fund (or anybody else), they get 100 votes the day they buy the shares.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Success in each box requires a different set of skills, attitudes, practices, and leadership. • Good Box 3 hedging strategies are important. You need to develop a process for hedging risk. Hasbro’s 1970s venture into Romper Room–branded nursery schools might have benefited from better testing and hedging.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Update: Politico's Ben White did have a brief testimonial from hedge fund manager and Goldman client Whitney Tilson this morning.) This was largely a product of the firm's near-death experience after the 1929 crash. But something did change on Wall Street and at Goldman in particular over the past few decades.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The horrible irony: The very detail-oriented systems (and people) Dimon had put in place had obscured rather than surfaced his bank's horrible hedge. It could never have happened unless leadership had the courage and competence to go to the source. Is this micromanagement?

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