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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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 26, 2020

Reflecting back, and sharing again, that book is, The Inspiration Code , by Kristi Hedges. Filled with profound insights and compelling data, and based on a commissioned survey on who and what inspires people, Hedges uncovers a set of consistent, learnable behaviors that dramatically enhance leadership success. Be Personal.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 8, 2022

Hedging bets. The researchers explain that the growth in cloud-based technologies has made it easier for people to start firms, which in turn has made it feasible to run them as side hustles rather than needing a full-time commitment. Research from the University of Southern California suggests this is a misguided opinion, however.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It's called, The Inspiration Code , by Kristi Hedges. Filled with profound insights and compelling data, and based on a commissioned survey on who and what inspires people, Hedges uncovers a set of consistent, learnable behaviors that dramatically enhance leadership success. Kristi Hedges But, first, what exactly is inspiration?

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 5, 2021

It's called, The Inspiration Code , by Kristi Hedges. Filled with profound insights and compelling data, and based on a commissioned survey on who and what inspires people, Hedges uncovers a set of consistent, learnable behaviors that dramatically enhance leadership success. Kristi Hedges But, first, what exactly is inspiration?

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 28, 2021

The book is called, The Inspiration Code , by Kristi Hedges. Filled with profound insights and compelling data, and based on a commissioned survey on who and what inspires people, Hedges uncovers a set of consistent, learnable behaviors that dramatically enhance leadership success. Kristi Hedges But, first, what exactly is inspiration?

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CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. 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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Mills Scofield

AUGUST 27, 2012

MedInternational was started in 2011 to raise the standard of healthcare in resource-poor regions of the world by sharing and maintaining appropriate hospital technology in these areas, initially Zanzibar, Tanzania. See what two not yet 20 year olds were able to do and sustain. by Chia Han Sheng on Sunday, August 19, 2012.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 29, 2017

Available starting Wednesday, June 1, it's called, The Inspiration Code , by Kristi Hedges. Filled with profound insights and compelling data, and based on a commissioned survey on who and what inspires people, Hedges uncovers a set of consistent, learnable behaviors that dramatically enhance leadership success. Be Personal.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Decisioning by consensus usually results in no decision being made, or an intellectually dishonest, watered-down decision that is so full of compromises, hedges and caveats that a non-decision might have been preferable.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 3, 2018

Available starting Wednesday, June 1, it's called, The Inspiration Code , by Kristi Hedges. Filled with profound insights and compelling data, and based on a commissioned survey on who and what inspires people, Hedges uncovers a set of consistent, learnable behaviors that dramatically enhance leadership success. Be Personal.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 25, 2019

Interestingly however, they believe that a blockchain-empowered timebank can help to hedge against the growing tide of AI-driven technologies that they believe will depersonalize communities.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

If automation is restricted to Sun Belt states (including Florida, Texas and Arizona)—because the technology may not initially work well in rough weather—about 10% of the operator hours will be affected,” they explain. Our results suggest that the impacts of automation may not happen all at once. We hope to help resolve these controversies.”.

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CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. 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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CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. 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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CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. 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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CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. 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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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

“The point we will be making here is that logically, neither trial and error nor “chance” and serendipity can be behind the gains in technology and empirical science attributed to them. Here is another in the CONVERSATIONS AT EDGE series, in this instance a conversation with Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2018

Because so many of the modern approaches to the any industry is hedging its bets on automation, and with the advent of driverless trucks on the horizon, the average truck driver is, naturally, very concerned about their earning potential. Are Drivers Being Put Out Of Jobs?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2024

“Your children are going to live to 100 and not have cancer because of technology,” Jamie Dimon said in an interview with Bloomberg. 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.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

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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.” Not only do these approaches fit with our identity as a technology company, but they can actually help reduce bias in candidate vetting. That, I think gets to the heart of what the right culture can do.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

This is perhaps its greatest asset and preserving it requires Apple to make sure the ecosystems, technology, product design all meet a much higher standard than any of its competitors. The iBeacon technology sets them for some big stuff in revolutionizing the retail experience (as does the hiring of Musa Tariq from Burberry).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Plural Investments*, a hedge fund started several years ago, had a problem. When Matt Grossman started Plural Investments, his intention was to harness the best efforts of many smart, creative people rather than just rely on the genius of a single founder, as so many other hedge funds do.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals. A key constraining resource in traditional venture is a VC investor's time.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

What impact will terahertz frequencies have on communication technologies? Specialized trade shows and conferences such as the MIT Sloan Business in Gaming Conference that draw fringe players and startups can provide unusual perspectives on future technologies and are refreshingly devoid of consultants and other CIOs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Late last week, the anniversary of Steve Jobs's too-early death witnessed a number of hagiographic treatments of the black-turtlenecked technology messiah. But the piece that no one should miss is this Guardian article , by Charles Arthur, which looks at the changes taking place at Apple under Tim Cook.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Yes, political hacktivists brag about Web pages defaced and customer information released over the Internet, but companies rarely reveal the attacks that result in the loss of valuable intellectual property — business plans, proprietary technologies or fraudulent payments. These attacks can be devastating.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility. The most dangerous trap that any manager can fall into is complacency. Nobody wants to be in the position of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

In “The Employee Experience” study, we found that 73% of employees surveyed agree that the longer they use their technology devices, the more they desire a visual break such as taking a walk or looking through unobstructed windows to an outside view. The benefits of these elements is is well recognized.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

One professional service firm told us how a senior partner sold only technology implementation services &38212; an area he was personally passionate about — to his clients in South America. The second approach is to salvage ideas or technologies that didn't solve the problem they were intended to solve. Rehabilitate a misfit.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. 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. Science fiction can help.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

But I long for actions that go beyond admonitions to managers and boards to do better, that give both parties a better chance to stand up to capital markets players, like activist hedge funds, pressuring them to become too short-term focused. There is no cost to anybody other than the investors in hedge funds.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. How should companies hedge against the practice of copying your products as you go into those markets? IKEA is a great example of this.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

The Kahn Academy, founded by Salman Kahn (a former hedge fund manager), is a not-for-profit, online venture that is currently revolutionizing K-12 education. The underlying technology is PowerPoint but it is accelerated beyond what one could do in a lecture hall. If you want to know how, here is the obligatory TED video.

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