Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 30, 2016

So it's no surprise that this year's three most compelling books on the topic of strategy touch on how to plan for, quantify, and cope with unpredictability -- in life, business, nature, and geopolitics.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Roubini says we are in the "mother of all asset bubbles" but it''s going to get even bigger, not popping until 2016. Link if above video does not play: Roubini: We''re in an asset bubble and it won''t pop until 2016 We’re currently in the mid-late stretch of this boom, “so next year we’ll see economic growth and easy money.

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BCG

JUNE 7, 2016

Article Tuesday, June 07, 2016 The growth of global private wealth hit a speed bump in 2015, especially in the developed markets, with all regions other than Japan experiencing a slowdown relative to last year.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 8, 2017

This year promises the first total solar eclipse of the 21st century, the 2017 World Expo, and the French and German elections—fingers crossed these will not cause the pandemoniums of Brexit and the indelible 2016 US election. The field of management consulting also continues to have its fair share of excitement.

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 30, 2016

This year's three best business books on management offer compelling and useful advice on how to avoid such problems. In Pre-Suasion, Robert Cialdini explains how managers can be predisposed to make constructive decisions and can predispose others to take constructive action.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

December 16, 2015 Probability January 27, 2016 Probability As noted in the table at the top, one has to go all the way to March 16, 2016 before the Fed Fund Futures imply a quarter point hike. Mike "Mish" Shedlock Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Date : Tuesday, January 5, 2016 Time : 7:00 PM City : Crystal Lake, Illinois Place : Village Squire Restaurant - 4818 Northwest Highway - Crystal Lake, Illinois For those who want to come a bit earlier, Chris and I will be at the bar at 6:30 PM.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

Why you need a workplace stress reduction strategy Managing long-term stress can lower your risk for conditions like heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, and depression. Coaches work with their clients to foster a mindset shift and implement practical strategies toward meaningful goals, including those related to gratitude.

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BCG

JUNE 15, 2016

Article Wednesday, June 15, 2016. For 14 years, BCG has conducted a proprietary benchmarking survey of wealth management providers from all over the world, running the spectrum from small boutiques to the world’s largest wealth managers—and covering multiple business models, from onshore to offshore and from banking to brokerage.

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Cheryl Cran

DECEMBER 12, 2015

The future of work is now and therefore rather than look at the year 2020 let’s take a look at what the next year will bring for businesses in 2016. An article in Forbes titled, 10 Workplace Trends for 2015 which was published in late 2014, pointed to the demand for transparency as a 2015 trend this will continue through to 2016.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Pizza parties (with dietary alternatives), happy hours, and office games like ping pong or video games can foster team bonding and employee engagement (Müceldili & Erdil, 2016). The personal feelings workers have for their managers and for the executive leadership of their workplace can impact organizational commitment and performance.

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 15, 2018

The Horse River Wildfire that took place in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, in May 2016 was unprecedented in Canadian history. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Jordan Redshaw, one of the communications managers with the recovery task force at the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (a.k.a. Listen to this podcast here.

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BCG

JULY 27, 2016

Article Wednesday, July 27, 2016. This is the third in a series of articles on setting and executing digital strategies with speed, foresight, and savvy. Digital technologies are profoundly transforming not just products, services, and business processes but also management itself and the inner workings of companies.

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BCG

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Report Wednesday, October 26, 2016. Beyond being in the right place, or having the right skills, at the right time, many of these companies have pursued strategies to maximize their advantages in the challenging environment. A focused portfolio, especially with respect to project size, might be easier to manage than a diverse one. *By

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1 to 1

DECEMBER 15, 2015

One of the undisputed thought leaders in the customer experience space is Bruce Temkin, customer experience transformist and managing partner at Temkin Group as well as co-founder and initial chairman of the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA). There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

"Blue Chip" Optimism The Atlanta Fed initial GDPNow Forecast for first quarter 2016 starts off with an anemic 1.2% The initial GDPNow model forecast for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the first quarter of 2016 is 1.2 We will not know the total effect until July 2016. percent on February 1.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 5, 2016

I expect monthly jobs reports in 2016 will shock to the downside. Unless manufacturing turns here, 2016 looks to be a rough year for jobs, especially vs. expectations. Why 2016 Will Shock to the Downside! Manufacturing is not the only reason to think jobs will sour in 2016. ISM a Leading Indicator of Jobs?

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BCG

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Article Tuesday, October 25, 2016. Ever since BCG introduced the growth share matrix, in the 1960s, executives have understood that portfolio management is a critical component of any strategy for superior value creation.

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BCG

JUNE 15, 2016

Article Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Although wealth managers have historically segmented their clients on the basis of wealth level, service models for the various segments have remained fairly uniform. See Exhibit 1.)

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Fed Fund Futures September 2015-March 2016 Looking at futures alone, not options, one has to go all the way out to January 2016 before the implied Fed Funds rate edges above 0.25%. Fed Fund Futures July 2016-January 2017 I suppose the next hike could be to 0.25-0.50% I highlighted +0.125 in October 2016.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 3, 2016

The Wall Street Journal discusses the 2016 forecast in Will Business Spending and Profits Rebound This Year? You can start planning for what you’re going to be investing in 2016 and 2017, and that’s huge. If companies thought tax credits would expire, they would have had a tendency to spend in 2015, not 2016.

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BCG

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Article Thursday, December 15, 2016 Life insurers are feeling the squeeze. In their efforts to adapt to this upside-down world, life insurers are focusing on optimizing their investment strategies and operations. How do we manage capital consumption and the volatility of our assets? Can we cut costs to boost overall profit?

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In other words, it has become outrageous to suggest that emerging markets will outperform, that the Russian rouble will be the best-performing currency of 2016, and that the credit market will collapse under the weight of yet more issuance. I wish you a happy holiday and a good trading year in 2016!

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Steve Shu Consulting

APRIL 19, 2018

One key observation I’ve had is that certain companies can have different strategies for implementing behavioral economics. I wrote a book, Inside Nudging: Implementing Behavioral Science Initiatives in 2016, mostly to help bridge the gap between science and the application in business.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Steen Jakobsen, Saxo Bank's CIO and chief economist is back with real predictions for 2016, following yesterday's "Outrageous Predictions". My "Real" 2016 Outlook US Dollar will weaken – It will follow the “ normal path ” of weaker US$ post the first hike. 2016 will be a year of two halves: A bad start, and a good finish.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 14, 2015

In fact, going all the way out to July 2016 , the Fed Fund Future sits at 99.645 implying an interest rate of 0.355%. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. In fact, the market now thinks the Fed will not hike in March.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 15, 2016

Latest forecast — January 15, 2016 The GDPNow model forecast for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the fourth quarter of 2015 is 0.6 Fed Futures Target 1 Hike in 2016 Following today's set of horrific reports, odds of rate hikes in 2016 dropped substantially. percent on January 15, down from 0.8

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 10, 2017

In mid-2016 the Wall Street Journal published an article titled, “Demand Swells for Chickens That Grow More Slowly.” Without proper leadership, management, and attention to detail the company can spin out of control. For example, it’s a lot harder to manage the logistic of 22 crews in the field versus eight.

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BCG

JULY 25, 2016

Article Monday, July 25, 2016. Asset managers have always tried to make decisions that yield outstand­ing investment performance for their clients. The strategies guiding those decisions have evolved, but the underlying tools and analyses have remained largely unchanged.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Where to in 2016? We will find out in the January jobs report, to be released Friday, February 5, 2016. Mike "Mish" Shedlock Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Regardless, jobs are a hugely lagging indicator, even if you believe the numbers.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Fed Signals Four More Hikes in 2016 Bloomberg reports Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era; Signals 4 Quarter-Point 2016 Increase. Mike "Mish" Shedlock Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. The Fed moved its target range from 0-25 basis points to 25-50 basis points.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

I am in the running for the 2016 award because in January, I predicted that Canada and the U.S. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. Kearney predicts that assets under “robo-management” will total $2.2

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose. Insight Center.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

The goal is to exploit both the trust of … users and bugs in their web browsers to install a virus allowing the hacker access to the organisation’s network” ( Welch, 2016 ). If you are an IT company that creates software, hiring developers to check code can be a good defensive strategy. Common Methods of Cyber-Attack. References.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 28, 2023

CEOs and top management teams are expected to be visionary change catalysts in a fast-paced digital marketplace. The good news is that you can rebuild trust after it is broken, but only if you manage what you say and do well. When trust is present, organizations navigate and manage change with improved outcomes. Fukuyama, F.

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Workers surveyed are not in the least bit happy with the way they are managed or told to work.” This is not the end of management and hierarchy, rather it’s a shift where companies involve the workforce in the design and maintenance of an organizational culture.”. What to do?

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