“The goal [of writing] is to get to the place where your usual judgy mind has been quietened, your easy opinions get reduced and you’re in a kind of holy state of not knowing anything.”
— George Saunders
Leadership in the Post-Moneyball Era
The recent mass rollout of AI tools such as GPT is accelerating our irrepressible trajectory towards technological utopia. It is more crucial than ever to rethink the role of leadership to guide us through the ensuing socio-economic disruption.
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The Operating Model in Context
Jargon is often used to obfuscate context in business discourse on operating models. We explore modern business theories to determine what operating models are and why they are important.
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The History And Evolution Of The Operating Model
A mainstay in business since the 2000s, the operating model is used to describe many things for different purposes. Tracing its evolution – from concrete objects to PowerPoint constructs – could help us reframe how it should be deployed in organizations.
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Picking a Side
On July 14, 2020, President Trump signed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act into law. This law provides a foil to the Hong Kong National Security Law by imposing economic sanctions, not just on individuals and entities, but also on the financial institutions transacting with them. As this geopolitical tug-of-war continues to play out, how should financial institutions, which for decades have profited from international trade with mainland China, frame their responses?
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