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incerto skin in the game from Nassim Taleb

Incerto’s Skin in the Game – 3 Lessons from Nassim Taleb

My first contact with Nassim Taleb was more than 10 years ago. I was still a junior stockbroker in Brazil. From there, things changed — I moved 16 times to 4 different countries, changed jobs, and opened my first (and then second) business. I also continued reading whatever I could from the Lebanese dilletante, including his Incerto

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Employer attractiveness - Talent Magnet

Employer Attractiveness: Turn Your Small Business into a Talent Magnet

Employer attractiveness is not about the fridge full of ice cream. During my last semester at the University of Sao Paulo, there was a book causing a gigantic corridor buzz. The name of it was Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman It covers, among other themes, human cognitive biases. One of the most discussed subjects

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4 Productive Habits Typical from Poles That You Can Adopt Tomorrow

What is Productivity? First, it is important to make clear what I mean by productivity. Let’s adopt the simplest definition: it is the output divided by time (or resources used). Productivity is, in this sense, analogous to the rate of production. A way to measure it is by GDP produced by every worked hour. On

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Competitive Benchmarking – A Parable to Understand Why It Is Essential

A Real-Life Example of Competitive Benchmarking All Good to Great companies began the process of finding a path to greatness by confronting the brutal facts about the reality of their business. When you start with an honest and diligent effort to determine the truth of your situation, the right decisions often become self-evident. (Jim Collins) Imagine

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Books Every Entrepreneur Must Read

5 Books Every Entrepreneur Must Read This Year - Even Before Starting a Business

If you are an entrepreneur or aspire to open your own company, I would bet that the last 12 months made you think twice. At least this was my case as an owner of two different businesses. One is in the hospitality industry, and the other is a consultancy, and both suffered during the Covid-19

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Cartoon of aman jumping between rocks. Types of Business Risk

Types of Business Risk

Business Risk Assessments for Every Entrepreneur A simple but efficient way to assess the types of business risk is the Impact vs Likehood matrix. Often we learn it at business school, but later in our careers and projects, we forget it. Big mistake! This is an exceptional tool for entrepreneurs and managers when assessing uncontrollable

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