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2023-12-19 08:36
In their academically acclaimed work “The First Rule of Mastery,” Michael Gervais (a high-performance psychologist) and co-author Kevin Lake tackle the pervasive hindrance to hum… Read More
2023-12-19 08:30
Below a summary of the major investment market events and trends as of today, 19.12.2023 1. Regulatory Tussles: Private equity and hedge funds have taken a stand against the SEC’s prop… Read More
2023-11-30 08:17
“All-In on AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence” Overview: “All-In on AI” by Thomas H. Davenport and Nitin Mittal explores how companies… Read More
2023-11-29 08:24
Lead Story in Markets: Clean-energy Sell-Off Defended by AES CEO Andrés Gluski, CEO of US power group AES, has voiced concerns over the recent clean-energy sell-off, calling it &ldquo&hell…Read More
2023-11-10 09:46
Doitinvest.com continues its exploratory journey in the world of the best business books – with a new 2023 title: “The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Lea… Read More
2023-11-07 16:01
US Interest Rates and Developing Countries: Rising US interest rates are contributing to what the World Bank has called a “silent debt crisis” in developing countries. Some high… Read More
2023-10-28 07:01
“Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People)” by Amy Gallo quickly became a must-have book that should be on the bookshelves of every professional, manager, or… Read More
2023-10-26 16:16
In the complex world of financial markets, trading derivatives can be a double-edged sword. While they offer the potential for substantial profits, they also come with a considerable degree… Read More
2023-10-26 16:16
In the complex world of financial markets, trading derivatives can be a double-edged sword. While they offer the potential for substantial profits, they also come with a considerable degree… Read More
2023-10-24 10:14
Today’s market summary is as follows: Equities: The “Magnificent Seven” tech stocks have driven US equity markets to new highs. These tech giants have played a significant… Read More
2023-10-24 10:11
In “Love and Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life,” Marcus Buckingham delivers a powerful and transformative message for anyone… Read More
2022-08-22 08:55
Is trading options without simulating and understanding their behavior a good idea? In the blog post below we look at the pros and cons of jumping in options trading without practicing befor… Read More
2022-06-20 12:30
“Radically Human” analyses the contemporary trends of switching away from the cold machine-like processes to a more human technology. The cutting edge technologies are mirroring… Read More
2022-06-14 10:47
Probably a question on everybody’s minds. Especially on those investing in various markets right now. Just looking at the today’s news hitting the economy desks, one gets the imp… Read More
2022-06-14 10:26
“The Synergy Solution” addresses a thorny business problem: why—and how—business leaders need to rethink and reshape M&A deals to improve their success rate… Read More
2021-12-04 16:10
We all know experiments work – after all, this is how we got the IPhone, the planes and the vaccines. Yet, Stefan H. Thomke brings experimenting to a whole new level. His heavily-resea… Read More
2021-12-03 14:33
That politics are important – no one doubts it anymore. That it is an industry, with vision + mission + strategy – only two brilliant academics as Gehl and Porter could so boldly… Read More
2021-10-09 07:50
The title is deceiving, the content – much better. “Kings of Crypto” narrates Coinbases’ story. In a new Harvard Business Review Press books style, one (insider… Read More
2021-06-16 09:44
Corporate development happens rarely without conflicts. Nissan’s ascension under Carlos Ghosn goes even beyond that: Ghosn led the Renault-Nissan alliance from a rapid rise to a dramat… Read More
2021-04-20 19:42
As a long-standing science fiction fan, I can only testify – best ideas come from people‘s minds. „The Imagination Machine – How to Spark New Ideas and Create Your Co… Read More
2021-04-04 12:57
Stuck with quite a few strategic dilemmas? Not sure what your business should do next? Maybe it’s time to go back to the drawing board – or even back to school. “Better, Si… Read More
2021-03-29 17:59
Nowadays the LinkedIn & Co are filled with leadership posts. If you keep scrolling, you’ll get the impression I get: everybody is a tiger/tigress, even if they don’t have cla… Read More
2020-11-17 08:47
You load the data in Power BI, visualize it and… it looks wrong. Instead of the European Day-Month-Year format, you get the funny-looking US Month-Day-Year one. Or the other way aroun… Read More
2020-11-08 17:05
The latest Harvard Business Press title represents a compilation of public statements, articles and written thoughts – all belonging to Jeff Bezos. “Invent and Wander” has… Read More
2020-10-31 20:07
Strategy is notoriously difficult to explain.the most famous business thinkers are still struggling to convey to the Boardrooms what they think the strategy should be. Yet, as the countless… Read More
2020-10-16 18:01
The win-win American capitalism might be skewed towards extremes, leaving the middle exposed. Roger L. Martin, a famous strategy professor, decided to take a new look at this “de… Read More
2020-08-25 20:15
Analyzing the future available options strains every individual. “Strategic Analytics – the Insights You Need” takes the strategy at the next level. Curated and assembled b… Read More
2020-08-24 19:02
How should a leader be? What is your favorite CEO style?: ** A CEO that is polite, accepting most of the team’s excuses and under pressure from the Board? Or, ** One that is polite, to… Read More
2020-08-23 18:13
One year ago, doitinvest.com opinionated that a retreat on the technology shared prices was coming. Now in 2020 the technology shares marched to new heights. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index incr… Read More
2020-08-22 13:52
“The Context Marketing Revolution”, the new HBR Press marketing title, looks at how the marketing should change in the brave new digital world, in order to become more: effective… Read More
2020-08-19 18:54
Negotiation should be a skill everybody masters. And this is exactly the problem – everybody’s reasonably good at it. So how are you better than a skilled crowd? “HBR… Read More
2020-08-18 19:39
Start-ups are changing too – the new frontier lies far beyond Silicon Valley. So how can a small Asian low-cost start-up out-mqneuver the Silicon Valley micro-cosmos? How can a small f… Read More
2020-08-17 19:46
The HBR’s Emotional Intelligence series reached an apex with its “Mindfulness” handbook. Despite its reputation, mindfulness does not come natural. We are all mindful of ce… Read More
2020-08-15 17:37
AI is making its way into the business world. Even more, machine learning became a discussion topic in most of the he companies boards. It is not anymore about the promises of automating bus… Read More
2020-08-09 18:09
We all wish to expand our influence and convince other easier. However, few of us are really good at the game. „Influence + Persuasion“ synthesizes some of the best thinking on t… Read More
2020-08-09 08:23
Think for yourself, use properly the props of experts and artificial intelligence! But wait a minute, isn’t an expert AI supposed to help us take better decisions? As another famous HB… Read More
2020-08-07 19:46
In today‘s fiercely competitive work environments, shining in the job is critical. To stay ahead in the game, we must go better – or out. The Covid-19 crisis has exacerbated the… Read More
2020-08-05 17:56
It’s been researched that communication is more body language than speaking itself, yet – even posturing is a part of communication. And as usually, Harvard Business Review cover… Read More
2020-08-03 18:30
Admit it, you want to make it to the top job: CEO. This is arguably one of the most difficult tasks on Earth: competition is fierce, incumbents hang on hard, aspirers have a one in ten thous… Read More
2020-07-22 18:52
Blockchain – everybody heard about it, half of my acquaintances traded it. Most of them actually traded Bitcoin – and most likely without grasping 100% its features. Unfortunatel… Read More
2020-07-20 14:58
Reclaim your life! Slow down and breathe! There is not enough time in a day! The new HBR book titled “Time Smart” attempts to help us claw back the most precious resource we huma… Read More
2020-04-12 11:40
In the middle of a global health crisis, the most discussed economic topic is the biggest polluter in Earth – oil. Seems that it is an economic disaster that the oil price now hovers u… Read More
2020-03-29 16:31
Schumpeter called it creative destruction. The US’ rich became super-rich using it during the Great Depression. The Russian businessmen became oligarchs in this way. And now several oi… Read More
2020-03-27 14:34
What better time to disconnect yourself from the disturbing news and read a few good books? Our “Coronavirus Thematic Reading List” aims to discover valuable books worth to… Read More
2020-03-24 13:42
Another strategy receipt book? Not quite – the author is addressing a rather lateral topic on the hot strategy area. Organisational change towards agility and responsiveness is by far… Read More
2020-03-07 09:16
Before we become leaders, we are family members. Or is it the other way around? In their new book, Alyssa F. Westring and Stewart D. Friedman take their total leadership concept to a new lev… Read More
2020-03-01 15:29
Blockchain seems to be a hot technology for various sectors: financial services, as well as long logistics chains and a host of other industries are putting in research efforts. The subtitle… Read More
2020-02-29 22:17
Agile methodologies implementations look deceptively simple. You take an organization, reset its’ ways it adds value, empower and support teams with resources and voila – you are… Read More
2020-02-26 20:35
Art Markman brings a new twist to a very hot topic – how to succeed in today’s fiercely competitive environment. As professionals, we are facing more and more often various quest… Read More
2020-02-23 14:01
As an executive coach, Amy Jen Su brings to HBR a different perspective to personal development. Her experience with professionals around the globe, from middle management to the C level, le… Read More
2020-02-22 21:54
“Connected Strategy” takes a look at an old dog that is learning every day new tricks: the promise of beautifying the customer relationships for every organization. When one look… Read More
2020-02-17 15:45
Work and lies represent catchy words for a book title. “Nine Lies About Work” sounds even better – and promises a lot (at least quantitatively). Ashley Goodall and Marcus B… Read More
2020-02-16 21:17
There are usually few books addressing the organisational development field – and even less out there of a relevant nature. “Reinventing the Organisation” makes a come back… Read More
2019-11-17 20:00
The business intelligence solutions have passed a long time ago the infancy level. A quick internet search will show that the so called “business data transformation software – f… Read More
2019-09-29 11:11
Digitalisation – a persistent, recurring and turning inside-out demand from most of our customers. Not to be confounded with the bold strategy power-points used in various Game of Boar… Read More
2019-09-07 15:11
You live in Austria and you want a new bank card? We made a comparison between the classical Visa and the online shiny Mastercard “You” from N26, the German online challenger ban… Read More
2019-09-01 14:00
We all wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and maze at how fantastic we are. It’s true – we are all great leaders at some thing or another. And so are another 1 billion hu… Read More
2019-08-24 20:55
N26 is a great online challenger bank. Probably the greatest on the DACH space. Yet, you can smell it is trying hard to catch the likes of Revolut or Monzo. So hard, that they are starting t… Read More
2019-08-23 18:59
Who says share investors are rational? I mean, beyond a handful of Nobel for economics winners (Merton & Scholes, Akerlof et co.).Today’s US technology shares were rattled by two t… Read More
2019-07-14 13:12
If you want to have fun, read a good book and learn new finance trivia (or MBA) stuff, there are very few books available. The money literature is enormous, do not get me wrong. But among th… Read More
2019-06-15 12:51
This Simplicient Controlling blog will focus on the merger of the financial and operational KPI performance measurement. More exactly, on the pro’s and con’s of mixing the financ… Read More
2019-06-01 19:33
After trying to test Apple TV+, I got a new concern: the message “Your funds are currently unavailable” on the upcoming Apple Pay service. Yes, it is a hard job to stay at the to… Read More
2019-02-23 13:58
Controllers are number crunchers – aren‘t they? A controller is the person who comes to you with a long table, filled with numbers, and uses a red pen to highlight differences. U… Read More
2019-02-15 20:45
To say that the Internet is an integral part of our lives is certainly an understatement. And David Weinberger, the famous American technologist who wrote the first Internet marketing, seems… Read More
2019-02-12 08:28
Michael Watkins and his book “The First 90 Days” should sound familliar to any business management reader. The IMD professor has authored one of the most influential books of tra… Read More
2019-02-03 15:39
The new HBR title (“How Finance Works?” by Mihir Desay) will go into less charted waters – demistifying the complicated financial ecosystem is no easy feat. Any controller… Read More
2019-02-03 15:39
The new HBR title (“How Finance Works?” by Mihir Desay) will go into less charted waters – demistifying the complicated financial ecosystem is no easy feat. Any controller… Read More
2019-02-02 13:16
Recently I applied for several roles advertised online by various recruiting companies Acting in Europe. From one (Austrian Vienna-based) recruiting firm (let’s call it “HRBerate… Read More
2019-01-25 17:23
Back in September 2014, doitinvest.com published a researched white paper on the perfect profile of a Chief Financial Officer (in Central & Eastern Europe). It was quite well received, s… Read More
2019-01-15 19:47
There are many topics apparently simple but really difficult in practice – visual charting being one of my favorites. Why? Because in our professional lives a good chart can express a… Read More
2019-01-15 19:47
There are many topics apparently simple but really difficult in practice – visual charting being one of my favorites. Why? Because in our professional lives a good chart can express a… Read More
2018-11-28 13:17
How to clearly present your company’s financial performance? I am pretty sure that this question creates a lot of frustrations and discussions for various controllers, thus this short… Read More
2018-11-06 10:35
In today’s hectic world, digitally interconnected more than ever, “Can You Hear Me” is a valid question. Nick Morgan’s previous HBR book (“Power Cues”) ha… Read More
2018-11-02 08:55
Doitinvest.com celebrates five years of HBR Press Books reviews with a contest for our European readers. Our common journey started in March 2013, when Harvard Business Review Press sent us… Read More
2018-10-28 11:52
4 years later after our “Big Data @ Work” HBR book review, is the topic still actual? I recently re-read Thomas Davenport’s Big Data book – and it is more actual than… Read More
2018-10-23 13:56
Change management, as one of the oldest leadership topics, has probably thousands of books beneath. That’s why authors have made “Leading Transformation” another kind of bo… Read More
2018-10-19 19:23
Systemic sales analysis requires many skills: financial extrapolation know-how, business sector knowledge etc. A controller without time series regression analysis is regarded nowadays by CF… Read More
2018-10-16 15:30
As Italy plans this October to widen its deficit, the stock markets are reacting strongly, anticipating further economic troubles ahead. On October 6th, doitinvest.com argued for a (very) lo… Read More
2018-10-15 09:45
For sure, if a CFO wakes you up in the middle of the night and whispers som thing about further education, he talks about a top 100 MBA, right? After the last 5 years of turmoil, I am not so… Read More
2018-10-14 07:41
This week (2 of Oct. 2018) the US index S&P 500 went down almost 7% from September. Is this a correction or the beginning of a bear market? Analysts disagree – some (e.g. CNBC) men… Read More
2018-10-07 19:00
In its’ 2018 executive survey, AESC BlueSteps ranked the top 5 qualities that help global executives be successful (survey based). After “vision”, on a surprising place 2 c… Read More
2018-10-06 18:13
Just look at the news – Italy is not so sunny anymore: its public debt is >120% of the GDP (double the EU maximum) and its coalition government plans to Read More
2018-10-02 19:09
Believe me or not, pension calculations are not easy. I will show you here two ways on how you can calculate and build your pension plan – the complicated Read More
2018-09-17 13:04
In June 1999, when Carlos Ghosn was parachuted by Renault to a little known (outside Asia) car manufacturer named Nissan, his reputation should have preceeded him. Maybe the Japanese board o… Read More
2018-08-22 09:06
As any business book worm could notice, there is no shortage of career advice books being published. According to our own doitinvest.com rough estimations, at least 200 titles are heavily p… Read More
2018-08-10 11:38
Machine learning and artificial intelligence are becoming really hot topics. Take Europe companies, for example – it is enough to through in the discussion the “digitalization&rd&hell…Read More
2018-08-03 13:38
„Entering StartUpLand” is for sure a different animal in the Harvard Business Review library. The same goes with the author himself (Jeffrey Bussgang), a relatively experienced v… Read More
2018-06-16 08:44
Artificial intelligence came (no doubt)3 years ago to stay. It started as a corporate craze for big data and last year moved to machine learning. These 2018 days AI goes in production via pr… Read More
2018-06-02 12:59
Admit it, you have done this at least once: you were lured by the special offer / freebie / like into signing up for a newsletter… then you forgot about Read More
2018-06-02 12:59
Admit it, you have done this at least once: you were lured by the special offer / freebie / like into signing up for a newsletter… then you forgot about it. Or you installed an IOS/An… Read More
2018-05-29 08:44
2018-05-27 19:46
Let’s face it – almost all of us succumbed to this temptation: we could do the toughest, most important task or we could break all of them into pieces (“eating the elephant… Read More
2017-05-09 09:58
Let us face it – finance is not easy. Whoever tells you that the commercial financial management is a steady progression job, where one gets well trained and well paid over a reasonabl… Read More
2016-11-04 08:48
When it comes to financial controlling, may CEOs and even CFOs mention that it is boring. After all, controlling rotates around themes such as financials reliability and accuracy, predictab… Read More
2016-03-26 11:04
If you have not heard about the March 2016 terrorist attacks in Brussels, you are probably not watching any news channels at all. But the chances are that you heard about the ISIS attacks in… Read More
2016-03-09 21:05
Looking at the status of the G20 economies, one might say nothing works. Keynesianism taken extreme has led to negative interest rates, moderate unemployment and no growth. Neo-liberalism ge… Read More
2016-02-12 08:22
The last few days saw the European bank’s shares substantially going down. Deutsche’s Bank shares went down from around 25 EUR/share in December 2015 to 13,68 today (Feb 12th, 20… Read More
2016-01-19 15:27
Recently I was reading an interesting article on The Economist about the UK housing market. Whilst I do not agree with 100% of it (after all, the real estate markets have gone through variou… Read More
2015-12-07 13:52
If you are like many Brits, you have been struggling for the last few years just to get by. Between the bottom falling out of the financial markets and eroding retirees’ hard-earned sa… Read More
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