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The System Gambit x Breakpoint (opens the original)
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The System Anti-Gambit When paradigms break, the biggest threat to an investor or operator is their own most sensible instinct. How to tell a real structural move from a panic reflex? When India liberalised in 1991, it made the sensible bet. Decades of Nehruvian investment had left the country with graduates, so India sold their brainpower to the world through IT and knowledge services: hire a young graduate for a couple of thousand dollars a year, give him a month of standardised training on a
Matthew Stafford — Find Your 9others: The questions to ask yourself as you start up and scale up (opens the original)
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Matthew Stafford is a VC and the co-author of “ Find Your 9others: The questions to ask yourself as you start up and scale up ” and co-founded 9others . You can follow him here on LinkedIn . In this episode, Matthew Stafford shares how defining your intellectual challenge can help overcome envy and focus on personal puzzles to solve, leading to greater fulfillment and success.Key Topics:The concept of intellectual challenge as a puzzle to solveHow envy distracts from personal goalsStrategies for
SPECIAL: Learning as an Adventure with Kathrin Höckel (opens the original)
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Most of our education systems are designed for a different era: built on fear, conformity, and a focus on standardized metrics. But what if true learning isn’t about fitting into a box, but about daring to step out of it? Kathrin Höckel’s extraordinary journey from classical dressage to Arctic expeditions reveals the secret sauce: learning as an adventure rooted in responsibility, freedom, and mastery. My new book The System Gambit shows how you can compound your career or business: In Brief: Le
Erik Lie — Catching Cheats: Useful Forensics to Unmask Business Fraud and Reduce Investment Losses (opens the original)
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Erik Lie is the author of “ Catching Cheats: Everyday Forensics to Unmask Business Fraud ”. You can follow him here on LinkedIn . Erik uncovering financial fraud patterns, insider trading, and the importance of forensic analysis in detecting deception in markets and corporate behavior. This episode will help you stay alert, apply basic forensic analysis to your investments and help you protect your portfolio from fraud and losses.Key TopicsPatterns in stock price movements before and after corpo
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