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Danantara to Acquire Four State‑Owned Bank Asset‑Management Units for $159M
Danantara Asset Management, a unit of Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund, signed agreements on April 1 to buy the investment‑management subsidiaries of Bank Mandiri, Bank Rakyat Indonesia, Bank Negara Indonesia and Permodalan Nasional Madani for roughly $159 million, pending regulatory approval.
Organizational resilience blends strategic foresight, agile operations, a healthy culture, and mature leadership. It intertwines design and resilience so systems absorb shocks while staying usable. Core principles—fail‑fast, redundancy, modularity, agility, and observability—guide resilient design. Embedding stress testing, resilience personas, and risk playbooks improves recovery metrics and preserves user trust.
If productivity feels overwhelming, it’s usually because the system is too complicated. The truth is, a great productivity system should simplify your life, not add more stress to it. That’s where COD (Collect, Organise, Do) comes in. A simple framework that helps you: ✔...
My cohost Jack talking about how to Build a Business That Runs Itself: Test Succession. Don’t miss the relentless growth podcast.
Dibakar Ghosh demonstrates how OpenAI’s new Projects, Tasks, Canvas, and collaboration features let users repurpose ChatGPT into a full‑featured project‑management system. By embedding custom instructions and leveraging memory, users can create projects that store tasks with name, priority, due date,...
You only just started😁 The real work begins when you realize the business you built can’t grow without structure.
CMMI Level 5 certification signals that an IT services firm has institutionalized quantitative process improvement, not just documented procedures. Fewer than 1 % of organizations achieve this maturity, making it a rare indicator of operational discipline. Level 5 vendors base estimates on historic...
The article outlines essential Scrum Master tools and techniques that drive efficient team collaboration. It highlights digital task boards, burndown charts, communication platforms, and digital whiteboards as core tools for visibility and coordination. It also details facilitation methods such as...
Victor, a skilled metal fabricator, spends six hours daily on administrative tasks like re‑typing CAD specs and drafting emails, limiting his ability to pursue lucrative reshoring contracts. Meanwhile, U.S. government actions—including Section 301 investigations and a $500 million DOE fund—are spurring a...
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Organizational structures outline a company's hierarchy, roles, and decision‑making pathways, ranging from centralized to decentralized models. Common configurations include functional, divisional, flat, matrix, circular, team‑based, and network designs, each suited to different strategic needs. Selecting the appropriate structure depends on...
In the @nytimes, @loracorkelley reports on the rise of “bossware,” technology managers use to monitor employees. The phenomenon has been around for years but is now being super-charged by AI. It can take many forms, including monitoring keyboard strokes and even pauses. As...
Meta is launching a new applied AI engineering division that will operate with a 50‑to‑1 employee‑to‑manager ratio, double the conventional 25‑to‑1 limit. The ultra‑flat structure is intended to speed decision‑making and cut costs, but experts warn it could overload managers,...
Effective delegation is not a transfer of tasks. It is a transfer of decision-making authority guided by shared understanding.
Sir Winston Churchill had a fascinating approach to productivity. Despite leading a nation during one of history’s most difficult times, he made intentional rest part of his daily routine. He worked in focused bursts, took naps in the afternoon, and protected...
Freewyld Foundry reveals that many short‑term‑rental operators track the wrong metrics, inflating revenue figures with pass‑through fees and missing true performance. By focusing on net rental revenue and applying a three‑level tracking system—individual listings, portfolio view, and comparable‑unit filtering—operators gain...
Productivity 101: - Decide what actually matters - Break it into simple & clear tasks - Plan your week (before it starts) - Put work blocks on your calendar - Do the work (even if you don’t feel like it) - Track what actually gets done Don’t...
You don't need a massive team. You just need 1 or 2 people you trust who already have their own team.
Burnout is increasingly recognized as a systemic failure within multifamily property management, where exhausted staff make poorer decisions, communicate less effectively, and disengage. The daily huddle format highlights that burnout is not merely an HR issue but an operational risk...
Business strategy, not build vs. buy, is key. Understand your tech goals, prioritize them, then define the strategy that best suits your organization. #BusinessStrategy #TechGoals https://t.co/MjpSSAddUs
This week I've found myself sitting with this worthwhile question: What happens when the tools that promise to save time actually create more work? The next issue of The Lantern explores that tension. If you’d like it delivered when it goes...
Uber’s platform is being touted by BMO as the most critical link in the autonomous‑vehicle (AV) value chain, emphasizing its asset‑light, demand‑aggregation model. The firm continues to ink partnerships with a range of AV providers, including a new deal with...
A pattern I've noticed: Most founders chase $10K months but very few design for $10K days. The latter comes from systems that sell without emotional or energetic effort.
Just because something is useful doesn’t mean it’s useful right now. One of the most important parts of my job as both a fractional CMO and the CEO of BRDGE Insights is keeping the team focused on what actually moves the...
Slack unveiled a new platform layer featuring a Real‑Time Search API and a Model Context Protocol, giving developers secure, real‑time access to conversational data for AI agents. The tools let large language models pull context‑aware information directly from Slack channels,...
Shawn Lemon was doing everything in his business. Every task. Every decision. Every fire drill. He was the bottleneck and he knew it. The AI Business Lab® Mastermind didn’t just hand him tools—it put him in a room with peers who...
If you can increase the output of every employee by 5-10x, you can compete way more fiercely than you could before. And you have to assume your direct competitors are about to see that same transition. So is the right...
A recent Tempo survey of 667 project‑planning leaders reveals that roughly one‑third of software initiatives never generate a return on investment, prompting a call for more aggressive project cancellations. While 90% of respondents believe their projects are aligned across teams,...
A rule that will give you true freedom: If you don’t have a system you are the system and you can’t unplug.
9:05 AM all team meeting this morning. Reminding my staff that if you want massive results, you need massive ownership. Every target missed is feedback. Every mistake is a lesson. Every win is proof that discipline works. The strongest teams aren’t...
A senior continuous‑improvement coach at a community hospital subscribed to the Lean Hospitals Coach after failing to build a custom AI tool. The platform combines Lean problem‑solving structure with Socratic coaching, catching errors like solution‑laden problem statements in real time....
Sky is confronting the looming global skills disruption by combining external hiring with a strong focus on internal talent mobility, as outlined by Group Director Eugene Chin. The World Economic Forum predicts that 22 % of jobs will be disrupted by...
Honest take: This is the most dangerous kind of AI product. Not because it's bad. Because it's good enough to make entire hiring decisions feel unnecessary. Junior gives you an AI employee with a real email, reads your Slack history, attends your...
The Ask a Manager column answered four distinct workplace dilemmas: a remote employee appearing to juggle childcare during work hours, whether to provide a retirement cake for a disliked senior colleague, sharing photos of an aerial‑silks hobby, and coping with...
Marketing teams are fast at defining strategy but stumble during execution, with 64% rating strategic planning as quick versus only 42% feeling the same about cross‑functional rollout. The gap creates strategic debt as ideas lose relevance while waiting for manual...
Fractional CFO firms often mistake personal earnings for firm profitability, especially when bookkeeping and tax services bleed cash. A simple 30‑minute gross‑margin autopsy reveals that high‑margin CFO retainers are subsidizing low‑ or negative‑margin bookkeeping work. By isolating revenue and cost...
You can't force a culture of speed. You can only hire for it. – Paid ads 90% automated – Onboarding 100% automated in two days – Influencer outreach went from 20 a month to 1k a day – PMs, designers, and...
Took me some time to realize that my biggest bottleneck wasn’t time. It was open loops. Half built projects, drafts and ideas "I might do later". Closing or deleting them freed me from my self-imposed prison.
The chief operating officer role is rapidly evolving from a traditional operational manager to a strategic partner that translates corporate vision into execution. McKinsey’s COO Excellence initiative reveals that 40% of CEOs appointed in 2024 previously served as COOs or...
“Human motivation is one of the key drivers of individual performance in any team/org. But mgrs. are often too ‘busy,’ stressed, self-absorbed, or poorly trained to notice how well or badly they are feeding and applying this critical force.” https://t.co/EjLbfemsSW #leadership https://t.co/GZeCXl780A
Busy millennials don’t need motivation speeches. They need: • A trusted capture system • 10 minutes to organise daily • Protected time to execute That’s COD. No hype. No hustle cult. Just structure that frees your brain. Build yours in 45 minutes. https://t.co/edEGsruY96 https://t.co/kbRMwOwAr8
Meta’s Reality Labs is piloting an ultra‑flat engineering org where a single manager oversees up to 50 engineers, relying on AI agents for status updates, meeting attendance, and one‑on‑one check‑ins. The experiment aligns with Zuckerberg’s “Year of Efficiency,” aiming to...
A dental company was running its entire contract management and order reconciliation operation on spreadsheets. Orders surging. Distributors multiplying. Audits looming. Then they discovered something that changed everything. Here's what happened 👇
Been waiting for this. @FellowAInotes just launched botless recording that doesn't cut corners — full summaries, action items, team visibility, governance policies. All the stuff Granola skips. https://t.co/uhR3a0z35G
The article advocates a human‑centric organizational model that treats employees as whole people rather than interchangeable resources. It outlines core principles—dignity, autonomy, purpose, psychological safety, equity, wellbeing, clarity, learning, and empathy—and maps them to concrete design levers such as role...
“Consultants & software cos. preach about #ProcessExcellence. But most business processes don’t need to be ‘excellent.’ All that’s required is understanding & effectiveness in process thinking—and *a big dose* of common sense.” https://t.co/ylz4kVYcuu #BPM #processimprovement
i invest in people for the long term. small teams that learn fast can now rival companies with hundreds of people. that’s what we’re building at @getjustpaid, daily iteration, daily launches, daily customer feedback. invest in your team. it always pays off.
The article outlines a three‑layered framework—prediction, prevision, and performance—to improve strategic execution. Prediction delivers data‑driven forecasts, prevision translates those insights into scenarios and capability investments, and performance validates outcomes against objectives. By separating these functions, organizations can align structure, talent,...
Top CEOs spend about 72% of their workweek in meetings, leaving little time for strategic thinking. Research shows they allocate roughly 61% of their hours to face‑to‑face interactions and only 15% to advancing personal priorities. The article argues that this...
Engineers frequently build features that miss their intended value because the underlying problem definition, incentives, and feedback loops are misaligned. The article outlines common structural causes—from vague requirements and velocity‑focused KPIs to siloed teams and technical debt—and pairs each with...
Manufacturers facing supply‑chain volatility and rising costs are redefining the CIO role to combine traditional IT oversight with direct responsibility for supply‑chain transformation. Modern supply‑chain CIOs must master emerging technologies such as AI, IoT, digital twins, and analytics while aligning...
The article outlines four practical steps for leaders to stop avoiding conflict and give effective feedback. It urges managers to drop the “butt‑sandwich” approach, treat feedback as a professional matter, speak directly without soft‑shoeing, and lead by example with candor....
