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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.
Choosing between internal and external C‑suite candidates hinges on trade‑offs between cultural continuity and fresh insight. Internal hires offer faster, cheaper transitions and reinforce employee motivation, while external hires expand the talent pool, introduce new perspectives, and can drive transformative change. The article outlines scenarios—radical restructuring, underperformance, groupthink, skill gaps, industry disruption—where an outsider may be preferable, and provides a step‑by‑step external hiring framework. Stahl Recruiting positions itself as a partner to navigate this complex process for rail‑industry executives.
What real productivity looks like: - Plan your day night before - Start before you're ready - Do the hardest task first - Improve 1 thing daily - Finish what you start - Rest with intention - Protect mornings - Work in silence - Review output - Track results Stop chasing...
This is why you need to learn how to "manage up". I personally follow one rule: praise in public, criticize in private. If I have something good to say, I say it in front of the whole team. If I...
General managers are the architects of restaurant culture, shaping daily operations beyond the front‑of‑house service. Kyle Brown outlines five practical pillars—strict punctuality, comprehensive pre‑service communication, unwavering standards, supportive systems like tip pooling, and hands‑on cross‑training—to embed trust and consistency. By...
McDonald’s doesn’t need world-class chefs at every restaurant. That’s the whole point. My second job ever when I was 14 was working at McDonald’s. At 14, the best meal I could make on my own was a bowl of cereal or...
"High performance" is one of the most abused terms in business. It's vague enough to mean anything. Boards love it because it sounds strategic. Senior leaders love it because it gives them cover to fire people fast and call it...
The article argues that chronic firefighting in companies is a symptom of a broken system, not a temporary workload spike. By redesigning operational infrastructure—defining clear roles, establishing consistent processes, and applying accountability—leaders can shift from constant triage to strategic leadership....
Automation is becoming a top priority for order‑to‑cash teams, yet APQC research shows that 35% of firms still struggle without core process foundations. Standardized workflows, cross‑functional collaboration, and a customer‑experience focus are identified as the three prerequisites before scaling automation....
Seabridge Gold’s board set 16 performance objectives for 2026, with a heavy focus on securing a partner for the KSM copper‑gold project. The 2025 report card was a D+, though the company met 88% of its targets, the missing KSM...
Case Study: Managing a Business with a Remote Owner: The Hidden Challenges Today, I want to discuss a common scenario in business ownership: when an owner spends most of their time away from the business and relies on a manager to...
Zapier analyzed 10,000 AI‑powered workflows and found nearly one‑third designed for lead management. These Zaps automate capture, enrichment, routing, and follow‑up, using AI to extract data from unstructured sources and score prospects. The broader study also highlighted AI use in...
Hotel operators must modernise their KPI frameworks to stay competitive in 2026. Traditional metrics such as guest satisfaction, revenue management and operational efficiency remain core, while sustainability, digital engagement and employee retention are emerging as critical indicators. Advanced technology—cloud‑based PMS,...
Most founders assume systems will make their business more complicated. More tools. More dashboards. More things to manage. But good systems do the opposite. They create clarity. Your team knows where things live, what happens next, and how work moves through the business without...
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀. 📦 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻 → clean hierarchy, optimized for execution. 🧠 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 → brilliant ideas… connected by 400 meetings. 🌐 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 → everything connected to everything. 🪟 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁 → silos… occasionally firing at each other. 🍏 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲 → one vision in...
Deloitte’s 2026 Human Capital Trends report warns that rapid AI roll‑outs without clear cultural guidelines are creating a growing "AI cultural debt" across organisations. The study finds over half of leaders view AI’s cultural impact as critical, yet only 5%...
Lean Journey released Lean Tips Edition #329, presenting tips #3961‑3975 that distill core lean principles for organizations. The tips stress reflection to keep goals relevant, process stability as a foundation for performance, and visual daily management to make targets visible....
Prakhar Agarwal, an applied researcher who moved from OpenAI to Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, describes the day‑to‑day rhythm of frontier AI work. Projects revolve around tight 10‑month milestones, with intense focus on model evaluations, failure analysis, and rapid code iteration. Unlike...
Organizations face a volatile environment where two‑thirds of strategy implementations fail. Aligning a project portfolio with corporate strategy maximizes resources, drives performance, and reduces waste. The article outlines a step‑by‑step framework—defining goals, assessing the strategic landscape, establishing a PPM process,...
For a long time great advice for founders was “don’t try to innovate on basic organizational practices.” The roles you need, executive jobs, ratios, spend in each area, and operational methods are kind of known in major classes of company....
When it comes to AI agents / AI tooling + coding, I hear an awful lot of talk about: Efficiency Iteration speed / PR output rate / lines of codes produced I hear zero mentions about: Quality Customer obsession This will bite back, and it...
Developer workflow fragmentation is causing a hidden factory of rework, draining roughly 12 hours per week per engineer and inflating mean time to recovery. The lack of standardized CI/CD and environment provisioning leads to a 30 % capacity loss and up to...
It’s refreshing to question HOW teams use AI, and the impact it has on teams, products, quality. Especially the overuse question This is coming from one of the most popular AI agent tools, OpenCode btw
It's okay if the business or tech teams don't 'like' a decision. If it aligns with overall business goals, the added cost or complexity might be worth it. Off-the-shelf software might not be ideal, but if it drives objectives, it...
WUSF Public Media announced the promotion of three long‑time employees to Senior Managing Director, reshaping its leadership across content, operations, and membership. Mary Shedden will steer journalism and cultural programming, Christopher Sampson will oversee technical infrastructure, and Danielle Wright‑Landry will...
Some of the most productive people in the world still rely on a surprisingly simple tool: a notebook and a pen. ✍️📓 Writing things down by hand activates a different part of the brain. It slows your thinking just enough to...
The 3 Layers of Founder Leverage: 1. Doing the work. 2. Deciding what gets done. 3. Designing the system that decides. Most founders stop at level 2.
The article warns that attempting to improve every process simultaneously leads to sub‑optimization, where overall performance barely shifts despite local gains. It introduces the Theory of Constraints (TOC) as a disciplined alternative that focuses improvement on the single bottleneck limiting...
Adobe’s latest employee‑experience study of 1,000 full‑time workers reveals that feedback anxiety is pervasive, with 38% of respondents delaying necessary feedback out of fear of the recipient’s reaction. Contradictory input slows work for nearly three‑in‑five employees, while low‑quality feedback contributes...
KeenStack argues that culture, not headcount, is the foundation for scaling global teams. The company hires for a growth mindset, uses the EOS framework to align values, and invests in personal, financial, and professional development. In‑person and hybrid interactions are...
Most companies are using AI to optimize the past. That’s the problem. ❌ They’re asking how to make people a little faster, meetings a little shorter, workflows a little cheaper. Useful? Of course. Transformational? Not even close. The 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 is not about adding...
Early in my leadership years I was told the devops team was frustrated and felt disrespected by the dev team (I was director of dev at the time). I was blindsided and took it seriously, researching email/slack conversations, talking to...
A joint study by the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative and Slalom examined how individual chronotypes—natural sleep‑wake rhythms—affect creative performance. Using the Morningness‑Eveningness Questionnaire and a divergent‑thinking task, researchers found that employees generated more ideas and higher‑quality concepts when work aligned with...
"What won't you build?" has always been the most important question. Knowing what you'll say no to is always more useful than knowing what you'll say yes to. This is true with most everything. Who won't you hire? Which company or client...
Oil prices are soaring toward $150 per barrel after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, prompting analysts to warn of a potential disaster. Economic historian Carlota Perez argues that such high energy costs could instead serve as a catalyst, pushing...
After several outages due to junior engineers pushing AI-generated code, Amazon is requiring senior engineers to sign off on them going forward. History has taught us bugs scale linearly with lines of code. So if you ship 2x or 10x the...
Building a High Performance Product Team 📅 Tuesday, 10 March ⏰ 17:00 – 18:00 GMT 📍 Register: https://luma.com/rpc851ts How are the best product organisations actually built? Join this workshop where we’ll share practical tips and free templates to help you: • Define what good looks...
A senior employee, related to the CEO, was arrested for soliciting a minor and is slated to join the reader’s team. The employee has not been terminated, raising concerns of nepotism and inconsistent enforcement of past policies. The manager seeks...
I've noticed something about the organizations that tend to bring me in for optimization and strategy work. They're almost always in some state of chaos. Restructures still working their way through the system. New leadership with new priorities. Strategic pivots that...
General Mills has confirmed Jonathan Ness as its permanent chief supply chain officer, effective March 16, after serving in an interim capacity since January. Ness, a 20‑year veteran of the company, will oversee manufacturing, logistics, sourcing and planning and report...
The article explains how sales, marketing, and customer success each see only a slice of the market, creating competing truths that hinder growth. It argues that these differences are not failures but incomplete insights, and that a unified GTM operating...
Effective leadership storytelling shifts focus from self‑expression to serving team needs, delivering clear, actionable lessons. By selecting transparent, context‑rich narratives that directly tie to current goals, leaders build psychological safety and trust. Consistent use of such stories reinforces values, drives...
"I never give a score of 5." This is what one of my managers told me once as we started our annual review. Not exactly the motivation that I was expecting, and the more she tried to justify it, the...
MIT: When teams began with higher clarity, their project implementation rate was ~50%, However, when teams began with lower clarity and worked through a messier and more chaotic process, more than 80% of their ideas were implemented https://t.co/tprVZxbr8B #Agile #Innovation
Energy management is part of productivity. Match your task intensity to current mental state. Stop fighting your own biology.
Most productivity advice starts with tools. My new book starts somewhere else. Productiveness: the state of being productive. Follow the quiet build: https://t.co/S2Z73N4u1G https://t.co/vgR8kcI0Ma
It says everything can be done today. It can’t. COD teaches you to: • Capture without stress • Organise with intention • Execute with time limits No more endless lists. Just focused execution. Create your own COD system and finally feel ahead. https://t.co/edEGsruY96 https://t.co/x9978TRTqA
How machine learning reframes KPI design: systems optimize relentlessly. So the real leadership question isn’t “Are we tracking performance?” It’s “Are we tracking the right signals?” https://t.co/FfVafJZaUk via @mitsmr #AI #MWC26 https://t.co/o1UyJfrMjc
For 25 active projects, every meeting, deliverable, client input, and artifact is captured in this tool. It offers incredible depth, creating a searchable record of every conversation and decision, so nothing is forgotten. #ProjectManagement #Productivity https://t.co/nXjixrpHjy
Jeff Bezos on how to run effective meetings by adopting a writing culture. Read to improve your writing. Write to improve your thinking. https://t.co/D4cOCgUMtY
“I can't do it, I’m too disorganized.” Notion: Free Folder system: Free Written steps: Free My templates: Free Weekly review: Free How about you stop improvising and start structuring?
