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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.
The article presents five leadership moves to stop missed deadlines and rebuild team credibility. It urges leaders to diagnose the real causes of delays, turn simple agreement into firm commitment, and protect focus from constant interruptions. It also stresses surfacing hidden dependencies early and managing team energy rather than just effort. The guidance is framed with a kangaroo metaphor that highlights the need to pause, assess, then leap.
HR leaders at Gruns and Morning Brew stress that exit interviews should be the culmination of an ongoing relationship, not a one‑off conversation. Building trust ensures departing employees share candid insights that can still be acted upon. They recommend aggregating...
As someone who has spent a lot of time with large companies talking about AI, I can say fairly confidently that no big organizational changes happened as a result of AI in 2025 I don’t think that tells us...
Solutions Review is hosting a free Solutions Spotlight webinar with Nexthink on March 10, 2026. The session will demonstrate how Nexthink’s AI‑driven Infinity platform—specifically its AI Drive and Adopt features—can monitor real‑time application usage, steer employee behavior toward approved tools, and turn...
The fastest way to kill a deal: Wait a week to send the contract. You close a deal verbally. The client says yes. You’re excited. Then you wait a week to send the contract. By then, they “need to think about it.” The deal is...
Launching a one‑person business on a near‑zero budget hinges on spending only when a clear return is evident. Service‑or knowledge‑based models are favored because they require little capital and can generate revenue quickly. Entrepreneurs are urged to secure the first...
How has the day-to-day workflow of Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh) changed, thanks to AI tools? Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 07:19 HashiCorp origins 18:22 The 2010s startup scene in SF 23:11 Funding HashiCorp 25:23 The "Hashi stack" 38:28 The open-core pivot 48:08 Taking HashiCorp public 51:58 The almost-VMware acquisition 59:10 Mitchell’s take...
In 2026 business technology shifts from experimentation to measurable outcomes, with AI at the core. Agentic AI evolves from chatbots to autonomous workflow agents, while robotics‑as‑a‑service makes physical automation accessible to midsize firms. Small, task‑specific language models replace large models...
Are you paying a 50% tax you didn't vote for? You're just gifting it to your customers instead of the government. Here's how: Say you're a store doing $3M at 10% margins makes $300K in profit. You finally raise prices 15%, something that's LONG...
If I lost my 10,000,000 social media followers tomorrow, and had to rebuild from 0, here's my exact playbook. 30 minutes a night with AI. 90 days to real business leads. Most people would panic. Start posting random content and hope something sticks. I'd...
In the digital era, leadership is moving from command‑and‑control to orchestrating a trustworthy ecosystem of people, machines, and processes. The article outlines an "agentic" model that distributes decision rights, adopts policy‑first delegation, and embeds transparency and ethical guardrails. Structural changes...
Daily standups often balloon to 25‑30 minutes, costing teams up to 100 hours of deep work per quarter for a five‑person group. The article proposes a blocker‑first format, a visible 90‑second timer, and pre‑meeting async updates to shrink meetings to...
I discovered the best standing desk setup. I’m writing this from an infinity pool in the middle of a rainforest. It looks like vacation, but it’s not. I’m here with a small group of agency owners for something I’ve been building for...
One of the most overlooked career skills: Being pleasant to work with. Many people assume success comes from being the most talented person in the room. In practice, opportunities go to people others trust, respect, and enjoy collaborating with. “Pleasant to work...
AI’s most powerful economic effect is lowering the cost of translating disparate data and workflows, not merely automating prediction or creation. By extracting structure from unstructured sources, AI creates a shared, real‑time view that lets teams coordinate without agreeing on...
Too many founders are “winging it” and that’s the reason they can’t get any traction. You must get clarity around: • Your vision • Your messaging • Your banger offer • Your ideal audience
In this episode of the MRP Easy Manufacturing Podcast, Sarah Duff, commercial director of Smart Manufacture, explains how small and mid‑size manufacturers can mitigate the current talent shortage by improving their systems rather than hiring more staff. She highlights that...
🔴 Red Tape is quietly killing innovation in your business. Here's how. Let me be blunt. In most companies I've worked with — across continents, across industries — the biggest enemy of innovation isn't a lack of ideas. It's bureaucracy. Red tape. The...
Shiny Object Syndrome: New ideas waste effort Shiny Object Strategy: New ideas multiply effort https://t.co/ih5duOIBiU
In this HBR IdeaCast episode, psychologist Jamil Zaki explains how cynicism—viewing others as selfish and untrustworthy—differs from healthy skepticism and why it spreads in organizations, harming individual well‑being, relationships, and efficiency. He outlines the personal costs (stress, depression, higher mortality)...
#TimTalk - Middle managers are the bridge between senior strategy and frontline execution, how can the manager maintain communication? with Gary Cookson https://t.co/aeHGNcfHqc via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesLeader #Leadership #Culture #Success #Management #HumanResources #HR
Smart metrics don’t just measure performance, they shape behavior. If we’re deploying #AI across the enterprise, we need guardrails against metric gaming from day one. Governance isn’t a brake on innovation, it’s what makes transformation durable. Especially as agentic systems enter ops. https://t.co/r792RxQbTa...
The February 2026 Lean Roundup aggregates ten fresh blog posts that explore how Lean thinking is evolving across leadership, strategy, and technology. Highlights include "good trouble" as a catalyst for cultural change, the discipline of Leader Standard Work, and the...
Identity Capital for 20-Sometings #3 = Relationship Capital Meet with people beyond your family and friends. Weak ties can expand your networking reach, enable rapid learning as you explore potential futures, and change your life.
Perplexity just dropped something that makes every AI assistant look like a calculator. Perplexity Computer doesn't chat with you. It logs into your tools, runs your workflows, and keeps working while you sleep. This changes everything: 👇
The 2026 Slalom AI Research Report shows a paradox: 68 % of leaders feel they can keep pace with AI, yet 93 % cite underdeveloped skills and inadequate training as major barriers. Deploying AI tools alone isn’t delivering results; the capability gap...
You don’t need chaos to be ambitious. When your time is aligned, you produce better work and still have energy left for yourself. This workshop helps you build a system that supports both performance and peace. Join us this March. Enrol now. https://t.co/E53E31bsZG...
If only more products would measure p95 / p99 metrics and act on them, instead of looking at medians (p50) or averages (that mask outliers) p99 is almost always your power users. Fixing stuff for them has outsized impact Great example on...
Job architecture redesign has long been a multi‑year, document‑heavy effort that leaves organizations lagging behind fast‑moving business needs. The article argues that the bottleneck is the outdated, sequential method rather than resistance to change. By swapping manual workshops for AI‑driven...
If you can follow someone else’s system all day, You can spend 2 hours building your own. Make tomorrow easier.
🚨 SciSpace just made Perplexity, Elicit, and Consensus look outdated. You can now pull directly from GitHub, Notion, and OneDrive inside their research agent. No downloading. No copy-pasting links. No switching tabs. Here's how: ↓
Klook is redefining its people strategy to harness Gen Z as a strategic advantage, shifting from attendance‑based management to outcome‑focused work. The travel tech firm operates a four‑day‑in‑office, one‑day‑remote hybrid model that emphasizes intentional collaboration and deep‑work time. Its "vocation" program...
A complete team needs diverse skills. Avoid only having SAP gurus or ops experts. Mix seasoned pros with fresh perspectives for a successful S/4HANA transformation. #TeamBuilding #SAP #DigitalTransformation https://t.co/hlYw6dVy3X
It's Hump day, you can do it 😅🦾 Unlock your full potential with the top 10 habits used by highly productive people to stay organized, motivated, and successful. I just published Ten Habits of Highly Productive People 👉 https://t.co/vMgzr6BR7v #ProductivityTips...
Salesforce remains the leading CRM platform, reporting FY 2025 revenue of $35.7 billion and serving over 150,000 customers, including 90 % of the Fortune 500. The consulting ecosystem around Salesforce has ballooned to more than 3,800 partner firms and 170,000 certified experts, generating revenue...
Bad strategy pretends to predict the future. Good strategy improves your position every month. Responsiveness is the advantage. : #Strategy #Leadership #Business https://t.co/EAzG89BayF
Always ask, but never expect. Always ask for what you want. Many people are happy to help—if the request is direct and specific. In a surprising number of cases, something remarkable is possible if you have the courage to ask. Never expect...
Curation—organizing and presenting existing information—has emerged as a scalable, low‑effort business model. By filtering the endless flow of data, curators provide trusted shortcuts for time‑pressed audiences, reducing creative pressure and accelerating growth. The model can be monetized through newsletters, affiliate...
I’ve worked with hundreds of founders. I see 2 failing types again and again: A-Heavy Founder: Big vision. Great at selling. Weak at execution. Overpromises → underdelivers → loses credibility. C-Heavy Founder: Strong execution. High quality. Weak at selling. Works 80 hours → earns...
Most engineering teams have no idea how bad their AI code reviewer actually is. @Entelligence benchmarked 8 tools on real PRs. F1 scores. No demos, no vibes. The gap between #1 and last place is 34 percentage points. THIRTY FOUR. If that doesn't make...
On February 5, 2026, Mitsubishi Electric US announced a structural reorganization that consolidates Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. (MEAU) and Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America’s (MEAA) operations under Mitsubishi Electric US, Inc. (MEUS). The automation business becomes the Industrial Automation Division of...
I've watched hundreds of founders quit their jobs too early and go broke. They all made the same mistake: No systems. AI now makes that inexcusable. Most founders think the hard part is quitting their job. The hard part is building...
Rich media now permeates every digital channel, prompting organizations to move digital asset management (DAM) from creative‑team silos to an enterprise‑wide foundation. Modern DAM platforms offer automated tagging, metadata enrichment, and embedded brand guidelines, enabling broader, safer access across revenue...
Platform teams often treat internal platforms as pure infrastructure, overlooking their product nature. By failing to define specific user personas, they ship technically complete features that see low adoption. The article stresses that rollout activities differ from genuine adoption, which...
One store owner in @ecomfuel had 35 people on payroll. He made some hard calls. Hired a 3PL. Replaced most full-timers with freelancers. Today he has one employee and eight contractors. His profits have never been higher. And his management stress is...
Your biggest productivity leak isn’t screen time. It’s digital clutter. - Unsorted notes - Half written ideas - Tasks with no deadline Every unresolved item sits in the background draining attention. Clean your digital space & you'll see how much you start to enjoy the work.
Strong teams aren’t built by spreading venom, focusing on weaknesses, or dredging up animosity. Real leaders don’t feel strong by tearing down others.
There will be a weird generation of people who are really, really good at delegating, but at some point won't know what they should actually be delegating to all these systems. And then 10 years later, we'll magically rediscover the concept...
Check out the latest article in my newsletter: 10 Reasons Why Organizational Silos Leak Efficiency and ROI https://t.co/BJ7Lp8BpTC via @LinkedIn #data #digitaltransformation #AI #leadership #businessstrategy
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/qKrkhqgMNN
