Burnout is real. In the era of constantly-connected devices, we’ve become constantly “available” which is NOT a good thing. If you’re feeling burned out and/or overworked, and you’re not sure how to tell your boss. Here’s some tips for approaching your boss about having too much work. (#3 is highly recommended to help get a […]
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M&A M&A Deals Hit 10 Year Low Q1 of 2023 hasn’t been kind to M&A deal flow. Deals reached a 10 year low. BANKING Banking Bonuses Biggest Drop Since 2008 Wall Street bankers’ bonuses dropped 26% in 2022, the biggest drop since 2008. In unrelated news, coffee shops see drop in demand for lattes and
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In past conversations with clients, I’ve heard this refrain many times: “I don’t like my boss.” or “My boss doesn’t like me.” or “How do I navigate a bad boss?” or some iteration of these themes. Well, if you find yourself in this situation, here’s what you can do.
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WHAT’S HAPPENING IN AI
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BANKING How to Manage Your Bank Risks As the dust settles after the failures of SVB and Signature First Bank, businesses are seriously looking at how avoid getting caught in a similar mess in the future. Here’s 5 ways to manage your bank risks. COMMODITIES Banking Failures Could Cause a Commodities Supercycle Goldman Sachs estimate
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The biggest headache I had with leading a team of staff is regular interruptions. Eventually, I implemented an “office hours” for when I would field any questions that were non-urgent. If you find you’re not getting work done due to interruptions or you find work creeping too much into your personal life, then here’s how
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…ok, so there’s no punchline to this, I just had to take this editorial liberty with the amount of AI news and back-and-forth moves by all the big players. On to the AI news! WHAT’S HAPPENING IN AI
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BANKING Credit Suisse Dodges Bullet Not to be outdone by all the attention on Silicon Valley Bank, Credit Suisse avoided a similar fate from a lifeline offered by Swiss National Bank after Credit Suisse’s biggest shareholder turned their back on any support. Update: UBS has now agreed to acquire Credit Suisse. M&A Ryan Reynolds Is
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When you’re elevated to a leadership role, you want to give a good impression. If you don’t have much experience leading a team, it’s easy to make mistakes. To help you out, here’s five sentences good leaders avoid saying.
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If you work with service-level agreements, you could be making at least one of these five common mistakes: Undefined or poorly defined objectives and metrics in service-level agreements (SLAs). One of the most common mistakes when drafting an SLA is not having a clear understanding of what the agreement should achieve. Objectives and metrics should
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WHAT’S HAPPENING IN AI
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Reading Time: 1 minute BIG4 PwC Gets Fined Stop me if you’ve heard this before, Big4 audit firm gets fined…PwC has been fined £5.6m by UK’s audit branch due to “serious failure” in its audit of engineering-firm, Babcock. Including creating false records…in the words of George Takei, “Oh Myyyyyyyyy”. BANKING Credit Suisse Gets Green Light
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BIG4 PwC Gets Fined Stop me if you’ve heard this before, Big4 audit firm gets fined…PwC has been fined £5.6m by UK’s audit branch due to “serious failure” in its audit of engineering-firm, Babcock. Including creating false records…in the words of George Takei, “Oh Myyyyyyyyy”. BANKING Credit Suisse Gets Green Light for China Embattled Swiss-bank
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They say you shouldn’t multitask, rather focus on one task at a time. That’s the ideal situation, but when it comes to projects, it’s likely you’ll be juggling multiple projects at any one time. And if it feels like you’re spinning many plates at one time, then here’s how to handle multiple projects at a
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WHAT’S HAPPENING IN AI
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Reading Time: 1 minute BANKING Financial Institutions Are Embracing AI While JP Morgan made the news by banning the use of ChatGPT, it doesn’t mean banks are ignoring AI. In fact, more and more financial institutions are looking at how they can integrate AI within their organization and products & services. MARKETS London Losing Listings?
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BANKING Financial Institutions Are Embracing AI While JP Morgan made the news by banning the use of ChatGPT, it doesn’t mean banks are ignoring AI. In fact, more and more financial institutions are looking at how they can integrate AI within their organization and products & services. MARKETS London Losing Listings? One of the biggest
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On an individual basis, striving to be productive is a good goal to strive for. But, I’ve also seen from experience how personal productivity can create problems when your team is not as productive (have problems keeping up). Here’s what to do.
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Reading Time: 1 minute IPO’S SPACs Want You to Return Their Money… The hunger for SPACs has waned lately, and for some SPACs that paid back their shareholders, it seem the SPACs paid back TOO MUCH money to shareholders and now, they want it back. ACCOUNTING Have an Accountant You Can Spare? The last few
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IPO’S SPACs Want You to Return Their Money… The hunger for SPACs has waned lately, and for some SPACs that paid back their shareholders, it seem the SPACs paid back TOO MUCH money to shareholders and now, they want it back. ACCOUNTING Have an Accountant You Can Spare? The last few decades has seen a
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One of the biggest challenges I’ve seen with managers and leaders is being comfortable letting go, not overly micro-manage and delegating effectively. Delegating tasks is not as simple as just assigning a task to someone on your team. Here’s some tips for delegating for success.
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Reading Time: 1 minute MARKETS US Bank CEO’s Not So Pessimistic on Economy Wealthy bank CEO’s are starting to feel less pessimistic about the economy, so everyone can just chill out (right?). So, we can all go back to buying our avocado and toast because…reasons? MARKETS Brexit cost how much??? The Bank of England announced
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MARKETS US Bank CEO’s Not So Pessimistic on Economy Wealthy bank CEO’s are starting to feel less pessimistic about the economy, so everyone can just chill out (right?). So, we can all go back to buying our avocado and toast because…reasons? MARKETS Brexit cost how much??? The Bank of England announced that Brexit has cost
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Successful people general set goals and set forth to achieve those goals. But what if we got it wrong? What if there’s another way to achieve what we want? Enter the art of Kyūdō, the Japanese martial art of archery. So, instead of goals, focus on this…
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Reading Time: 1 minute MARKETS NASDAQ has best start since 1991 Recession? What recession? The NASDAQ is off to its best start since 1991. MARKETS FTSE 100 Hits All-Time High Not to be outdone by the NASDAQ (see above), the FTSE 100 also hit an all-time high. TECH Google Lose $100B Upon Microsoft’s Announcement Microsoft
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MARKETS NASDAQ has best start since 1991 Recession? What recession? The NASDAQ is off to its best start since 1991. MARKETS FTSE 100 Hits All-Time High Not to be outdone by the NASDAQ (see above), the FTSE 100 also hit an all-time high. TECH Google Lose $100B Upon Microsoft’s Announcement Microsoft has always been the
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While I personally loathe meetings, I know there is a place for them but often times it’s over-used. If you’re stuck with meetings, here’s a few ways for you to lead better meetings.
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MARKETS Rate Hikes for Everyone This past week, the U.S. Federal Reserve raised rates 25 basis points, along with the European Central Bank and the Bank of England, which both raised rates by 50 basis points. CRYPTOCURRENCIES Charlie Munger Doesn’t Endorse Crypto Charlie Munger, the other half of Warren Buffett’s brain trust, says the U.S.
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I’ve been fortunate to work in teams where most of us got along well. But I know many who also worked in environments where there was always clashes with other colleagues. If you find yourself in a workplace environment that has regular clashes amongst colleagues, here’s 3 ways to deal with it.
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BANKING Goldman Sachs Posts Worst EPS in a Decade As many major banks are going through large volumes of layoffs, last week, Goldman Sachs posted its worse EPS in a decade. With declines in asset management and investment banking revenue, losses from their consumer business and poor cost management, it has hit their earnings hard.
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As remote and hybrid work becomes more mainstream, the disadvantages are that remote workers may feel disconnected from their teams. Here’s how you can build more connections in a remote and hybrid world.
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Welcome to the inaugural issue of The AI Edge! AI Use-Cases AI TOOls
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COMPLIANCE Financial Institutions Lose Over $500K Due to Fraud in 2022 Well, here’s a stat that’s nothing to be proud of: apparently seventy percent of financial institutions lost over $500K due to fraud in 2022. Time to tighten up those anti-fraud measures hmmm? ESG Should Executive Pay Be Linked to ESG Performance? As ESG has
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If you’re asking yourself this question, then your employees and team members are lucky you’re even asking yourself this question. But, it’s not a one-size-fits all answer. Gary Vaynerchuk gives a thoughtful and spot-on answer to the question: How do you show your employees you care.
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PRIVATE EQUITY Microsoft Looking to Invest in OpenAI If you’re an AI geek, you probably already know about OpenAI and it’s ChatGPT product. (I’ve been playing with it for a couple of weeks now and it’s pretty jaw-dropping). Microsoft is looking to make a splash by investing approximately $10B in OpenAI, which would give Microsoft
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Being a good boss doesn’t mean you have to be “best buddies” with your staff. It also doesn’t mean ruling with an iron fist, trying to instill fear into everyone. => Here’s a surprising secret to being a good boss.
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ESG How Well Are Companies Doing Regarding ESG? Environmental, social and governance (ESG) compliance has been in the spotlight in recent years, but just how well are companies doing to meet performance measures relating to ESG? Turns out…not too well. TAXES Shell to Pay Taxes in UK… …a corporate entity to pay taxes? Why is
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I’m a big fan of limiting the use of meetings. But even I’ll admit there may be in specific situations a need for some meetings (I very reluctantly say this). So, which types of meetings should you throw away and which ones should you focus on? Here’s some help.
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BANKING Wells Fargo Hit with Another Fine (Again) Stop me if you’ve seen this before: big bank gets fined. Wells Fargo has been hit with another fine, $1.7B + another $2B in customer settlements due to consumer abuses. The abuses stem from the bank misapplying home and auto loan payments, which in turn led to
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Objectives and Key Results (OKR) have been a popular business strategy metric but what’s the difference between an OKR and KPI? What does a properly laid out OKR look like? Here’s a useful breakdown if you’re looking to establish some good OKRs for the new year.
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BANKING UK Banking Rules Looking to Shake Things Up Post-Brexit era UK is looking to shake things up with a sweeping volume of banking rules reform. The planned reforms are called “The Edinburgh Reforms” and looks to be one of the biggest reform in thirty years. FINTECH FTX Isn’t the Only Disgrace in Finance… With
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Whether you’re an introverted leader and don’t know how to speak up more or you’re at the other extreme and come off as “too aggressive” when speaking up, here’s some tips to speak up in a more balanced way. Don’t be afraid to let your ideas be hard. [via BrainPint]