Women on Business

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Develop a bond with your new alliance partners. Develop a benefit package. Offer professional development thru education and training. This can reduce energy costs by up to 50%. For example, since 2004, I’ve spent countless hours as a volunteer SCORE counselor and personally mentor aspiring entrepreneurs.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

Like most bloggers, I write about what I know; that’s strategy, leadership and branding. More recently, I delved into the business of “cult” energy drink brands, Red Bull and Monster, and I strongly advise anyone in consumer products or services to examine Red Bull’s strategies and culture. Look to a future beyond the fiscal year.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Before the energy conglomerate’s collapse in 2001, I had the opportunity to review Enron’s values. When I conducted leadership training for J&J, one of its very top executives spent many hours with every class. See “Leadership Is a Contact Sport,” by Marshall Goldsmith and Howard Morgan, s+b, Fall 2004.)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 16, 2011

Brand Portfolio Strategy: Creating Relevance, Differentiation, Energy, Leverage, and Clarity David A. Aaker Free Press (2004) Note: I read this book when it was first published and recently re-read it. If anything, Aaker’s insights are even more valuable now than they were then.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

Like most bloggers, I write about what I know; that’s strategy, leadership and branding. More recently, I delved into the business of “cult” energy drink brands, Red Bull and Monster, and I strongly advise anyone in consumer products or services to examine Red Bull’s strategies and culture. Leadership bell learning'

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

d.light’s simple three-item product line simultaneously addresses poverty, education, air pollution/toxic fumes/health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more—and makes a huge difference in lives of its customers. 275,817,462 saved in energy-related expenses. 10,115,224 kWh generated from renewable energy. ?(For

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I N 2004, Barbara Kellerman wrote that “the idea that some leaders and some followers are bad, and that they might have something in common with good leaders and followers, has not fully penetrated the conversation or the curriculum” on leadership. And it should because it is true—the good and the bad in an inherent part of us all.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. Business ownership consumes large quantities of time and mental energy, even after it’s running well and succeeding. It consumed so much time and energy that I didn’t have much left for anything else. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

And under Ghosn's leadership , Renault-Nissan has proactively embraced frugal engineering and become one of the world's leading producers of both electric cars as well as low-cost vehicles — two of the fastest growing and most promising market segments in the global automotive sector. And they did it. lakhs ($6,600).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

You either go out and buy it, or you develop the talent you already have. Such loans have advantages for the lender: they accelerate player development and/or reduce costs by removing the salary of the loaned player from the lending club’s books. How do you get the talent you need? Both clubs realize a unique win-win.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. But just because you know that a network is important to your success, it doesn’t mean you are devoting sufficient time and energy to making it useful and strong. The list goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. First, you need to inject new energy into a tired organization under stress. Build a Re-Founding Team. By 1993 the company had $1.3

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

As early as 2004, research from Elizabeth Wolf Morrison and Frances J. Without a healthy feedback loop, the organization loses the focus required for problem solving efforts and innovative new developments and productivity gains. What's the biggest impediment to innovation within an organization?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. You also need to get to know the leadership, adds Gulati. “Startups are cauldrons of energy, stress, and joy. “Do a founders’ audit,” he says.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

"There are many ways to define mentoring," says Jeanne Meister, a Founding Partner of Future Workplace and co-author of The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today. Even the promise of future help, if and when it's needed, can be enough to convince a mentor to give up his time and energy.

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