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Fulfilling Employee Needs – Ten Critical Issues for Leaders to.

The Recovering Engineer

Recently, I had the opportunity to work with one of my long-time clients, the Montgomery County (Indiana) Leadership Academy. In the process, I was reminded of some insights on ths vital point by an exercise we did in a session on Servant Leadership. In the picture above, the woman is fighting to get her need for air met.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. Follow him on Twitter at @GreenAdvantage. This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

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What Work Looks Like for Women in Their 50s

Harvard Business Review

A few years later, she joined a start-up called BioAmber, producing chemical intermediates using sugars instead of fossil fuels. She remembers turning down an offer to go to the career-boosting internal leadership program just before having her third child. For these smart, innovative employers, the silver decades may yield gold.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

Ok, this one is cheating a bit, but on a fundamental level, the top themes in green business haven't actually changed too much ( see the 2010 list ). The movement has been building for years, from P&G opening up its product development pipeline early in the 2000s to the launch of the GreenXchange for sharing green patents early in 2010.