QAspire

AUGUST 17, 2010

You spend efforts and energy on preventing the errors (prevention cost) and then checking your work (appraisal cost). So how do you maximize your possibility of getting it first time right when you deal with projects? Most projects fail because of lack of clarity. That, to me, is the essence of project management.

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Cost Quality Project Directory 139

Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tagged as: encouragement { 2 comments… read them below or add one } Tim September 21, 2010 at 5:10 pm Absolutely Kevin. We don’t get people to spend their extra time, energies, or talents on something because they fear they’ll get in trouble if they don’t. .&#

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Skills Mentor Workshop Video 220

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 20, 2010

There was a terrific energy among group participants. Maybe its a group walk for the breast cancer, helping out on a Habitat for Humanity project or offering to put a fresh coat of paint on wall at a local Boys and Girls Club. 2 Comments so far kavitha on April 27th, 2010 Empowerment could also be used to boost employee engagement.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Figure 1: The Interbrand Best 100 Global Brands 2010 A look at two brands’ performances from this year’s table offers insight into how brands can navigate today’s marketplace. which resulted in an increase in brand awareness of 72 percent between 2004 and 2010.

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Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 62

Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

The President asked him to repeat the question, and the energy in the room was further dampened. The event was going super well, until one of the children with a severe speech impediment asked a question of the President. No one in the audience could understand and the room became tense. Again, no one understood.

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Leadership Workshop Blog Video 195

Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe The Leadership Walk by Kevin Eikenberry on September 6, 2010 in Leadership , Learning We are all on a walk. If you want them to put energy into their walk you must first put it into your steps.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 8, 2011

Not just if we are a business owner, Brand, Marketing or Sales Manager, or someone else traditionally responsible for price, but for all of us as leaders, thinking about how people invest of themselves, their time, energy and more. I encourage you to read the rest of Daniel’s post, and to think about these ideas.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Innovative companies realize remarkable marketplace rewards. The Business of Innovation is a five part series created by CNBC in association with IBM. Within each episode, Maria Bartiromo and a distinguished panel of guests discuss what it takes to be an innovation leader.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Six Ways to Overcome Your Biggest Attitude Challenge by Kevin Eikenberry on November 15, 2010 in Influence , Leadership , Learning Most everyone has a relatively positive attitude when things are going great. End with You.

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Workshop Blog Learning-by-Doing Positioning 191

Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Six Strategies for Boosting Morale by Kevin Eikenberry on November 1, 2010 in Leadership , Learning A participant from a workshop I led several years ago posed a question to me last week. Thanks for taking the time to share it.

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Morale Strategy Short-term Workshop 190

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It was originated by the energy company Eesti Energia and developed a four-step methodology to engender an entrepreneurial mindset in students ranging from 13 to 19 years of age. The Global Innovation Index illustrates this, as they cite the inhibiting impact a shortage of human capital is having on the innovation potential of the nation.

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Entrepreneur Human Capital Comparison Education 102

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Thought-full Thursday: The Space Where Freedom Resides » Take a Look at Your Calendar September 15th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus This week’s blogging break led me to reprise some older posts. Ann McKenzie: September 17, 2010 at 9:58 am I couldn’t agree more with you. This is one from March 2009. Great post.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Their title may read “Project Leader” and they may be managing a few people, but that does not make them real leaders. Few years back, I heard a project manager saying, “I will screw him up if he does not complete this module today”. Statements like these tell us more about the attitude of the project manager.

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Cost Leadership Project Blog 107

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 Posted by: mike this post originally appeared in Management 3.0 Where is the focus, resources, planning, time, and energy being spent? And focus on the people/ wheels that are working without complaints; those that are completing projects and doing great work. Sep 2010 Great clarity here Mike.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Roundtable Talk

MARCH 4, 2010

→ View from the corner cubicle: leadership lessons from Tomer Strolight Posted on March 4, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment TorStar Digital is one of Canada’s fastest growing, most innovative media companies. Don’t waste your energies trying to win everyone over.

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Leadership Godin Blog Crisis Management 34

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Spending energy to understand the audience and carefully crafting a message that resonates with them means committing time and discipline to the process. Think about it this way: You likely spend countless hours collaborating and innovating to put forth really good ideas. It takes a lot of work to breathe life into an idea.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Transactional leadership might be a motivator when money and better benefits are available, but today’s climate seems to lend itself more to transformational leadership where a caring leadership can stimulate innovation, creative thinking, and productivity. Give them roles in planning and executing projects. P romote Participation.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Integration and Innovation Abound – According to the report, 30% of the S&P 100 companies include some oversight of diversity issues at the board level and 34% of companies include diversity measures within their compensation plans. For a full copy of the 2010 study, click here. Source U.S.

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Diversity Newsletter Long-term Execution 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Posted by Thornton May on November 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment The classic Harvard Business School case “Otisline (A)” 1 begins with the quote, “… our objective is to go unnoticed.” The case illustrates how information technology, innovatively, insightfully and courageously deployed, can change the structure of an industry.

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

We've been co-running the steering committee for this innovation project for almost six months now. This is a great project. We're going to be the first elevator manufacturer in the world to offer customers a comprehensive, real-time dashboard showing how much energy and money they're saving with our dispatching algorithms.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you aren’t sure where to get started, take a cue from other companies that have taken innovation to heart and used it to successfully win and keep customers. In the first quarter of 2010 alone, they acquired 1.4 There has never been a better time to be different. By offering 250 business cards for free, with a nominal $5.67

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Wilde Tactics Advertising Brand 62

Women in the LEAD

MARCH 7, 2010

Debbe Debbe Kennedy, founder, president and CEO Women in the Lead   at the Global Dialogue Center Leadership Solutions Companies Berrett-Koehler author, Putting Our Differences to Work The Fastest Way to Innovation, Leadership, and High Performance It's a New DAY! Appreciation for the good energy of the voices heard.

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Welch Katz Globalization Conference 45

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. China has also begun offering subsidies for rooftop solar projects. Over half of this money was spent on new housing.

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Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

In 2010, the United Nations Global Compact conducted a survey [PDF] on sustainability and found that 93% of businesses consider it important to their future success. With 25 centers across the US, this project has the potential to reduce the company's overall mileage by millions, translating into huge dollar savings and emissions reductions.

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Supply Chain Retail Energy ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The idea to design and build a $300 house first appeared here on the HBR site in August 2010, in a post by me (Vijay Govindarajan) and Christian Sarkar, and then again as one of several ideas in the HBR Agenda 2011. What reverse innovation lessons might be learned by the participants in such a project?

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Govindarajan Construction Workshop Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

million of them in 2010. There are projects for community toilet facilities. As the Gates project shows, there's surely much innovation to come. Ceramics may eventually be replaced, but current recycled-glass toilet alternatives are no less energy intensive. Will there be alternatives to building toilets for all?

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Globalization Film Marketing Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The cap-and-trade program is the centerpiece of California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, also known as AB 32 — a suite of clean energy solutions that has proved to be the engine of an astounding economic transformation that drove statewide growth at twice the rate of the U.S. dependence on foreign oil. million annually.

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Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? If an organization can’t get things done, nothing else matters – not the smartest strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even game-changing technology. OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?)

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

He has challenged Indian companies to come up with inclusive business models that deliver more value at less cost for more citizens — be it in agriculture, healthcare, education, energy, or financial services. We visited major Indian metros to interact with companies that are pioneering these inclusive business models.

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Business Model Bottom-up Entrepreneur Incubator 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. Instead of risk = bad, leaders need to understand that today, calculated risk = innovation, meeting marketplace demands, leapfrogging competition and creating true profit.

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Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

No, no, no," you're thinking, "It's about keeping the staff or innovating or making sure the wheels stay on the bus or." My point is that when you have a culture of innovation, people stay, products ship, and performance sizzles. Since the beginning, Google has had a great culture of innovation. That's gotta change.

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Micromanagement Open-book Parcell Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. But the focus was squarely on "energy saving, environmental protection, and the low-carbon economy" with other emerging areas — infotech, biotech, and modern materials — taking a distinctly secondary role.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2011

We all remember the SunChips Episode of 2010. Lifestyle resistance to the wind energy industry — a clean alternative to fossil fuels — is another example of this dilemma. Frito-Lay introduced bio-degradable packaging for SunChips in March, and was surprised to see sales of the chips drop by 11% over the next six months.

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Resistance Short-term Long-term Transportation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Exhibit A is the effort to write a new constitution in Iceland where the surge of crowdsourcing, mass collaboration, co-creation, and open innovation initiatives is seeking to channel those ideas and leverage that talent in every realm of endeavor. Where do we want to go? And, how do we get there? Beaudette didn't take it from there.

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