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Leadership and Your Long Term Legacy

Next Level Blog

  With more energy and enthusiasm, the man said, "I'm shaping these rocks into bricks."    As I was walking through this ancient city searching for dinner tonight, I started thinking about the kind of leadership that must be required to start a project you won't live to see the end of. 

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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 50 – An Interview with.

Strategy Driven

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line.

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The Future Economy Project: Q&A with Marne Levine

Harvard Business Review

The company focuses on building environmentally friendly work sites and data centers and improving access to clean energy for all. Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership.

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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 greening of the supply chain. The military continues to lead the way on energy and climate. Big organizations keep asking more of their suppliers. business continuity").

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Three Traps Facing New Global Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Recently, I spoke with Linda Sharkey , an author and expert in global leadership development and culture change, to chat with me about this issue. They spent an enormous about of time and energy trying to make EuroDisney embody the culture and style of the French. Think about Disney when they first tried to go global in the 1990s.

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CEOs Sometimes Need Outside Help

Harvard Business Review

If outside help is truly needed, doesn’t that say something pretty negative about the CEO’s own staff and existing supply chain? By contrast, consider the 2010 Chilean mining disaster, which resulted in the triumphant rescue of 33 miners trapped underground. Collaboration Leadership' As Faaiza Rashid, Amy C.

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There’s a Leadership Vacuum on Climate Change. Business Should Fill It

Harvard Business Review

Some sectors and companies bear more of the up-front expense of tackling carbon emissions, with the energy sector being the most obvious one. It’s 50 times Walmart’s 2010 supply chain goal , and it sets a high bar for others to aspire to. In apparel, this is more than aggressive. will follow his lead.