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Clout as Strategy and Why Companies Won't Admit It | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • August 29, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 2 Comments. Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. So are goals. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” December 2011.

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How Much Margin Do You Have? | Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer

The Recovering Engineer

While I was in the Navy and learning to become an Engineering Officer, I learned about the specific margins that were built into both the submarine and the engineering plant to ensure safe operation. This is a big question to consider, and it relates directly to how you set your goals for next year. Photo by Vincent van der Pas.

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Is Your Heart the Boss of You? | Aspire-CS

Persuasive Powerhouse

Research is showing that the heart can learn and send out dopamine (a pleasure chemical that influences behavior) and oxytocin (a chemical associated with the feeling of love). Most people, including myself would always associate these chemicals with the brain and nervous system. I agree that balance is key.

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Great Leadership: a Lot of This and That

Persuasive Powerhouse

Involving others in decisions and working together toward goals and objectives are an imperative. Relationship Oriented and Goal Oriented: Developing and sustaining high-quality workplace relationships is becoming more important. Continuous communication of the goals reminds people of where they are headed, keeping them on track.

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What Businesses Need to Know About Sustainable Development Goals

Harvard Business Review

More than 190 member countries committed to “eliminate poverty in all its forms everywhere” by 2030, together with 16 other “big, hairy, audacious goals” — to use Jim Collins’ memorable phrase. Third, the goals cannot be realized without business participation. during the assembly. The case is clear.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change? Was a year like 2011 likely ?

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

The authors then show how to best execute specific initiatives, test major project assumptions, and develop a culture that values disciplined experimentation and learning over meeting mindless and unrealistic goals. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. Copyright 2011.