Chart Your Course

MARCH 4, 2013

In uncertain economic times, it’s common for businesses to focus their time and energies on ways to cut costs. When a business shortchanges their labor or quality – its products, services, or level of customer service can suffer. Some of these knee-jerk reactions can have a negative impact on a business’ performance and growth.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Ranking third in Popular Science ‘s list of ‘America’s Greenest Cities,’ Boston is putting its recovery money toward clean-energy initiatives. Partner with local R&D brainpower to start your own clean-energy venture. You don’t need to be a scientist to benefit from science money.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Houston energy magnate Dan Duncan who died earlier this year had an estimated net worth of $9 billion, and television industry mogul John Kluge died with a $6.5 As we read year-end and best-of 2010 articles and watch the tribute shows, take a moment to try to add up the cumulative wealth of those being remembered. billion estate.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

If you are thinking these thoughts, you are creating an energy frequency, and therefore, a negative reality around them. Do you notice an immediate lift of energy in your body? Money is a wonderful expression of energy.” It is a word that mirrors an energy of growth and limitless living. This is an inner game.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Human Resources technology decisions are driven by a need to access information and report on it meaningfully. Improve productivity, Enhance the bottom line… StrategyDriven Premium Subscriber Login Align Your Organization and Become StrategyDriven! Learn the value of an Enterprise Content Management system for HR professionals.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Episode 6 – Developing a Collaborative, Productive Culture examines how leaders can develop a collaborative, productive culture where conflict is used constructively to better the organization’s overall performance. Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation ! Click here to cancel reply.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Figure out what is sucking up your time preventing you from being productive and profitable. It’s how you achieve those goals that matters most in terms of time, expense and energy. Find a way to rework your ratio of administrative and billable activities that will allow you to stay focused on your strategy.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2011

Whether you are in an office, factory or on a construction site, the principles presented will improve your retention and enable you to save your organization thousands of dollars due to lost productivity, poor quality and customer service issues. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. About the Author. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Demonstrate positive work values that build a productive work culture. AMA’s Igniting Commitment: Engaging Employees for Breakthrough Performance seminar will give you the practical strategies to get more out of every employee by creating the excitement and engagement that leads to greater motivation and productivity.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. No one is equally expert at both.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

Emerging digital firms compete with knowledge, strategy, and expert human capital, attacking even the largest established firms. They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But entrepreneurial know-how and energy can work very effectively in the context of plugging-in as a supplier, as Steve Cronce and thousands of others are learning. Havens, accustomed to selling benefits services to Fortune 1000 human resources departments, found its key contact person assigned to IBM procurement instead.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Is your company ready to compete in a world of smart, connected products ? ” In this world, customers expect their suppliers to surround their products with data services and digitally enhanced experiences. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. The first step was to hire someone to run it. ” Hiring for Growth.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 Nuclear reactors melted down, disrupting the national grid, reversing energy policies as far away as Germany, and contaminating a part of Japan for generations to come. Everyone knows the story. earthquake off Japan's east coast triggered a massive tsunami and led to a cascading series of problems.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In each iteration, we spent a lot of time thinking about what might make the best use of our existing product. 3721’s core product was essentially an early form of search: a browser download that helped users in China go directly to destination web sites. Only legal, finance, and human resources still reported back to headquarters.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Product-service movement at business-to-business levels. Product-service movement at retail levels. Product-service movement in the aftermarket (resales, repeat business, referrals, followup engagements). Productivity gained.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Employees work hard, rather than productively. People caught in activity traps shrink, rather than grow, as human beings. Human resources development. Goals release energy. Organizations get people caught in activity traps… unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

These executives spend much of their energies on planning, tactics, organizational development and business development. Optimizing human resources and building capacity among staff to manage for results. Making the best use of financial resources in an efficient manner to achieve results. Culture and Mission.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Barring any Congressional action to change this law, taxes were set to revert back to their pre-2001 rates on January 1, 2011. This provision was extended through 2011. Implements a payroll tax holiday for workers in 2011. In 2011, workers will pay 4.2% Extends unemployment insurance coverage through 2011. .

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