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MFG of South Dakota: Trying To Do Some Good in the World

N2Growth Blog

At that time, the company cited changes in market conditions and proposed revisions to tax policies impacting the wind energy industry in the United States as the reasons to shutter its South Dakota operation. Certainly, firms looking to profit from sustainable energy initiatives are in business to make a profit.

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Why Your Good Leadership Isn’t Great.

Rich Gee Group

An incredible book by Jim Collins — relates how certain companies overcame their obstacles and pushed themselves from being just good companies to the stars of their industry. How can you communicate more effectively and efficiently in 2011? What can you do differently in 2011 to make faster and more reliable decisions?

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Diverse Teams Help Organizations Adapt To Change

The Horizons Tracker

Team dynamics The study surveyed over 140,000 alumni from Stanford University, resulting in a dataset of more than 1,000 entrepreneurs who founded ventures across 19 industries from 1960 to 2011, ranging from agriculture to energy and utilities.

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Built to Win

Great Leadership By Dan

In Major League Baseball, the 2011 New York Yankees were built to win but didn't make it to the World Series. Evolve, Learn & Refine Daily With your standards now defined, spend time and energy paying attention to the quality of the work environment and your team’s performance. Test new approaches.

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Why Your Good Leadership Isn't Great.

Rich Gee Group

An incredible book by Jim Collins — relates how certain companies overcame their obstacles and pushed themselves from being just good companies to the stars of their industry. How can you communicate more effectively and efficiently in 2011? What can you do differently in 2011 to make faster and more reliable decisions?

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Leadership Comes in Many Forms. Helping Business Save the Earth.

Great Leadership By Dan

Renewable energy in electricity generation. Electrification in heavy industrials. In 2011, he was named one of the top 40 business professors under 40 by Poets & Quants. Electrical vehicles in transportation. And the list goes on. Innovation is more than invention.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

With the highest per capita spending across all industries, Washington, D.C. 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.