Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2010

 Quite frankly, we could all stand to focus a little more time and energy on the things that make us happy in life.  Quite frankly, we could all stand to focus a little more time and energy on the things that make us happy in life. There are also serious business ramifications to be found in The Happiness Project.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

A mouse running on a mousewheel can perfect their stride and reduce the amount of energy it takes to get "moving." The mechanistic world of the industrial age continues to have a grip on our belief system. " If the goal is to get somewhere the mouse is efficiently ineffective. I can use a hand grenade to kill a mosquito.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

– How to Create and Implement a Knowledge Transfer Program, part 1 Posted by Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill on November 10, 2010 · 2 Comments The clock is ticking: next year, in 2011, the oldest of the 76 million Baby Boomers turn 65. Companies in many industries stand to lose significant numbers of highly skilled, tenured workers.

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How To Tacit Knowledge Intellectual Capital Newsletter 72

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. The military continues to lead the way on energy and climate. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change? But please.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

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. Where professionals once wrote memos to be read, 2011 begins an era in which documents are written with touch both in mind and on fingertips. That's right.

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Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

By the mid-1980’s, the American semiconductor industry seemed like it was doomed. Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

For more information about Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill and Surviving the Baby Boomer Exodus (Course Technology PTR, Cengage Learning 2010), please visit their website www.survivingtheboomerexodus.com. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2015

I blogged about my experience in healthcare back in 2011 and described how my “hope level” for improvement in healthcare has gone up and down like a sine-wave pattern over the last 20-30 years. Healthcare is the latest industry to experience a change in worldview from “machine management” to “system management.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

Ten years after Kleiner star John Doerr was moved to tears during his TED talk about climate change , there’s no longer any question that VCs’ interest in clean energy is waning. VC investment in cleantech “has declined sharply since 2011” according to a new analysis by the Brookings Institution.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. Tweets that mention Healthcare Mergers: An Emerging Crisis | StrategyDriven -- Topsy.com says: February 1, 2011 at 4:21 pm [.] Johns Hopkins is not alone.

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Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? 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! Adapt ideas from other industries.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Services include: Executive Coaching Group Coaching Leadership Consulting Organization and Individual Leadership Assessments Motivational Speaking Technology Leadership When we think of selfless leaders, many great names come to mind: Jesus; Gandhi; King; Lincoln; Mandela; Stockdale… the list goes on.

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Leadership Newsletter Executive Coaching Follow-up 56

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

The cloud containing most of this data is vast and abstract; the technology that keeps it running takes up real space — a lot of it. If the cloud were itself a country, it would rank fifth in the world on energy demand behind the U.S., Google has invested almost $1 billion directly in renewable energy. The problem.

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Energy Efficiency Industry Telecommunications 14

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. He is a regularly featured keynote speaker at industry associations and for leading companies on the power of social media.

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Guidelines Management Media Newsletter 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). How did we get here, and what does it mean for the industry? oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011. The soaring U.S.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. And remember that technology connects people in faster and more transparent ways than ever! Social Nation sets forth the foundations for this new way of doing business.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. In 2011, the U.S.

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Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). By focusing on a straightforward insight: truly transformative industrial changes aren't driven by technologies replacing technologies , but by systems replacing systems.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In sum, digital strategies and rapid technological obsolescence increases the mortality rates among existing public firms, but does not correspondingly increase the demand for IPOs. Such acquisitions become more lucrative with rising first-mover advantages, pace of technological development, and network externality.

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IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. Consolidation of the financial sector has led to similar dynamics in other industries. This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S.

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Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A 2011 McKinsey study estimated that the internet accounted for 21% of GDP growth over the previous five years among the developed countries studied, a sharp increase over the 10% contribution over the 15 years prior. digital industries. As most of us know by now, we have an increasingly internet-powered economy.

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Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

“Spotting problems within the limited space of a substation is relatively easy,” says Chris Prince, application engineer at GE Digital Energy. The system was already tested by Hurricane Irene in 2011 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012. “It’s a high-density nerve center for distributing power.

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Wireless Energy Software System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. In many industries, drones are poised to generate what Paul Nunes and I call Big Bang Disruptions, with the FAA itself estimating $100 billion in new business growth.

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Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Every industry will soon be driven by digitization and every winning company will be using algorithms, or mathematical rules for processing information, to shape the end-to-end customer experience. Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Building a new Social Nation isn’t just about a paradigm shift in technology. So for goodness’ sake, respect what they have to say and take their input to heart!

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Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. How would it integrate into the culture of the larger organization?

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. He is a regularly featured keynote speaker at industry associations and for leading companies on the power of social media. Check it out!

Media 57

Media Learning-by-Doing Newsletter Blog 57

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The McKinsey Global Institute reports that price volatility has hit a high , second only to the energy crisis of the 1970s. Recycling is already a lucrative $236 billion industry. But recycling — melting down products and making new ones — is energy intensive. And current recycling technology is limited.

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Resources McKinsey Globalization Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. Experimentation is required to build new businesses and industries. For the last century, America has operated on the world's technological frontier. That was down from 9.7% in the previous quarter and from its blistering 11.9%

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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million. Bain & Company recently surveyed about 750 employees across industries in Brazil, China, India, Germany, the UK, and the U.S. The projects produced financial and environmental benefits, of course.

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Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. He is a regularly featured keynote speaker at industry associations and for leading companies on the power of social media.

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Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

It can be inside information about the company or its industry or something that might be unrelated but leads to the point you want to make. Use a higher level of energy than you used in the earlier parts of the presentation. Yet another good grabber is the startling fact. Spell it out, step-by-step. Consider leaving a comment!

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Power Audience Kaplan Short-term 56

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. Leadership should make it clear that they are offended by wasting time, as it’s also wasting energy, resources and brain space. Levine is an expert on lean and agile software development and information technology.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps. Corporations like these have the assets, resources, and capabilities necessary to fuel innovation.

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Innovation Company Transportation Software 8