Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 8, 2010

Just as we spend a lot of time to recruit or hire a person – the many rounds of interview, the technical as well as personality assessments, etc – we need to spend an equal amount of time, effort and energy before we fire someone. Sorry about the long comment. We must act on it responsibly. Good post, Mary Jo.

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CO2

JANUARY 3, 2011

The idea is that when moving to action you first observe the battlefield or what ever areana you are operating in. Once you have done this you then look at that information in terms of context or Orientation. Boyd saw this as a group of interacting loops that are in continous operation until the end of the battle.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 28, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. To read Kathryn’s complete biography, click here. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

While that has long been considered traditional retirement age, Boomers are known for bucking the system. How do your organization’s strategic and operational goals inform what work roles will be needed in the future? Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. What are your employees’ retirement plans?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

In some cases, insurers have actually agreed to increase what they’ll pay so long as other insurers are forced to pay even more. Blue Cross wrote that TheraMatrix’s operations were “competitive and damaging not only to BCBSM’s financial interests, but also to its business relationships.&# Juliano Howard T.

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Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Forget all the buzzwords and acronyms, social media is about meeting your constituencies where they are – in a setting of their choosing, and communicating with them on their terms. If you believe the hype, social media will immediately solve all your problems and require no time, energy or effort on your part. link] Allan W.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

but they expend far more energy intentionally searching for opportunity, but not just any opportunity – a game changer. While there were clearly a few moments last week that I found instructionally valuable in terms of creating a game changer ( Nando Parrado ), there weren’t nearly enough of them.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 13, 2010

My initial reaction to these comments was curiosity at their surprise that working on themselves would develop them as leaders (it’s what I’ve helped leaders with for a long time, after all). Working on all of these issues is such a drain on my energy. I’ve spent some time thinking about that. Either way great post.

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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). The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images. The soaring U.S.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. The bigger the playing field, the more trust, familiarity, and rapport count.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

But all too often, the long lag time between recognizing the need for a new solution and actually purchasing and implementing it leads to lost sales, lost opportunities, and lost productivity. StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Dickens Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

"Off the charts" is both figuratively and literally accurate: the data for the last 100 years shows a tight regression of temperature and water availability in Texas.except for the 2011 drought, which is far off the line (three degrees hotter with an inch less rainfall than any previous year). And it's not a short-term problem, either.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Listening with their full attention, the audience members heard Mr. Halla talk about his concern about the economy, then lead to the need for managers to look for near-term opportunities for growth. Use a higher level of energy than you used in the earlier parts of the presentation. You can ask many different kinds of questions.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

When you stop to think about it, you’ll realize that your fans and followers are essentially volunteering their time and energy to serve as developers, sounding boards, and advertisements for your company. StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. But as long as you are fair, as long as you do what you say consistently, you will still be trusted. The cost of untruths to an organization can be huge in terms of time, money, trust, and reputation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

General Mills’ CEO recently blamed the winter for less-than-expected earnings , saying that “severe winter weather…disrupted plant operations and logistics…We lost 62 days of production…which hasn’t happened in decades. It might have actually generated increased revenue as well, if it meant operating while competitors couldn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. The platform brings wind, solar and other renewable energy producers — even individual homes equipped with solar panels — into the same ecosystem. Make the tough calls on people.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. But as long as you are fair, as long as you do what you say consistently, you will still be trusted. The cost of untruths to an organization can be huge in terms of time, money, trust, and reputation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

But a study from 1999 found that long-run performance of both the former parent company and the divested unit is strongly positive, provided that the spin-off increases the company’s focus. A detailed roadmap should outline how it will become autonomous in terms of revenues and/or access to central services.

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Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

At Essent, the Dutch energy company, CEO Erwin van Laethem provided practical guidance to his CMO. “My That process incorporates operations, customer service, R&D, clinical specialists, sales, supply chain operators, and service teams. Informal practices can be even more helpful. That was very helpful.”.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The CEO joked with the men, complimented them on their work, and treated them as long-term team members. There are two basic operating modes for organizations under high-stakes execution pressure. Essentially, when people stop believing they can win, some then devote their energy to how best to lose. the winner’s mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Major change also takes a long time to implement — between five and seven years on average — and the performance improvements that are achieved rarely last. I put my immediate energies toward building an exceptionally strong executive team. Organizational transformation is notoriously difficult. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Ben : So, Larry, you mentioned your introduction to the Quakers and Robert Greenleaf is that when you first heard of the term servant-leadership? Larry : And that essay was published in 1970, when Greenleaf coined the term, “servant-leader”. Discovering Servant-Leadership. I just wondered, it was his original essay, wasn’t it?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

I’ve simply lived too long to buy into the myth that success in the workplace will create happiness at home. I'm looking forward to learning from you in 2011. I'm looking forward to 2011 and I appreciate your advice and friendship. One way I have thought about these issues is in terms of one's calling.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Ben : So, Larry, you mentioned your introduction to the Quakers and Robert Greenleaf is that when you first heard of the term servant-leadership? Larry : And that essay was published in 1970, when Greenleaf coined the term, “servant-leader”. Discovering Servant-Leadership. I just wondered, it was his original essay, wasn’t it?

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. Zhou reportedly felt that the original Yahoos were overpaid and lazy, whereas the Yahoo team felt bullied and believed Zhou wasn’t focused on the Yahoo operations. This created tension from the get-go.

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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. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Trust vs. Fear - Leading by instilling fear, while it can get things done in the short term, simply doesn’t work over the long haul. This makes a huge difference in the overall attitude and energy of the entire group. Building trust is the much better approach, although it takes a heck of a lot more effort. SURESHKUMAR.S

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Leadership How To Blog Learning-by-Doing 337

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

He had just spent several days reviewing our business operations, and after absorbing our successes and industry-leading metrics, he couldn’t figure it out on his own. I fervently believe that injecting a “ can do &# spirit and a positive, “up&# energy is an absolutely essential part of any success equation.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. While I long ago reached the conclusion that perception does in fact matter, it may not be for the reasons that you might think. I think the reticence of people to [.]

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Become top management’s partner in efficiency of operations. Values in terms of savings: Time and motion savings. Values in terms of efficiencies: Meantime between new product introductions. Continuous quality improvement within your own operation.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. Or, do we now see the need and importance to embrace longer-term approaches? The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. Operational Statistics. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2011

New year projections are the best time to benchmark progress and adjust sights for the coming term. Organizations get people caught in activity traps… unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. Goals release energy. View goals as long-term, rather than short-term.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

Extreme weather brings unpredictable dangers for physical assets or massive disruptions to supply chains (like auto and hard drive companies found out with floods in Thailand in 2011). So are a lighting retrofit, a boiler overhaul, innovation to reduce energy use of your products, and much more. Risk management Sustainability'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

After making $50 million in insurance claims in 2011 alone, the company's insurance rates will certainly rise. In the Thailand floods of November 2011, both the hard-drive industry and the automotive sector experienced serious supply chain problems. This kind of disruption is only going to grow.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

One can wake up, realize their energy has been zapped and experience setbacks in their business because he-she was spending disproportionate time on networking. ” Sizing you in terms of immediate benefit to them, they either probe further or move on. These people couch their requests in terms of your benefit.

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