Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 8, 2010

August 8th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus As an executive coach for the last eight years, I’ve had some phenomenal clients put on a short list of “leaders to discard” even though they shouldn’t have been. Don’t Fire That Person (Yet)! We must act on it responsibly. At the time, I held the record of firing people.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 22, 2010

So if your intent is to engage your team and/or have great dialog, consider the following: The Physical Environment The room should not be too large or too small: A room that is too large can often suck energy – and sound – away from the discussion. What else have you noticed about the environment that promotes team dialog?

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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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

While the rules may be shifting, the long-term sustainable advantage gained by building a strong brand – a brand that builds stability, trust, loyalty, and drives a premium price – remains consistent. The brand may continue to prosper financially, but until it gets its external perception in line, it faces obstacles in the long-term.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Within the industry he is known as ‘ The Secret Weapon ‘ people call on when they want to rank for extremely competitive terms in short periods of time. StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Posted by Elinor Stutz on December 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment Marketing professionals refer to strategy as your unique selling proposition while sales folk use the term ‘positioning.’ For a very short period of time I sold long-term healthcare insurance for a corporate giant. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2011

Within the industry he is known as ‘ The Secret Weapon ‘ people call on when they want to rank for extremely competitive terms in short periods of time. StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Life’s too short to sit on the sidelines. What you may lack in experience or skill you can make up for in energy and fresh perspectives. Some may argue that the term revolutionary is too strong a word to use. The Impact Graph (click on image to see full size) Yet, I point students back to the Impact Graph.

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The Idolbuster

MAY 3, 2012

In 2011, however, I began having difficulty waking up in the morning. Despite being passionately obsessed with surfing, I found it increasingly difficult to rally the energy to get out the door and to the beach. Life’s just too short and the waves too much fun! For all intents and purposes, I had an ideal and laidback lifestyle.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

As an investor, Calvert recognizes that those companies that combine competitive financial performance with fair and equitable working environments where diversity is not only tolerated but embraced are likely to recognize gains in both the workplace and marketplace and be better positioned to generate long-term value for their shareholders. “We

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Another is that we wake up to reality, challenge the short-term profit demands of Wall Street, get strategic and build our businesses for sustainable growth. In harsh economic times, the gut reaction of many companies is one of prudence and cost control: to take short-term actions that reassure shareholders and citizens.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In short, it works. The most important long term goal and benefit of Win / Loss is to increase a company’s new business win rate. StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Look long-term at the effects of your short-term battles: the reality of peer relationships at the leadership level is that they are often competitive. If he had put half the energy into building the right relationships, he probably could have gone on to become the CEO. As the saying goes, leadership is earned, not given.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

An executive in a power company who was presenting to an important sales prospect opened his talk with a story about a company employee who cut short his vacation and drove 300 miles to help restore power after a hurricane. You can help the audience remember your main points with short catchy phrases. Spell it out, step-by-step.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

If you know that the person you’re presenting to has a short attention span, you want to get to your point as soon as possible. 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.

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Chris Brady

JULY 19, 2010

In short, from a world-view that disdains accomplishment and merit (whatone accomplishes and earns) and instead focuses upon position and power andprestige (who one is and who one knows), heroes are made out of those who seemto succeed despite the rules of effort, contribution, and earning it.

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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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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. Tom Watson, Jr.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

Unsurprisingly, the collapse in oil prices since the summer of 2014 has raised concerns over the long-term stability of the GCC economies, even more so in view of what may yet be a prolonged period of low oil prices. Observers are right to be concerned. Also, after achieving large fiscal surpluses that averaged 12.4% of GDP in 2015 and 2016.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Most would agree that if the energy and morale in an organization or team is lacking, Customers may notice and be impacted by that poor morale. Typically people can’t define or describe better morale in terms of behaviors very well. Make it a long term goal. Make it an expectation. Appreciate and reward it.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

I'm looking forward to learning from you in 2011. We may be able to in the short run, but not when our final stories are written. 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. link] Mike Henry Sr.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2012

As a result, the retailer lost $163 million (compared to earning $64 million in the first quarter of 2011) and suspended its quarterly dividend. In the short term, promotions will turn around revenue and mollify anxious investors. Penney be focusing its energies on weaning customers off of "drugs'? So what do you think?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

August 2011 HBR. A recent program did a deep dive into social networking, energy conservation, and the foundations of the U.S. Currently we send people for many more short-term assignments, occasionally lasting three to five years. Samsung's regional specialist approach has taken a long time to build. Most non-U.S.

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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. Hathaway and Litan stay close to the data in this work and stop short of speculating about causes of this trend. So allow me. In the guitar business , too.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 11, 2010

Set some specific short term goals for them, and better still, throw in an incentive or two (a really good one this time of year is a “free&# Friday or Monday off). Here are 5 easy ways that I have used throughout the years to keep that momentum going.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer, writing in HBR ( December, 2006 and January-February, 2011 ), advance the idea of creating shared value by developing strategies and policies that enhance the competitiveness of the company while advancing social and economic conditions of the community.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

So let’s consider what a company can do in a world that’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous – that’s “VUCA” for short, a military term that’s been adopted by business. Companies (and homes) that generate their own onsite energy will be able to literally weather storms better than competitors. Diversity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

In late 2011, I even wrote , "The overarching trend I continue to see is a shift in the world's innovation energy to the east.". While my long-term optimism remains, I think the region must overcome some very real hurdles before it can realize its potential. It's one of the primary reasons why I moved to Singapore in early 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

The Apple product] reinvented an entire industry" one respondent told us, while another noted in similarly grandiose terms how the same technology "is impossible to stop." Or do they tend to fall short? Hyperbole is exaggerated language used for emphasis or effect. "[The Are your best ideas welcomed and implemented?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

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. 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 likely ?

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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. Short, to the point, and so important to be reminded of! Glad it was shared by a co-worker.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 7, 2010

Even the term “ success ” has a sense of finality to it that works against you. Once again, because of the effort necessary to achieve the milestone, there’s a strong temptation to ease off the accelerator (especially from the rank and file, who have toiled the most), at least for a short period. Leaders must resist that temptation.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

The manager needs to make sure that the company’s short and long-term objectives are always in the front of everyone’s mind, as well as make sure that every individual clearly understands what is expected of them on a day-to-day basis. “ Fc&# is Focus.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. I put my immediate energies toward building an exceptionally strong executive team.

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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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