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

Great Leadership By Dan

Electrical vehicles in transportation. This suggests a new type of leadership – one that Jeff Walker and his coauthors have referred to as “shapers”. To increase the innovative output of business, especially the output of sustainable technologies, requires pushes and nudges along the edges. Electrification in heavy industrials.

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

Women on Business

New York , NY With the financial sector reeling, New York is counting on technological innovation to save the day. Specifically, the state is pinning its hopes on small business, with a portion of federal R&D funds “set aside for small business to develop and commercialize innovative technology.&#

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2010 Has Been A Pretty Good Year for Elon Musk

Next Level Blog

  When his company was just about to run out of cash, his engineers rigged a Smart car with Tesla batteries and he convinced the executives of Daimler Benz to license his technology.   Wonder what 2011 has in store for him?   It's funny and informative. Click Here.

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America’s Transportation Infrastructure Needs Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Sensors, smartphones, tablets, wireless networks, and Big Data are starting to transform transportation and infrastructure. In the case of the FAA and mobile technology, the slow-moving agency is trying its best to be nimbler. On the roads, new technology is growing in importance. Photo by Andrew Nguyen. But not fast enough.

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3 Ways to Motivate Employees During Times of Change :: Women on.

Women on Business

We had our own boom and bust cycle of people seeking rooms for the event, along with constant speculation about the number of people involved, and how the city’s transportation and services would hold up. Leadership and Change It was a planned change. Leave a comment and share your ideas. Nothing like changes that occur.

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Dilbert Got it Wrong - The Truth about Empowerment

Building Personal Strength

It means giving people everything they need to do their best work - things like tools, equipment, supplies, technology, transportation, facilities, communication, personnel, information, and time. True empowerment involves a lot more than giving away authority. But empowerment according to the broader, more realistic definition.

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Five Ways to Land in the Executive Chair

Strategy Driven

Here are five suggestions for enlisting in this august body of leaders: Practice F2 Leader Leadership – What explains the differences between the leader who rises steadily through the ranks versus the one whose career mysteriously jumps the track short of an executive position? Present and future executives need more. But remember.