Chart Your Course

MARCH 4, 2013

In uncertain economic times, it’s common for businesses to focus their time and energies on ways to cut costs. This means planning for training and setting realistic goals so employees can do their jobs and produce the best results for the company. Not so according to a 2012 Gallup Business Poll. Quality first.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 1, 2012

But rapid realignment needs energy that is focused, that drives continuous improvement and works to achieve the organization's purpose. This energy comes when an employee is engaged, so let's take a look at what engagement is all about. © 2012 Dr. George H. Energizing the system from top to bottom is a key task of leadership.

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QAspire

JULY 1, 2012

Resistance is negative energy, but energy nevertheless. Try directing this energy instead into constructive initiatives that leave people feel more valued. Establish goals, keep setting expectations, define milestones and let your team members stretch to achieve those. Keep them positive. Use “we” more often than “I”.

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Engaging Leader

JUNE 2, 2014

He’s found that being short but memorable has made a real difference toward those goals. Leaves listeners/readers with energy and brainpower to think about the information, share the ideas, and act on them. Bill Holston is Executive Director of the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas.

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Power Document Letter Video 221

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

There’s Chief Executive’s 2012 40 Best Companies for Leaders , Fortune’s 25 Top Companies for Leaders , and the just published Hay Group Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20. Similarly, 89 percent of the Top 20 companies encourage employees to set challenging or aggressive goals, versus only 69 percent of all other companies.

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Company Leadership Press Release Innovation 241

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment turnover reached a total of almost 50 million from June 2011 to June 2012, including voluntary separations, layoffs and firings. What are his or her professional goals and do they fit with your vision for the company? According to the U.S. So what can be done to ensure the right person is hired?

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Tim Milburn

JUNE 21, 2012

The most frustrated relationships are those where one person spends a lot of energy trying to change the other person. One of my goals this year is to increase the number of posts I write on a weekly basis. Since January, 2012, I have tried to offer 4-5 posts per week. Yet there is an incredible paradox at work here. .”

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Resistance Maturity Learning-by-Doing Sports 160

Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Did I meet my goals? What drains my energy just to think about doing again? Here’s to a great 2012! What did I attempt that didn’t work? What could I do better with a little tweaking? What should I stop doing so I can do other things? Where is my time most being wasted? What was my most memorable moment?

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Planning Energy Review Goal 57

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

first became aware of Les Hayman in July 2012 when I read his excellent guest post for Gurprriet Siingh – “ Transforming HR – How a CEO did it.” The formal review process may be needed for grading, goal setting, record keeping and salary changes, but too often can spring surprises for both reviewer and reviewed.

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CEO Performance Review Review Learning-by-Doing 217

You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 6, 2014

If, however, you were to break it down and take time to celebrate milestones along the way, it might be entirely more digestible and provide sufficient energy to keep going. The time we think we save by not resting is usually lost when our physical and mental energies go on the wane. Note: Originally published in the Summer of 2012.

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Project Energy Engineering Motivation 61

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

energy industries, from oil and gas to ethanol, wind, and solar, have long enjoyed lavish government subsidies and other support. One reason that clean energy tends to be more expensive than fossil fuel is that it can be. But those days are coming to an end. As long as it's subsidized, there is little pressure to compete on price.

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Energy Price Long-term Banking 10

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

A 2012 Custom Insight survey revealed that 49% of workers cited problems with their direct supervisor as their reason for disengagement. We’ve also learned that learners don’t commit time and energy to any program, course, or event. It’s business as usual. Business moves along. We do more and produce less.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 265

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

As business tycoon Richard Branson has proclaimed in 2012, “our only option to stop climate change is for industry to make money from it.” Avoiding dangerous climate change requires the radical decarbonization of energy, transportation, and manufacturing on a scale that is historically unprecedented.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

The cover of the January-February 2012 Harvard Business Review featured a yellow smiley face with dollar signs as crinkles at each end of the smile. The Zorro Circle – regain emotional control when overwhelmed by challenges by focusing on small manageable goals and gradually expanding our circle.

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The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 26, 2012

This mutual goal achievement is represented in the red collaborative overlap of the twin circles: here representing the company and the individual (although they can also represent any two parties coming together). The chart can serve as an aid to self-awareness, and an understanding of the behaviors of others.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Stanford Ovshinsky 1922-2012. In 1960, Mr. Ovshinsky with his wife, Iris, founded Energy Conversion Laboratory, where he worked on what became known as the "Ovshinsky effect" that underlay his later advances in electronics. In February 1986, SPS was purchased by McDonnell Douglas Energy Systems, Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reported that companies waste 30% of the energy they consume. For many businesses, this is equivalent to overspending on energy by that amount to achieve current production levels. Managing utilities has also become more complex as the energy landscape has evolved.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 4, 2012

It reveals your top-of-mind thoughts, issues, concerns, goals, problems, and attitude toward them. Energy/positive anticipation. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Below are possible answers. Here’s what to do : Think of all these answers IN TERMS OF YOURSELF, FIRST. What wakes YOU up? This is GREAT.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

Finding common ground about the zeal and joys inherent in running a company results in better buy-in and support of the goals. The mentor requests pro-active changes of mentee, evaluates realism of goals, offers truths about path to success and shortcomings of mentee’s approaches. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Mentor Case Study Strategic Planning Learning-by-Doing 90

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The cap-and-trade program is the centerpiece of California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, also known as AB 32 — a suite of clean energy solutions that has proved to be the engine of an astounding economic transformation that drove statewide growth at twice the rate of the U.S. dependence on foreign oil. million annually.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Human beings live to attract goals. Organizations get people caught in activity traps…unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. Managers lose sight of their employees’ goals. Mutually agreed-upon goals are vital. Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. by Hank Moore.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Clay Christensen writes, "Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life's strategy." But as Christensen observes, we often default to short-term tasks even when many of them may not connect to our bigger goals. Focus on the goal versus just using up time. It is possible.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

What the White House called "doubling down on" clean energy. Improving energy efficiency standards for things like appliances and federal buildings, a worthy follow up to the aggressive auto fuel efficiency standards passed last year. Carbon-based energy will be more expensive and clean energy will be cheaper.

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Payback Period Energy Politics Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Set Measurable Goals. The result was a finite set of very concrete goals. What’s peculiar about the design of these goals is that the president made commitments that were strikingly measurable. Understanding this challenge, the president mobilized energy and focus by articulating goals that were easily measurable.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

but strong management is an important differentiator in both digital delivery and in aligning that delivery to strategic goals. Without this focus, development energy can be expended on the wrong feature rather than optimization of a micro-interaction to drive conversion. Management is often maligned (sometimes for good reason!),

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. The shifting energy equation, for example, sets the stage for growth. Shale gas will allow the US to be energy independent, create an export industry, and reduce energy costs. Reset your goals and KPIs.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

In 2012, China''s top six solar companies had debt ratios of over 80%. In the Chinese industries we studied — solar, steel, glass, paper, and auto parts — labor was between 2% and 7% of production costs, and imported raw materials and energy accounted for most costs. or European Union. and European steel.

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Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Airbnb has nearly doubled its user base every year since 2012 and is now worth $30 billion — nearly as much as Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel chain. economy became more concentrated from 1997 to 2012, and that the average share of the top four firms in each sector rose from 26% to 32%.

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Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The 1970s, 1980s, and even the 1990s were dominated by legendary players such as Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer, and Diego Maradona, who, thanks to their skill and speed, found empty spaces in midfield, created the time to take the ball to the box, and then decided to pass or shoot at the goal.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

A 130-year-old energy conglomerate, Black Hills doubled its workforce to about 2,000 employees after an acquisition. Like many energy companies, a combination of challenges — an aging workforce, the need for specialized skills, and a lengthy timeline for getting employees to full competence — created a significant talent risk.

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Company Human Resources Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

At the same time, surveys on consumers in the US and UK show that they also care about minimizing energy use and reducing waste. In Brazil, multinational corporation Adidas has been running a shoe-recycling program called “Sustainable Footprint” since 2012. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Type 1 diabetes renders the pancreas incapable of producing the insulin necessary to shift glucose out of the bloodstream and into cells where it can be converted into energy. When his son, Hayden, was diagnosed with the disease, in 2009, Lane was a product manager at GE Energy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Smart leaders make New Year resolutions and set quarterly milestones, charting progress against ambitious plans and goals. North Stars align our energy, emotions, and actions in the service of our vision. You don't have to separate Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) goals and project goals.

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Self-aware Franchising Quality Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Those who expend a great deal of energy repressing themselves are also more likely to say that they are being promoted quickly. When Latino talent thrives, organizations are much more likely to meet their goals of diversifying leadership, attracting and retaining top talent, and tapping into the enormous market opportunities.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Massachusetts was at the forefront of the movement when it introduced a right-to-repair law for motor vehicles in 2012, which was subsequently expanded nationally in 2018. This could result in the market being flooded with older, more energy inefficient products. As a result, manufacturers could increase the prices of new products.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

M-KOPA sells a home solar energy system for about US $200, too much for any of its customers to pay at one time, but the same as what a household could expect to spend on kerosene in a year. From 2012–2013 alone, the service improved Turkish farmers’ productivity by an estimated €190 million. Currently 1.2

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

In the fast growth markets of Asia, Africa and Latin America, national governments are responding to a more empowered citizenship, and looking for corporate partners to achieve their development goals. CEO Ginni Rometty took the top job in 2012, and identified Africa as a locus of technological growth early in her tenure.

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