Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 8, 2013

I felt my energy shift. Many years later as I work with companies, I often wonder why most don’t feel energy around the vision they created. What is the story that you will write about your future today that bears the energy and the emotion that will sustain action on days when nothing seems worth it? The possibility.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The following six ideas emerged this past year as powerful "innovation invitations." They'll be sources of — and resources for — innovation differentiation this coming year. If your organization doesn't find them innovatively interesting, then be careful: they may be wielded by the competitors you most dread.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

” There is an implicit hope that when people – especially managers – hear great words, they will start to exhibit great behavior. Before the energy conglomerate’s collapse in 2001, I had the opportunity to review Enron’s values. Enron is a great example.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

And I predict that leaders who get the whole story, and act on it, will reap unexpectedly better workplace morale in 2012, despite all the uncertainty and volatility of the global economic realities. I also think something else is going on, and leaders need to pay attention to this subtle but notable shift in employee energy.

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The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 26, 2012

And yet, too many distressed managers believe employees are out for themselves and motivated primarily by money. When an individual’s personal values are aligned with the core values of the company, that’s when passion is ignited – and that creates the collaboration that drives innovation, productivity, growth and competitive advantage.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. The list goes on. However, not all investments are equal.

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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. That was enough for Lane.

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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. Entrepreneurship aids economic vitality by getting rid of complacent incumbents, accelerating innovation, and creating jobs. Considering the following.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Just two months ago, we announced the Management 2.0 Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. Morning Star is one of the world's leading processors of tomatoes and one of the most progressive models of a self-managed enterprise. Story by Jim Lavoie. Story by Frédéric Leconte.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. As business tycoon Richard Branson has proclaimed in 2012, “our only option to stop climate change is for industry to make money from it.”

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Grab, which launched its service in 2012 with 40 drivers in Malaysia, came late to the ride-hailing game, only after Uber had established a formidable position in the United States. Transportation, aviation, health care, and energy all require physical delivery, whereas media, music, and advertisement do not.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

Every company has a limited amount of time, money, and resources that it can invest in innovation. That’s why they should focus their energies on opportunities that will set them apart from their competition — that is, they should innovate where they differentiate. So what about your company? Is it differentiating itself?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Just look at Kodak in the past few months leading up to leap year 2012. Easier than we all think (and Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma is one of the best books around on leadership drift). Make your Innovator's DNA come alive. Essentially, he put lots of energy into catching drift before it caught Apple.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. — data from the 2012 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor showed that the vast majority of the 69 countries surveyed reported higher entrepreneurial activity among immigrants than among natives, especially in growth-oriented ventures. Immigrants represent 27.5%

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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. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

In 2012, Cabot became a certified B Corp. According to Chris McAllister , vice president for reputation management and public affairs at Nielsen, companies engaged in “sincerely-driven” CSR must work harder to convince consumers of this fact.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

According to a new study published by the Center for Talent Innovation, Latinos at Work: Unleashing the Power of Culture , most Latinos in the U.S. Those who expend a great deal of energy repressing themselves are also more likely to say that they are being promoted quickly. trillion within the next four years.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

While you would expect online giants like Amazon and companies like Netflix to be early innovators in the use of data to recommend products or movies, you only care about the answer to one question: what does big data mean for the everyday employee and how can regular businesses extract real value from it? Black Hills Corp.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Fostering innovation. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Autonomous vehicles will profoundly affect insurance, road design and construction, traffic management, taxi and limousine services, the materials and safety equipment in vehicles, and asset ownership (who needs to own a car when one can simply be summoned from the most efficient location?).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Nonetheless, between 2012 and mid-2103, Banner has captured nearly $70 million in savings, and by 2017, the savings will contribute $256 million annually to its bottom line. With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

In time, the unique public-private sector initiative will hopefully yield new ways to manage Alzheimer’s, dementia, and other related conditions. Physicians and nurse practitioners often focus their energies on the patients in front of them. The health care system has had little to offer the 5.2 Focus on caregiver involvement.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly. They have adopted a silo mentality of departmental self-interest, maintaining rigid, top-down hierarchies that act as a barrier to cooperative participation and promote a dependency on managers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software. Although Kodak had a slow start, it did, in fact, manage a miraculous, successful digital transformation. A misunderstood story. Diversify.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

On the belief that everyone in the division would need to support the campaign to make it successful, he spent as much energy cultivating internal ownership as external engagement. In 2012, they were ranked as the 4th fastest-growing tech company by Technology Fast 500. The result? 2) Don''t push products, solve problems.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Crassly put, leaders and managers get knowledge and education while training and skills go to those who do the work. ” When I see just how difficult and challenging it is for so many smart and talented organizations to innovate and adapt under pressure, I see people who are overeducated and undertrained. That scares me.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The energy, collaboration, and drive can fade as the staff grows, individuals separate into discrete silos, and workers in specialized functions grow disconnected from the larger purpose. For example, employees might technically be able to take unlimited vacation, but managers might view those who take too many days off as slackers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly. They have adopted a silo mentality of departmental self-interest, maintaining rigid, top-down hierarchies that act as a barrier to cooperative participation and promote a dependency on managers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Undeniably there is more pressure on the things we all depend on: finite resources like water, energy, food, certain metals and minerals, and ecosystems like fisheries and forests. The change has not gone unremarked by management's leading thinkers. And of course, more pressure on climate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. At Essent, the Dutch energy company, CEO Erwin van Laethem provided practical guidance to his CMO. “My He has to invest the time and energy not just reading documents but really problem solving.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

What's the biggest impediment to innovation within an organization? Milliken for the Academy of Management Review and Stern Business pegged fear — and the resulting silence when employees operate within a culture of fear — as the biggest roadblock to innovation. Fear of conflict with a manager.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The 2012 OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study showed the UK invested the 8th largest amount out of 34 OECD countries, but only came 19th in mathematics, 14th in science and 16th in reading. In a profession that prioritizes teaching and often thinks schools can’t, or shouldn’t, be managed.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

Nick Bilton of The New York Times strongly suggests that comfort and wealth are inimical to innovation. But a couple of academic studies suggest an alternative view — that in certain contexts, at least, innovation thrives in comfortable, calm, conflict-free zones. municipal governments.

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