Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 23, 2015

Like smart investment managers, smart people managers figure out how to shift their investment of time and energy from some parts of their portfolio so they can invest more in other parts where there is more potential for improvement. Here are four moves that smart leaders do to get the highest overall return from their team.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030. According to Gallup , replacing an employee can cost between one-half to two times their annual salary. While it can feel like a localized issue, such market changes are just as possible in U.S.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 2, 2020

are at the lowest levels in almost 40 years, while American clean energy jobs grew by 110,000 last year. This year, the cost of new wind and solar generation dropped below the costs of coal and nuclear energy. Global malaria mortality has dropped by 60% between 2000 and 2015. Coals shipments in the U.S.

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

Like many of the CEOs whom I coach, he was anxious in this pandemic and had a hard time thinking of any other question other than, “How do I cut costs?” The complexity of our current crisis is clearly overwhelming many leaders, who haven’t adjusted to asking new questions that befit the new environment. How can we accomplish this?”

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

Like many of the CEOs whom I coach, he was anxious in this pandemic and had a hard time thinking of any other question other than, “How do I cut costs?” The complexity of our current crisis is clearly overwhelming many leaders, who haven’t adjusted to asking new questions that befit the new environment. How can we accomplish this?”

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 3, 2022

You don’t have the energy for listening to them try to convince you, so you say yes. Marlene Chism is a consultant, international speaker, and the author of Stop Workplace Drama (Wiley 2011), No Drama Leadership (Bibliomotion 2015), and the latest book, From Conflict to Courage: How to Stop Avoiding and Start Leading (Berrett-Koehler 2022).

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Multiple options can linger, sapping an organization’s energy and killing a sense of completion. Timelines stretch while costs skyrocket. Consider the risks/costs of not doing something Asking the question, “What are the risks/costs of not making a decision?” Deciding not to decide has a price. We’re not evil.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 8, 2019

In 1968, the chair of Ontario Hydro said, “I feel safe in predicting that man will have unlimited electrical energy to shape his future during the next hundred years. The more energy we deliver, the lower will be the unit cost of electricity.” It was 200 gigawatts and reached 370 by 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

It means energy turning point. (We In this transformation, we are witnessing the decarbonization of power consumption, thanks to the large-scale deployment of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. In 2015, around 40% of new PV installations were accompanied by a battery. For example, in Germany, more than 1.5

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 2, 2015

In addition to cyber security, she is an industry expert in the fields of infrastructure, application development, application platforms, cost reduction, process improvement, computer operations, and software quality assurance. nuclear power industry which reduced costs with economies of scale, shared content, and secure student data.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The year 2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. Here are eight cross-cutting themes and stories from 2015 that are driving us toward a sustainable world (and two that are doing the opposite): 1. The vision of an all-renewable energy system comes into focus.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Here’s a sample of how bad things really are: The National Automobile Dealers Association’s 2015 Dealership Workforce Study (the most current study of its kind) found that car sales consultants had the highest turnover at 72 percent annually (non-luxury turnover was 80 percent, luxury turnover was 48 percent).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. India love first peaked in July 2008 when India’s government of the time risked its very survival in support of a nuclear energy deal led by Washington. Low-cost Indian repair and maintenance crews can tune up the equipment at night.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

It removes a major source of cost/effort to both supplier and customer and relies on simply being smart with what you already have. Escalating healthcare costs — due in part to the explosion of chronic diseases among Americans — are expected to account for 20% of U.S. GDP by 2020. housing sector.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 7, 2015

Instead, to establish trust, the two sides agreed to intermediate steps that had less riding on them — sending astronauts and cosmonauts up in each other’s vehicles, for instance, or undertaking a relatively simple docking maneuver — so that the failure of either side to live up to its agreements had a lower cost.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Booth exhibitions at trade shows are viable and cost-effective sales tools to: Achieve new customers, in order to grow and increase profits. Trade shows generate sales leads at a lower cost per contact than a typical sales call. Research shows that industrial sales calls costing $252 to reach a prospect, with 4.6

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2015

Use this question to consider the practicality, cost and ease of implementation and sustainability. What if the competition is doing it in half the time or at half the cost? Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Tip #5: Ask “How?” This is where the rubber meets the road. No one wants them anymore!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

for example, a backlog of baby-boomer retirees is expected to turnover upwards of 40 percent of utilities'' 400,000-strong workforce, according to a study by the Task Force on America''s Future Energy Jobs produced by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). In the U.S., The need for digitally savvy technical hires is especially pronounced.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

Record snowfall in Boston of more than 100 inches in the winter of 2015 shut down transit systems for weeks and made it difficult, if not impossible, for some employees to get to work. Indeed, the renewable energy sector is one of the fastest growing employers in the U.S., after Hurricane Katrina.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

However, by subsidizing the shift to green energy, richer blue states can make the eventual transition easier for fossil-fuel-dependent red states. greenhouse gas emissions peaked in 2007, and by 2015 had declined by 10%. Together, such policies would encourage energy-efficient cars and buildings and cleaner power generation.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2015

Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success. Research shows they can be cut in half. Premium pricing for preferred goods/services.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Let’s look at three investments — in wages, time and energy — that could reinvigorate the productivity cycle: Wages. And wages are stagnant.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Due to the drop in costs for solar technology and increases in electric utility rates , solar photovoltaic-generated electricity is now less expensive than grid electricity, and adoption is rising rapidly throughout the U.S. Most people jumping onto the solar bandwagon at this point are doing it for the cost savings.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Aside from these three broad worries, directors are also anxious about corporate tax rates, political instability, and healthcare costs. In response to our survey in late 2015, they told us that on economic matters, uncertainty abounds. Directors of healthcare companies are particularly concerned about healthcare costs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. There are three reasons a rethink is due: East Asia’s shrinking cost advantage. Census Bureau data.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

An exemplar of the new approach is WorleyParsons, a global engineering and construction firm that specializes in oilfield and other energy-related projects. In 2015, the price of oil dropped dramatically. As the crisis intensified, management undertook successive rounds of cost cuts.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In 2015, the world pivoted in a historic way toward sustainability. In response to Trump’s election and his statements doubting climate change, many countries that signed the Paris climate accords in 2015 made it clear they would power on (China in particular — see story number three, below). Then came 2016. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

The global economy is in a massive transition from a fossil-fuel-based energy system to one using sophisticated renewable energy technologies. For tens of thousands of fossil fuel workers, though, the energy industry outlook is not promising. For coal industry workers, the future looks particularly bleak.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Americans — and American companies — have also connected the dots between clean energy and economic growth, with 87% last year saying that developing clean energy should be a priority for the President and Congress. In Colorado, the state renewable energy mandate was bumped up from 20% to 30% in 2010. And the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 29, 2015

Where cost considerations preclude all partners from being utilized. Learn from industries where consortiums are the rule, rather than the exception (space, energy, construction, high-tech, etc.). Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Where one partner treats others more like subcontractors or vendors.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C Embrace renewable energy. °C (3.8°F) °C (2.7°F). Getting to 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

This short paper outlines how climate is “already costing local economies billions” and describes how hundreds of billions of property are at risk. The utility and energy businesses are changing fundamentally (well, some of them are). Another report, the U.S. Unilever U.S.

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Short-term Chemicals Energy Report 12

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 8, 2016

But New Orleans offers both culture and an affordable cost of living. ” According to a CNN Money cost of living calculator using December 2015 figures from the Council for Community and Economic Research, the cost of housing in San Francisco is 227% higher than in New Orleans, groceries cost 25% more, and transportation costs 33% more.

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Real Estate Transportation Price Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

This economic interdependence is particularly apparent with respect to energy, and can be visualized by the The Observatory of Economic Complexity , from the MIT Media Lab Macro Connections group, which charts the flow of imports and exports around the world. But of course, it’s not that straightforward.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Such improvements could help cut the costs of traffic congestion ( about 1% of GDP globally ), road accidents ( 1.25 million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments). Advances in mobility will have major implications for cities around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

With production costs rising in China, some companies are bringing their manufacturing back to the U.S. With labor costs rising rapidly in China, it will become even more advantageous to make things in America for America, in the years ahead. A resurgence of U.S. manufacturing seems to be in the offing.

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