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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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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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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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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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

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. Low-carbon leadership isn’t just confined to the coasts. California is also delivering some big results.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

A look at global trends such as energy demand should remind leaders of businesses small and large that what we do every day matters. Last year during Climate Week, my company took the opportunity to publicly announce a commitment to increase the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of our operations and product portfolio.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

This translates into savings because the company spends less on wages and other labor-related costs. In the 1990s and 2000s, leadership’s focus on efficiency produced solid results. Starting with the quarter ending March 31, 2015 , however, S&P 500 earnings began falling, and earnings growth has remained negative ever since.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

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. Lower costs are already making some industrial sectors more competitive. Here are some steps you should take to build for 2014-2015: 1.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 24, 2015

Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership calls influence a boss’s super power. Dan McCarthy of About.com Management and Leadership notes that the ability to influence and work collaboratively becomes even more important as a leader takes on more and more responsibility and the organization grows. In this post, Beth Beutler of H.O.P.E.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2015

A Body of Work takes time, energy, resources and lots of heart to produce. They will see you as the low-cost provider. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Top executives must set standards that others aspire to.including themselves. We train people to be trustworthy. Don't make the margin of profit too low.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. If there are superconsumers in your midst, and if they’re encouraged to speak their minds, they will inject your culture with extra doses of energy, empathy, and creativity. Unlocking Energy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Integrating mindfulness into core talent processes such as onboarding, manager training, performance conversations and leadership development is also critical, though most organizations are not yet at this stage of adoption. The long-term payoff is that we preserve energy and prevent burnout over the course of days, weeks and months.

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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. ” 6.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Growing food requires water, seeds, labor, machinery, energy, and fertilizer. Letting food go to waste, then, is a frivolous use of natural resources that drives up costs, inflates food prices, and weakens the food supply chain. The United Nations reports that the world population is expected to grow from 7.6 billion to 9.8

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Each state poses a different leadership challenge. It also leads to a more positive work climate, above-average staff engagement, a strong commitment to values and few(er) energy-sapping turf wars and in-fighting. Many have speculated since about failures of its leadership under its bullish former CEO, Fred Goodwin.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Vanguard carved out a niche by managing low-cost index mutual funds in 1975. But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1 Corporations like these have the assets, resources, and capabilities necessary to fuel innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

Was this a deliberate attempt to imprison employees and stifle their energy? Furthermore, a 2015 study by Interaction Associates shows that high-trust companies “ are more than 2½ times more likely to be high performing revenue organizations ” than low-trust companies. This is what Stephen calls a“low-trust tax.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Tumbling transaction costs are altering the economics of organizations and, at a stroke, invalidating old business models. Our accustomed modes of thinking are straitjackets constraining the human energy and creativity these tools could unleash. In other words, it depends on visionary management.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

First, for perspective, they ran the numbers on what it might cost to go entirely carbon free. His team implemented a rigorous process of collecting ideas for emissions cuts and estimating the costs. As a result, Diageo North America achieved a 50% carbon reduction by 2012, mainly with a mix of no- and low-cost initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

My research on rail, air, roads, cars and trucks, public transit systems, and model infrastructure projects for my book Move confirms a lesson about leadership for change: Incremental innovations can pave the way for breakthroughs. Well, if ever there were an issue for which a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, this is it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Not Good at All Google Finally Discloses Its Diversity Record, and It’s Not Good PBS NewsHour Google released its global workforce numbers, revealing that 70% of its employees are men, a number that increases to 83% and 79% if you look only at tech jobs and leadership roles. Two percent of Google employees are black.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

When Sarah Robb O’Hagan agreed to take over Gatorade in 2008, she thought she was assuming leadership of an iconic brand that had grown a little tired. billion in sales in 2015, and owned 78% of the US market. In 2015 it had $1.3 What she found was something worse – a product in clear decline.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In fact, the 2015 Medscape Physician Lifestyle Report listed the increased computerization of the practice and the burden of administrative tasks among the top four drivers of physician burnout. These are concessions for physicians used to independent practice, but they’re made in the service of a shared vision for population health.

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HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Robotic loaders and remotely-controlled trucks are significantly reducing operational costs in the mining sector. These and many more challenges and the struggle for energy efficiency inspired world mining leaders a few years ago to launch a large-scale process of updating their mining facilities. million ounces of gold.

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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. with a $15 million pledge.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

A compelling vision of a better future needs to be communicated in a way that creates energy and motivation. Geisinger had the audacity to try to change the way health care is provided and paid for in America, and it has succeeded in reducing mortality and costs while substantially improving quality.

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

political leadership have a chilling effect on corporate action around environmental and social issues? The cost to build and produce solar and wind power, for example, has dropped 60%–80% since 2010 , making it cheaper than grid electricity in most states. Will the seismic shift in U.S. The short answer is no.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

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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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