The Practical Leader

JANUARY 8, 2019

This time of year, we’re bombarded with glib and confident “experts” forecasting everything from the economy, to global warming, to financial markets, social trends, weather, and lots more. 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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Project Letter Trends Wilde 67

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Top Books About Leadership.

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 79

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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Energy Decentralization Industry Power 10

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 19, 2017

Edward Kiledjian wrote an article on this subject in 2015 called “The era of title inflation is upon us” He argues that a job title should be a realistic reflection of your position. We live in a time with jobs, roles and responsibilities which were unimaginable even ten years ago. Titles have also grown, bigger and bolder.

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COO Banking CEO Benchmarking 150

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Consider Apple, hardly a byword in the energy business. This summer, the company applied for federal licenses to sell directly to customers the excess renewable energy it generates on its new campus and in facilities across Oregon, Nevada, and California. But solar electricity is only the beginning of the future energy marketplace.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

Used out of context, words become excuses, gibberish, rationales and basically wastes of energy. The ‘brand’ is a marketing term. Customer experience” comes right out of marketing surveys, which rarely ask for real feedback or share the findings with company decision makers. Words count. About the Author.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Budgeting Risk Management 50

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. President to visit India twice. But it won’t be “India’s fault,” in our view.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2015

Amid improved consumer confidence, with the April 2015 confidence index of 95.2 These disparities are also among the biggest misperceptions that both online and offline marketers hold. This overwhelming demand for consumer attention and dollars has created a market filled with cynics, whose defenses are on full alert.”.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Please note: emotional differentiation is significant in any brand narrative, but it tends to be more prevalent with brands that are in well-known and crowded markets. However, if you are introducing a new MP3 player 10 years after they have saturated the market, you need not tell people about the functions of a MP3 player.

Brand 50

Brand Loyalty Price Advertising 50

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. And an unlikely group of new voices joined the fight.

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Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2015

You need to evaluate the amount of output you get from a team member (the results of their work) and compare that to the amount of time and energy you have to invest in them to get it. It will give you a sense for not only the results you get from them but what your investment of time and energy is as their leader. About the Author.

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Team Competitive Advantage McKinsey Energy 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

While sales objectives are most common, trade shows may also be behavior, product, distribution or marketing oriented. Perform informal market research. Market your presence at the show in advance via mailings, distribution of VIP tickets and inclusion of your booth in advertising. Trade show selling requires high energy levels.

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How To Follow-up Participative Objective 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Here are some examples of Joint-Venturing: Producers of energy create an independent drilling or marketing entity. Group marketing programs, such as auto dealer clusters, municipalities for economic development, travel and tourism destinations, trade association and product image upgrades. About the Author. All rights reserved.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

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). How can they afford not to?

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Automotive Industry Sample Training 40

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. For example, the Pittsburgh-based University Energy Partnership is working with the Energy Department''s National Energy Technology Laboratory and URS Corp. In the U.S.,

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2015

Access to global markets. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Customer retention.

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Mentor Consultative Strategic Planning Entrepreneur 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2015

Energy coaching and love-respect for each other continues throughout the relationship. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author.

Mentor 50

Mentor Succession Benchmarking Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

For one thing, in an era when trust in traditional sources has eroded — in government, media, and in companies and the marketing they employ — word-of-mouth from trusted peers wields greater clout than ever. It is highly efficient at capturing, storing, and releasing energy. That’s no longer true.

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B2C Energy Marketing Efficiency 14

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Then you continue to focus on the idea, feeling, or picture regularly, giving it positive energy until it becomes objective reality … in other words, until you actually achieve what you have been imagining.”. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. You just finished reading Self-Image determines more than sales !

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Customer Loyalty Library Seminar Creativity 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 29, 2015

To succeed, it needs to be more than an advertising and direct marketing campaign. Business relationship building is considered an ongoing process, not a "once in awhile" action or marketing gimmick. Learn from industries where consortiums are the rule, rather than the exception (space, energy, construction, high-tech, etc.).

Teamwork 50

Teamwork Participative Learning-by-Doing Creativity 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

It is the hub of the world’s energy industry, headquarters of medical innovation and entrepreneurial phenomena. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Quality Books 50

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. Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015. Wallace Garrison/Getty Images.

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Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

Saudi Arabia in particular is not only a major player on oil markets and within OPEC, but also the region’s largest economy that shares its vulnerability to sliding global oil prices with its smaller GCC neighbours. in 2015 and 3.2% of GDP in 2015 and 2016. Also, after achieving large fiscal surpluses that averaged 12.4%

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GDP Price Market Segmentation Short-term 8

Deming Institute

APRIL 14, 2016

In ads IBM touched on the use of data in transportation, healthcare, manufacturing, crime, love, education, farming, pollution, weather, energy, and many other areas! In April 2015, she and Suzanne Anthony published “When Measurement Becomes the Mission, Don’t Trust the Measurement” in The Journal for Quality & Participation.

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System Education Comparison Influence 28

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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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

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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Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 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.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

And it would take them as long as 5 to 10 years to explore, develop, and then bring production to market after investing billions of dollars into new fields. lifted the 40-year-old ban on exporting American oil, and the maiden shipments are finding their way to global markets allowing U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

In early 2016, the country began a process of reviewing multiple economic sectors, including energy, labor markets, pensions, and health. For example, in January 2016, Saudi Arabia announced far-reaching cutbacks of domestic subsidies for energy and water, a political no-go area for politicians across the region only a few years ago.

Politics 8

Politics Human Capital Price Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

In response to our survey in late 2015, they told us that on economic matters, uncertainty abounds. Not surprisingly, with the price of oil dropping, directors of companies the energy & utilities industries are particularly discouraged. Results are based on all submissions as of December 1, 2015. Why does all this matter?

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Politics Telecommunications Policies Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. “‘Why us?’

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Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. Morgan Stanley projects that 3G penetration will reach 22 percent by 2015. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise. Bye-bye to the clunkier and more costly PC.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 14

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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Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

If I asked you to picture the consumer luxury market, you might imagine jewels, sports cars, watches, premium drinks, high-end shoes and apparel, and so on. in 2015, which requires larger companies doing business in Britain to publish a board-approved, public annual slavery and human trafficking statement.

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Brand Supply Chain Apparel Tourism 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Too many companies try to expand wherever rapid revenue opportunities lead them, diversifying into new products, entering new markets, expanding through mergers and acquisitions, or investing in organic growth (which often means stealing market share by releasing products or services similar to those of your competitors).

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Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. As of November 2016, the market value of the world’s 179 unicorns was estimated to be $646 billion. In 2015 global M&A volume surpassed $5 trillion — a record.

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Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

degrees Celsius, all countries — rich and poor — need to rapidly transition to a low-carbon economy powered by renewable energy. M-PESA is now enabling other disruptive business models in sectors like energy. Climate change is a clear and present danger to all of humanity. To keep the rise of global temperatures below 1.5

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