Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2016

A few things have happened recently that increase performance pressure on character-based leaders who are dedicated to doing what’s right: The Oxford Dictionary announced the word post-truth as its 2016 word of the year. In an increasingly connected, technologically savvy, and fast-paced world, difference is the new normal.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 6, 2016

In fact, there is a definite growing awareness among middle-aged professionals and corporate leaders that seeking wellness will help to accomplish larger goals. Even technology – the supposed enemy of peace and quiet – can help. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Fueling an Appetite for Ambition.

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Real Estate Bottom-up Trends Motivation 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

” Oxford University and Ernst and Young found that public dialog on purpose has increased five-fold between 1995 and 2016. We constructed a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of 429 U.S. But is all this talk about purpose actually delivering business results?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

And whole swaths of the country will face extreme heat — months of days above 95 degrees, which could seriously impact agricultural and labor productivity (imagine construction and other outdoor work in dangerous heat). Ten states have already hit the goal.) These long-term numbers are just for scale and to, well, scare us into action.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2016

It needs to be calibrated to business goals to be effective. In 2016, the average community is achieving estimated engagement rates of 50% lurkers, 23% contributors, and 27% creators, according to our 2016 State of Community Management research. Engagement is a set of behaviors, not a switch.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

If a user agreed to the noble goal of free connectivity for their fellow citizens, they were directed to tell their Member of Parliament to support Facebook’s developing world program: Internet.org seeks to connect billions of people in the developing world to the internet. And Facebook is by no means the only example.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

After deploying to six metro areas in six years, however, company management announced in late 2016 that it was “pausing” future deployments. The overall goal: to ensure at least 100,000,000 Americans had access to broadband speeds of 100 Mbps by 2020. As it turned out, providers blew past that milestone as early as 2016.

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