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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. Where are we? We certainly don’t prepare leaders to do this. So they don’t.

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Put Time on Your Team

Strategy Driven

The commitment of finances, organizational energy, and resources – human and otherwise – can be daunting. You will be facing a buyer network likely consisting of representatives from purchasing, finance, legal, and other corporate functions relevant to the organization’s specific needs. Consider leaving a comment!

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Does Silicon Valley Still Care About Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

Ten years after Kleiner star John Doerr was moved to tears during his TED talk about climate change , there’s no longer any question that VCs’ interest in clean energy is waning. cleantech innovation declined from 2014 to 2016, as measured by patents. VC investment; in 2016 it was under 8%.

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Solar Is Being Held Back by Regulations, Not Technology

Harvard Business Review

In fact, Bloomberg reported that the American solar industry had a record first quarter in 2016, and for the first time, it drove the majority of new power generation. To understand why, we have to start by looking at the market for solar. As I previously wrote , the U.S.

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Uber’s New CEO Will Have to Win on Two Fronts Simultaneously

Harvard Business Review

Since its founding just eight years ago, Uber has become one of the best-known brands in the world, has presence in over 80 countries, has market share reported at 77% in its core U.S. Khosrowshahi has much working in his favor. Lost voices from the front line is the third major challenge we found.

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Doing Business in a Post-Fidel Cuba

Harvard Business Review

President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba in March 2016 drove excitement for businesses considering the market that the island could become. In April 2016, Cuba held its Seventh Communist Party Congress. The move made it possible to imagine an end to the U.S. An economic crossroads.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. The Silicon Valley Model. “There are just too many unknowns, and that requires a different approach.”