Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2017

They say it’s good for both your company and the planet; by encouraging this kind of vision, you’ll show the market your most holistic and educated side, they say – and the market will thank you for it. Copyright 2007-2017 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Photo courtesy of Pexels. Consider leaving a comment!

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PR Energy Environment Marketing 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2017

The irony for sales managers is that a constant push to reach a sales number can keep them and their teams so focused on end goals that they miss opportunities to identify problems with skills and processes and improve future results. Effective salespeople have high energy. Copyright 2007-2017 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Management Greenleaf Competitive Advantage Proposal 50

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez – Author of the best-selling book: The Focused Organization, Winner of the 2017 Thinkers50 Award for ‘Ideas into Practice’. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Former CEO Named #1 Most Influential Person in Dentistry for 2017. World authority on project management. ’ Game.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Finally, some sustainability investments can pay for themselves through reduced energy consumption and waste over the long term. So far in 2017, our firm, Semler Brossy, has identified 200 shareholder proposals on the environment among the Russell 3000 companies, already exceeding 2016’s total. .”

Execution 11

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

This was a key finding in a 2017 report we coauthored for the Ascend Foundation ( “The Illusion of Asian Success” ), analyzing EEOC data on Silicon Valley’s management pipeline. The Ascend Foundation, a pan-Asian organization that published our 2017 paper, was established by a group of pan-Asian accounting partners.

Management 8

Management Diversity Attrition Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

In January 2017 alone , investors withdrew $13.6 Jeff was facing ridiculous odds even if his only goal was to keep cash from flowing out of Golden Global’s investments. But that wasn’t his goal. His goal was to increase total investment in Golden Global’s strategic products. By $2 billion.

How To 14

How To Globalization Learning-by-Doing Goal 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

I have previously made the case that the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have the potential to provide, for the first time, a framework for mobilizing companies to invest in sustainable development in an ongoing and scalable way, while also pursuing their own business interests. Some goals may be too broad or too distant.

Development 11

Development Company Innovation Goal 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

We are approaching the pursuit of work-life balance with the same obsessive (and oppressive) energy as we do our careers. One of my clients recently told me her goal to start a meditation practice had short-circuited due to her tendency to turn everything — including self-care — into a chore.

Stress 15

Stress Metrics Morale Goal 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

have been taking advantage of peer pressure to reduce energy consumption by including charts in electricity bills showing how energy efficient you are compared to your neighbors. Forecasts are calling for annual sales of activity trackers to balloon to more than 45 million by 2017. Innovation Marketing'

Discount 11

Discount Energy Motivation Wilde 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2018

companies spent over $90 billion dollars on training and development activities in 2017, a year-over-year increase of 32.5 %. Their goal was to train people to stop waiting around for their bosses’ approval, and instead, feel empowered to make decisions on their own. Photodisc/Getty Images. According to one industry report , U.S.

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Training Company Workshop Stress 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

degrees Celsius , or even 2 degrees (the stated long-term goals). That said, with 187 countries pledging collective action to cut carbon emissions, the deal will have vast repercussions for business , particularly as governments put into place policies to remake our energy, transportation, and building systems. Goals matter.

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Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

India Business Council found that its large company members were prepared to invest $40 billion into India by 2017. 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. ’s branded generic-medicine unit in India for $3.7

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. In 2016, country and function heads were asked to identify innovation ambassadors for each of the markets we’re in: 80 people senior enough to connect innovation to strategy and make things happen.

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Innovation Company Agility Workshop 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

In mid-2017, we executed a major redesign of our sales organization in response to what our customers needed from us, and to better align our selling approach with cloud services sales model (in this model, customers pay based on usage versus a traditional fixed licensing deal). What’s next.

Analysis 8

Analysis B2B Engineering Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Recently, two Princeton graduate students released a study predicting the demise of Facebook by 2017, using concepts from epidemiology. The trick is to identify the market size and manage through the point at which you have hit critical mass. Remember MySpace? But breakpoints don’t need to be disastrous.

Media 8

Media Advertising Learning-by-Doing Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Some of the largest companies of recent times by market capitalization, such as Facebook, Alphabet, and Alibaba, carry dual class-shares. MSCI’s recent analysis shows that unequal voting stocks outperformed the market over the period from November 2007 to August 2017. and The New York Times Co.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

This follows his summer 2017 announcement that he was withdrawing the U.S. For example, many American CEOs spent considerable energy in the weeks building up to Trump’s Paris announcement lobbying the President not to withdraw. The Australian government has rejected the report’s call to phase out coal power by 2050.

Globalization 10

Globalization Policies Supply Chain CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

This was mostly Kagame''s fault — he was only asked two questions, one about the Congo and one about what will happen when his current (and, according to Rwanda''s constitution, last) presidential term ends in 2017, and gave such long, rambling, combative answers to both that there was no time for anything else. We need energy.

Porter 10

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The context for sustainable business in 2017 may center on the competition between these two stories; that is, how will Trump and his team impact or impede progress on climate and other sustainability issues? Many invested heavily in renewable energy (see number five on this list), and some big companies dove into policy debates this year.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8