Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Just as adults may have a plan for their career or finances, parents need a plan for operating their home. It will consciously and unconsciously help focus your attention and energies on the things that matter most when you are together. Because each child is different, I also believe parents should have different plans for each child.

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Guidelines Learning-by-Doing Planning Bond 54

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

Big companies have been buying a lot of clean energy lately – 3.5 Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. They put up almost no capital and usually lower their day-to-day energy costs. Get early buy-in. Use cross-functional teams.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

The bottom line is this…Bleeding is not a healthy thing. Smart leaders avoid make-work and focus their energy on high impact initiatives, which may include a needed restructuring. Current or anticipated changes in market conditions that will adversely impact your business model. I am preparing to start an new business.

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Restructuring Blog CEO Brand 305

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. When Cisco rolls out the sensors globally, these savings will add up. Some sectors have woken up already. This black box approach can’t last.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. If a conflict does flair up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly. However this will rarely happen if lines of communication do not remain open.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients. She is also a fellow of the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank based in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients. She is also a fellow of the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank based in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2010

He is an advisor to business leaders from a variety of organizations throughout the world, including major Fortune 500 companies, as well as private and nonprofit institutions in industries such as aerospace, healthcare, government, professional associations, telecommunications, and finance. Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients. Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Comments 2 Responses to “The Boomers are Leaving!

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 8, 2022

Sarah is the former President and CEO of a wonderful company, Bottom Line Inc., publishers of the highly acclaimed newsletter Bottom Line Personal. For more than four decades, Bottom Line Inc. has provided consumer health and finance news to over 20 million readers worldwide. For more than four decades, Bottom Line Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reported that companies waste 30% of the energy they consume. For many businesses, this is equivalent to overspending on energy by that amount to achieve current production levels. Managing utilities has also become more complex as the energy landscape has evolved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients. Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Comments 2 Responses to “The Boomers are Leaving!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

health care with this venture, set up in partnership with America’s largest not-for-profit hospital network, Ascension. prices, and even at those prices it could be extremely profitable as patient volume picked up. Similarly, HCCI saved 40% on energy by building its own 1.2-megawat Bottom line: U.S. Further Reading.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

I once hired someone with excellent “pedigree” i.e. fine university training, JA program volunteer, excellent work record in finance and extraordinarily enthusiastic about Junior Achievement. When I discussed these observations with him, he said it wasn’t up to him to lower himself to others’ level. Click here to cancel reply.

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Like a pyramid with the most essential elements such as food, air, water, rest and sleep at the bottom, once those needs are met the next level is safety, including shelter, security, protection, and stability. Whenever I am serving, giving, and loving, I end up feeling happy. There are many interesting theories.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

For example, Susan Fowler’s 2017 blog about Uber detailed not only her recollections of being repeatedly harassed, but what she described as a “game-of-thrones” environment, in which managers sought to one-up and sabotage colleagues to get ahead. rogue traders in finance).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. states have encouraged the Fraunhofer Society, a German applied-science think tank, to set up no fewer than seven institutes in America. True, Americans do well at inventing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Chinese companies are relatively new to the M&A game, governments in many target markets are quick to detect a political agenda, Chinese companies sometimes struggle to obtain financing or face unexpected political opposition at home, and many acquiring Chinese firms operate in particularly dynamic — and volatile — global markets.

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Due Diligence Strategic Planning Politics Bottom-up 14

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2020

It can be difficult yet rewarding to keep a small business up and running. It can also provide a positive impact on your bottom line. One of the benefits of many green practices is that they are more energy-efficient. Energy efficiency as it relates to your budget means cheaper bills. It’s true!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

In the lower left are builders, which include industries such as utilities, energy, transportation, and retail. These industries are asset-heavy, with PP&E making up more than 30% of total assets. You’ll notice that the finance industry is included in this group as well. Thus, they have low PPE but high multiples.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

The bottom line is that I really like him, I just wished he had more new material to share. Leaders get too caught up in trivial things and don’t pay enough attention to leadership development. Up next was Calos Brito, CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev. Why does this prove so difficult for today’s leaders?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Tanya Clemons, senior vice president and chief talent officer at Pfizer, sums it up like this: "In the era of the knowledge worker, it's just a totally new game now in terms of how work gets done and even what constitutes work these days.". Work is less repetitive and more collaborative. Global, virtual teams are on the rise.

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Productivity Products Real Estate Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Building a large-scale biopharmaceutical facility requires up to $500 million. The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. This all presents CEOs with a tough dilemma. Dual asymmetrical joint venture.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

You could, Drexler and Noble write, take advantage of government subsidies to invest in affordable housing or renewable energy (something that, as they note, people have been doing for decades). Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Bottom line: Does management commit to ROUXE — Return on User Experience Enhancement — metrics to help run the business?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

The time, energy, and cost associated with acquiring a customer are substantial, the benefits of retaining customers are considerable, and the costs associated with customer churn are significant. The bottom line is that it is very expensive to lose an account. are brought on line and offered to existing accounts.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As collectibles go, magazines are at the bottom of the list. But an awful lot of these jobs command very high-wages in law, finance, accounting, consulting, advertising, engineering, design, software, healthcare, scientific research, architecture, entertainment, hospitality, and many other areas. I just don’t buy it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The value of the shares bought then, in fact, makes up a big chunk of Yahoo’s value today, and the windfall from that purchase is what many hope will allow the company to remake its future. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. Yang had struck up a good relationship with Ma, which greatly facilitated the negotiations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

While our competitors catch up, we have to get into the mindset of already moving onto the next thing. At a large hospitality company, for instance, the CMO can use analytics to find out not only which property or category was up or down over the weekend, but how key customer segments moved as well.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. Partners co-invested their time, energy, and resources alongside community members into a set of interconnected programs in and around a specific group of villages.

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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 9

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

The bottom line is this: If you’re a superstar at work, but a slacker at home you’re not succeeding at anything other than being a disingenuous, ego-centric charlatan. If that impact is shallow and negative, our legacy ends up shallow and negative too. Thanks for the wake up call. We will impact the people who are closest to us.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Up to 25% of our businesses are in peril and must take corrective actions, lest they be brought down in disgrace too. That is why holiday sales are vital to their bottom line and, thus, the economy. One third of our nation’s Gross National Product is spent in cleaning up mistakes. One out of every 12 businesses fails.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

In general, managing energy bills has traditionally been a pretty low priority for most corporations. For all but a few process-focused companies or those with energy-intensive facilities such as data centers, the utility bill is generally filed under the list of uncontrollable, take-it-or-leave-it costs of doing business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. But many companies struggle to come up with enough promising growth options. They reward risk taking, by encouraging executives to capture learnings from efforts that come up short and then build these lessons into the next round of experiments.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

With this in mind, I’m volunteering to carry out a management concept recall: with 2019 marking the 25th anniversary of the “triple bottom line,” a term I coined in 1994, I propose a strategic recall to do some fine tuning. It is time to either step up — or to get out of the way.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

It was an unusually complex problem, so the firm set up a team of crack microchip designers, and they started putting their heads together. Many believe it is just these kinds of unlikely combinations that are key to coming up with breakthroughs. ” It works for a while, but eventually it catches up with them.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 21

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Brands are spending a great deal of time and energy investing in platforms to get likes or pluses, and not really being social at all. But other problems require more than an answer to a known question, and demand that you spend some energy figuring out if you're asking the right question in the first place. Vulnerability begets trust.

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