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The Energy Efficiency of Trust & Vulnerability

Mills Scofield

When we don’t trust, we exert a lot of energy to keep up our guard, to continually assess and verify. This uses a lot of energy and time. When we trust, we re-allocate that energy and time to getting things done and making an impact. Being vulnerable is a way to preserve energy. CS : Knowing when to stop is key.

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Your Competitive Position Is Always Eroding

Harvard Business Review

The shift helps customers reduce their environmental impacts and costs by cutting back on paper, energy, and waste. As the great guru on innovation Clayton Christensen has said, we base our thinking on "an assumption that the status quo in the business will maintain itself into the future. But the present status quo.is

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Create Early Warning Systems to Detect Competitive Threats

Harvard Business Review

The work of two of the most important scholars in the field, Clayton Christensen and Richard N. One of the key tipping points in a market occurs when a company, in Christensen's language, overshoots a given market tier by providing them performance that they can't use. Foster , suggests considering five questions: 1.

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Ask Customers to Use Less of Your Product: The Big Heresy

Harvard Business Review

These printing retrofits save clients up to 30 percent of their document-related costs. In addition to using less energy to run machines, slashing paper use also saves large amounts of energy and water upstream in the paper production process. From waste hauler to energy company — that's a transition for sure.

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A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Regulations and reimbursement systems currently trap in high-cost venues much care that could be provided in lower-cost, more convenient business models. xlv-xlvi by Clayton Christensen, Jerome Grossman M.D., Christensen is a professor at Harvard Business School. and Jason Hwang M.D.

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Why You Need a Resilience Strategy Now

Harvard Business Review

Think of the famous idea from Clayton Christensen of trying to disrupt or cannibalize your own business before someone else does. Companies (and homes) that generate their own onsite energy will be able to literally weather storms better than competitors. Fast feedback and failure. It’s not easy to say, but let’s avoid finding out.

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China, America, and Copycat Economics

Harvard Business Review

I heard people from all over the world arguing that the US government needs to grab the bull by horns, insert itself much more aggressively in economic planning, and start directing American economic resources to "new growth industries" such as clean energy , high-tech manufacturing, or advanced healthcare solutions.

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