Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Business ownership consumes large quantities of time and mental energy, even after it’s running well and succeeding. It consumed so much time and energy that I didn’t have much left for anything else. We tend to project onto others our way of seeing the world. How does owning a business fit into your overall life plan?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

Every startup requires funding, even if the versatility of the modern business world does reduce the costs. Moreover, it will cause serious problems if you misjudge the costs involved. The team ethic truly counts for everything. Cloud computing, smartphone messaging Apps , and project management systems are all very useful.

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Outsourcing ROI Entrepreneur Banking 67

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 4, 2019

Joel reflects: “Whether you are hosting an all-day high-potential training or a corporate event, a professional keynote speaker has the power not just to motivate your employees, but also to help you cut costs by improving your people’s efficiency and productivity.” Both are about solid ethics, dignity, and corporate citizenship.”

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Ranking third in Popular Science ‘s list of ‘America’s Greenest Cities,’ Boston is putting its recovery money toward clean-energy initiatives. Partner with local R&D brainpower to start your own clean-energy venture. Take advantage of the military spending with a civil construction company.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 10, 2011

Whether the CEO is driven by personal ethics, a socially changing world, or headlines praising “sustainable” organizations, business is finally responding to the green trend—albeit slower than many would like to see. Houweling’s invested a staggering $50 million dollars into the project; this explains why competition is reluctant to catch up.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2019

Every startup requires funding, even if the versatility of the modern business world does reduce the costs. Moreover, it will cause serious problems if you misjudge the costs involved. The team ethic truly counts for everything. Cloud computing, smartphone messaging Apps , and project management systems are all very useful.

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Outsourcing ROI Entrepreneur Banking 51

Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

No, I bring this up because as we watch the shows that close out the year, as face after face of the celebrities who passed away are projected on our television screens, as tributes and speeches are made about the talent, beauty, genius and uniqueness of a particular dead celebrity or entrepreneur—I am thinking about their estates.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry. government. “A

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The Relational Leader : A Revolutionary Framework to Engage Your Team (Course Technology PTR, Cengage Learning 2010) by Frank McIntosh The Relational Leader presents a framework to use as a compass point so that you can project a consistent message and methodology to your people. I gave him 4 months to find a new job.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

One of my clients hired a relatively junior staffer for his moxie, energy, and drive. Luckily, thanks to projected business growth and flexible organizational parameters, the manager was able to shift the new hire to another department and a more challenging job that suited his ambitions better. You and Your Team Series. Amy Jen Su.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The key argument for fossil fuel divestment is that the cost of carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants are not being accurately priced by the market. Divestment can theoretically address this market failure by limiting investment by the fossil fuel industry by depressing company valuations and thereby increasing the cost of capital.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The key argument for fossil fuel divestment is that the cost of carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants are not being accurately priced by the market. Divestment can theoretically address this market failure by limiting investment by the fossil fuel industry by depressing company valuations and thereby increasing the cost of capital.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It wasn't too long ago that corporations were the villains — polluting the environment , exploiting workers , and consuming energy and other resources without concern for long term consequences to the planet. How much energy are you consuming? As Jason Saul argues in his new book Social Innovation Inc. ,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Power Generation: Husk Power Systems (HPS) creates small-scale power generation in rural communities in India by converting rice husks (a commonly available agricultural byproduct) into energy. Mobile Messaging: In early 2008, frog embarked on Project Masiluleke, a Public Private Partnership (PPP) to address HIV in South Africa.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

But, at the end of the day, it is bank leaders and employees who must take the right business, legal and ethical actions under existing law. Manipulation of energy markets. Of course, these institutions are always challenging aspects of regulatory regimes and engaging in disputes about future laws. LIBOR rate rigging.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For example, in the 1990s, leading businesses like 3M adopted concepts like eco-efficiency, focusing on saving and making money through the better management of materials, energy and waste. Today, we see growing interest in new business benchmarks and in potential breakthrough materials and forms of energy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Singer then made this argument: If we feel an obligation to save a child when the cost to ourselves is minimal inconvenience, we ought to feel the same obligation to save a child who is dying ten miles, a thousand miles, or 5000 miles from our home. Plainly the answer is yes. I felt slightly sickened.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

In a tragic example, at a Dutch energy supplier that used rigorous, transparent safety standards to deal with toxic waste, employees came to work one day to find the company’s safety officer dead of a workplace accident. A similar effect can happen when the goal of transparency is not only ethics but also other desired behavior.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

So far, we’ve replaced 52% of the water we use in making our beverages and reducing water usage across our 800-plus bottling plants helps reduce the overall cost of production. We can fund projects at levels that make a real difference. We also have ethical drivers for our sustainability work.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Have to make cuts everywhere else to pay for rising production costs. Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. We have annual sales projections. Some companies succeed in their early stages because of raw energy. Just took a vacation. Got to send the kid to college (or some other personal reason).

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Position your request as an investment, not a cost. Base Budgets on Value… Not on Cost. Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Inventory costs. Speed, accuracy and efficiency of project fulfillment. Team the project. Cost containment.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

At all costs, fight change.in That data projects the future. Addictive organizations show frozen feelings and ethical deterioration. Addictive managers project externally originated criticism back onto internal scapegoats. Neither attends to details nor to pursue a Big Picture. Perpetuate co-dependencies. Stubbornness.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2011

New year projections are the best time to benchmark progress and adjust sights for the coming term. Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. Cost containment. Goals release energy. Businesses should review their Strategic Plan annually. When people know and have helped set their goals, their performance improves.

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