Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2023

During the leadership meeting, your boss proposes an idea that has a shiny, attractive quality. Two the initial cost is lower. Managing the contractor, and bringing them up to speed will cost more time and money, plus any extension of the contract would cost more money than the current situation. They want to see action.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Seeing it as something difficult, unwanted and annoying limits your options: It doesn’t take the team member’s situation into proper account; what is needed is a thorough understanding what the proposed solution really means to your team members. You should rather expect resistance.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The funding and tenders portal allows access to the calls for proposals. Calls give detailed information on research and innovation issues that proposals applications should address. The Energy harvesting and storage technologies grant program is another innovation-focused open call. Conclusion.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 8, 2019

The early adopters first take a critical look at the proposal before deciding whether it’s a good idea or not. Look for those who will always first question a proposal and test the kind of resistance by asking what their concerns are. On All Levels. How do you get an early adopter to adopt? Simply by taking their concerns seriously.

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Rich Gee Group

MAY 7, 2023

At the same time, skipping meals could lead to a balancing loop where your body slows down your metabolism to save energy. This issue led to higher costs for the school, negative environmental impacts, and growing concerns among the school community. Eating healthier might create a reinforcing loop that helps you lose more weight.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I love when someone comes to me with a proposal for a new ministry or a new idea and I can simply say, “Yes, go for it!” I have to consider the amount of money and energy expended as it relates to the entire church organization. Is the cost reasonable compared to the benefit received for the project?

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 22, 2020

For instance, the authors highlight that the improvements in air quality brought about by reduced mobility is believed to have saved more lives than COVID cost in China. “We therefore propose circular economy adoptions for all industries, with different strategies for each one. . A greener future.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 21, 2021

One of their proposals would be the development of a Sovereign EU Tech Fund to address the shortfall in funding that undermines the growth of startups across Europe. Some of the most successful startups to have emerged from the region put their heads together recently to outline a number of ways future unicorns could be better supported.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Fostering Group Cohesion: Promoting unity at the cost of critical thinking. Conserving Emotional Energy: Quickly move on without engaging in emotionally taxing conversations. “You have to wear many hats.” Reasons for employing these clichés: Maintaining Control: Ensuring a grip on organizational processes and decisions.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2021

For instance, owners may choose to take out a credit card to cover costs; this decision, however, impacts credit scores. With the advisor’s assistance, tailor your proposal to suit the format and demands of investors. How much does it cost to produce the item or items? Failure to pay bills on time could lower that number.

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HR Digest

APRIL 11, 2019

An inevitable trend underway in most companies is a cost-conscious culture, also known as “Ownership Culture.”. It may be tempting to deny but the cost of micromanagement is rarely noticed by micromanagers. They should clearly understand that a cost can be “critical” in one context and “wasteful” in another.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 10, 2009

The authors propose three questions you should ask to assess your own leadership potential: How far do you want to go? Get a feel for the time, energy and capabilities required to do those jobs. The crucial question you need to ask yourself: is it worth the cost? What do you enjoy now but would have to give up?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

This unstructured workflow arose from the core properties of email technology — namely, the standard practice of associating addresses with individuals (and not, say, teams, or request type, or project), and the low marginal cost of sending a message. The high cost of cheap messages.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The United States desperately needs an energy policy. With five percent of the world's population and 20 percent of its energy use, the U.S. However, to have climate change policy you need an energy policy. To achieve this, the energy industry needs to regain the public trust. has an obligation to lead globally.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2011

In 15 pages he described the market need, the offering, the proposed business model, critical assumptions, and a plan to test those assumptions. The next step was to look for other zero-cost ways to test the idea. He then shared the overview with people and asked for feedback.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 29, 2016

Months, and even years, may pass in a significant opportunity with a large account: And as time adds up in pursuits, doubt, uncertainty, risks, and costs do as well. The commitment of finances, organizational energy, and resources – human and otherwise – can be daunting.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

The Keystone XL — a proposed addition to a network of pipelines running from the Canadian oil sands to refineries in Texas — has become the political football of the moment. And consider the “energy return on investment” — that is, how much useful energy you get for every unit of energy put in.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Something reassuring happened Monday after EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy unveiled the Obama administration’s proposed Clean Power Plan , arguably the most important step the U.S. There will be time to debate whether the EPA’s proposed targets are sufficiently ambitious. over the last 18 months than the previous 30 years combined.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

An exemplar of the new approach is WorleyParsons, a global engineering and construction firm that specializes in oilfield and other energy-related projects. As the crisis intensified, management undertook successive rounds of cost cuts. But the organization’s energy and appetite for more cost-cutting was low.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

However, the proposed reforms could help spur entrepreneurial activity by increasing the incentives for talented Americans to launch their own companies, and could increase the pool of workers willing to work at small firms. Health insurance costs for small businesses increased from 1999 to 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Agricultural economist Holbrook Working proposed at the time that this presented the opportunity for a natural experiment: if onion prices were more volatile in the absence of futures trading, then the trading probably served a useful economic purpose.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

but they expend far more energy intentionally searching for opportunity, but not just any opportunity – a game changer. In most cases simple can be translated as realistic, cost effective, quick to adopt, and fast to implement. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Each year several clients raise the same issue: the need to get buy-in from a skeptical senior executive in order to demonstrate a concrete benefit that will follow a proposed investment in an ethical business initiative or function. It can cost more to ensure better labor standards in a supply chain, or to meet environmental standards.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MARCH 3, 2018

Benefits of Content Marketing: Be a Media Company, Gain SEO, & Secure Lower Cost Advertising ​So what are the benefits of content marketing? Two primary things: Organic traffic from Google and lower cost advertising. If they would’ve had to purchase this traffic from Google, it would cost them $46,800/mo.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

The Trump administration has proposed cutting the EPA’s budget by over 30%, and the agency’s staff by 15,000 jobs. Some sectors and companies bear more of the up-front expense of tackling carbon emissions, with the energy sector being the most obvious one. And that’s just direct health care benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Those firms may even be your most dangerous customers because they treat you more like low-cost vendors than partners in design and development.". "So They use their "cheap sure thing" positioning to get credibility that what they're proposing won't cost an arm and a leg. So how do we get them to see us as innovation partners?"

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Last year, for example, Russell 3000 companies received 144 shareholder proposals requesting action on social and environmental issues. The goals include eliminating poverty, offering affordable and clean energy, achieving gender equality, protecting ecosystems, increasing responsible consumption and production, and much more.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

And as Sandy's $50 billion estimated price tag demonstrates, the cost of doing nothing is far greater than the cost of taking action. has proposed bringing them under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer , and we should begin ending their use here at home. Start a clean energy race.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

If another trillion dollars is to be invested and the core purpose is to increase the competitiveness of employers and the quality of life of residents, then projects with a large benefit/cost ratio around transportation, energy, and water will likely be the focus. Would that have been a better proposal? I’m not persuaded.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

The resulting chaos in Europe''s energy and environmental policies is threatening carbon-reduction initiatives in Australia, Asia, and elsewhere. This has drastically reduced the incentives for them to invest in or deploy clean-energy technologies or to modernize their energy-infrastructure assets.

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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. In one case, a senior executive who had previously worked for a very large public company joined my client, a midsize family-owned company, with such unrealistic expectations about resources and autonomous decision making that he cost the business dearly.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In India, our proposition is to offer low entry costs (we could, in the extreme case, offer homes free up-front), and realize our investment from the annuity of captive consumption. Achieving Global, Low-Cost, Class-A Construction. In India we propose using synthetically derived granite. Alternative Energy as the Standard.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

These women also believed the on-paper “rules” about who the job was for, but for them, the cost of applying was the risk of failure – rather than the wasted time and energy. Then in their careers, that rule-following habit has real costs , including when it comes to adhering to the guidelines about “who should apply.”.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The IT department could get the least expensive computers and hosting services available, and marketing could buy the lowest-cost banner ads on the cheesiest sites. Even in our quarterly-focused, cost-cutting-obsessed world, companies opt for additional expense beyond the bare minimum all the time. And that’s fair.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

In particular, many studies agree that a critical mass of women on boards — variously defined, but often somewhere around three women or 30% of the board — is positively correlated with performance measures like return on equity, Tobin''s Q, lower cost of debt, or quality of earnings. Many shareholders agree.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy even proposed taxing U.S. the Obama administration started to incorporate the “social cost of carbon” in decision-making and the Pentagon made climate change a military priority. goods if the country pulled out the Paris agreement. In the U.S., cents per kilowatt-hour.

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