Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 23, 2021

How can I give them that energy? It’s coming from a leader who obviously really cares and is in a, a good place in terms of wanting to support their people and keep them energized and motivated. But recognizing that there haven’t been any wins lately. So I don’t want it to be empty or fake. (

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 5, 2014

This is a cultural intervention in which leaders seek out a few employees who are already known to be master motivators, adept at inspiring strategic awareness among their colleagues. These master motivators are invited to recommend specific measures that enable better ways of working. That’s where neuroscience comes in.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Their daily in-person interactions are limited to the few people they live with and their other interactions are intermediated through digital technology. Use it or lose it” is a mantra often employed as motivation to exercise and not neglect our physical fitness. Their home also serves as their workplace.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

He marshaled all of his country’s resources and the talents and technology of experts from around the world to get the miners back alive. As the energy showed by the returning miners demonstrated, that approach paid off.   In the days and weeks that followed, more communications technology was lowered into the mine.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Guy Harris presents Three Power Phrases to Disarm a Verbal Aggressor posted at Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer , saying, “How do you respond to coworkers or colleagues when they are verbally aggressive? It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering. Here are three phrases that might help.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Guy Harris presents Three Power Phrases to Disarm a Verbal Aggressor posted at Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer , saying, "How do you respond to coworkers or colleagues when they are verbally aggressive? It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering. Here are three phrases that might help.".

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Goes With What It Knows: Making Stuff,” centers on how Immelt is leading the company away from financial services and “soft services” like broadcasting and back to its historical roots of technology driven manufacturing. s ecomagination campaign to promote energy efficient products.    Immelt stuck with it and today, G.E.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

Perhaps you just wrapped up a big project and are having trouble mustering motivation for the next one. It could be that your home life is taking up more of your energy than usual. ” To perform at your best over the long term, you need regular “opportunities for restocking your mental energy,” says Friedman.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. In the past, the magic formula was two engineers or an engineer and a businessman. The internet and, more broadly, technology, progress developmentally.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. In the past, the magic formula was two engineers or an engineer and a businessman. The internet and, more broadly, technology, progress developmentally.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers. ” In a competitive energy market, the Connected Home unit has now become a major differentiator and profit driver for the parent company, Centrica.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Ridge’s devotion to building an organization of “learning maniacs” who are zealous about engaging with new technologies and business models. He empowered a group of executives and engineers, called Team Tomorrow, to turbocharge learning throughout the company. The secret of WD-40’s success?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Check out the search engines for ‘little known facts about …’ or ‘trivia about …’ for ideas. Alternately, you may want to motivate the audience to take action – to support a policy change or maybe provide extraordinary effort to meet a new challenge. Yet another good grabber is the startling fact.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

If they aren't paying you enough to walk through that door with a smile on your face, or the job doesn't motivate you enough to be eager about the work, you're in the wrong job. What you like, what motivates you, what fires you up. Always keep up with emerging trends and technologies in your specific sector. What motivates you?

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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! Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

It came by great gas mileage on the back of a scam: The car’s supposedly low emissions were fraud — perpetrated by VW engineers who designed the car’s software to lower emissions during testing, only to let them bump back up in real life use. Now we know that vehicle wasn’t green. But it just hasn’t happened.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. Find new ways to motivate the legacy people.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Type 1 diabetes renders the pancreas incapable of producing the insulin necessary to shift glucose out of the bloodstream and into cells where it can be converted into energy. When his son, Hayden, was diagnosed with the disease, in 2009, Lane was a product manager at GE Energy. That was enough for Lane. Look for passion.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

"Ten years ago we met in Saudi and said 'someday we'll be sitting in the middle of the desert talking about renewable energy.' The speaker was an academic at Sydney's University of New South Wales, and we met last week at a vast trade show in Abu Dhabi called the World Future Energy Summit. And here we are."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

In a cross-industry survey of 8 firms, we asked over 200 innovation-focused practitioners to review a list of established and emerging technologies (a list that included Apple products, Netflix, eBay and several others) and then tell us why any item on the list eventually became successful. We wanted to learn more.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I would go even further to contend that multinational corporations— more than governments, and more than NGOs and nonprofits—have the human and financial capital, technology, international footprint, power of markets, and financial motivation to solve the world’s most daunting problems.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media. Being a successful corporate hacker thus requires an enormous amount of energy and persuasiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

For many years, teams at Virgin Atlantic have been testing ways to motivate efficient decision-making in the cockpit. For comparison, the lowest-cost technology aimed at reducing carbon emissions—efficient residential lighting—saves the economy approximately $180 per metric ton of CO 2 abatement.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. It appears plausible that entrepreneurial individuals are more likely to migrate and that immigration policies in many countries favor highly motivated and capable individuals. In the U.S., Immigrants represent 27.5%

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

By the 1990s, IBM had become the go-to provider of enterprise information technology — hardware, software, and systems integration — for large and midsized businesses. While these core businesses continued to generate cash flow, IBM struggled to find The Next Big Thing. A smaller challenge for the entire organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Technologists, engineers, and designers not only have their own expertise, they have their own way of applying their expertise. Proposals came in from a variety of industries and organization types, including energy and fuels, pharma, and engineering services. They were literally unable to "think outside the box.".

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Joe Nigro, CEO of energy company Constellation, told me, “Everyone needs to know how each metric fits into the big picture…why and how we’re measuring something, and how it’s relevant to performance.” Properly motivated and led, incumbents can be particularly dangerous, as they already have scale and credibility.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

The premise is that all energy should be focused solely on turning fabulous ideas into hyper growth. And in the earliest stages of a company, the need to organize, motivate and inspire large groups of people to accomplish shared goals may not be obvious. Rule 7: Build for scale.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Instead of focusing on the work you have to do together, you may end up wasting time and energy trying to keep your emotions in check and attempting to manage the person's behavior. Spend time trying to get to know the person and better understand what motivates him. What the Experts Say. The detested co-worker is a familiar archetype.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

You might not be at the peak of your motivation and productivity, but the excitement and invigoration have your mind racing at a rate of knots. When things start to get a little more up and running, that’s when you have even more energy and bite. The honeymoon period can wear off, and the motivation can drop off a little.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Digital startups had begun producing virtual products that ZF did not know how to compete against, and engineers in logistics, operations, and other functions were finding that their traditional approaches couldn’t handle the complex issues they faced. The team had to be motivated. Here are two examples: Broken grinding rings.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Governments and industry are doing what seems like the obvious thing to do — spending billions of dollars to develop and implement new technologies designed to stop the bad guys before they can get through the front door. For example, how many times has your spam filter missed a phishing email?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

” Reflect on your motivations. To help bring cool new technology to the world? “You might move from product to engineering to ops.” “Find out their motivations for building the business.” “Startups are cauldrons of energy, stress, and joy. To broaden your managerial repertoire?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Although these tenets are similarly used within military units to enforce chain of command, sales leaders prefer to use motivation and the force of their personal character before employing the power associated to their title. The sales organization tends to blame the other areas of the organization (engineering, marketing, support, etc.)

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It leads to a higher search engine visibility through stronger online authority (links and social shares). They interview those subjects directly to learn about their motivations, pain points, and view of the value they believe they derive from working with their clients. No answer) 10.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2018

But Lieberman and Fry have some good news: modern technology can address the root of the problem. They believe that we compete when there is scarcity, and that recent technological advances, such as 3D printing and artificial intelligence, will end widespread scarcity. This is the bad news. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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