Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2019

Financing the venture from your personal savings is an option, but won’t be open to many. Their productivity is what will essentially drive the business towards the desired destination. When consistency and motivation levels are high, your startup will reap the rewards. This can aid productivity too. Financial Backers.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2015

How did you do in the area of motivating your team? Use this list of questions to develop questions specific to your own industry, business, and product and service lines. For instance, how many hours of sleep did you average per night this year, and how many hours would you need to achieve optimal energy for top business performance?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

It is absolutely possible to build very productive relationships with even the most adversarial of individuals. Moreover, building rapport is easily achieved assuming your motivations for doing so are sincere. Respecting the right to differ while being productive is a concept that all successful executives and entrepreneurs master.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Figure out what is sucking up your time preventing you from being productive and profitable. Make them realistic and achievable yet ambitious enough to stay motivated. It’s how you achieve those goals that matters most in terms of time, expense and energy.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. No one is equally expert at both.

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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. Leaders focused on products, profits, processes, and procedures are aiming too LOW. Few things in life are as motivating as being told you're not good enough. Thanks for laying out key success factors.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Companies that score high in the Trust Index will see lower turnover and greater productivity. The methods presented in the book will help you build a motivated and responsive team within your workgroup. All of the building blocks are important and it is essential to note that you cannot selectively skip one in favor of another.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2017

In an ideal world, our work lives would be completely fulfilling, full of meaning, and intrinsically motivating. employees feel engaged at work; that is, only one of three workers brings a consistently high level of initiative, commitment, passion, and productivity to their job. But what if they’re not?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Such executives base their efforts to build team strength on the answers to two fundamental questions: Where do I need to spend my time and focus my energies? At meetings of the corporation's finance managers, Tim makes a point to spend time with lower-level staff members to establish a personal bond.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors. Each major government ministry in China was pitching green products and services at the tradeshow. And on and on. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

And this is not just the superconsumers outside your organization who are passionate about your products and services. And they’re sure to have great ideas about how to improve your products and business. Unlocking Energy. Time is a finite resource, but energy is not. Disclosure:Anheuser-Busch is a former client.)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

A 30-something entrepreneur in the Bay area, he had just closed a multi-million dollar round of Series A financing for his startup. How can productivity, creativity, and innovation thrive under such circumstances? ” He wanted his product to help change the world for the better. His energy levels and sleep improved.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Rather, “it is created by highly motivated people, by enthusiasts, by men and women who want something very much or believe very much.” This emotional connection — between organizations and their people, between brands and their customers — creates positive energy even in negative environments.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Elon Musk is already incredibly rich, and also doesn’t seem particularly motivated by further wealth. And yet this contradiction of motivations has mostly been absent from discussion of Musk’s pay. In fact, much of the discussion to date misses the point. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

And research has shown that feelings of organizational ownership lead to g reater job satisfaction , engagement, productivity, and profits. ” At Unilever, the R&D and marketing departments work in tandem to create and promote products that serve both business and society. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

At present, the startup ecosystem's inability to differentiate mom and pop tech entrepreneurs from high growth entrepreneurs ready to build the next billion-dollar company wastes a lot of people's time and energy. I see people building productivity apps who have never heard of GTD, or more importantly Energy Management.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

At present, the startup ecosystem's inability to differentiate mom and pop tech entrepreneurs from high growth entrepreneurs ready to build the next billion-dollar company wastes a lot of people's time and energy. I see people building productivity apps who have never heard of GTD, or more importantly Energy Management.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

These preparatory steps are of particular importance for carve-outs that are not full-fledged business units with profit & loss responsibility, such as R&D centers or production units whose only customer is their parent. The outsiders provide new blood in support functions such as finance, legal, or administration.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. How do you think it was possible and what were the steps you took as a CHRO to motivate employees to work as a team and achieve it? The HR Digest: C. Within C.H. Robinson, we are focused on reducing the emissions from our own carbon footprint.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

It is not my intent to offend anyone with the text that follows, and if you find yourself being offended, it is my opinion that you need to examine your motives and principles. However it is my opinion that diversity is not being addressed properly, and as a result has become one of the leading killers of corporate productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

In many cases, integration efforts can take up so much time, energy, and attention that managers and employees are distracted from their day-to-day roles. A deal team is made up of professionals covering all aspects of the integration, including experts from business operations, legal, tech, and finance. Create a dedicated deal team.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

.” Think about what you like doing… Spend a few days mapping your energy and engagement levels at work every few hours. People often begin to notice obvious peaks and valleys to their days—times when they feel productive and engaged in their work, and other times when their attitude sours and their energy wanes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

It was a problem regardless of brand, formula, or product — until Atis set her sights on solving it once and for all. Being a successful corporate hacker thus requires an enormous amount of energy and persuasiveness. She found partners, attracted financing, and cultivated a community of internal supporters. The prize?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai. Finding talent and financing isn’t the only hurdle to overcome on the road to startup success; it’s the first of many. The fear that your products are inferior. That fear is the motivator that keeps you driving forward.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

In contrast, fair marketing and advertising of products are very important for companies in these sectors. The high percentage of proposals on immaterial issues is further evidence that investors aren’t only motivated by short-term profit. Less so for financial institutions or healthcare companies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

rogue traders in finance). Think about finance and tech startups, where billions of dollars are quickly made or lost; surgery, where high-stakes operations leave no room for error; and military and police units, where risky jobs are performed under strict chains of command.

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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. They trust the governance.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

I don’t care in the slightest about winning arguments, whether someone is right or wrong, or whether logic is sound or flawed, but I do care about motivation and intent. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Over the past few years, economists have expended a lot of time and energy attempting to explain what they call “ the annuity puzzle.” Such products exist — they’re called Advanced Life Deferred Annuities — but I don’t get the sense that they’re common or easy to find or understand. Compensation Finance Managing uncertainty'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

That shift has created an increasingly commoditized product and service environment. Digital has removed barriers across sectors, even in old-line businesses known for “sticky” products, such as telecom and insurance. That’s a major missed opportunity according to Ian Ewart, Head of Products, Services & Marketing at Coutts. “I

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

” There are real risks involved in not distributing the workload in an equitable way, says Julie Morgenstern, productivity expert and author of Never Check E-Mail in the Morning. “You are managing the energy and brainpower of an entire group,” she says. And how do I get more out of underperforming resources?”

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Apollo Technical reports that 39 percent of those considering job changes are motivated by higher salaries. Instead, energies can be focused on figuring out the logistics and viability of what the company needs. Providing flexible work hours for them might help them care for their family as well as become more productive employees.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order. For debt, the traditional source is bank debt, though recently there had been a rapid influx of new online lenders (such as the recently public Lending Club and OnDeck Capital) that provide new, though sometimes costly alternative products. Finding a way forward.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed. One third of our nation’s Gross National Product is spent in cleaning up mistakes. Rework, product recalls, make-good for inferior work, excess overhead. Every day in the U.S.,

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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. We could not adopt an abstract aim such as “improve production.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

” Reflect on your motivations. “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. “It comes down to your personal preferences.” ” Get to know the team.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Currently, impact can mean anything from venture investments in new health technologies to microfinance loans in Peru; from affordable housing in the US to renewable energy in India; from social impact bonds to private equity funds that create jobs. Product : Investments in products or services that have positive social benefits.

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