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The Energy Efficiency of Trust & Vulnerability

Mills Scofield

The three of you had a common goal – a great performance. 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.

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28 Great Quotes to Inspire and Manage Change

Great Results Team Building

Peter Senge. In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”. - Leo Tolstoy. Change before you have to”. Jack Welch. People don’t resist change. Woodrow Wilson.

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CMI Malaysia: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Digital event: Deep Dive into the Energy Sector In case you missed it, the CMI APAC Regional Boards recently delivered a Deep Dive into the Energy Sector Digital Event. A note of thanks to those around the table for their time and effort to join me today. Here's to more of such fellowships in future.

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Procter & Gamble and Innovation in Asia

Harvard Business Review

It has publicly announced goals to reduce its dependence on petroleum and to increase its use of recycled and renewable materials. Bruce Brown used this phrase to describe how P&G will achieve its stated goal of serving 5 billion consumers by the year 2015 (an increase of 800 million from today). The Red Dot."

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Reading List: What’s on yours?

CO2

I believe that this single goal, and the years of reading that followed, had a significant impact on not only how I look at leaders, but how I gain understanding and experience from leaders with whom I have the privilege to associate. Energy Leadership by Bruce Schneider (look for a blog series on this topic in the near future).

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We Can’t Talk About Inequality Without Talking About Talent

Harvard Business Review

Its implicit goal is to be the moral equivalent of equity capital. In the middle of the great Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 , a huge one-day fall in the value of Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index drove down the market value of his holdings by close to US$10 billion, then the largest one day fall in an individual’s fortune ever recorded.