Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

Activists and politicians demand the modernization of energy production, supply, and consumption. In the meantime, alternative sources of energy, such as solar and wind, are surging. Figures there and elsewhere suggest they are the fastest-growing energy option on the globe. Sustainability is the new business benchmark.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

But they can propel us to greatness by being the spark plug for the organization’s innovation engine. The goal is not to change them but to effectively lead them in a fashion that harnesses their creative energies. They can be successfully led but are poorly managed. They can make us better and more vigorous.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

If we can recognize the patterns, we can improve our ability to sidestep the biological traps that can sabotage us—and use the energy that accompanies pressure to thrive. Whether they are on center stage or behind the scenes, managers know who these top players are, understand their worth, and want more of them on their team.

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JULY 18, 2017

He’s a wildly popular professor of management and psychology at Wharton, has written two great books ( Give and Take and Originals ), recently co-wrote a new book with Sheryl Sandberg called Option B , and his Ted Talks have been viewed by more than 9 million people. It’s certainly deadly to innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

You’re not managing your energy well. You must concentrate on managing your energy because there are so many demands on your time, that you can’t meet them all. Effective time management begins with good energy management. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes. That’s part of the job.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Paul shared a string of fabulous ideas and techniques to help everyone be more effective at both problem solving and innovation. He said that when striving for innovation, leaders should think like venture capitalists. Consider these five action steps: Look for lots of innovative ideas in your area of need.

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CO2

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A few days later, his horse came back with twenty wild horses. One of the wild horses kicked the man’s only son, breaking both his legs. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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CO2

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A few days later, his horse came back with twenty wild horses. One of the wild horses kicked the man’s only son, breaking both his legs. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

…And the Clients Went Wild! : And the Clients Went Wild! Perfect your marketing mix and win with …And the Clients Went Wild! If you aren’t sure where to get started, take a cue from other companies that have taken innovation to heart and used it to successfully win and keep customers. Do what works!

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” “Management is about arranging and telling. “A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.” ” –Peter F. ” –David R.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

” But guitarist/manager Jay Jay French, who founded the band, killed it, and helped bring it back to life, deserves much of the credit for the world-famous brand behind the band that toured this year for the final time. Innovation is great, but it’s also important to stay true to your core business. Play to your strengths.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

” But guitarist/manager Jay Jay French, who founded the band, killed it, and helped bring it back to life, deserves much of the credit for the world-famous brand behind the band that toured this year for the final time. Innovation is great, but it’s also important to stay true to your core business. Play to your strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

A few weeks back, we saw firsthand a hotbed of innovation in a place that many observers had long ago given up on. PARC fell off the innovation radar screen. It has delivered a stunning array of software and hardware innovations to global corporations, startups, and the U.S. and then letting most of it slip away.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

Every company has a limited amount of time, money, and resources that it can invest in innovation. That’s why they should focus their energies on opportunities that will set them apart from their competition — that is, they should innovate where they differentiate. So what about your company? Is it differentiating itself?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. 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!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

They all use the same words, such as “respect,” “teamwork,” and “innovation.” ” Notice that these questions do not ask exactly what that purpose is, whether it is to save the environment, advance human health, push the technological frontier, or provide cheap and efficient energy for all.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

They invest in whatever it takes to innovate new solutions for customers. Incumbents, on the other hand, very often see the future as a threat: As leaders invested heavily in the status quo, innovation and disruption are not good for them. Turbulence erodes profitability, innovation marginalizes their current product offerings.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

These four elements set the stage for disruptive innovation to emerge, which suggests a more focused approach to national cleantech policy — and a path towards competing asymmetrically with China. Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. It’s not just the rules of the road that will be affected by driverless cars.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Rather than focusing their efforts on improving the company's products or customer experience, employees tend to devote more time and energy to explaining or criticizing the metric itself. The creativity that should be going toward finding innovative ways to wow customers often finds a different and more dangerous outlet.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

Through trial and error, the algorithms can get better at predicting how things like energy and fundamental frequency impact others—be they people watching a movie, or cancer patients calling a help line.” Hiring Human resource management' Think of the voice profiles of a singer. Not at all.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

That said, with 187 countries pledging collective action to cut carbon emissions, the deal will have vast repercussions for business , particularly as governments put into place policies to remake our energy, transportation, and building systems. The vision of an all-renewable energy system comes into focus. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

A big selling point, the start-up hopes, is the energy-saving potential: If you’re a facilities manager, you can lower the temperature by 1 degree and see whether anyone reacts. so the energy savings could be significant. The Comfort of Crowds Are Smartphone Users the Missing Link in Building Efficiency?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

It is also an entertaining case study in the power of grassroots innovation and open-source creativity, a positive symbol of how unchecked human energy, shaped by a few simple rules, can unleash truly amazing results. Is a colorful symbol of the performance of open-source innovation. But the Fringe is more than performance art.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

To help you answer this vital question, consider these two definitions: Hot conflict is when one or more parties are highly emotional and doing one or more of the following: speaking loudly or shouting; being physically aggressive, wild or threatening; using language that is incendiary; appearing out of control and potentially explosive.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 31, 2011

The interests of the innovator aren't perfectly aligned with the interests of the corporation. They were wild geysers of creative energy. This is why managing the creative process is so difficult. Nathan Myhrvold, formerly a senior executive at Microsoft, argues, "Innovation is an unruly thing.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

You can’t drive your vehicle on an empty tank, nor can you lead your life or teams with zero energy. My energy levels are based on the foods and beverages I consume. The energy, focus, and creativity I gain from staying active and healthy allow me to work better and longer. The first principle is getting plenty of sleep.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

One can wake up, realize their energy has been zapped and experience setbacks in their business because he-she was spending disproportionate time on networking. These pointers are offered to help manage time and resources. How Quickly They Forget Some people are creative and innovative. Business organizations are like trees.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Inevitably, not all of the final pitches were winners but, to Facebook, the potential for uncovering groundbreaking innovations is worth pulling a couple hundred engineers away from their everyday tasks. After collecting enough hilarious answers, the hackathon leaders shared them throughout the exercise to keep participants’ energy up.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

And yet in my work with clients, I often discover old ideas about time management that don’t take this new reality into account. Proponents say they also improve collaboration and innovation, and opponents report that they cause higher stress and lower concentration, motivation, and cognitive functioning.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The military continues to lead the way on energy and climate. For over 200 years, from Thomas Malthus to the Limits to Growth gang, many people have made the case that it won't be long before we'll run out of food, energy, materials, and on and on. It's an idea that has enthralled many, but has seemed to be wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

After deploying to six metro areas in six years, however, company management announced in late 2016 that it was “pausing” future deployments. Google Fiber, as the effort was named, entered the access market intending to prove the business case for ultra-high-speed internet. Seen through that lens, Google Fiber succeeded wildly.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Having cofounded and sold PayPal, he quickly moved on to launching a range of ventures with world-changing aspirations for how we generate energy , transport ourselves and our goods, interface with machines, and explore our solar system. By any measure, Elon Musk is exceptionally successful.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

As its victims know all too well, “death by PowerPoint,” the poor use of the presentation software, sucks the life and energy out of far too many meetings. For too many managers, the technology’s costs often rival its benefits. Software doesn’t always end up being the productivity panacea that it promises to be.

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