Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yet it affects so much of a how a business operates, from the individual in the team to the company as a collection of teams to the entire market place. These employees psychologically “own” their work, helping move their organisations forward by driving performance and innovation. Michael Jordan.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 13, 2023

As the world grapples with waste management challenges, the city of Houston stands as a beacon of innovation. Sustainable Solutions: Beyond the Here and Now Embracing Technological Innovations The role of technology in shaping sustainable biomedical waste management cannot be overstated. The era of isolated efforts is over.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 4, 2023

“For a country to be self-sufficient, its population needs access to food, water and energy, resources that can often only be provided by the surrounding ecosystem. However, most countries tend to operate close to the limits of their water supply. In some cases, countries face limitations beyond their control.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In a recent article , I charted the way in which Sweden utilized the possibilities presented by the widespread adoption of electrical energy to transform its economy and itself as a country. Indeed, such a relationship between energy consumption and economic growth has been observed in numerous countries over the course of the 20th century.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

By Tim Kippley: Jeff Bezos, one of the planet’s greatest innovators, once said that: “You need a culture that high-fives small and innovative ideas and senior executives [that] encourage ideas.” ” The Value of Innovation at Geneca. I have long felt that companies can’t survive without innovating.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 15, 2021

A recent project from Imperial College London aims to produce a similar outcome for the deployment of self-driving fleets and their impact on urban mobility. “Through the SHIFT project, we had an opportunity to study their potential impacts on the rest of the transport network in an unprecedented level of detail.”

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The researchers wanted to explore the feasibility of those jobs transitioning to clean energy jobs in each location. Energy transition. Given the seriousness of the climate emergency, there has been considerable attention given to the need to transition towards cleaner forms of energy.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 6, 2014

Stupid is the New Smart—the common denominator for success, creativity, and innovation in business and life. And on the flip side, if you try to start all of your stupid ideas at once, you’re bound to waste time, energy, and money (and go completely loco in the process).

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 3, 2024

They benefit from insights into business operations, target markets, and supplier relationships. Because of a parent company’s resource deployment opportunities—in other words, the many projects for which they could allocate time, money, and energy— there are greater selection pressures, particularly at the exit selection stage.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 21, 2021

Such calls for more financial support for startups are not new, with former EU research commission Carlos Moedas arguing for an EU-run venture fund back in 2015, which eventually became the European Innovation Council (EIC) this year. The €10 billion fund aims to back startups with a mixture of grants and equity investments.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 4, 2023

Copilot is a project hosted on GitHub that aims to outsource a huge amount of software development coders would ordinarily do themselves. It’s believed that the project speeds up the process of software development by around 50%.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I have to consider the amount of money and energy expended as it relates to the entire church organization. The fact is, as with any organization, we operate with limited resources and sometimes saying no is the right decision at the time. Is the cost reasonable compared to the benefit received for the project?

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Conserving Emotional Energy: Quickly move on without engaging in emotionally taxing conversations. Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth. Innovation Journal , 25 (3), 45–59.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

To what extent is that down to a successful ‘Culture of Innovation?’ ’ Kristen Ludgate: 3M’s culture of innovation definitely comes through in the experience and approach of 3Mers during their day-to-day work. All of this takes energy and drive, for sure, along with a willingness to learn, adapt and engage.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Today, with the International Space Station in operation and anticipation of a multi-year human mission into deep space, protecting astronauts from the negative effects of disconnection and isolation has become an issue of greater interest to NASA scientists. These benefits add up to a powerful advantage.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

If you are responsible for leading teams, how can you be sure that the work being done throughout the day will innovatively increase impact and productivity to make tomorrow a better place? Or, if you are responsible for managing Solopreneur projects, how can you be sure that the work will increase impact and productivity?

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2024

T HE vast majority of today’s business leaders are either embarking on AI deployment to improve their operations or are considering it. Some 54 percent of organizations say AI has been cost-effective for their business operations. I learned this principle when helping clients brainstorm how best to leverage AI within their operations.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Here is the press release from the Hay study: The 8 th annual Hay Group study ranks the best companies for leadership around the globe and examines how those companies nurture talent and foster innovation in their ranks. At the same time, the Best Companies for Leadership foster cultures that encourage innovation. 84 percent.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

Where the absence of an outcome or a discovery exists so does a lack of creativity, critical thought, focused energy, effort and resources, and ultimately a lack of leadership. Whenever I see leaders focus on maintenance over innovation, I see people who have unnecessarily drawn the line of impossibility in the sand.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

When a CEO announces a major initiative to foster innovation, mark your calendar. In most cases we’ve studied at Innovation Leader, an online resource for people responsible for innovation and R&D, there’s a surplus of good ideas for new products, services and business models. So how to improve?

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

With the rise of AI and Big Data , companies are starting to adopt these technologies to improve their operations. As technologists and the next generation create and design the future workplace, HR must be on board and thinking about innovation and vision in tandem. This is now being a place for projects like Crossrail.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 3, 2012

In fact, I have worked with some leaders who get their “energy” from working in crisis mode. If I had a nickel for every time a leader said to me “I told the company our (project, goal, etc), yet two weeks later they have totally forgotten the conversation”, I’d be a very wealthy person. And it is a trap. Failing to Define Clear Goals.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. These, in turn, have given us modern medicine, food, energy, transportation, communication, and so much more.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

It turns out that the word “innovation” is not a Harry Potter-esque magical incantation that, once spoken, renders companies more inventive, creative, and entrepreneurial. It can be emblazoned on the door to a new innovation center in Silicon Valley. Yes, even Toys R Us had a head of innovation.).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2015

Breaking up isn’t easy — especially if you are a leader “breaking up with” an innovation project that one of your teams still believes in passionately. It is a critical part of the innovation journey however, and done well can produce a positive outcome across the board.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. 100 COACHES. Corporate CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

The urgent challenge now is to drive the majority of businesses to take measures that will save energy and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. To do so, we have created the Future Economy Project. How can you make core business operations more sustainable? And what type of leadership will take us there?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. “We cannot be like Google, but neither do we want to be,” says Kemal Malik, the board member responsible for innovation, “We need to plot our own path.” The innovation agenda.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

We know how crucial it is to having talent who love working for us and who will offer discretionary effort and innovation. It will lose the license to operate from key stakeholders. They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas. And introductions to their friends.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 28, 2013

These complaints often construct the reality of how the team operates and how the people within the team treat and act towards each other. For example, suppose that your team keeps fighting amongst themselves and thus the project is late, over budget and poor quality. There is an exception.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Despite good intentions—and widespread acceptance of the importance of innovation—efforts to innovate at large companies often lack a clear mission and framework, and as a result, they go off the rails. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Navy announced it would source roughly half of its energy from alternative sources by 2020. Since then, the Navy has launched a number of innovative green projects, such as switching some Marine forward bases in Afghanistan from fossil fuels to solar power. Reaching for 50% renewables is driving innovation. Enough said.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

When I took over as chief marketing officer at GE, the mandate from CEO Jeff Immelt was to make marketing a vital operating function that could drive organic growth. GE’s best path to organic growth is to continue the world-changing innovation it has always been known for. Go to new places. Shape the market early.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Few people realize the important role water plays in our daily energy use, or the energy required to heat, treat, and supply water. Meanwhile, the electricity used for water treatment can be as much as one-third of a city’s energy bill. Most companies’ value chains are heavily dependent on water and energy resources.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). But there’s also another type of innovation that is more gradual and smaller in scale.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Paul, MN, headquarters of the perennial innovation leader, 3M. During my daylong visit, I observed a quiet, longtime sustainability leader plugging away, creating new products that will help the world save energy, water, waste.and lots of money. our new vision" of growth and innovation. It's also a sizable business for 3M.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. Unfortunately, this creates two problems.

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