Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 5, 2010

They consider the idea itself, the team, the market and more. Rather than betting all resources of time, energy and money on one idea (deemed “the best&# by themselves or even the group), they fund and support multiple ideas and approaches, knowing that some won’t be successful and others will be wildly so.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

What types of ‘wild goose chases’ have you pursued in your networking career? Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Are there networking situations which are beneficial for all parties?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you’re using the same old marketing strategies today because they brought in business in years past, you’re in danger of being pummeled by your competition. you have to get their attention, and that means your typical tried-and-true marketing tactics aren’t going to cut it anymore. …And the Clients Went Wild! :

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

…And the Clients Went Wild! : And the Clients Went Wild! gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. Do what works! Not necessarily.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

…And the Clients Went Wild! : And the Clients Went Wild! gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. Do what works!

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 12, 2016

In the years since my first book, The Radical Leap , was first published, I’ve heard from countless business people about the importance of LEAP (cultivate Love, generate Energy, inspire Audacity, and provide Proof) in their own endeavors at work. Introduction. Now that’s what gets me out of bed in the morning.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

We design and manufacture personal-scale energy appliances that enable our users to cook, charge, and light their lives off the grid. We serve two markets that are very different but united by the common need for reliable, safe access to energy: outdoor recreationalists and low-income households in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Every day, multi-million dollar consumer electronics products suffer the consequences of poor, lazy, ineffective, uninspired, unprepared, overly-technical, follow-the-status-quo marketing. The products at retail are generally good, but the marketing ranges from atrocious to bad. The difference is marketing.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?) Unfortunately, many of us have developed expertise in only one field (software engineering, information technology [IT], marketing, biotechnology, automobile manufacturing, the food industry, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

” The notion of moonshots is a hugely appealing idea, whether you are an enterprise working on a market innovation, a nonprofit organization tackling societal problems, or a government trying to govern better. Here are some lessons from NASA’s moonshot: Channel existing energies. Continually communicate progress.

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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! Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Perhaps this is an issue of confidence.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 14, 2016

In ads IBM touched on the use of data in transportation, healthcare, manufacturing, crime, love, education, farming, pollution, weather, energy, and many other areas! When many of the ads on the final round of the Masters Golf Tournament are about using data to make decisions, you know that data has become big business!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

have been taking advantage of peer pressure to reduce energy consumption by including charts in electricity bills showing how energy efficient you are compared to your neighbors. Sometimes the best approach is to make all the data anonymous (as the energy companies do). Innovation Marketing' This is a tricky line to walk.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

The trillion-dollar number is not random: The International Energy Agency (IEA) has estimated that the world needs to pour $36 trillion of investment into the clean economy between now and 2050 in order to keep the planet below the critical warming threshold of 3.6 coal market. Talk of potential risk to humanity is not new.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

Consider this example: When The Interpublic Group (IPG) merged the direct-marketing company Draft with the ad-agency Foote Cone & Belding (FCB) to become one agency in 2006, “it was immediately apparent that the cultures of the two agencies were wildly different,” shared Marty Stock, then head of Coors advertising at FCB.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

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. It’s difficult to beat the current market leader in its area of differentiation. This helped position Progressive as a market leader today.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Investors and lenders are betting on the company’s long-term potential to dominate a future that may feature autonomous vehicles, sustainable energy consumption, and the ability to upgrade easily as both hardware and software evolve. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide. For now, Tesla has none of these.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

.” 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. The actual purpose of the company can differ wildly across companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Making big bets on emerging technologies and uncertain markets is never a straightforward proposition; doing so in direct competition with much bigger and more sustained Chinese bets is downright suicidal. American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2014

Of course, we live in a wildly diverse world; we want to be inclusive and broad minded ourselves; and we therefore want our providers of financial advice, energy, and technology to reflect those values. According to data collected by Getty, financial firms are buying 20% more stock photos of women today than they were five years ago.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market. Reading the headlines, you might think that the most urgent question about national success in innovation and growth is whether the U.S.

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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. Multi-trillion-dollar markets are in play and there will be many more winners than losers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

Characterizations of what happened in the early years of PARC (founded in 1970) range from strategic fumbles to "wild geysers of creative energy" perfectly appropriate to early-stage invention , but those early years didn't yield the stream of profitable innovations that Xerox had imagined. and then letting most of it slip away.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

This includes having an in-house recruiting firm to locate the best engineering talent for the start-ups it funds, a huge boon in a wildly competitive job market. 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.

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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. If lawmakers don’t handle this correctly — well, consider Red Flag laws.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

Passion is not yelling or being wild; it is simply caring deeply. Values often influence people's choices about where to invest their energies. Energy isn’t wasted in the politics of the team, organization or community because there aren't different rules for everybody. Goals convert vision/mission into energy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

In its first year, the venture landed two almost-committed pilot sites and a prospect pipeline for a multi-billion-dollar market. In this story, that giant sucking sound you hear is the draining of time and energy from the core business by tempting almost-related opportunities. professional organizations. Control your identity.

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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. They will find creative ways to attack your data collection methods. You're likely to run into two critical issues: Unstable scores.

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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

JULY 5, 2016

Yonghui Superstores , for instance, has built a thriving chain of stores in China using a repeatable model that delivers on their mission to produce safe, fresh produce at reasonable prices to the mass consumer market. It is open to different partners and willing to try “wild things” to support the customer.

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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. Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. My energy levels are based on the foods and beverages I consume. I’m not talking about surface level excitement or energy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

This has been an explosive summer — markets in turmoil, cities in flames, politics in meltdown. 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.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 31, 2011

"You can be one of the most successful makers of enterprise technology products the world has ever known, but that doesn't mean your instincts will carry over to the consumer market," the tech writer Harry McCracken recently wrote. They were wild geysers of creative energy.

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Define - Answer - Act - Use that energy to repeat. Those things that I would be willing to “do” for the thousandth time with passion and energy. Also in the group was a woman who was a freelance marketing communications writer (someone who makes a living explaining businesses). An awesome force of nature. What’s your goal?

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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. The longer they network, the better they get at niche marketing. Some commercial programs cater to this market but are usually populated by entrepreneurs on the way up.

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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. Markets have a remarkable way of sorting the wheat from the chaff.

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Define - Answer - Act - Use that energy to repeat. Those things that I would be willing to “do” for the thousandth time with passion and energy. Also in the group was a woman who was a freelance marketing communications writer (someone who makes a living explaining businesses). An awesome force of nature. What’s your goal?

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