Building Personal Strength

AUGUST 24, 2010

It had a loyal clientèle and thrived - until Hurricanes Francis and Jeanne struck in 2004, that is. If all a manager ever wanted was a staff of employees who come to work on time and do what’s specified in their job descriptions, you could just manage them the way you do anything else, such as funds, tools, equipment, supplies, etc.

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Learning-by-Doing Ethics Course Energy 98

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. I’m excited to be joining StrategyDriven during this time of unprecedented change and uncertainty within the energy sector,” says Nathan.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

d.light’s simple three-item product line simultaneously addresses poverty, education, air pollution/toxic fumes/health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more—and makes a huge difference in lives of its customers. 275,817,462 saved in energy-related expenses. 10,115,224 kWh generated from renewable energy. ?(For

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Prahalad Open-book 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

Disengaged and distracted employees cost businesses money as they ‘sleepwalk’ through their workday, bringing little energy or passion to the table. Properly recognize the energy and spirit your employees bring to the table. Management Would be Easy if You Didn’t Have to Deal with People, part 2 of 3.

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Motivation Incentives Chief Executive Officer Absenteeism 51

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Your leader does not have either the time or the energy to care about himself and you , so stop whining! The data from the study come from 111 CEOs in the computer hardware and software industries from 1992-2004. Leadership ceo evidence-based management narcissism organizational performance simmons' Simmons, Ph.D.

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CEO P&L Organization Organizational Behavior 90

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

We are very concerned about the fact that women and minorities continue to be under-represented at the highest levels of management,” said Barbara J. In 2004, the Calvert Women’s Principles ® became the first global code of corporate conduct focused exclusively on empowering, advancing and investing in women. Source U.S.

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Diversity Newsletter Long-term Execution 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

which resulted in an increase in brand awareness of 72 percent between 2004 and 2010. About the Author Jez Frampton is Interbrand’s Global CEO responsible for managing the firm’s worldwide interests and enhancing its strategic and creative offerings.

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Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 65

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. They also hide the declining energy density, higher cost, and lower flow rates of these new resources.

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Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Business ownership consumes large quantities of time and mental energy, even after it’s running well and succeeding. But Chrysler was in bankruptcy, and we didn’t know whether our Chrysler Jeep Dodge dealership that we opened in 2004 would survive the ax of the bankruptcy court. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 256

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

It was written with Jay Terwilliger and Mark Sebell, managing partners at Creative Realities , a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. From small business to large, executives confront a constant tension between managing what is and creating new growth. We believe this is the time for real leaders to come forward.

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Long-term Definition Innovation Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

If you’re one of the many managers out there who must negotiate with companies in China — the world’s largest emerging economy — you probably need to change your approach. What worked a year or two ago is no longer effective, because the competitive and regulatory environment has transformed so quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

At least seven hedge fund managers earned more than $1 billion just in 2009. At The Energy Project, we spend a lot of time talking with leaders about the energy they stand to derive from defining missions larger than themselves — ones that serve a greater good. Singer used 2004 tax figures to compute that if the top.01

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Hedge Cost Energy Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

There can be organizational paralysis, or a release of incredible and productive energy, and which of the two happens depends mainly on leadership. Consider the soul-searching that must have gone on at Merck in 2004 when its management finally made the decision to remove Vioxx from the market. Why do we do the work we do?

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Company Crisis Crisis Management Video 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

” Few people have the mental energy to deal with the constant scorekeeping that rewarding reputation requires. The two mechanisms managed to interact harmoniously, with paying it forward lasting longer over time. If it had not, then a vicious cycle might have ensued, and cooperation would have plummeted.”

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Reputation Cooper Airlines Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

And yet, in announcing those numbers, management confessed: "We know we can do better. In 2004, the European beer company Interbrew, itself a product of several mergers, acquired a majority stake in AmBev, creating InBev. Management and front-line employees dream the same dreams.

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EBITDA Globalization Depreciation Open-book 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

The approximately 80-minute lecture highlights how exponential growth interacts with population and energy dynamics to create a disturbing outlook for the future of our planet. In the summer of 2004, Peter Thiel's initial investment in the just-started company valued it at $4.9 By May 2009, the company was being valued at $10 billion.

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Banking Tversky Real Estate Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

India love first peaked in July 2008 when India’s government of the time risked its very survival in support of a nuclear energy deal led by Washington. Choose the right India country manager: The role of country manager for India can mean many things depending on the scope of operations and the structure of an organization.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

Managers are well aware that Moore’s Law, the idea that the number of transistors on a practical-sized chip doubles every 18 months, has brought us a bounty of cheap computing power, leading to smartphones, tablets, fitness trackers, cloud-based services like Facebook and Uber, and on and on.

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Software Engineering Efficiency Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

A leader with significant experience in negotiating international energy agreements moved from Petronas, the national oil company, to Telekom Malaysia where she acquired skills in operating an integrated telecommunications network. Talent management Leadership Developing employees'

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

But just because you know that a network is important to your success, it doesn’t mean you are devoting sufficient time and energy to making it useful and strong. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. In fact, few of us do. The good news is that you can change that.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2011

This discovery has been repeatedly borne out by rigorous research in psychology and neuroscience, management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe. When we are positive, our brains become more engaged, creative, motivated, energetic, resilient, and productive at work. This isn’t just an empty mantra.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. First, you need to inject new energy into a tired organization under stress. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team. Build a Re-Founding Team. Finally, you need to make change happen relatively quickly.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

in the United States and Western Europe in 2000 to 2004 to 0.5% For example, across our sectors and countries studied, in the decade from 1995 to 2004, growth in demand for goods and services averaged 4.6%, slowed to 2.3% In fact, about half of the slowdown in productivity growth — from an average of 2.4% in 2014 to 2020.

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Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2018

Entire new systems need to be constructed just to manage this complexity, with questionable or negative value to society at large. today, where complexity is piled upon complexity in a number of critical sectors, such as health care, energy, finance, and government. Wholesale changes must be contemplated. Government. Social programs.

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Cost Health Care IPO Finance 172

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

How often are management concepts subjected to recalls by the people who invented them? Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. Yet poor management systems can jeopardize lives in the air, at sea, on roads or in hospitals.

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TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

As early as 2004, research from Elizabeth Wolf Morrison and Frances J. Milliken for the Academy of Management Review and Stern Business pegged fear — and the resulting silence when employees operate within a culture of fear — as the biggest roadblock to innovation. Fear of conflict with a manager.

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Innovation Survey Policies Loyalty 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Let’s look at the key errors. Insight Center.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. “Startups are cauldrons of energy, stress, and joy. ” Gulati also recommends discounting the idea that the opportunity will be your ticket to fabulous wealth.

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Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But entrepreneurial know-how and energy can work very effectively in the context of plugging-in as a supplier, as Steve Cronce and thousands of others are learning. Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Manage the arduously long sales cycle. Taking this path isn’t a cake walk, however.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Kram, the Shipley Professor in Management at the Boston University School of Management and author of Mentoring at Work. Even the promise of future help, if and when it's needed, can be enough to convince a mentor to give up his time and energy. There is a lot of chaos in the world of work," says Kathy E.

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Mentor Career Long-term Advice 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2013

The nodding heads and half-mast eyelids are usually blamed on the energy-sapping process of digestion combined with a satisfied state of relaxation. No vending machine energy drink will fix the problem they are living with, and it''s a problem that adds up to an estimated $150 billion in lost productivity annually.

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Presenteeism Absenteeism ROI Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

They include years of 15% to 20% annual increases in labor costs without compensating productivity growth in manufacturing titans such as China, cheap energy in North America unlocked by hydraulic fracturing, and the increasing complexity and cost of managing global supply chains.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The goal is to figure out which persuadable voters to spend energy — and dollars — on, in the hope of moving the dial just slightly in their favor. In 2004, microtargeting was a fairly new concept. It's a world where hundredths of a percentage point matter. Definitely the scale.

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