Next Level Blog

JANUARY 19, 2021

So, leaders are going to have to pay a lot of attention to renewing their energy this year so they have the capacity to choose optimism. As the pandemic drags on into a new year, it’s easy to understand how leaders can feel both fatigued and depleted. ( See my post from last week for more on that. )

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 8, 2024

The researchers explain that whereas in 2012, just 34% of employees had a manager that was younger than them, this had leaped to 40% by 2020. Instead, their long-term career prospects should redirect their energy towards enhancing their skills and marketability, thus opening up opportunities to find better jobs elsewhere.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Before it is launched, it has stored potential energy–when launched, that energy force becomes kinetic energy. Change can also offer an enormous amount of benefits, like growth in a career, innovation for the future, and discovering new possibilities in life. Repeat as necessary. It is messy, noisy, and chaotic.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It was originated by the energy company Eesti Energia and developed a four-step methodology to engender an entrepreneurial mindset in students ranging from 13 to 19 years of age. The Global Innovation Index illustrates this, as they cite the inhibiting impact a shortage of human capital is having on the innovation potential of the nation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

There’s Chief Executive’s 2012 40 Best Companies for Leaders , Fortune’s 25 Top Companies for Leaders , and the just published Hay Group Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20. At the same time, the Best Companies for Leadership foster cultures that encourage innovation. The Best Companies emphasize innovation.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 8, 2013

I felt my energy shift. Many years later as I work with companies, I often wonder why most don’t feel energy around the vision they created. What is the story that you will write about your future today that bears the energy and the emotion that will sustain action on days when nothing seems worth it? The possibility.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The following six ideas emerged this past year as powerful "innovation invitations." They'll be sources of — and resources for — innovation differentiation this coming year. If your organization doesn't find them innovatively interesting, then be careful: they may be wielded by the competitors you most dread.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 5, 2013

Idea Agent: Leadership that Liberates Creativity and Accelerates Innovation Lina M.

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Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Retrieved December 11, 2012, from Dictionary.com website: [link]. Many workplaces are enclaves of aiding and abetting immature, disrespectful, even harmful behavior. People end up spending more time working around or with these people instead of doing the jobs at hand. Online Etymology Dictionary.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

energy industries, from oil and gas to ethanol, wind, and solar, have long enjoyed lavish government subsidies and other support. One reason that clean energy tends to be more expensive than fossil fuel is that it can be. But those days are coming to an end. As long as it's subsidized, there is little pressure to compete on price.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Every company wants “integrity,” “respect for people,” “quality,” “customer satisfaction,” “innovation,” and “return for shareholders.” Before the energy conglomerate’s collapse in 2001, I had the opportunity to review Enron’s values. 1-858-759-0950.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 29, 2011

What drains my energy just to think about doing again? Here’s to a great 2012! Where is my time most being wasted? What discipline do I most need to implement into my day? What was my most memorable moment? What changes do I need to make? Are you playing? Related posts: 3 Questions to Evaluate Vision Planning.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

And I predict that leaders who get the whole story, and act on it, will reap unexpectedly better workplace morale in 2012, despite all the uncertainty and volatility of the global economic realities. I also think something else is going on, and leaders need to pay attention to this subtle but notable shift in employee energy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. The list goes on. However, not all investments are equal.

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The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 26, 2012

When an individual’s personal values are aligned with the core values of the company, that’s when passion is ignited – and that creates the collaboration that drives innovation, productivity, growth and competitive advantage. People need purpose, especially at work. He is a corporate speaker, workshop facilitator and business consultant.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Type 1 diabetes renders the pancreas incapable of producing the insulin necessary to shift glucose out of the bloodstream and into cells where it can be converted into energy. When his son, Hayden, was diagnosed with the disease, in 2009, Lane was a product manager at GE Energy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Airbnb has nearly doubled its user base every year since 2012 and is now worth $30 billion — nearly as much as Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel chain. Entrepreneurship aids economic vitality by getting rid of complacent incumbents, accelerating innovation, and creating jobs. Considering the following.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. As business tycoon Richard Branson has proclaimed in 2012, “our only option to stop climate change is for industry to make money from it.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Only 13% of employees worldwide are engaged in their jobs, according to 2011-2012 numbers collected by Gallup. They drive innovation and move the organization forward.”. “ They’re sleepwalking through their workday putting time — but not energy or passion — into their work.”. What does that mean for where you live and work?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reported that companies waste 30% of the energy they consume. For many businesses, this is equivalent to overspending on energy by that amount to achieve current production levels. Managing utilities has also become more complex as the energy landscape has evolved.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Grab, which launched its service in 2012 with 40 drivers in Malaysia, came late to the ride-hailing game, only after Uber had established a formidable position in the United States. Transportation, aviation, health care, and energy all require physical delivery, whereas media, music, and advertisement do not.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Just look at Kodak in the past few months leading up to leap year 2012. Easier than we all think (and Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma is one of the best books around on leadership drift). Make your Innovator's DNA come alive. Essentially, he put lots of energy into catching drift before it caught Apple.

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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. Customers Innovation Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The cap-and-trade program is the centerpiece of California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, also known as AB 32 — a suite of clean energy solutions that has proved to be the engine of an astounding economic transformation that drove statewide growth at twice the rate of the U.S. dependence on foreign oil. million annually.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

billion on these social sites by 2012. Essentially, these statistics tell us that companies need to embrace and capture the voices of their employees and customers if they want to innovate and thrive. Rule 6: Rely on Others for Growth and Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. The shifting energy equation, for example, sets the stage for growth. Shale gas will allow the US to be energy independent, create an export industry, and reduce energy costs. Increase your R&D spending.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. — data from the 2012 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor showed that the vast majority of the 69 countries surveyed reported higher entrepreneurial activity among immigrants than among natives, especially in growth-oriented ventures. Immigrants represent 27.5%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. of what George Mason University’s Adam Thierer calls “ permissionless innovation.” Pending agency action, commercial uses for drones were effectively banned.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

What the White House called "doubling down on" clean energy. Improving energy efficiency standards for things like appliances and federal buildings, a worthy follow up to the aggressive auto fuel efficiency standards passed last year. Carbon-based energy will be more expensive and clean energy will be cheaper.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

In 2012, Cabot became a certified B Corp. “B Corp certification was an affordable way to review everything from our energy and water usage, impact on the community, to the cleaning products we use,” says co-founder and one of the original companies to seek B corp certification Mandy Cabot.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors. By June of 2012 we were close to 100.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Rivals immediately cried fraud, but Mexico's highest electoral authority finally declared a few weeks ago that Pena Nieto is the legitimate winner of the elections, which paves the way for a PRI government to assume office on December 1, 2012. However, relying on low-cost manufacturing creates low-paid jobs and a low-growth economy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. Nike embedded sustainability into its innovation process and created the $1 billion-plus Flyknit line, which uses a specialized yarn system, requiring minimal labor and generating large profit margins.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

According to a new study published by the Center for Talent Innovation, Latinos at Work: Unleashing the Power of Culture , most Latinos in the U.S. Those who expend a great deal of energy repressing themselves are also more likely to say that they are being promoted quickly. trillion within the next four years.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. There is so much to learn, borrow, and build upon in these winning entries when it comes to how we can use the principles, and tools of the Web to make our organizations more adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and accountable. Story by Jim Lavoie.

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