article thumbnail

4 Breakthrough Leadership Strategies for 2013

LDRLB

It’s usually an individual endeavor focused on fitness, friendships, or finances. When it comes to business, great things can also happen when we apply the catalytic energy of the New Year to our teams and organizations. And in today’s 2013 environment, uncertainty has never been greater.

Strategy 160
article thumbnail

There’s More To Goal Setting Than Making Them SMART

Tanveer Naseer

The problem is that it takes time and energy to really think through the implications of a set of goals and facilitate a thoughtful process to vet them. There were 5-10 elements of the goal plan that should have gone through a much more rigorous vetting and consultation process before they ended up on the list.

Goal 273
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Strategizing for Success: Keys for Planning Annual Sales & Marketing Goals, part 2 of 2

Strategy Driven

For instance, how many hours of sleep did you average per night this year, and how many hours would you need to achieve optimal energy for top business performance? Gallup’s annual Economy and Personal Finance survey for 2013 revealed that 70 percent of Americans do not prepare a detailed personal budget.

Goal 50
article thumbnail

Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. We’ve also learned that learners don’t commit time and energy to any program, course, or event.

article thumbnail

How Corporate Boards Connect, in Charts

Harvard Business Review

We plotted shared directorships among 176 large companies in 1976 and 2013, two years that followed a major global economic crisis. Only about 18% of interlocks were international in 1976, and most of those were transatlantic links in finance and energy — two of the first industries to begin globalizing. Interlocks, 2013.

Crisis 8
article thumbnail

How to Make Fossil Fuel Divestment Really Matter

Harvard Business Review

But the Rockefellers’ move may have more impact, for a key reason: their stated commitment to transition the divested funds to clean energy investments. Global clean energy investment also peaked in 2011, at $317 billion, and was down 20% from that peak in 2013. Finance Sustainability'

article thumbnail

Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. Economy Entrepreneurship Finance' This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. In the guitar business , too.