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The June 3rd, 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the June 3rd, 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Prioritising Short Term Profits 2. Short Term Thinking 3. In this post I’ll share 3 misconceptions entrepreneurs and business leaders should be aware when starting a company but also when starting a bigger project.

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The Importance Of Corporate Venturing During Covid-19

The Horizons Tracker

The paper highlights how corporate venturing is a rapidly expanding endeavor, and corporate investments in startups have grown from 980 in 2013 to 3,232 per year today. Maintaining an innovation agenda is paramount for the long-term survival of organizations,” the researchers say. ” Making it work.

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Could Solar Power The Next Industrial Revolution?

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, in the UK, dozens of energy companies face bankruptcy as the long-term contracts they have signed with customers on low prices render their business model unviable in a world in which the price of liquefied natural gas rose by two-thirds in less than a month. The green economy. Solar as a service. It’s estimated that around 3.5

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Leading Teams Toward Success Using People, Products, and Profits

Leading Blog

In my new book, Endless Encores , a veteran CEO named Daphne spends an evening talking with an up-and-coming executive named Paul, helping him come to terms with the potential first failure he could be facing following a huge initial success. Projects are always short. Careers can be short or long. It's meant to be.

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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

Focus obsessively on the short run. Define long term ‘something we can focus on once the basics are in place.’ This gives you enough money to fund you pet projects or cut costs without any effort when you are forced to do so. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Inflate budgets.

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Green Bonds Benefit Companies, Investors, and the Planet

Harvard Business Review

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. I’ve really enjoyed that for this book. LARRY: Sure. Thank you, by the way.