In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 30, 2011

The ethic of more balls in the air, more chances of success lurks in their subconscious. At Fortis we help businesses use natural gas more efficiently, save energy and seek innovative energy solutions to save money. They cannot ignore the lure of opportunity – any opportunity. This statement brings clarity.

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Strategy CEO Marketing Strategy Human Resources 234

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Get a feel for the time, energy and capabilities required to do those jobs. Periodically you must create timeouts to review where you are investing your time and energy, to ensure that you remain capable of generating new behaviors to deal with new challenges. The crucial question you need to ask yourself: is it worth the cost?

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Price Leadership Long-term Short-term 198

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 4, 2019

Joel reflects: “Whether you are hosting an all-day high-potential training or a corporate event, a professional keynote speaker has the power not just to motivate your employees, but also to help you cut costs by improving your people’s efficiency and productivity.” Both are about solid ethics, dignity, and corporate citizenship.”

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Follow-up 205

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 4, 2013

She says, “As our work becomes more complex, so do our ethical dilemmas.” The Workplace Environment: Culture, Change, Innovation, and Empowerment. Taking Risks is Necessary, But Costs of Failure Should Still be Managed discusses how to maximize innovation and improvement while minimizing the impact of failure.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 205

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The ethic of more balls in the air, more chances of success lurks in their subconscious. At Fortis we help businesses use natural gas more efficiently, save energy and seek innovative energy solutions to save money. They cannot ignore the lure of opportunity – any opportunity. This statement brings clarity.

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Strategy Competitive Advantage B2B Seminar 74

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

They suggest that while the last 30 years have been typified by increasing Asian consumption and integration into the global flow of trade and innovation, the coming decades will see Asian economies driving and determining the direction of these flows, with the region set to account for 50% of global GDP by 2040. Digital dominance.

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Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 40

Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

This consulting resource is none other than your employees – and it won’t cost you an extra cent to take advantage of their expertise and tap their limitless good will, because talk is cheap … All you have to do is ask! Filed under: Integrity , Leadership , Purpose , Team Building , Trust Tagged: | Albert J.

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Committee Automotive Ethics Productivity 140

Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Following are a few reviews that stand out and provide significant food for thought: “Trust reduces transaction costs; it reduces the need for litigation and speeds commerce; it actually lubricates organizations and societies. Though I have not yet started reading the book, just reading the reviews provided great insight on trust.

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Succession Covey Trout Godin 154

The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Known for their disciplined work ethic, they have seen their Boomer children “do better than they did” in education, wealth and professional accomplishment. While seniority is no longer a key factor in promotion, they are more likely than millennials to have poured years and energy into their current employer.

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Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Situational Leadership Globalization 40

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&# Do you have great vision? Are you a master of strategy? Great insights Susan.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 332

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

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Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

One of my clients hired a relatively junior staffer for his moxie, energy, and drive. In one case, a senior executive who had previously worked for a very large public company joined my client, a midsize family-owned company, with such unrealistic expectations about resources and autonomous decision making that he cost the business dearly.

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Cost Learning-by-Doing Commitment Proposal 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It wasn't too long ago that corporations were the villains — polluting the environment , exploiting workers , and consuming energy and other resources without concern for long term consequences to the planet. As Jason Saul argues in his new book Social Innovation Inc. , How much energy are you consuming?

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Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 15

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The economics of the “New Economy” could be described at a high level: Digital technology would cause a reduction in the cost of search and communication. Technological revolutions tend to involve some important activity becoming cheap, like the cost of communication or finding information. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

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Film Cost Technology Chemicals 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 296

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

New research by Thomson Reuters demonstrates that emerging market professionals are increasingly driven by entrepreneurial values and optimism, leaving their Western counterparts in the dust when it comes to putting innovation and rewarding work before salary.

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Globalization Supply Chain Marketing Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

Walmart listed some impressive accomplishments , from diverting 80% of waste from landfills, to doubling the amount of local food sold, to generating over 1 billion kilowatt-hours of renewable energy onsite ( the second most of any corporation in the U.S.). Of course not. The totality of a company's actions does matter.

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Ethics Short-term Marketing Operations 11

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

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! Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Key components of courage include clarity of one’s own values, a deep sense of ethicality, being positively self-critical,being able to let go and move on, resilience to setbacks. Hire people who truly love the work they do so they will bring more creativity and energy to their job, your workplace and to your customers.

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Done correctly, an evolving legal system can encourage optimal investment in technologies that will increase social welfare, public safety, and sustainable energy consumption, as well as positively impact labor markets, land use, public health, and more. If lawmakers don’t handle this correctly — well, consider Red Flag laws.

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Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The perception has been eroding our industry's image and has caused many in our industry to assume that R&D, innovation, and social contribution are unaffordable luxuries in a fiercely cost-based competitive game. We pride ourselves on finding ways (through R&D) to use less energy and water in the production process.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Consider Ashoka , which provides start-up funding and support for social innovators worldwide. As Linda Hill and her colleagues have described, the company needed expert knowledge as it navigated the technically and ethically challenging waters of pharmaceutical development and marketing.

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Gilbert Participative Cooper Network Economy 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

So far, we’ve replaced 52% of the water we use in making our beverages and reducing water usage across our 800-plus bottling plants helps reduce the overall cost of production. We also have ethical drivers for our sustainability work. For example, we’re working to achieve water neutrality by 2020.

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CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Alejandra, an innovative business leader in a multinational organization, is at odds with her organization. To avoid highlighting the differences he already brings to the workplace, David chooses at times to withhold his views, as well as potentially innovative ideas that might be considered by others too far outside the norm.

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Participative Video Follow-up Middle Management 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. For example, in the 1990s, leading businesses like 3M adopted concepts like eco-efficiency, focusing on saving and making money through the better management of materials, energy and waste.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8