Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

Companies across the globe are tackling some of the world’s greatest societal challenges — water scarcity, climate change, and even the rights of women and girls in the developing world. FALK : In 1996, I picked up responsibility for our Energy & Environment group.

CEO 9

CEO Company Reputation Energy 9

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.

Price 9

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. Had he been born in Texas, he might be a young CEO running an energy company by now, because the funds would inevitably flow.

GDP 11

GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 11

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Developing Servant-Leadership Skills Developing 6:52 27:28. But, you can’t get to that point I think realistically, without having invested some time in your own personal growth and development. In both of those areas, I’ve seen tremendous growth and development. Bad Boss to Servant-Leader Bad Boss 6:12 24:18.

Greenleaf 186

Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 186

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

Characterizations of what happened in the early years of PARC (founded in 1970) range from strategic fumbles to "wild geysers of creative energy" perfectly appropriate to early-stage invention , but those early years didn't yield the stream of profitable innovations that Xerox had imagined. PARC fell off the innovation radar screen.

Innovation 14

Innovation Business Model Wilde Brainstorming 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

A study by Pearce and Sims (2002), published in Group Dynamics, found that shared leadership is a useful predictor of team effectiveness. Investing time and energy into this co-leadership relationship beyond just the scope of your role will almost certainly make it a better one.

Team 8

Team How To Commitment Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

In 2002 Norman Bodek , "the godfather of Lean ," came to Technicolor's Michigan facility to teach its leaders about how to implement a front-line suggestion process. After Bodek left, the suggestion system was led by Yorke, Technicolor's manager of organizational development. Their answer? The program is pretty much dead.

Process 14

Process How To Attrition Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

You either go out and buy it, or you develop the talent you already have. Such loans have advantages for the lender: they accelerate player development and/or reduce costs by removing the salary of the loaned player from the lending club’s books. How do you get the talent you need? Both clubs realize a unique win-win.

CFO 8

CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Individual symptoms in each domain, such as sleep, appetite, energy, and concentration, are categorized using color-coding — red (severe), orange, light orange, or green (absent or mild) — to flag patients’ top-priority concerns.

Report 8

Report Mayo Health Care Survey 8

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Developing Servant-Leadership Skills Developing 6:52 27:28. But, you can’t get to that point I think realistically, without having invested some time in your own personal growth and development. In both of those areas, I’ve seen tremendous growth and development. Bad Boss to Servant-Leader Bad Boss 6:12 24:18.

Greenleaf 100

Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

When a not-for-profit becomes incoherent, its attention is distracted from the thing it needs to do most: Investing time, energy and funds to build critical capabilities to accomplish its strategic purpose. The only area spared from cost reduction is the development group — focused on competitive fundraising.)

Crisis 13

Crisis Mayo Strategy Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. internet company in China.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 10

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Companies invest in employee training and talent development programs for one reason: to get results. It’s also ideal for managers, who in the past have often seen talent development as an overwhelming task. As they accumulate small wins, they build success momentum and eventually acquire the skills of a competent talent developer.

Training 51

Training Process Meyer Talent Management 51

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Cable internet service goes out in snowstorms, too, and if the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index is to be believed, Americans are much happier with their energy providers (who score a respectable 76 on the index ) than their internet providers (a dismal 63 , absolute worst of the 43 industries tracked).

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Industry GDP Transportation 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Electricity-related incidents account for half of all fires.

Ethics 58

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform. Apple has since figured out this balance, of course, by opening the iOS platforms to app developers. Failure to engage developers. Conceding defeat in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.4

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

North America's fracking fever has proviked experts (who once feared the world had passed Hubbert's Peak ) to predict the US will soon be a net energy exporter. What policies and programs is your organization developing around badges? Who would have picked hydraulic fracturing as a disruptive business/technology breakthrough in 2002?

Innovation 17

Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. But they focused their energy on the technical issues — methods of connectivity, standards of information sharing — without having asked a fundamental question: What new things could each of our connected devices do that people would actually want them to do?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Likewise, where mechanical engineers once predominated, the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are increasingly looking for software engineers, energy management experts, and data scientists able to build electric and self-driving vehicles.

Industry 8

Industry Technology Engineering Automotive 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Business development. Yet, when the company shifted from being an energy supplier to the hucksterish energy trader, the charitable activities were dispensed with. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57