The Practical Leader

JANUARY 8, 2019

This time of year, we’re bombarded with glib and confident “experts” forecasting everything from the economy, to global warming, to financial markets, social trends, weather, and lots more. The more energy we deliver, the lower will be the unit cost of electricity.” Some can be good fun.

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Project Letter Trends Wilde 67

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

I see the two movements of Technology Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship beginning to converge into a promising solution. has come from high-growth technology companies. The emergence of "Social Entrepreneurship" attempts to fill this moral void by refocusing energy and resources on important social problems.

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Technology Entrepreneur Morale ROI 19

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 25, 2012

“ Structural cohesion is an employee-generated synergy — essentially a close-knit, high-energy culture — that propels the company forward.” technologies and a corresponding culture of participation and disclosure, whereby millions of people are publishing their experiences and opinions online. .”

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Company IPO Ethics Magazine 53

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. Now, Xerox is reviving its copying business by focusing on the value added by advanced technologies and color copying. The initial costs of entry, especially for marketing, will be prohibitive.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Investors who have significant money tied up in the fossil fuel industry — every pension and market fund, essentially — are facing a massive risk. In the State of the Union speech last Tuesday , President Obama said that climate change was a fact and touted the growth of solar energy in America. Let’s quickly look at each.

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NGO Energy Morale Price 10

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. Cultivating this trust isn’t just a moral issue; it’s a practical one. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Feeling safe is a primal human need.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. Now, Xerox is reviving its copying business by focusing on the value added by advanced technologies and color copying. The initial costs of entry, especially for marketing, will be prohibitive.

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Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 55

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. Cultivating this trust isn’t just a moral issue; it’s a practical one. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Feeling safe is a primal human need.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

By the way, employee performance and morale at Wal-Mart is near all time lows… Diversity mandates just don’t work… Talent begets talent and blending occurs naturally when good decisions are made for the right reasons. link] Anna Smith Sorry for the misunderstanding – I never meant to talk about moral superiority.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

He challenged the current form of capitalism and made a powerful case for tackling climate change and inequality on moral and economic grounds (I’ve summarized his paper here and here ). The Pope is, at least nominally, the moral leader of 1.2 The vision of an all-renewable energy system comes into focus.

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Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

It’s one of the hazards that comes with success: The better an organization performs, the more ingrained its culture becomes, and the harder it can be for executives and employees to stay alert to big shifts in markets, technology, and culture.

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Venture Capitalist Mission Statement Long-term Short-term 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

You can’t drive your vehicle on an empty tank, nor can you lead your life or teams with zero energy. Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. My energy levels are based on the foods and beverages I consume. I’m not talking about surface level excitement or energy.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. Nothing can be more damaging to the morale and esprit de corps of a team than that kind of leadership.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

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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P&L Construction Survey Stress 14

Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2019

Increase Marketing Efforts. Marketing is vital to success and the more that you do, the more likely you are to boost sales. Increasing your marketing efforts can raise brand awareness, increase visibility online and drive more traffic to your company website. Content marketing. Social media marketing.

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Strategy Word of Mouth Marketing Loyalty Brand 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. In his Theory of Moral Sentiments , Adam Smith argues that duty and sympathy are part of our very nature, and that because of our innate morality, we can live collaboratively in a just and harmonious society. We believe the answer is yes.

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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

My contention, though, is that in looking at some of the beguilements — moral, even existential — beckoning to consultants over the last two decades, and at what we know about how Gupta responded to them, we might possibly begin to better understand how he could have gotten himself into the current mess.

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McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Competition has become more complex too, with companies increasingly sourcing or manufacturing globally, facing technology-based rivals trying to disrupt incumbents, and taking on emerging giants with unexpected sources of competitive advantage. That way, they’ll quickly achieve learning objectives and open new horizons for their people.

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Cooper Objective Incentives Short-term 16

Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

That having an E-mail address or a website makes one an expert on technology. That technology is the most important driving force in business and society. Morale is low or uneven. The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success. About the Author.

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Self-aware System Open-book Learning-by-Doing 50

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

The time, energy, and cost associated with acquiring a customer are substantial, the benefits of retaining customers are considerable, and the costs associated with customer churn are significant. There is in fact a point where “bad customers&# can erode margins, negatively affect morale, or even tarnish a brand.

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Blog Brand Cost Bottom-up 345

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Competition has become more complex too, with companies increasingly sourcing or manufacturing globally, facing technology-based rivals trying to disrupt incumbents, and taking on emerging giants with unexpected sources of competitive advantage. That way, they’ll quickly achieve learning objectives and open new horizons for their people.

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Cooper Objective Incentives Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The Energy Challenge. Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Acumen creates these markets using patient capital.

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Marketing Mass Marketing Early Adopters Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For anyone with a pension linked to market performance, that is a good thing. The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. Today, we see growing interest in new business benchmarks and in potential breakthrough materials and forms of energy.

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Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

This may seem like a regional story, but it has global ramifications for manufacturing, consumer goods, the energy industry, and much more. The clean tech markets keep growing fast: three of the world’s biggest economies — the U.S., Germany, and Walmart — add lots more renewable energy. So what’s really new this year?

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Supply Chain McKinsey Energy Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The sales organization tends to blame the other areas of the organization (engineering, marketing, support, etc.) For example, they will not solely rely on marketing to provide their leads but build their own pipeline without any expectations of leads from marketing. A competitor's new technology may leapfrog yours.

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Organization Belief Systems Micromanagement Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But as the energy and excitement from that first event fades, you’re left wondering: Now what? As one of my clients, a VP in a technology firm, told me recently, “Getting the parents’ group launched was easy. You’ve done everything needed to get this thing up and running. 2) There’s no template for it.

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Organization How To Seminar Follow-up 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The Cambridge Dictionary says that a principle can be either a “moral rule” that defines “good behavior or fair dealing,” or a “basic truth” that “explains or controls how something happens or works.” ” We view these principles as both moral rules and basic truths.

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Strategy Content Cooper Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Yet, when the company shifted from being an energy supplier to the hucksterish energy trader, the charitable activities were dispensed with. The way the California energy crisis was handled speaks to Enron’s disdain for media openness. Employees, Morale, The Workforce. The News Media.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57