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There is one rating system for green construction that stands above all others—LEED—Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. LEED was drafted by the U.S. Green Building Council and uses a points system to measure a structure’s “greenness.” The system is not without its problems.When builders
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Back in 2003, Lisa Acree, then at BSR, turned me on to Barbara Waugh's book - "Soul in the Computer". Given the title and the butterflies on the cover I would never have read it, but Lisa insisted. I am glad she did. It tells Barbara's story as a self-proclaimed "corporate revolutionary" at HP. She
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Many people involved in organizational design still tend (or, at least, strongly desire) to think of organizations as collections of components, some of which are people whose primary characteristic might be the specific skills for which they imagine them to be programmed. These designers further suppose
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I spoke this past week to a group of senior marketing professionals from a major consumer products company. It was a half-day workshop to explore the question, "How good is 'good enough'?" That question has been at the heart of speeches and presentations I've been giving for the past couple of years,
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I was reflecting on the best practices for developing senior leadership teams. Not the individuals, the team of leaders who drive the business forward (or backward). In helping senior teams align their daily practices and regimens to yield the best results, there is sometimes a chicken and the egg thing.Which
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What is Think+Up?How does it work? How do the Case Studies work?How do the blogs work?How do the Thoughts work?How do the Conversations work?How do the Forums work?How does the Featured Member section work?How does the Walden Programs section work?How do the Walden Events work?What are the benefits of
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First, what is leadership? There are as many definitions of leadership as there are authors. That is an unfortunate consequence of the lack of agreement about whether leadership is a position, a person, a behavioral act, a style or a relationship, as much as it is due to the lack of agreement about exactly
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Walden is both a champion of online learning and one of the great examples of it. But it is also an online employer with virtual employees. both full and part-time, scattered in multiple countries working from homes and small offices doing everything from teaching classes to executive management. In
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Some years ago I worked with a fellow who came from a reasonably privileged background, had enjoyed a fashionably elite education, and who was clearly on—and viewed himself as fully entitled to be on—the fast track to dizzying heights in his career. For all that, he wasn’t a particularly unpleasant
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A popular idea in business over recent decades is that employees should be given “ownership” of the decisions they are charged with carrying out. It is believed that this will better distribute the actual intent of the decision throughout the organization, and enhance the energy and efficiency of
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Their executive team was composed of some very bright people indeed, or at least they thought so since they'd all graduated from top schools and shared the same experiences and attitudes. They professed a deep attachment for the average worker, at a distance, of course. It was difficult for them to conceive
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I have been traveling over the last few days and three thoughts popped into my pea brain that I thought were worth sharing. Interestingly, they all can be organized under the title of this post - be careful what you ask for...The first is a question. Do you know when it is time to give in? As managers,
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I arrived early for my meeting with Paul Millman, one of the founders of Chroma Technology Corp. a manufacturer of interference filters mostly used in bio-science research. Instead of leaving me to leaf through old magazines and stare at the powder colored walls of this single story plant in Rockingham,
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Can a plane fly with no jet fuel? Ridiculous, right? But the aviation industry is starting to ask itself this very question. In early 2008, Virgin Airlines and Boeing launched a test flight where one engine ran partly on biofuels, in this case coconut oil. I've done some work with Boeing and heard their
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Ok, so the title of this post comes from a quote by David Ogilvy, as mentioned in this NY Times article, "Marketing to Women, With Firsthand Experience." The article is about the Omnicom Group in NY and their new consultancy "to help marketers reach women." Ok, gag me with a spoon. I'm sorry - it's 2009
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Of all the machines that make business tick, the digital computer has long stood out—indeed, it has been revered—as perhaps the cleanest and greenest of them all. Quiet, smokeless, unobtrusive, this compact box of microchips hums away, adding efficiency to all that it touches. And year over year,
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This is a very stressful and confusing time for professionals. On the one hand increasing numbers of people want to raise their hands to help society as they are inspired by bold new leadership in DC and feel a need to support the people they witness suffering in their community as a result of the economy.
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One would have thought that in the 21st century the discourse about the role of gender in leadership would have been a story of the past. Nothing is further from the truth. Just in the recent U.S. presidential election, gender was used in the discourse to define effectiveness as a leader. Leadership has
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It’s an inevitable fate in the corporate sphere: a company forms and blooms under the guidance of a visionary, but often faces an uncertain future when that founder dies or moves on. Booming enterprises, from Wendy’s to Wal-Mart, and non-profits like Habitat for Humanity International, have all experienced
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I have had the phrase, "they are all moments of truth," stuck in my head this week. Directed at myself, for the most part, I have been using this mantra to improve my focus and action.It started this Sunday at the Flying Pig Marathon. I walked the half-marathon and there were many moments of truth where
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One of the more entertaining scientific exercises to observe is the never-ending struggle to identify the capacity or characteristic that separates humans from animals. And one of the more amusing things about it, is how involved we are with each new development in the search.We cheer the announcement
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I thought it would be a good time to again share the podcast I did with legendary Dr. John Kotter last November about his book, A Sense of Urgency. I love a distinction he makes in the book that matches my experience as a management consultant very well - that we are not necessarily on the same page about
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A very interesting article in Management Issues concerning a recent study by recruitment and outsourcing firm Kenexa that found employee engagement levels in India and Brazil to be the highest anywhere in the world, reporting an "engagement index" level of 73 per cent and 65 per cent respectively. (The
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A very good post at Leading Blog concerning Leaders Make the Future by Bob Johansen.“Solvable problems will still abound, but top leaders will deal mostly with dilemmas which have no solutions, yet leaders will have to make decisions anyway.” A very good article about a very interesting book. Has
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In 2011, the first wave of baby boomers will start to retire. And the current economic downturn means that early or on-time retirement is no longer an option for many in this generation. During this same period, approximately 49 million college graduates will begin entering the workforce. These graduates
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I watched a street artist completing his third rendition of the same portrait. I asked him why he was creating another version of what I thought was a fine piece of work. He said the others weren’t good enough, “they don’t capture what I see in the person.”That expression of talent in action on
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In society, one cannot read a business paper without stumbling upon articles that deal with knowledge and the power of a knowledge. They are knowledge builders that make it possible for us to make our knowledge even stronger around the world. Knowledge exhibits the self determination that is put totally
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It's my view that the most successful organizational leaders are those who exhibit high levels of wisdom and emotional intelligence. Nonetheless, most corporate development programs focus largely on functional and tactical skills. As you consider leadership wisdom and emotional intelligence, what do they
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Simple, straight-forward and practical.Q. What is the most important leadership lesson you’ve learned?A. Walking the talk is the most important lesson I’ve learned. There’s nothing that destroys credibility more than not being able to look someone in the eye and have them know that they can trust
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The ability to evaluate and critically address assumptions hinges on the ability for information to be passed in essence from synergy to synergy. This information should forge man into the center of cognitive thought and change. The only means of accomplishing this goal is to spread dissect intrinsic
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