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Supporting DBEs

Supporting DBEs? Play the Long Game

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We live in a world of instant gratification and making this quarter’s numbers, or at most, annual numbers, is the main goal – except, of course, for zero-carbon goals that no one knows how to solve. Too often, governors, mayors, legislatures, and companies throw goals out there 30 years or more down the road, making it someone else’s problem. Planning, setting critical milestones, and preparing for the next five or ten years, or even longer, requires discipline, but it is also where the big payoffs to success are born. Not surprisingly, I learned the long game about taking on challenges…
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Distributed Employee Resources

Distributed Employee Resources – Alignment is Everything

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We’re going off-road this week, inspired by some things I read in The Zweig Letter. The title of the article is Decentralization to be more Agile and Adaptable. The term distributed employee resources (DERs) comes to mind. This is especially timely as a follow up to my post two weeks ago in which I mentioned we reorganized the company at the start of 2020, and we etched our vision in bold detail. The author first explains he needs to get something off his chest – that too many leaders feel their people cannot understand certain concepts or ideas, so don’t…
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