Assume someone lined your company up against ten other competitors and told you that if you could beat them in a race you would receive compensation equal to doubling even triple your annual revenues. How fast could you go?
How fast can you go?
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How fast would you go? Business Performance vs Speed of Business
January 14th, 2013 
Mary Hladio 
Posted in Business Strategy, Ember Carriers, Goal Setting, Innovation, Leadership, Operational Excellence, Organizational Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Performance Effectiveness, Team Effectiveness 
Tags: business, Chief executive officer, Company Culture, Ember Carriers, EmberCarriers, Employee Engagement, Engagement, FUEL, Goal Setting, Innovation, launch business, Leadership, Leadership Development, Leadership Performance, Organization development, Organizational Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Organizational Performance, Vision 
37 Comments »Business Success Can Breed Failure
January 7th, 2013 Mary Hladio 
Death of a business
During a conversation with a strategic business colleague, Gary Rushin regarding success and business the conversation drifted to his recent blog post. With his permission I have reposted his post for the Ember Carrier tribe. We have all heard about the stories of companies that once …
Posted in Business Strategy, Ember Carriers, FUEL, Innovation, Operational Excellence, Organizational Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Performance Effectiveness Tags: business, Business failure, Business Performance, Business Strategy, Chief executive officer, Company Culture, Ember Carriers, EmberCarriers, Financial, FUEL, Innovation, Leadership, Leadership Development, Leadership Performance, Mission, Organizational culture, Organizational Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Vision 54 Comments »Impacting Organizational Change
December 3rd, 2012 Mary Hladio I recently read a story about social change:
This is an excerpt from the book by Ken Keyes, Jr. “The Hundredth Monkey.”
Making a paradigm shift
The Japanese monkey, Macaca Fuscata, had been observed in the wild for a period of over 30 years. And in 1952, on the …
Posted in Company Culture, Ember Carriers, Employee Engagement, FUEL, Innovation, Operational Excellence, Organizational Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Performance Effectiveness Tags: Company Culture, Ember Carriers, EmberCarriers, Employee Engagement, Engagement, FUEL, Organizational culture, Organizational Effectiveness, Tipping Point, Vision 17 Comments »7 Things Small Business Owners Are Doing Wrong in LinkedIn
July 9th, 2012 Mary Hladio 
LinkedIn is good for business
Most business owners use social networking sites in some capacity or another–but many experts says they’re making a lot of mistakes, especially with LinkedIn. Today, LinkedIn is the No. 1 social media platform for professionals and business owners. Estimates of professional and small business owner …
The World Is Four Degrees Of Separation Apart
January 9th, 2012 Mary Hladio 
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The degrees of separation between any one of Facebook’s 800 million users is close to 4, on average—much less than the “six degrees of separation” notion people throw around.
Within the same country, the degrees of separation between any two users declines to nearly 3.
Posted in Company Culture, Ember Carriers, FUEL, Globalization, Innovation Tags: business, Company Culture, EmberCarriers, FUEL, Global, Innovation, Organizational culture, Productivity, Vision 12 Comments »Everyone Wants to be Innovative and Most Fail
December 19th, 2011 Mary Hladio 
Everyone wants to be innovative
And guess what?…corporate culture is not the answer!
While many companies dream of becoming Apple, most linger in the same innovation-lite purgatories associated today with RIM, Kodak, and Sony.sumo suit online
Meanwhile, despite their best efforts and historical legacy, countless other organizations are no …
Posted in Company Culture, Ember Carriers, Employee Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Organizational Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Performance Effectiveness Tags: Company Culture, Ember Carriers, EmberCarriers, Engagement, FUEL, Innovation, Leadership, Leadership Development, Leadership Performance, Mission, Organizational culture, Organizational Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Vision 11 Comments »
