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Will Your Organization Thrive In The New Normal?

15Five

Organizational resilience covers a number of things: a strong balance sheet; secure supply chains; and a digital-first approach, but mindset may be the most important element. Companies such as SpaceX are obvious, but I’d include companies who are singularly focused on technologies such as quantum computing and fusion energy.

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Why Apple Is Getting into the Energy Business

Harvard Business Review

Consider Apple, hardly a byword in the energy business. This summer, the company applied for federal licenses to sell directly to customers the excess renewable energy it generates on its new campus and in facilities across Oregon, Nevada, and California. But solar electricity is only the beginning of the future energy marketplace.

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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail). Most clean energy startups, on the other hand, need huge amounts of capital to get off the ground, and so far big payoffs have been scarce.

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Excess Inventory Wastes Carbon and Energy, Not Just Money

Harvard Business Review

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. If we could permanently reduce the amount of product sitting idle, we'd save money, energy, and material. We know it's important and that we're supposed to reduce it by increasing "turns.".

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. In contrast, today’s scarcest resource is your human capital, as measured by the time, talent and energy of your workforce. Energy, too, is difficult to come by.

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A New Way to Think About Office Lighting

Harvard Business Review

Most offices have adequate but aging lighting systems that often operate inefficiently, can waste vast amounts of energy, and annoy employees. We believe that a recent business-model innovation will overcome this barrier and upend commercial lighting and other energy services. How It Works.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business Review

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. More costly, however, is diverting resources to overcorrect near-term headaches at the expense of the time and energy needed to plan for the long term.