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The Personal Strength of Optimism - Sea Hearts Full of Hope

Building Personal Strength

Thoughts signal the release of neurotransmitters, which stimulate the discharge of various hormones and other chemicals. All of these activities are monitored by the brain, which regulates chemical levels in the body. You can set realistic goals. 2004 photo by Kathleen Scott , used with permission.). You can do the work.

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Why Organizations Forget What They Learn from Failures

Harvard Business Review

After the 2005 explosion, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board pushed BP to focus more on safety. We analyzed 146 pharmaceutical firms between 1997 and 2004 for a quantitative look at this pattern of learning and forgetting after safety-based errors.

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How Jamie Dimon Became a Risk Factor

Harvard Business Review

But the board of directors, with the chairman at its head, is responsible for determining the corporation''s long-term goals, for positioning it for the future, for making sure that its fortunes can withstand a change in CEO. The surviving corporate entity is actually Chemical Bank, which merged with Chase in 1995.

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Rethinking Your Supply Chain in an Era of Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

In 2004, the cost of manufacturing on the east coast of China was approximately 15 percentage points cheaper, on average, than in the United States. Of the major manufacturing sectors, only chemicals, food, and beverages and tobacco products saw a meaningful increase in the number of firms. Census Bureau data. made goods are lower.)