Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Research is showing that the heart can learn and send out dopamine (a pleasure chemical that influences behavior) and oxytocin (a chemical associated with the feeling of love). What this means to you So what does all of this research mean to leadership and organizations? Surely it will make our environment more pleasant.

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

And what has all of this got to do with communication, conflict resolution, leadership, and parenting. If they don’t get this control, they will fight against the organization, people, or person who they perceive is limiting their ability to control their own environment. Well, everything.

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Engineering FAQ Video Self-aware 231

The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 12, 2010

He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. I see the same problem develop just about everywhere I see people interact. What is this huge problem? People make assumptions about other people’s intentions. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience.

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Pryor Emotional Intelligence Engineering FAQ 210

The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 29, 2010

Here’s my personal responsibility pledge: From this day forward, I pledge to always give my best and fullest effort to a business, organization, cause or relationship that I am involved in before I start blaming other people for its failure. Will you join me today in taking the personal responsibility pledge? Photo by MShades.

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Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Engineering FAQ 131

The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 12, 2010

Effective Communication Skills: How to Quickly Guess a Person’s DISC Style Tags: Communication Skills , DISC Model , featured , Leadership Skills , parenting skills , people-oriented people , perception , task-oriented people , understanding , working with people Guy Harris describes himself as a recovering engineer.

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

If development within the womb proceeds naturally without interference, in the sixth week hormones will stimulate the XY fetus to develop male sexual organs and the XX fetus to develop female sexual organs. When the chromosomes instruct the fetus to develop sex organs, the organs then produce female or male hormones.

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Video Insurance Blog Learning-by-Doing 105

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Big organizations keep asking more of their suppliers. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. Was a year like 2011 likely ?

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 27, 2010

I am simply observing the outcome of a leadership act: a high level leader who reports to a higher level leader within an organization took his discontent public and he had to leave the organization as a result. When you are in public, show your support and commitment to the organization’s vision and mission.

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Leadership Engineering FAQ Video 248

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

.” Today we face a set of unprecedented disruptions under the “sustainability” banner that are driving deep change in organizations (indeed, the HBS paper is mainly about the rise of the Chief Sustainability Officer). Resource constraints mean organizations have to use less stuff. The Future of Operations.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

What the doctor wants to get done is an efficient, organized practice, which runs with minimal continual inputs, with very little disruption. Further, many problems are common across industries and a solution that works for, say, the chemicals industry may be surprisingly relevant in a financial services context. Copyright 2011.

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