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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2023

Leading Blog

Leading through Disruption : A Changemaker’s Guide to Twenty-First Century Leadership by Andrew Liveris In Leading Through Disruption , Andrew Liveris provides a new leadership paradigm for resilience and agility in a rapidly changing world.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Whited previously served as chief marketing officer for UP, led the Chemicals business, and also previously ran the railroad’s National Customer Service Center. For those in the know, the UP culture more closely resembles a Silicon Valley start-up than they do a railroad founded in 1862. million employees worldwide.

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Diagnosis Cancer - The Opportunity to Reinvent Life and Work

Management Craft

I can announce that with the kind partnership of my client Agile Avant , we have rescheduled two two-day training sessions I was leading in Kuala Lumpur as follows: Talent Management Review: WAS July 18-19, NOW Sept 19-20. I might not have to cancel all of them, but there are a few trips that my doctor told me needed to be rescheduled.

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Best Practices for Leading via Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Enable organizational agility. Dow Chemical (#19) is another firm that encourages employees to move functionally and geographically to gain new perspectives on the business and build capabilities for independent thinking and problem-solving. As a source with Dow put it, "It's empowerment that really helps us stay agile.

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Figuring Out How IT, Analytics, and Operations Should Work Together

Harvard Business Review

At a global chemical manufacturer, the IT function has a highly educated team of fewer than 20 statisticians, operations research professionals, and PhDs to develop advanced demand forecasting models, supply chain operational optimization, and raw materials for purchasing-decision support. Data and analytics embedded in IT.

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The Best of November 2013

Harvard Business Review

Managing Yourself Emotional Agility Susan David and Christina Congleton All healthy human beings have an inner stream of thoughts and feelings that include criticism, doubt, and fear: “ I’m a fake.” “ He’s a jerk.” “ It was the same in my last job.” This is natural.

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We Need to Ask How We Can Make Economic Growth More Inclusive

Harvard Business Review

That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. Some questions have what I like to call a catalytic quality. ” I’ve always been a believer in the principle of celebrating what you want to see more of.