Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

With all the media and medical attention on stress and its negative health impacts, it is easy to reach the conclusion that stress is irredeemably bad—something to be avoided as much as possible. We are willing to bet that those times invariably involved some stress or struggle. Stress has many wonderful attributes.

Stress 8

Stress How To Learning-by-Doing Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Maggie Wilderotter, chairman and CEO of Frontier Communications (and a member of the boards of P&G and Xerox) stresses that “it’s not just about the meetings. Donald Gogel, the chairman and CEO of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, explains that “our board members can operate like a highly effective search firm.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey CEO Participative Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. There are frameworks emerging and opportunities for companies to work with others to understand the value of water relating to reputation and operational continuity.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

A few years later, she joined a start-up called BioAmber, producing chemical intermediates using sugars instead of fossil fuels. This was followed by an eight-year “plateau” in her thirties, running training for the French operation, when she had her three children. New mental skills emerge.

Career 8

Career Real Estate Learning Curve Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Health assessments typically involve asking employees questions about modifiable risks, such as smoking behavior, physical inactivity, poor diet, and high stress levels. A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way. Administering health risk assessments only. This, of course, takes time and support.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

They also stressed organizational learning (meaning, capturing the methods of Lean so that other parts of the organizations could adopt them). He also advised them to continually assess their processes against a model of process maturity — PEMM for short — which he unveiled in an HBR article.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14