Women in the LEAD

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

.   In her book, The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine cites very specific chemical and hormonal differences between men and women that specifically affect language and communication, giving us a scientific basis for this.   All this adds to the development of a harmonious world.   As women, our voices need to be heard.

Leadership 40

Leadership Letter Taylorism Taylor 40

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Instead, we make jet turbines, helicopters, sophisticated airliners and business jets, electric generators, radar, chemicals and plastics, satellites, and all kinds of weapons. Despite years of flat or declining budgets, the United States has retained its lead in space. Dow Chemical is expanding its investment in the U.S.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Energy Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

At the Chemical Heritage Foundation's recent seminar on advanced materials innovation, a half-dozen R&D leaders collectively commanding billions in spend couldn't have been more excited about the market potential for their new materials. Should sweeteners like these be explicitly broken out in innovation budgets? He wasn't being glib.

Innovation 10

Innovation Budgeting Chemicals Seminar 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2012

Our customer base is dispersed all over the place — that's just how it is when you're selling to specialty chemical manufacturers, as we are. Plus our sales cycles are long, and developing cross-functional relationships at customers is a key sales task. How do we budget for that?". Stemberg's bar tabs are out of sight.".

P&L 11

P&L Management Chemicals Case Study 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

Consider the core mission of the modern IT department: Taking in all the technology “mess” (often from several different divisions), developing the necessary competencies, and delivering savings and efficiency to the company. The unit has fewer than 100 people divided among data science/analytics, technology, and social media.

Operations 8

Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Select process owners with strong leadership skills and develop those skills even further. She lacked experience in managing process improvement, so she hired a small consulting team to help her develop those skills. A chemical company identified seven key process performance measures for each of its seven "value chains."

Process 15

Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? How to plan, how to budget, how to problem solve, how to organize a balance sheet. Just having people who can plan and budget and problem solve and organize? And that’s what’s it all about. Are you raising your game?

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? How to plan, how to budget, how to problem solve, how to organize a balance sheet. Just having people who can plan and budget and problem solve and organize? And that’s what’s it all about. Are you raising your game?

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Most of them, for example, consider unemployment and national budget deficits to be outside their purview. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). For the most part, directors focus in on a relatively narrow range of issues related to the fortunes of their companies.

Politics 8

Politics Telecommunications Policies Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

When we were aiming to close a small chemical-dependency hospital in 2013, for example, we looked hard into unmet needs in the area. Neither had much marketing experience, but we invested in their development, and after retraining they moved over. A small minority voluntarily left Scripps, but most went elsewhere in the organization.

Policies 8

Policies Chemicals Bond Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

But given tight travel budgets, the disruption to work and family, and the enormous carbon footprint associated with global travel, it’s not always feasible to give team members the opportunity to meet face-to-face. These findings suggest several things for allocating scarce travel budgets.

Globalization 8

Globalization Team Travel Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The program creates risk sharing, and the results of ASML’s development programs will be available to every semiconductor manufacturer without restriction.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Business development. My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. The process of strategy development is not esoteric. Business development. The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business.

Crisis Management 77

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 77

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The student teams, with budgets and other constraints, have to assemble and field the best-performing teams they can and justify their investments and trade. Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable). Everybody eats.

Class 8

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. households spend 3% of annual electricity budgets on heating water to wash clothes. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

For example, while we were one of the early companies to develop an ‘order online, pick up in store’ service capability, it took us years to launch because of the fear we’d slow down store operations. I understood the concern of our store operators, but customers were asking for the service.” Unit sales don’t.”

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Worse yet, they’ll sometimes hire different vendors to address different issues – lifestyle coaches, employee assistance counselors, case and disease management vendors, nurse lines, occupational health and safety experts, workers’ compensation specialists, disability managers, organizational development consultants, you name it.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

and respond to chemical signals allows these relatively simple creatures to form such complex units. This is the basis behind Intuit’s practice of putting new product ideas on the Internet before they are developed, as a way to test whether there is a market. Organizations, of course, are not composed of ants.

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

When I was in the midst of researching what caused cross-functional teams to succeed — and finding that many of them failed — I discovered a deeply dysfunctional development project in a huge multinational IT company. meeting a planned budget; 2.) They fail on at least three of five criteria: 1.) staying on schedule; 3.)

Team 8

Team Project Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The science of climate change gets clearer: the IPCC lowers our carbon “budget.”. The models and carbon budgets aside, the weather this year got even more extreme, helping make the case for action in a more visceral way. So what’s really new this year? Let’s dive in. The Big Picture.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Any organization of any size can develop faster, more effective, cheaper solutions to problems by challenging its people. Department of Defense now uses challenges to develop better weapons systems. Identifying even small successes out of a larger operational failure can be the most important way to improve performance in the future.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

have been quietly working to develop another agreement containing rules to restrain Chinese subsidies. billion in subsidies included solar panels, chemicals, pipe, steel wire, wheels, wind towers, and kitchen appliances. the EU, and Japan have agreed to develop “joint action” on China’s subsidies. negotiators.

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Republicans care more about corporate tax rates, the national budget deficit, and regulation. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). Democrats are less pessimistic about the economy: 10% of Democrats expect a global economic slowdown in the next three years, compared to 18% of Republicans.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8