Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2015

I had the opportunity to share insights based on our experience at Borderless working with a range of senior executives, as well as my ‘earlier life’ experience as a Dow executive. There is a decline in opportunities for executives to develop general management skills to equip them for the most senior general management roles.

Chemicals 50

Chemicals Outsourcing Education Execution 50

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

September 20th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Every now and then, I have the pleasure of seeing how my education and early career as a bench biologist can have some connection with the work I am now doing. Most people, including myself would always associate these chemicals with the brain and nervous system. I agree that balance is key.

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BPM Chemicals Emotional Intelligence Blog 185

Women on Business

DECEMBER 2, 2010

For others, adults, Buddy was a “chemically imbalanced” adult man who thinks and dresses like an elf running around through the streets of New York City. Buddy is a human raised by elves, therefore, does he fall into the “human” or “elf” category? For some, say children (most likely his primary target audience), Buddy is an elf.

Brand 215

Brand Press Release Discount Customer Loyalty 215

Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Working out releases chemicals that give you a mood lift. After decades of coaching powerful executives around the world, Lolly Daskal has observed that leaders rise to their positions relying on a specific set of values and traits. But in time, every executive reaches a point when their performance suffers and failure persists.

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Learning-by-Doing Energy Stress Chemicals 163

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Teaches leadership to executives and emerging leaders around the world. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Global Debt Registry (MHR). Corporate Executives. Former Executive VP and Head of Strategy & Transformation at TMB Bank.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

At first, I think leadership is a chemical results of all features of a person. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. I couldn’t agree with you more, MJ, that leadership really is a lot of this and that.

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Leadership Blog Open-book Greenleaf 221

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

That’s much more motivating than saying, “I’m going to go to work today and I’m going to sell a can of chemicals.” Any day some horrible headline about some unethical behavior committed by an executive will cause the whole company to come crashing down. I’m going to create an opportunity. Don’t you think? And they will know it.

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CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

“The fifties was the most exciting career decade of my life so far,” says Babette Pettersen, “and it looks like my options are only getting better as I turn 60.” Pettersen spent her mid-career years with Dow Corning. “Managing career cycles with flexibility and non-linear trajectories is important for us.

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Career Real Estate Learning Curve Education 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2018

I’ve always liked mentoring and coaching people, so I approached a senior executive about moving to a management track. Take my own career: I moved to New York City with a freshly minted university degree in music. When we are learning, we experience higher levels of brain activity and many feel-good brain chemicals are produced.

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Learning Curve How To Learning-by-Doing Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The answers may not be as self-evident as many executives think. Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. Most COOs in Europe are seasoned executives; they were 48 years old, on average, when they were appointed.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 9, 2019

To put it simply, neurotransmitters are molecules that behave as chemical messengers in the brain. As opposed to the pleasure of anticipation via dopamine, these chemicals give us pleasure from sensation and emotion.” So, what is dopamine and what role does it play in how we act?

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Chemicals Content Self-aware Long-term 207

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Comments The Buzz on Green Business in China I visited Beijing last week, speaking to a group of corporate executives assembled by a major NGO to work on climate change issues. Besides the meeting itself, I was struck by the considerable focus on green issues in China.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

But just four months into his new job, as a business unit leader at a large specialty chemicals and plastics manufacturer, he was struggling with the challenges of handling a global business with more than 3000 employees. The study also looked at relative levels of support for executives vs. more junior managers.

Learning Curve 8

Learning Curve Execution Competitive Advantage Chemicals 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. Employees whose positions have been eliminated go through our Career Resource Center, where they’re trained for other open positions. That includes executives. So we do let some people go.

Policies 8

Policies Chemicals Bond Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. ” So when I think about sustainability, I think of it not just through the lens of a tech executive or a responsible global citizen, but as a mother who wants a better world for her children. Andrew Liveris. We need both.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

As the senior HR executive in charge of managing overseas assignments, Anton Danois made a point of spending time with Streuvels Chemicals' expatriate employees and their families. But managing European chemical plants was what he knew best, not overseeing an international mobility department. You don't like the Labyrinth?"

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Case Study Chemicals ROI Engineering 11

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

He was down the road in a new career a couple years later. I’ve seen it my whole career. And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures. You haven’t been appreciating people for the last 20 years of your career? So they no, they actually terminated him. I’ve got friends.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

He was down the road in a new career a couple years later. I’ve seen it my whole career. And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures. You haven’t been appreciating people for the last 20 years of your career? So they no, they actually terminated him. I’ve got friends.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. Both boards are on to a good start — demonstrating that when a firm builds a board using a rigorous assessment of the qualities it needs to carry out its governance task, rather than personal networks, the board is better equipped to execute its functions.

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Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2012

Not only do I have a foot in the publishing world, I also am a former venture capital investor and interact regularly with the business and financial world, where there have been few ramifications of significance—whether for careers, or for social acceptance and peer respect, or for criminal records—from bad behavior.

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Ethics Chemicals Short-term Report 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Understanding the chemical and material properties of ingredients is, indeed, a science. Planning and successfully executing a complex meal is an exercise in project management. Business education Career planning Education' Everybody eats. It wouldn''t hurt their ability to be entrepreneurial either.

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Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The idea for these groups grew out of the growing movement to form small affinity groups to deal with everything from chemical dependency, religious study, and personal grief to book and cooking groups. My 13 years with Medtronic became the most important of my career. For many of them, the experience has been transformative.

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Open-book Chemicals Chief Operating Officer Goleman 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

A fundamental problem at many American car companies is a legacy of reacting slowly, protecting executives from bad news, and focusing on cutting costs. ” Second, Keller says that for years it was considered bad for your career if information filtered up to the highest ranks.

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Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

And most of the time this comes down to how they’re designed and executed. By “total health” we mean a culture that’s supportive of career, emotional, financial, physical and social well-being – not just an occasional road race. A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Yet, less than 20 percent of C-suite executives are women and only five percent of CEOs are women. The research shows that men are 16 percent more inquisitive than women, possibly due to their tendency to gravitate towards STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers that reinforce inquiry.

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Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

CO2

JULY 11, 2012

Not only did that give me a career, it gave me the confidence after a violent marriage. Use people’s names as research shows chemicals for wellbeing built through simply using people’s handles more. : When I left my first husband, I had no job skills nor anything more than a high school degree. 733 # Votes. Laugh at little things.

Real Estate 74

Real Estate Learning-by-Doing Rogers Taylorism 74

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

Most companies now have more gender-balanced talent pools, especially at the early-to-mid-career levels, and are looking for ways to make sure progress continues at the mid-to-upper levels. In the year 2000, DSM’s top 350 executives were 75% Dutch and more than 99% male. It’s good for the business, but it’s not easy.

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Diversity CFO Globalization Video 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The authors then show how to best execute specific initiatives, test major project assumptions, and develop a culture that values disciplined experimentation and learning over meeting mindless and unrealistic goals. Fifteen years ago, what was a news executive thinking about? Take newspapers.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

I was once asked to facilitate in a group coaching intervention for the leadership team at the subsidiary of a large chemical company. She may have been a good coach but didn’t have what it takes to create greater strategic focus and execute a turnaround. These executives love messy situations.

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Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 14