LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Articulating how a company will become the biggest and the best is the strategy. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” But to hear Kraft tell it, the company’s phenomenal growth is the result of their astute brand building. So are goals.

Strategy 97

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 97

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 25, 2016

Steve Shifman, CEO of Michelman (a fast-growing specialty chemicals company), told me the need for a learning organization is an absolute essential: “Otherwise the bell curve shifts to the right with today’s rate of change and our knowledge base slides toward the average middle.”

Competitive Advantage 150

Competitive Advantage Chemicals Learning-by-Doing Environment 150

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The brain craves certainty, and when you feel uncertain, the almond shaped structure in the brain called the amygdala releases chemicals into the blood stream that you experience as fear, anxiety and doubt. Yet another reason for negativity is due to our natural and biological response to change.

Uncertainty 270

Uncertainty Policies Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 270

Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Tanveer Naseer wrote a wonderful post recently where he asked, “ Is Leadership an Art or a Science? Great leadership behaviors require a lot of blending and the ability to balance seemingly contrasting behaviors; a lot of this’s and that’s. They are what makes the practice of leadership hard and rewarding.

Leadership 221

Leadership Blog Open-book Greenleaf 221

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Articulating how a company will become the biggest and the best is the strategy. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” But to hear Kraft tell it, the company’s phenomenal growth is the result of their astute brand building. So are goals.

Strategy 74

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

If retail operations can more reliably keep their discretionary relationships with people who have to pay for that relationship than we can with our employees, who earn their livelihood with us, we need to take a serious look at how we’re creating the environment for those relationships. It’s more than simply clumsy leadership.

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CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

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?

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BPM Chemicals Emotional Intelligence Blog 185

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

After the several recent catastrophic industrial accidents within the United States, including the devastating explosions at a Texas fertilizer plant and Louisiana chemical plant, StrategyDriven wanted to help industrial and utility leaders reduce the risk of similar accidents at their facilities. Download the white paper by clicking here.

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White Paper Industry Risk Management Chief Operating Officer 62

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Co-founder Partners in Health.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems.

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Too many multinational companies — particularly Japanese, Indian, German, and some American ones — still concentrate vital decisions in the hands of a small group of trusted leaders from their home country. In order to adapt to local cultures and market needs, companies must shift to decentralized, collaborative decision-making.

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Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

If you'd like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation and email address. The two went way back: Both had been with their German parent company, Almond Chemical, since 1999, when it first established operations in China. listed companies.

Case Study 11

Case Study Chemicals Ethics Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

They’ll also note that “safety pays” in reducing costs, or admit they fear reputational damage following a significant incident at their company. I watched with concern as the company, under pressure from activist shareholders to increase profits, cut costs and let its safety program deteriorate.

Operations 16

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Thirty-one years later, I became Chairman and CEO of a global Fortune 300 company. Ironically, my story is a story of overcoming my own biases about diversity—and then using these hard-won insights to build one of the most diverse leadership teams and board of directors in the world. Born in India, I arrived in the U.S.

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Team Diversity CFO TSR 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

While B2C companies have become adept at mining the petabytes of transactional and other purchasing data that consumers generate as they interact online, B2B sales organizations have only recently begun to use big data to inform overall strategy and tailor sales pitches for specific customers in real time.

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B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

” These information-focused leaders emerged as the world changed and the capabilities that companies needed shifted over time. The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. The Future of Operations.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Does your company have a COO today? That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Many companies, big and small, are examining their own commitments to sustainability in light of America’s shift. Short-term rewards too often take precedence over the longer-term interests and viability of a company. They will help us answer questions like: How does sustainability fit into a company’s strategy?

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Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Why is that some companies have great heads of strategy who make an outstanding contribution to their companies while others don’t? The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

They are, after all, the company’s steadfast guidance system, charged with keeping an even keel in rough waters. The value of a board’s active engagement in innovation can well be seen at Diebold, a $3 billion-company whose 16,000 employees make ATMs and a host of related products.

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Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

They are finding creative — and in many cases disruptive — ways to tackle some of society's toughest problems and create long-term value for their companies as well. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The company focuses on building environmentally friendly work sites and data centers and improving access to clean energy for all. Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. Future Economy.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Nevertheless, companies that live and die on operational excellence — such as Amazon.com, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart — must continually improve their key processes. For process owners to be successful, companies have to address these issues. They can do it in the following ways.

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Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? This transformation took time to play out and involved both displacements of incumbents operating in outdated modes and the emergence of new “feeder” roles for those aspiring to the C-suite.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

First, she was head-hunted to join Dutch DSM, a global science-based company, one of the few women on their executive team. A few years later, she joined a start-up called BioAmber, producing chemical intermediates using sugars instead of fossil fuels. The 50s saw a big change. There is nothing new here.

Career 8

Career Real Estate Learning Curve Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

It''s a lawyerly, exhaustive, exhausting rundown of all the things that could possibly weigh on the earnings of a giant global bank, from regulatory changes to loans going bad to a liquidity crisis to the possibility that "one or more of its employees causes a significant operational breakdown or failure."

Banking 8

Banking Crisis CEO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

If you'd like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address. 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.

Case Study 11

Case Study Chemicals ROI Engineering 11

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 24, 2012

Guest post by By Hap Klopp and Brian Tarcy , Authors, Conquering the North Face: An Adventure in Leadership: I’ve seen it a thousand times in business—rejection of an idea or a person by virtue of corporate status. Bullies destroy dignity and they destroy companies. If you are a leader, you must not allow them to operate under you.

Chemicals 317

Chemicals Crisis Execution Fashion 317

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

As an employee in a large company told us about his boss, “She energized me because she loved her job and was in general a very happy person. Members of this health care company who experienced relational energy with their leaders were more engaged at work, which then led to higher productivity. What do they do? What do they say?

Energy 8

Energy Health Care Leadership Pipeline Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

If CEOs are going to operate for stakeholder value — rather than just for shareholder value — then their pay ought to be structured in a way that supports them doing so. These companies structure their pay programs differently than American companies do.

TSR 10

TSR CEO Incentives Long-term 10

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

A major oil company had a plant explosion and proceeded to do a good job of communicating afterwards. Thus, lawsuits flew in the company’s face. Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company).

Crisis Management 81

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 81

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Bill George is best-known as the former CEO of Medtronic, where the company's market cap grew from $1.1 The new book is about how to create a great personal board of directors or tribe, along with all the norms, practices, and feedback mechanisms to support your leadership (and life). billion to $60 billion during his tenure.

Open-book 9

Open-book Chemicals Chief Operating Officer Goleman 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. A trip through the HBR archives shows just how cutting-edge the company has been in so many ways for so long.

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

To us, it’s similar to asking whether reviews, training programs, employee assistance services, or other company initiatives are effective for both worker performance and the bottom line. And there are five common ways these solitary initiatives tend to pop up in companies. Leadership commitment and support.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

My father, Jaya Tan, retired three years ago as the CEO of our family''s business, the Martapura Group, relinquishing control to a nonfamily CEO to ensure that the company would regain its strength and grow. In the 1970s he pushed the company to expand into palm oil and helped create a chain of food stores. The situation is simple.

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Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8