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? I do not know any actual examples.

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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. For example they embrace flexibility, or they don’t have an HR person, or they don’t want to work in a stuffy corporate culture.

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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”.

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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”.

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The Recovering Engineer

AUGUST 3, 2010

For example, in my role as a parent, I have certain rules and expectations of my two daughters. And, you should develop a relationship before you attempt to enforce them. Related posts: Vote in the Best of Leadership Blogs DISC Model FAQ’s: Is Changing Your Behavior Phoney? Photo by Lori Greig.

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The Recovering Engineer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Later, when I was working as a research engineer in the chemical industry, I used the concept of design margin as I developed new products and worked with customers to get our products qualified for their applications. For example, do you have enough margin in your relationships to… Withstand a communication error?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Let’s use “Buddy the Elf” as an example for the four steps to brand building. 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. How endearing is your brand to your customers? This week, we’ll discuss the first two.

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 18, 2010

Mostly, I want her to know that I am proud of her efforts and her success, and I want the rest of my readers to learn from her example. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. I have seen this concept discussed in a number of ways and in a variety of contexts.

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 27, 2010

For example, rather than assuming someone intentionally did something to irritate me, I work to ask myself a question like: “I wonder if they meant that the way I heard it?&# He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. leading, and communication with others.

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 12, 2010

He developed a theory that people tend to develop a self-concept based on one of four factors — Dominance, Inducement, Steadiness, or Compliance. Later psychologists and behavioral specialists developed a variety of practical tools to apply Marston’s theory. William Moulton Marston in the 1920′s.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

We know better than anyone at any time in the history of humans what it takes to create a workplace where people want to come to work, joyfully invest their efforts and talents into a cause greater than themselves, and go home happy to children who are learning from their examples. It’s more than simply clumsy leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Some examples . If you are not sure what I mean, here are a few examples.? . Spending too much energy producing perfect work instead of developing the quick-and-dirty solution needed now. . a leadership coach?who I draw on four examples from Breed e n’s bo ok to illustrate my thinking. . Collaboration: ?

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The Recovering Engineer

MAY 4, 2010

That simple statement then begs the question: Are you born with your personality style or is it developed over time. For example, I have learned to tell stories and jokes to entertain and engage people while I am presenting, and I still prefer to be alone. I’ll write more about this later, but the simple answer is: both.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 4, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Experimenting In Your Leadership Laboratory (No Bunsen Burners Necessary) by Starbucker on July 4, 2010 As a leader, I do not often think of myself as a scientist. Popularity: 1% [ ? Popularity: 1% [ ? Cosell note his passing.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 9, 2019

If your answer is yes to one or more of these questions, you may have or be developing an addiction that’s tied to dopamine, a type of neurotransmitter in your brain. To put it simply, neurotransmitters are molecules that behave as chemical messengers in the brain. So, what is dopamine and what role does it play in how we act?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

The largest share of immigrants were involved in developing medical technology inventions, such as surgical sutures. economy at this time – specifically electricity and chemicals, which accounted for 13.9% technological development over the long-run, we constructed a measure that we call foreign-born expertise. of all U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

So it's no surprise that GE, P&G and IBM occupy the top three spots in Hay Group's seventh annual Best Companies for Leadership (BCL) ranking. Our study clearly shows that great leadership is a strong competitive advantage, with the top 20 BCL firms far outperforming the S&P 500 benchmark on shareholder returns.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 12, 2014

” For-profit leaders looking to develop an advantageous social impact strategy should simply turn towards looking at successful non-for-profits for guidance. For example, our client, Rebuilding Together, is a purpose-driven organization that released this incredible video highlighting what metrics can never capture.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Out of 20 feature articles in the business section on November 15th, for example, five were all about the glories (and sometimes challenges) of green. Of these 5 articles, some were self-explanatory: " Nation spurs development of new, green technologies ". " VW: Tooling up for sustainability ". VW: Tooling up for sustainability ".

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Sophisticated sales organizations now have the ability to combine, sift, and sort vast troves of data to develop highly efficient strategies for selling into micromarkets. Consider the case of a chemicals company. For example, one peer group might be high-growth micromarkets with limited competitive intensity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation. 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. For example, Umicore’s 2003 acquisition of PMG increased its revenues by 50%.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Out of 20 feature articles in the business section on November 15th, for example, five were all about the glories (and sometimes challenges) of green. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. Perhaps my favorite example is the MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge. Some questions have what I like to call a catalytic quality.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

For example, Air Products set up process owners for each of the major steps in its supply chain, including plan, source, make, build, and fulfill. Select process owners with strong leadership skills and develop those skills even further. Incorporate these measures into the company's "balanced scorecard" or dashboard.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

the danger that the newcomer will clash for political or personality reasons with members of the leadership team). Doing so not only reduces costs but avoids the potential frictions that come from adding a new member to a team (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example. Some have decades of experience in their industry. Some are recent graduates.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

While there are some factors that make social innovation more likely than not — such as intrapreneurs who will champion them — Davis and White find that competing for talent, strong brands, and leadership transitions all correlate with stronger social initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Many wonder why an academy company like P&G, historically known for developing talent, did not, or was not able to, promote a successor from within its ranks. Where was its leadership bench? Why are so many companies struggling with a crisis of their leadership bench? chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

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. McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

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. This requires total transparency in the way individuals are assessed, developed, and promoted. John McArthur).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

But data mining does not equate to developing "customer intelligence." In the wink/twitch example, customer intelligence would only tell us that there was eye movement — not what kind or what it meant. In prioritizing parents' deeper needs, our client regained market leadership. When the Data Trail Goes Cold.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In conversations, for example, they devote their full attention and listen carefully. In one case, two operational leaders at Kelly Services, a workforce solutions firm, created a Business Resource Group to promote leadership development and increase employee engagement. Does Your Boss Give Off Good Energy?

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The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 27, 2010

I am simply observing the outcome of a leadership act: a high level leader who reports to a higher level leader within an organization took his discontent public and he had to leave the organization as a result. I do know what happened, and I believe it demonstrates a valuable leadership lesson: Disagree in private and agree in public.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Individuals may not focus on long-term benefits of a given action when a short-term reward (for example smoking a cigarette, consuming a large pizza, or spending hours watching television) is more appealing. Leadership commitment and support. A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way. So what does?

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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. “So taking new roles is just part of their jobs and a core part of their development.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

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. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. HBR: Why did you decide to pursue a sustainability agenda?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

One example of this sticks in my mind. The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. In all, four workers were killed. .”

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