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.

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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

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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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”.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

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.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

The Recovering Engineer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

While I was in the Navy and learning to become an Engineering Officer, I learned about the specific margins that were built into both the submarine and the engineering plant to ensure safe operation. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S.

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Engineering Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Chemicals 169

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The realities of globalization, with increasing emphasis on emerging markets, present corporate leaders with enormous challenges in developing the leaders required to run global organizations. That requires developing many leaders capable of working anywhere. That requires developing many leaders capable of working anywhere.

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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

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

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. Improved operational performance will result in fewer injuries. At Cummins, Inc.,

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Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 17

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. We’re starting to recognize that this relatively new situation has important ramifications for how businesses operate, and we’re making some progress.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

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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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 12, 2018

The results of these studies, captured from subjects operating under real or near-real conditions, has put the nature vs nurture debate on leadership to rest. Better leadership is emerging as the defining quality that governs the ability to attain positive outcomes and get the best performance possible out of teams.

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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. Another might be made up of markets with similar operating cost structures.

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B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

The two went way back: Both had been with their German parent company, Almond Chemical, since 1999, when it first established operations in China. Since then Almond China had set up two joint ventures with local partners — the only way foreigners could do chemical business in the country. That was fast, Liu thought.

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Case Study Chemicals Ethics Finance 11

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. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

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Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

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.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

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. PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation. Safeguard the short-term performance of the ongoing business.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. What do you think?

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

But Anderson, who had served as an independent director on the company’s board for several years, did this through having “tremendous relationships and credibility with the operating executives.” the danger that the newcomer will clash for political or personality reasons with members of the leadership team).

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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. Select process owners with strong leadership skills and develop those skills even further.

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Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

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. Most companies focus on thirty-somethings as high-potential talent to be developed and accelerated with job mobility and stretch assignments – acting as if careers are made (or not) before the age of 40.

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Career Real Estate Learning Curve Education 8

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. When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Andrew Liveris.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

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). They gave me the encouragement to go back to Medtronic, where I had turned down three times the opportunity to become president and chief operating officer.

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Open-book Chemicals Chief Operating Officer Goleman 9

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Business development. My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. The process of strategy development is not esoteric. Business development. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture. Finally comes Crisis Training.

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Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 82

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

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. The results are quite revealing. With this objective map, they could identify where they needed to make positive improvements.

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Energy Health Care Leadership Pipeline Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

At the hoary age of 128, it had already beat the odds twice over when it lost its place to chemical maker LyondellBasell at close of trading this year on September 4 th. Competition Leadership Retail' Founded in 1886 as a mail-order watch retailer, Sears was already 71 when it became an original member of the S&P 500 in 1957.

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Both Ford and Chrysler’s hierarchies place safety directors closer to the CEO, and management experts told the AP that “safety ranks higher at other companies as well, especially food, drug, and chemical makers. ” But although changing a corporate culture is hard, it is not impossible with the right leadership.

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Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. The near future will hold more questions about how businesses can and should operate in a resource-constrained, hotter, drier (or wetter) world.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

.” Hanguk was a large, fast-growing company with diversified interests spanning electronics, biotechnology, shipping, construction, and chemicals. Its most successful division, mobile telephony, was looking for a new head of software development at headquarters in Seoul. I’ll have 25 developers reporting to me.”

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Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Although the ghost of the Great Man still haunts leadership studies, most of us have recognized by now that successful organizations are the product of distributive, collective, and complementary leadership. She was at sea, however, in a more operational role. What can be done to prevent a situation like the one with Kate?

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Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 14

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. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

With the support of chemical companies , more than 170 countries also agreed to phase out HFCs , the high global-warming-potential chemicals used in air-conditioners and refrigerators everywhere. Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards.

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Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

We have developed a framework to help boards make decisions concerning corporate political spending — decisions that are informed; consistent with company strategies, policies, and values; and that mitigate risks as much as possible. Too typical, however, is the situation described by a senior executive at a chemical company.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). We also found that industry matters.

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