The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 18, 2010

Because they work in an environment that is dynamic and rapidly changing, she often has conversations on new projects, initiatives, and ideas. Sometimes, she does not think of every question to ask for clarity and understanding at the time of her initial conversation about new projects with this colleague.

Engineering 210

Engineering Self-aware Video FAQ 210

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.

White Paper 61

White Paper Industry Risk Management Chief Operating Officer 61

Women in the LEAD

AUGUST 25, 2009

Women in the LEAD A B O U T U S H O W T O C O M M E N T Recent Posts WOMEN: LEADERSHIP is How TO BE WOMEN: Love, Respect and Leadership WOMEN: Is Negative Thinking Holding You Back?     All this adds to the development of a harmonious world.   Men and women communicate differently.

Leadership 40

Leadership Letter Taylorism Taylor 40

Women in the LEAD

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Women in the LEAD A B O U T U S H O W T O C O M M E N T Recent Posts WOMEN: LEADERSHIP is How TO BE WOMEN: Love, Respect and Leadership WOMEN: Is Negative Thinking Holding You Back?   All this adds to the development of a harmonious world.   Men and women communicate differently.

Leadership 40

Leadership Letter Taylorism Taylor 40

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.

FAQ 230

FAQ Hammer Engineering Tools 230

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

Including the brain trust on your organizational development team. It’s more than simply clumsy leadership. Demonstrate the leadership and clarity that will drive not only [your] own investment returns but also the prosperity and security of [your] fellow citizens.”. And their leaders are doing likewise. Don’t you think?

CEO 161

CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. 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. Andrew Liveris.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 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. They can be turned from disasters into opportunities to project corporate strengths. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

Crisis Management 79

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 79

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Time after time, new initiatives and projects are rolled out with great fanfare only to end up abandoned and dubbed expensive flops. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad.

NGO 15

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

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.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

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.,

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 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? At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated.

CFO 10

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

You attract talent, and people are more likely to devote their discretionary time to your projects. 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 opposite is also true.

Energy 8

Energy Health Care Leadership Pipeline Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

” In more recent times, a British chemical engineer named Paul Thomas pronounced a vision “that one day we will be able to detect a previously undetectable tumour metabolising inside a human lung simply by asking a patient to breathe into a device.”

System 8

System Long-term Chemicals Benchmarking 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. CEO Peter Loscher declared Germany's plans to move aggressively toward renewables "the project of the century.". The greening of the supply chain.

Supply Chain 15

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.”

Case Study 8

Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

To achieve these goals, organizations are using more part-time, project-based freelancers to supplement their internal staff. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. What does this mean for workforce learning and development? ” These agile talents are matched to projects typically for 3 to 6 months. Insight Center.

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 8

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. Big themes are great, but periodically a specific example of leadership seems worthy of extra attention.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8