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

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. But let’s assume that Buddy is indeed an elf, developed and created by the North Pole to fill a need…to make toys.

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Brand Press Release Discount Customer Loyalty 215

The Recovering Engineer

MAY 7, 2010

How to apply powerful psychological principles in a practical way to help you control your response and develop influence with others. I’ll announce it here when I’ve finished developing the content to make it a useful relationship building and conflict resolution training resource. That site should be ready soon.

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Tips Emotional Intelligence Engineering FAQ 198

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. TIME – World’s 100 Most Influential People.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

His academic lab and companies he has started develop and deploy neuroscience technologies to solve real problems faced by real people. Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High-Performance Companies. In this interview, we discuss the key role trust building plays in enhances performance.

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Company Teamwork Review Technology 104

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.

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White Paper Industry Risk Management Chief Operating Officer 65

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Consider three critical mega-trends: resource constraints and rising commodity prices; climate change and extreme weather; and radical, technology-driven transparency. 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.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 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. The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business.

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Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 88

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. What does this mean for workforce learning and development? In particular, we see several interesting developments: Technology-supported peer learning is disrupting the old paradigm. Development, not deficiency, is motivating learning. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

All three companies nurture and energize talent, carving out the necessary resources to invest in recruiting, selecting and growing the people who will become their future leaders. 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.

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Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 15

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. New product development is such a big piece of building new business, or so we are told. My whole company depends on it.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

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. Most sales leaders deploy resources on the basis of the current or historical performance of a given sales region. Consider the case of a chemicals company.

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B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Of these 5 articles, some were self-explanatory: " Nation spurs development of new, green technologies ". " Two articles didn't scream sustainability until you read them: " Chemical company paints rosy picture for the future ," which opens with the question, "How can a chemical company earn more money through eco-friendly products?"

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NGO Chemicals Energy Hotels 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In one of the most comprehensive global surveys of corporate directors to date, we found that they were very worried about developing and enacting strategic plans that will enable their organizations to succeed. We might expect the regions with the lowest overall averages to be those dominated by developing or emerging economies.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technologys pavilion will demonstrate "industrial energy savings and the comprehensive use of resources." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

But the ones who really understand the issue see gender balance as not just a numbers game but part of a broader, more strategic cultural shift that includes developing leadership teams representing geographically diffuse markets. The senior leadership team of 35 was dominated by Dutch men. How did he do it?

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Diversity CFO Globalization Video 8

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. First, such transformations consume resources, both financial and human. PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation.

Company 8

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 8

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

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). What other resources have you found useful in developing this system? It is a very timely book.

Open-book 9

Open-book Chemicals Chief Operating Officer Goleman 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

We were motivated to do this research because energy is a vital personal and organizational resource, but research on the sources of energy have neglected a source that everyone experiences in everyday life — our relationships with others. Create Energizing Events. The results are quite revealing.

Energy 8

Energy Health Care Leadership Pipeline Quality 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

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.” What to do?

Learning Curve 8

Learning Curve Execution Competitive Advantage Chemicals 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. 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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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. These companies are notable victims of a new reality: resources are constrained and input prices are fundamentally rising. The greening of the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

But providing feedback reports that remind employees that smoking, not exercising, or being overweight is unhealthy does not motivate change unless workers are given the tools and resources to actually change and track their behaviors. Leadership commitment and support. A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way.

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Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8