Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. 100 COACHES.

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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 61

Strategy Driven

APRIL 10, 2019

For example, if you run an agricultural business and your customers are interested in purchasing wetting agent chemicals, private label products allow you to focus your efforts on marketing while ensuring your customers receive top-quality goods from a more specialized manufacturer. Reduced Unit Costs. Unit cost is very important.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

They have to go to the trainings, and then report up line to their managers annually to account for why that needle hasn’t budged. Including the brain trust on your organizational development team. That’s much more motivating than saying, “I’m going to go to work today and I’m going to sell a can of chemicals.” Don’t you think?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. Andrew Liveris.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2012

We all know bad managers — be they ambitious and aggressive, doing whatever it takes to move up the corporate ladder, or the opposite: managers thrust into their position without the skill or the will to do the job properly. I continue to be a little puzzled about why so many managers do such a poor job.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Campbell, Accenture's Group Chief Executive, Technology, notes, "All too often, I've seen that personal conflicts derail costly projects and important initiatives." I've always felt, and our research proves, that well-managed conflicts can increase trust, respect, and intimacy among employees within and across teams. As Kevin M.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Some companies could get a jumpstart in their industry in organizing partnerships and even positioning themselves as leaders in sustainable development using the goals as a branding anchor. Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals will improve the environment for doing business and building markets. The case is clear.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2018

invest in ongoing development of capabilities among the sales and pricing teams through training and tools. Managers often criticize sales reps for losing a deal, but rarely for pricing a deal too low, so reps learn to concede on price in order to close the deal. Bad Incentives Undercut the Best Pricing Strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. In total, these brands are projected to reach revenues of $1 billion at Target alone this year. The collaboration, which the NGO Forum for the Future is managing, has high aspirations.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

To design and develop new products, it’s not uncommon today to get your research and engineering folks to collaborate with customers and other external stakeholders. In B2B, managers all too often treat such “co-creation” as an event rather than a process and therefore focus almost exclusively on the workshop.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2011

Too many knowledge workers — professionals with immense talent, experience, and drive to do meaningful work — are stifled by managers who misunderstand what effective management means. If they often get overridden by management, people quickly lose the motivation to make any decision, which severely inhibits progress.

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Chemicals Creativity Micromanagement Wilde 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Lack of top management support and attention . And while the R&D department can sponsor and push through a new product or technology, rolling out a business model innovation requires direct support from the top management. As a result the innovation projects died on the vine. Innovation Product development'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Selvesware invites workers and managers to digitally amplify their talents and attributes, while monitoring and minimizing weaknesses. Simply put, selvesware helps people identify, manage, and measurably improve their best, most productive selves. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work. But why stop with industrial assets?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. 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

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll be able to generate, decide what resources you’ll need, and set milestones to reach your targets. In short, too many firms used conventional planning to manage their new ventures. Not so fast.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

But often, managing the business gets short shrift. The business—a regional construction company with a special expertise in building waste chemical and water treatment plants—has never lost money in its 30 year history, and it''s grown steadily. "So After the discussion of about 15 projects, patterns began to emerge.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

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. So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. ” Wilson was exactly what the business needed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

During one of my very first consulting assignments, a colleague and I interviewed direct reports of the Chief Information Officer of a chemical company about improving project execution. Remember that it’s not about you; it’s to help the client become a more effective manager.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. Similar wastewater projects in Chinese cities are showing that sludge can be converted into valuable products such as vehicle fuels and organic composts.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Employees at semiconductor-chip-maker Intel recently devised a new chemistry process that reduced chemical waste by 900,000 gallons, saving $45 million annually. Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million. Sustainability Talent management'

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

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Fleming focuses on cross-pollination in the context of “big D” Development, which often involves recombination of existing knowledge to serve commercial goals. Among AkzoNobel’s divisions are more and less conventional manufacturers of chemicals and polymers. Management wanted to break down the internal barriers, too.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The presenter is trying to convince senior management in your company to invest in a large, expensive project, say setting up a new robotic production line in one of your plants. We found the same to be true for chemical formulas (and other research has shown that brain scans and scientific jargon operate in a similar way).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Given that, many leaders opt to have an offsite where a project team meets early in the project to establish strong relationships. In one case, we were told by an Indian developer about the difficulty he was having with his German colleague, who seemed not to like or respect him.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Answer These 5 Questions Think of your boss — your direct supervisor or manager — and consider each statement below. You attract talent, and people are more likely to devote their discretionary time to your projects. In conversations, for example, they devote their full attention and listen carefully.

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Energy Health Care Leadership Pipeline Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Understanding probabilities, statistics and analytics is increasingly vital to identifying and effectively managing high performing talent. Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable). Fantasy Sports Competition. Everybody eats.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. Business development. My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. by Hank Moore.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

They’d bonded over their Miami roots and their desire to make a difference in the world, and soon they began developing Helena’s idea into a fully fledged organization. But he was now a postdoc working on a desalination project that he believed could solve South Florida’s water problems. ” Conrad asked.

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Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

When I was in the midst of researching what caused cross-functional teams to succeed — and finding that many of them failed — I discovered a deeply dysfunctional development project in a huge multinational IT company. The company had invested $100 million in the project, which involved three divisions. Leading Teams.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). In some of these companies, senior managers were dubious about the claims.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

At UCB, a medium-sized pharmaceutical company headquartered in Belgium, Heresh Rezavandi and his managers Michelle Maddix-Sovero are leading a young strategic intelligence function that’s part of the strategic marketing practice. Man-Wai Chow is leading the strategic intelligence efforts at Eastman, a chemical company.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Companies are increasingly seeing the obvious benefits of slashing energy use, and beginning to include in their calculations the considerable risk reduction from managing water well or limiting the use of toxic chemicals. Risk reduction: Managing your nature-sourced supply chain well can help avoid headaches and possible litigation.

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