LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. So are goals. Monsanto is a good example. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” I’ve seen plenty of examples where giants are successful in spite of themselves.

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Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 97

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. So are goals. Monsanto is a good example. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” I’ve seen plenty of examples where giants are successful in spite of themselves.

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Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

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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CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

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. Then, every day, those hypothesis get tested. Popularity: 1% [ ?

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 9, 2019

We tend to think of addictions as ingesting a substance that temporarily makes an individual feel better or more relaxed (being addicted to alcohol or drugs, for example), but it’s broader than that… and sometimes less obvious that a behavior has crossed over into addiction. A review of 83 studies on addiction led Sussman et al.

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Chemicals Content Self-aware Long-term 207

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.

Innovation 15

Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 15

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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Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

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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Leadership Engineering FAQ Video 248

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.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 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. Our goal is to power all new data centers with 100% clean and renewable energy, relying more heavily on wind and solar farms. Andrew Liveris.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

Russia’s industrialization also means that the market offers substantial opportunities in diverse B2B sectors such as mining, oil and gas, metallurgy, chemicals, light industry, and consumer durables. Their goal is to lower product prices to gain market share away from competitors who import into the country.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

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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Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

But the board of directors, with the chairman at its head, is responsible for determining the corporation''s long-term goals, for positioning it for the future, for making sure that its fortunes can withstand a change in CEO. General Electric, where Heineman was senior vice president for law and public affairs, is one obvious example.

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Banking Crisis CEO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

For example, you might simply say to yourself: “I’m stressed about my son failing school.” In fact, the evolutionary goal of the stress response was to help boost the body and mind into enhanced functioning, to help us grow and meet the demands we face. ” Or “I’m stressed about our year-end numbers.”

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Stress How To Learning-by-Doing Chemicals 8

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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Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The classic example of repeated institutional failure, of course, is NASA. “The goal was to insulate the senior executives and hope that nothing happens.” ” But although changing a corporate culture is hard, it is not impossible with the right leadership. At some, the safety chief has direct access to the CEO.”

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Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Companies are aiming higher, for themselves and their partners: Dell, Coca-Cola, Lego, and many more set very aggressive environmental and social goals. Goals are not the same as outcomes but they matter a lot – they set the bar within sectors, driving competition and performance. It’s hard to argue the point.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend. The goal: to reduce negative environmental and social impacts of the $1.4 I've written about this kind of heresy before , but the few examples out there are generally B-to-B (Waste Management, Xerox).

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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.” We quantify reality in order to track progress.

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System Long-term Chemicals Benchmarking 8

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. She is a popular speaker and consults to senior leadership teams. It’s much more common than it used to be.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

To achieve these goals, organizations are using more part-time, project-based freelancers to supplement their internal staff. Each year 40 high potential young leaders from around the globe come together and work in teams on projects like “How do we grow our business in the chemicals industry?” So does ScanDisk and Shire.

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