RapidStart Leadership

JULY 6, 2017

Conflict is inevitable in any human enterprise; how we handle that conflict is where leadership comes in. The force that fires these rockets upward comes from a simple chemical reaction. They identify actions that align with their values and further their goals. leadership Click To Tweet. Build in some operating space.

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Covey Hammer Construction Chemicals 125

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?

BPM 185

BPM Chemicals Emotional Intelligence Blog 185

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 61

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. This is a big question to consider, and it relates directly to how you set your goals for next year.

Engineering 169

Engineering Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Chemicals 169

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

Leadership. by John • August 29, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 2 Comments. Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. So are goals. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.”

Strategy 131

Strategy CEO Company Competitive Advantage 131

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. So are goals. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” What is the definition of strategy? Elementary question, you say. Here is the elementary answer. Ever heard this?

Strategy 97

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 97

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.

CEO 161

CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. So are goals. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” What is the definition of strategy? Elementary question, you say. Here is the elementary answer. Ever heard this?

Strategy 74

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

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. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

It’s time for sustainability to be a real goal for businesses striving to ensure a competitive future. How can you make core business operations more sustainable? And what type of leadership will take us there? Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. Business Leaders Want to Stay in the Paris Climate Accord. Marc Benioff.

Project 8

Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

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. It still doesn't seem necessary to be a COO in order to take over as CEO, though.

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

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.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 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

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.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

Instead, the Commission's focus in the report is on the immediate causes of the explosion and on the individual and collective failures of BP (owner), Transocean (rig operator) and Haliburton (construction services) to assess and mitigate immediate risks — and to have effective crisis response plans.

Analysis 14

Analysis Report Operations Document 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

It''s a lawyerly, exhaustive, exhausting rundown of all the things that could possibly weigh on the earnings of a giant global bank, from regulatory changes to loans going bad to a liquidity crisis to the possibility that "one or more of its employees causes a significant operational breakdown or failure."

Banking 8

Banking Crisis CEO Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. The goal was to keep litigation from occurring, which was met. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Learn more about Hank Moore and The Business Tree™ by visiting his website, www.HankMoore.com. Finally comes Crisis Training.

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Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 77

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.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

“In Navy SEAL training,” former SEAL Commander Curt Cronin recently told us, “the leadership cadre designs situations that are exponentially more stressful, chaotic, and dynamic than any combat operation so that the teams learn to center [themselves] in the most arduous circumstances. ” Step Three: Use It.

Stress 8

Stress How To Learning-by-Doing Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Leadership commitment and support. A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way. Boosting engagement in wellness can only be achieved when workers own the program, understand how they and the company benefit, and are given a meaningful voice in its ongoing operation. So what does?

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., The goal: to reduce negative environmental and social impacts of the $1.4 business continuity").

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

“The goal was to insulate the senior executives and hope that nothing happens.” 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.

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 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. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50