Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2020

Overwhelming redundancy in workplace operations may not be stimulating enough for some employees. It is always important to recognize employee strengths and be sure to help your employees grow and learn without having goals that are overly strenuous. What Happens When Depression Goes Unnoticed? You are their leader in the workplace.

How To 76

How To Chemicals Environment Learning-by-Doing 76

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). Most people, including myself would always associate these chemicals with the brain and nervous system. I agree that balance is key.

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BPM Chemicals Emotional Intelligence Blog 185

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

Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Involving others in decisions and working together toward goals and objectives are an imperative. Relationship Oriented and Goal Oriented: Developing and sustaining high-quality workplace relationships is becoming more important. Continuous communication of the goals reminds people of where they are headed, keeping them on track.

Leadership 221

Leadership Blog Open-book Greenleaf 221

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. So are goals. Here is the elementary answer. Ever heard this?

Strategy 131

Strategy CEO Company Competitive Advantage 131

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. Their supervisors are doing the same. Don’t you think?

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. There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. So are goals. Here is the elementary answer. Ever heard this?

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Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 97

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. Data and analytics represent a blurring of the traditional lines of demarcation between the scope of IT and the responsibilities of operating divisions. Data and analytics embedded in IT.

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Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

Management Craft

JUNE 27, 2011

I regret that the timing of this diagnosis and operation is bad for several of my clients. In particular, he told me not to go overseas too soon after the operation in case of any complications. This cancer does not respond to chemo or radiation, just surgery, and this makes the initial operation very important.

Chemicals 71

Chemicals Bottom-up Operations Agility 71

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. So are goals. Here is the elementary answer. Ever heard this?

Strategy 74

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

More than 190 member countries committed to “eliminate poverty in all its forms everywhere” by 2030, together with 16 other “big, hairy, audacious goals” — to use Jim Collins’ memorable phrase. Third, the goals cannot be realized without business participation. during the assembly. The case is clear.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This approach gives managers a tool for coaching their teams to get better results. That line of thinking shuts us down, puts us on the defensive, and narrows our possibilities to rescue operations. Managers should keep this in mind, particularly during performance reviews. You need both, but in the right ratio.”.

Chemicals 19

Chemicals Learning Curve Open-book Bottom-up 19

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

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. Improved operational performance will result in fewer injuries. ” It worked.

Operations 16

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. For example, [Andrew] Liveris talked about the focus Dow [Chemical] has on great chemistry and designing new sustainable product lines and being willing to cannibalize existing products. Andrew Liveris.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 12, 2018

The results of these studies, captured from subjects operating under real or near-real conditions, has put the nature vs nurture debate on leadership to rest. Purpose Without a greater purpose to frame everything strategy falls flat, goals are forgotten and tasks can be overlooked.

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Organization Self-aware Stress Leadership Styles 247

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. 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? Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Co. Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. by Forest L.

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Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Part of the problem may be in the backgrounds that companies desired: 85% of COOs had experience in operations, strategy, or finance. What role does he or she play in the organization? What do you think?

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices. Three types of investors satisfy both criteria.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

On January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. With the advent of digital imaging, Kodak was outpaced by other companies that could better achieve consumer goals. Employers increasingly focus on employee wellness, on one side, and disease management, on the other.

Health Care 15

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Hundreds if not thousands of hospitals have responded to trends such as shorter average hospital stays, fewer surgeries, a shift to outpatient and home care, and reduced reimbursements by consolidating or overhauling their operations and laying off staff. We do that by connecting the front line with management in a continuing dialogue.

Policies 8

Policies Chemicals Bond Fashion 8

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 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Our goal is to power all new data centers with 100% clean and renewable energy, relying more heavily on wind and solar farms. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

For example, it increased both the number and status of safety personnel, and it strengthened safety operating procedures. After the 2005 explosion, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board pushed BP to focus more on safety. Further, managers should remain especially vigilant in the promotion of a culture of safety.

Organization 8

Organization McCombs Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. 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. Another energy industry client operated coal mines.

Crisis Management 79

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 79

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

But the goal of sustained growth remains elusive. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics. Even though these sectors also qualified as “clean energy,” the capabilities they required were too diverse to manage.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Their goal was to help entrepreneurs and those inside established companies adopt a new approach, “one better suited to high-potential projects whose prospects are uncertain at the start.” In short, too many firms used conventional planning to manage their new ventures. ” Step 3: Define operational requirements.

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Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

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. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

As directors and management teams adapt, they’re bumping into limits—both on the amount of time directors can be asked to spend before the role is no longer attractive and on the scope of the activities they can undertake before creating organizational noise or concerns among top executives about micromanagement.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey CEO Participative Automotive 8

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

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

He’d been the one to suggest that Unamano aim to quadruple the revenues of the small businesses it targeted, an audacious goal given the long odds facing any emerging-market start-up. He’d found a receptive chemical-company owner who was providing lab space and even some financial support. operations. An Acute Need.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Worse yet, they’ll sometimes hire different vendors to address different issues – lifestyle coaches, employee assistance counselors, case and disease management vendors, nurse lines, occupational health and safety experts, workers’ compensation specialists, disability managers, organizational development consultants, you name it.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work. Managing Yourself Book. 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. Further Reading. Add to Cart. ” Step Three: Use It. ” Step Three: Use It.

Stress 8

Stress How To Learning-by-Doing Chemicals 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 24, 2012

If you are a leader, you must not allow them to operate under you. The embalming fluid of business is no mere chemical concoction dreamed up by heartless analysts. Quiet resignation is their goal for you. It merely takes nerve. If you work for such a person, do not submit. Fight for your dignity. They do it in so many ways.

Chemicals 317

Chemicals Crisis Execution Fashion 317

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

She didn't initiate the conversations by tugging on the professors' heartstrings, highlighting SHE's efforts to improve girl's and women's lives, but rather by challenging the scientists to help her solve a complicated new chemical engineering problem. Managing Emotion Effectively Keeps Business On Track.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The manager’s answer: “I don’t want to be a Chicken Little about this.” “The goal was to insulate the senior executives and hope that nothing happens.” Managers coded their operations green at the first couple of meetings to show how well they were doing, but Mulally called them on it.

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Most innovation teams inside large companies are set up to operate like well-oiled machines. One of our key findings was that teams functioning more like machines – blindly following highly defined processes and execution plans — were the least effective at achieving their goals and coming up with innovations.

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Innovation Team Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 8