RapidStart Leadership

JULY 6, 2017

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. Channel that energy towards projects and efforts that need the kind of intensity they can provide. They choose their words and behaviors purposefully. Deflect the blast.

Covey 125

Covey Hammer Construction Chemicals 125

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2016

That was his goal. It was a chemical or nuclear attack by an enemy government. I want a project completed. He wanted to protect Michelle and keep her alive. Like Howard, leaders need to create a mission that they can buy into. They have to have a purpose to pursue. For him, this could take years. I want more impact.

Arkes 120

Arkes Leadership Chemicals Follow-up 120

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.

White Paper 62

White Paper Industry Risk Management Chief Operating Officer 62

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

It’s time for sustainability to be a real goal for businesses striving to ensure a competitive future. To do so, we have created the Future Economy Project. Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. According to the Risky Business Project , the cost of the damage done to property and infrastructure by storms along the U.S.’s

Project 8

Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

The Recovering Engineer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. He has spent many years learning to connect and communicate with other people more effectively.

Engineering 199

Engineering FAQ Video Self-aware 199

CO2

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Your body releases chemicals that flood your system and creates barriers to your listening openly and being focused. Projection in which we attribute our unwelcome thoughts about ourselves onto someone else. Goal: Where is it we are going? Imagine being grabbed; it can be and often is physiological.

Construction 88

Construction Learning-by-Doing Kahneman Positioning 88

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. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. Andrew Liveris.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

CO2

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Your body releases chemicals that flood your system and creates barriers to your listening openly and being focused. Projection in which we attribute our unwelcome thoughts about ourselves onto someone else. Goal: Where is it we are going? Imagine being grabbed; it can be and often is physiological.

Construction 78

Construction Learning-by-Doing Kahneman Positioning 78

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.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

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

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. Corporate CEOs.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

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.” As leaders, we want to contribute our influence to projects that our tribe members own. And then the result is a company that meets – or even surpasses – all its critical goals. I’m going to create an opportunity.

CEO 161

CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

As I quoted Boyatzis in my book Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence , “Talking about your positive goals and dreams activates brain centers that open you up to new possibilities. This chemical brew fuels drive and tags it with satisfying dollops of pleasure. And that can lead to concrete learning goals.

Chemicals 20

Chemicals Learning Curve Open-book Bottom-up 20

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Treating an innovation project as just an “event” is the most common cause of failure. The goal was to jointly reinvent the customer’s data management system. In the B2B space, companies tend to be driven by specific business goals and priorities. Trap 1: Acting as an event manager. Here’s an example.

B2B 8

B2B Innovation Company Workshop 8

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 9, 2019

To put it simply, neurotransmitters are molecules that behave as chemical messengers in the brain. While it is a good and useful thing to have an internal spark to pursue a goal and persevere on your quest to attain it, too much dopamine is a cause for concern. So, what is dopamine and what role does it play in how we act?

Chemicals 207

Chemicals Content Self-aware Long-term 207

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

All too often, progress gets ignored as people move from one task or project to another. Simply noting what was accomplished and how it contributed to the goals of the organization can have a big impact on how people feel about themselves, the organization, and the work they do.

Chemicals 16

Chemicals Goal Motivation Organization 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

In B2B customer collaboration, however, the customer tends to be driven by specific business goals rather than passion for your brand or product category. Recently, the German chemicals giant collaborated with another chemicals company. As an illustration of how to do this well, the experience of BASF is worth looking at.

B2B 8

B2B Workshop Chemicals B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2018

The antidote is to align compensation with strategic goals. The value of developing capabilities became evident to a specialty chemical producer with lackluster margins. New dashboards monitored progress toward pricing goals and flagged places where sales reps might be getting too aggressive, or weren’t getting aggressive enough.

B2B 10

B2B Price Survey Company 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2011

Here's how Sophie described it: I don't understand why R&D kills so many of my projects when I am supposedly measured on new product development! They have very conflicting goals, causing us to start, stop, re-start, etc. The VP of R&D killed my new hand-held mixer three times before it was approved a couple weeks ago.

Chemicals 15

Chemicals Creativity Micromanagement Wilde 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

With the advent of digital imaging, Kodak was outpaced by other companies that could better achieve consumer goals. Kodak had built a successful enterprise producing cameras, film, and photographic paper and chemicals, but what people wanted was images, and so when a better way to get those images was found, its customers followed.

Health Care 15

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

And serotonin, that feel-good chemical at the heart of the Prozac revolution, bonds teams together more powerfully than the best-intentioned offsite. But really understanding what makes these chemicals so powerful requires diving deeper into their impact on motivation, learning, and creativity. Let’s take them one at a time.

Environment 11

Environment Chemicals McKinsey Creativity 11

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. McGrath recalls the painful experience of working with a big chemical company that wanted to diversify its business.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

We know intuitively that innovation goals are well served by cross-functional “SWAT” teams that are diverse in their membership. Fleming focuses on cross-pollination in the context of “big D” Development, which often involves recombination of existing knowledge to serve commercial goals.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Automotive Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers. At the cloud-computing company VMware, Nicola Acutt is running technical service projects to tap into the creative energy of talented employees to solve social problems and uncover business opportunities.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2012

Lust is also about vanity projects — investments or acquisitions that make no rational sense, but play to the manager's desires. To the "widespread astonishment" of the business world, he traded in the company's valuable holding in chemical giant Du Pont in order to buy up Universal Studios.

Management 16

Management Gordon Welch Chemicals 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated. According to Prasad Setty, Director of People Analytics at Google, their goal is to have all people decisions driven by data.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The goal is not creating teams or leagues of aspiring Nate Silvers but to assure that students come away with the statistical savvy not to be probabilistically buffaloed by Nate Silver wannabees. The goal is giving students a vocabulary and capability for interactively understanding the links between technology design and construction.

Class 9

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

The goal is to target specific projects that are particularly appropriate for individual directors and to encourage participating board members to be, as one director says, “collaborative, not intrusive.” At the same time, directors should be mindful not to interfere with operational teams or to supplant managers.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey CEO Participative Automotive 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. But he was now a postdoc working on a desalination project that he believed could solve South Florida’s water problems. An Acute Need.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 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. Crisis planning and strategies should be intertwined with security issues, financial goals, workforce empowerment and many other corporate dynamics. The crisis teams need to be prepared.

Crisis Management 81

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 81

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

How about by meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? The goals, a set of 17 stretch goals and 169 related targets championed by the United Nations, are ambitious. ” Incrementalism has its uses, but it is worrying to see even committed business leaders treating the goals as an incremental change agenda.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

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. You and Your Team.

Team 8

Team Project Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Fifty-six percent of the combined 173 companies in the Fortune 100 and Global 100 have set greenhouse gas reduction goals. Companies don't just remove toxic chemicals from products because it's the right thing to do; they do so because their heavily female consumer base demands it. Public policy, driven by public pressure.

Marketing 8

Marketing Energy Globalization Chemicals 8

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.

System 8

System Long-term Chemicals Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

CEO Peter Loscher declared Germany's plans to move aggressively toward renewables "the project of the century.". The goal: to reduce negative environmental and social impacts of the $1.4 In September, Siemens, one of the world's largest nuclear power plant suppliers, exited the business. trillion market for clothes and shoes.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Time after time, new initiatives and projects are rolled out with great fanfare only to end up abandoned and dubbed expensive flops. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

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?”

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 8