Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

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 62

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. If you have suggestions for me or others reading this post that might help in this process, please leave a comment below.

Engineering 169

Engineering Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Chemicals 169

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Putting executives in charge of improving cross-functional processes in large organizations is akin to asking them to paddle a boat upstream. Nevertheless, companies that live and die on operational excellence — such as Amazon.com, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart — must continually improve their key processes.

Process 15

Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

To address these needs, new approaches for developing global leaders are required: The diversity of top leadership should reflect the diversity of the firm's customers. Rather than concentrating on the on the top 50 leaders, global companies need to develop hundreds, even thousands, of leaders comfortable operating in a variety of cultures.

Globalization 15

Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 15

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. At Cummins, Inc.,

Operations 16

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

The two went way back: Both had been with their German parent company, Almond Chemical, since 1999, when it first established operations in China. Since then Almond China had set up two joint ventures with local partners — the only way foreigners could do chemical business in the country. That was fast, Liu thought.

Case Study 11

Case Study Chemicals Ethics Finance 11

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. Better leadership is emerging as the defining quality that governs the ability to attain positive outcomes and get the best performance possible out of teams.

Organization 267

Organization Self-aware Stress Leadership Styles 267

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

During the annual sales-planning process, managers determine how to invest resources to capture anticipated demand. Consider the case of a chemicals company. Another might be made up of markets with similar operating cost structures. Align sales coverage with opportunity.

B2B 14

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Ironically, my story is a story of overcoming my own biases about diversity—and then using these hard-won insights to build one of the most diverse leadership teams and board of directors in the world. Recognize that a diverse leadership team delivers superior long-term performance. John McArthur).

Team 11

Team Diversity CFO TSR 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

How can you make core business operations more sustainable? And what type of leadership will take us there? Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. They will help us answer questions like: How does sustainability fit into a company’s strategy? Business leaders who responded to our call: Dominic Barton. Marc Benioff. Indra Nooyi.

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Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation. Safeguard the short-term performance of the ongoing business.

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

But Anderson, who had served as an independent director on the company’s board for several years, did this through having “tremendous relationships and credibility with the operating executives.” the danger that the newcomer will clash for political or personality reasons with members of the leadership team).

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 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

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Thirdly, the communications process served to glean research data that we needed to upgrade the center, its tenant mix and security issues. The process of strategy development is not esoteric.

Crisis Management 81

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 81

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The new book is about how to create a great personal board of directors or tribe, along with all the norms, practices, and feedback mechanisms to support your leadership (and life). They gave me the encouragement to go back to Medtronic, where I had turned down three times the opportunity to become president and chief operating officer.

Open-book 9

Open-book Chemicals Chief Operating Officer Goleman 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The original response from GM was not to look for the root cause because that wasn’t part of the company’s thought process. ” But although changing a corporate culture is hard, it is not impossible with the right leadership. ’ After that the process loosened up. No one asked, ‘Why are they failing?’”

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

One of the biggest lessons we learned in the process of creating the report is one-time events masquerading as health promotion programs – that is, activities not integrated into a comprehensive workplace health promotion strategy – are likely to fail. Leadership commitment and support. So what does?

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

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. (It

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Analysis Report Operations Document 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

It is of even greater importance if a major act of terrorism involving nuclear, chemical, biological or cyber weapons occurs, either in private sector facilities or public spaces that impact private employers. The possibility of a well blow-out was explicitly addressed by systems, processes and technology. Decision-Making Processes.

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

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., for " every manufacturer, component, and process in apparel production." business continuity").

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Discovery-Driven Growth : A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity by Rita McGrath. All four companies have systematic ways of estimating how long a particular advantage is going to last, systems that nurture innovation, and processes that make sure the right people are at work on the business.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the Citizens United campaign finance decision that “Business corporations must engage the political process in instrumental terms if they are to maximize shareholder value.” Too typical, however, is the situation described by a senior executive at a chemical company.

Politics 8

Politics Committee CPA Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). We also found that industry matters.

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Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8