ReImagine Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I worked at a chemical plant in the early Eighties. Projects could be more successful and deliver more quickly if we treated people like human beings. I had my master’s in HR and was acting as HR manager at an R&D lab, with over 500 constituents. Manage those human resources in a way they can engage.

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Human Resources Resources CIO Chemicals 100

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2020

Any establishment that’s involved in the production, manufacturing, processing, storing, transporting, distribution, or selling of food or beverages should have a rigorous and reliable food safety management system. It’s the chief production certification in the manufacture, distribution, and agent management of food. To Manage Risk.

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How To Supply Chain Document Licensing 65

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.

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White Paper Industry Risk Management Chief Operating Officer 61

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Projection Displays using DLP/LCoS : They were originally designed when it wasn’t possible to make large-area LCDs. It is still used in gas pumps, parking meters, and simple appliances. Plasma Display : Some people still refer to flat panel TV’s as plasma. With projectors, you could create a 100-inch image. It’s been a fantastic ride.

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Technology Innovation Industry Sharpe 117

Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2020

Making projects or due dates that are too challenging, or maybe even impossible, also lends to an upsetting workplace environment. It is important to remember that depression is a complex chemical imbalance, and it is not the employee’s fault or your fault. You are their leader in the workplace. Moving Forward.

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How To Chemicals Environment Learning-by-Doing 76

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. To do so, we have created the Future Economy Project. Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Co. 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

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Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 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.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Terry Starbucker

MAY 22, 2016

It was the Marketing Manager, and he had been in the cable business for over 20 years. My boss put me in charge of the project, from end to end. It would be handed out by a local manager, who would have all the right corporate talking points for the immediate questions. There was one in particular that really got to me.

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Letter Leadership Call Center Long-term 171

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

They have to go to the trainings, and then report up line to their managers annually to account for why that needle hasn’t budged. 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.” At WD-40 Company, we include values as part of our talent management system.

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CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

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. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. Andrew Liveris.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 10, 2019

For example, if you run an agricultural business and your customers are interested in purchasing wetting agent chemicals, private label products allow you to focus your efforts on marketing while ensuring your customers receive top-quality goods from a more specialized manufacturer.

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Productivity Products Brand B2C 50

CO2

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It has often been thought that the feedback loop hinges on the giver of feedback, you know, the leader, manager, supervisor. 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.

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Construction Learning-by-Doing Kahneman Positioning 88

CO2

DECEMBER 11, 2020

That’s how we improve” – Bill Gates By: Gary Cohen Secret Formula to Receiving Feedback It has often been thought that the feedback loop hinges on the giver of feedback, you know, the leader, manager, supervisor. Projection in which we attribute our unwelcome thoughts about ourselves onto someone else.

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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.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2012

We all know bad managers — be they ambitious and aggressive, doing whatever it takes to move up the corporate ladder, or the opposite: managers thrust into their position without the skill or the will to do the job properly. I continue to be a little puzzled about why so many managers do such a poor job.

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Management Gordon Welch Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Campbell, Accenture's Group Chief Executive, Technology, notes, "All too often, I've seen that personal conflicts derail costly projects and important initiatives." I've always felt, and our research proves, that well-managed conflicts can increase trust, respect, and intimacy among employees within and across teams. As Kevin M.

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Team Management How To Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This approach gives managers a tool for coaching their teams to get better results. Managers should keep this in mind, particularly during performance reviews. Managers should keep this in mind, particularly during performance reviews. Of course a manager needs to help people face what’s not working.

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Chemicals Learning Curve Open-book Bottom-up 20

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

As we argue in a forthcoming article, in the April issue of Harvard Business Manager (the German edition of HBR), our experience of studying and documenting these failures suggests that nearly all can be traced back to a small set of traps organizations tend to step into. Trap 1: Acting as an event manager. Here’s an example.

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B2B Innovation Company Workshop 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Trips, falls, and chemical burns. Projects can get weighty and take up a lot of time, but there needs to be time to catch up and grab a coffee. For example, if you have a copywriter that is particularly interested in dabbling in graphic design, give them some space on a smaller project to learn from the design team.

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Chemicals Team Insurance Training 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2011

Too many knowledge workers — professionals with immense talent, experience, and drive to do meaningful work — are stifled by managers who misunderstand what effective management means. If they often get overridden by management, people quickly lose the motivation to make any decision, which severely inhibits progress.

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Chemicals Creativity Micromanagement Wilde 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2018

Managers often criticize sales reps for losing a deal, but rarely for pricing a deal too low, so reps learn to concede on price in order to close the deal. The value of developing capabilities became evident to a specialty chemical producer with lackluster margins. Bad Incentives Undercut the Best Pricing Strategies.

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B2B Price Survey Company 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. In total, these brands are projected to reach revenues of $1 billion at Target alone this year. The collaboration, which the NGO Forum for the Future is managing, has high aspirations.

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Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 9, 2019

To put it simply, neurotransmitters are molecules that behave as chemical messengers in the brain. As opposed to the pleasure of anticipation via dopamine, these chemicals give us pleasure from sensation and emotion.” In an interview titled “ Putting Leaders on the Couch ,” management expert and psychoanalyst Manfred F.R.

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Chemicals Content Self-aware Long-term 207

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.

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Environment Chemicals McKinsey Creativity 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

In B2B, managers all too often treat such “co-creation” as an event rather than a process and therefore focus almost exclusively on the workshop. Recently, the German chemicals giant collaborated with another chemicals company. Both sides ended up disappointed and will be unlikely to want to repeat the experiment.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

But often, managing the business gets short shrift. The business—a regional construction company with a special expertise in building waste chemical and water treatment plants—has never lost money in its 30 year history, and it''s grown steadily. "So After the discussion of about 15 projects, patterns began to emerge.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Strategic Planning Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Lack of top management support and attention . And while the R&D department can sponsor and push through a new product or technology, rolling out a business model innovation requires direct support from the top management. As a result the innovation projects died on the vine. Reluctance to experiment.

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Business Model Innovation Company Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors. China Hi-Tech Fair ready to highlight emerging industries ," which describes Chinas largest tech show going on this week in Shanghai.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

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. In short, too many firms used conventional planning to manage their new ventures. Not so fast.

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Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

During one of my very first consulting assignments, a colleague and I interviewed direct reports of the Chief Information Officer of a chemical company about improving project execution. Remember that it’s not about you; it’s to help the client become a more effective manager.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Consultative Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

The new year presents a great opportunity for managers to put the progress principle into action. All too often, progress gets ignored as people move from one task or project to another. First, note the progress made by your team or organization over the past year — the major accomplishments and the small wins, too.

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Chemicals Goal Motivation Organization 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

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. The Mobilizing Action toward Community Health project has been publishing ratings of county-level population health.

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Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on. So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. ” Wilson was exactly what the business needed.

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Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Selvesware invites workers and managers to digitally amplify their talents and attributes, while monitoring and minimizing weaknesses. Simply put, selvesware helps people identify, manage, and measurably improve their best, most productive selves. Require networked KPI dashboards for multiple selves management and oversight.

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KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. Similar wastewater projects in Chinese cities are showing that sludge can be converted into valuable products such as vehicle fuels and organic composts.

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Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

As the senior HR executive in charge of managing overseas assignments, Anton Danois made a point of spending time with Streuvels Chemicals' expatriate employees and their families. Then Oswald's project was folded into another, leaving him feeling useless. But this evening, dinner at the Lobatos's home wasn't going well.

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Case Study Chemicals ROI Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Among AkzoNobel’s divisions are more and less conventional manufacturers of chemicals and polymers. Management wanted to break down the internal barriers, too. There is also solid evidence of input solicited from other divisions reenergizing the idea pools feeding into many R&D projects. Creativity Diversity Innovation'

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