The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 2, 2010

I just encourage you to recognize that it is your opinion and not necessarily an objective fact. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. It’s okay to have an opinion. Photo credit: [link] / CC BY-SA 2.0 He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience.

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 7, 2017

Physical activity frees the brain from stress because it creates favorable chemical reactions and because it restores a sense of power and control to the mind. But the result is that you are “empowering people to be adults,” as Schmachtenberger put it, and training other leaders on your team. Move, move, move.

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The Recovering Engineer

MAY 12, 2010

Listen thoroughly to their concerns and objections — they want you to take the time to understand all of the thoughts and concerns they have so that they can be sure you have completely and accurately thought through your position. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S.

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 10, 2010

If you and I have agreed on some objective and measurable criteria for making these judgments, these statements may be factual. If we have not agreed on objective and measurable criteria, we are merely stating our opinions. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2019

There are many packaging regulations surrounding hazardous materials because some packaging forms can melt if there are highly dangerous chemicals involved. From the beginning, it is wise to have clear Risk Management objectives in place to avoid higher costs and legal liability. Oil is a great example of this.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

Only 44 percent say that they can see a connection between what they do and their company’s objectives. 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.” Having strong values protects you from measuring and rewarding the wrong behaviors and objectives.

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The Recovering Engineer

JANUARY 15, 2010

An exciting experience I must say, and probably the object of another post on a different day.) He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. In fact, I have had the experience of a draft from oncoming traffic pulling my car into a spin. (An

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Involving others in decisions and working together toward goals and objectives are an imperative. At first, I think leadership is a chemical results of all features of a person. Practicality anchors the drive in reality. Collaboration and Independence: Most of the best leaders have a style that is collaborative.

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The Recovering Engineer

APRIL 3, 2010

We Want to Understand, Not Stereotype or Label The four DISC types simply provide an objective and descriptive way of looking at, understanding, and communicating about different behavior, communication, and leadership styles so that we can better understand ourselves and others. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2018

Incentive plans benefit from following a few principles: Clarify the objectives — be they revenue growth, share gains, margin gains, or others — and the behaviors that will help meet the objectives. The value of developing capabilities became evident to a specialty chemical producer with lackluster margins.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

Orica invested in digitizing all that data and combining it with data supplied by its customers, including the objectives of the blast, conditions of equipment at the site, the exact techniques and products used in the blast, and the outcome. Insight Center. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Continuous light interface production , or CLIP, uses chemical reactions to better control the transformation of liquids into solids. This technology starts with a plastic or metal powder, but instead of solidifying the powder with a laser, it uses chemicals sprayed from 30,000 tiny nozzles at a rate of 350 million dots per second.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

It is critical to ensure cultural compatibility between the insiders and the new hires, and to bind them together into a cohesive group with fully aligned objectives. For example, after its spin-off from International Paper, Arizona Chemical drastically changed its market approach from a drive for volume to margin optimization.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Graphs have a scientific halo—we associate them with science and objectivity. We found the same to be true for chemical formulas (and other research has shown that brain scans and scientific jargon operate in a similar way). million dollars. The likely reason? What does all of this mean for presenters and consumers of graphs?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

At a global chemical manufacturer, the IT function has a highly educated team of fewer than 20 statisticians, operations research professionals, and PhDs to develop advanced demand forecasting models, supply chain operational optimization, and raw materials for purchasing-decision support. .” Data and analytics embedded in IT.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

However, the chemical formulations weren't intended for hand washing and could cause abrasions or burns. Pin Down Your Customer Intelligence Objectives. But since hand washers constitute 80% of the home-based washing market in India, it was too big a market to ignore. Want more intelligent innovation? MORE ON CUSTOMER INTELLIGENCE.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

I was once asked to facilitate in a group coaching intervention for the leadership team at the subsidiary of a large chemical company. They are very effective at setting up the structures and systems needed to support an organization’s objectives. These executives like organizations to be smoothly running, well-oiled machines.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

For instance, Triodos Sustainable Trade Fund provides finance to farmers whose cultivation practices are more sustainable in places like the Palestine Territories, Thailand, and the Dominican Republic, avoiding traditional chemically-intensive fertilizer in delicate ecosystems. cash, fixed income, private equity, etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

” When directors evaluated the factors that could limit their company’s ability to achieve its strategic objectives, cybersecurity issues were overshadowed by more salient concerns like attracting and retaining top talent, the regulatory environment, and global competitive threats. Inadequate processes.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Especially if employees are drinking during the holiday celebrations, having too many objects and safety hazards is not a good idea. This does not mean sparse, uninspired decorations, but instead emphasizes being careful in choosing the material and quantity of all celebratory artifacts carefully.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2011

One sperm will be the first to pierce the egg's outer wall, triggering a chemical reaction that makes the egg's wall harder and impenetrable to competing sperm. As the female ovum floats down the fallopian tube, a few thousand sperm (of the 300 million that initially began the journey) search it out. If only it were so.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Until recently, autonomous driving was limited to highly controlled environments such as warehouses and factories where programmers could anticipate the range of scenarios a vehicle may encounter, and could program if-then-else-type decision algorithms accordingly (e.g., “If an object approaches the vehicle, then slowdown”).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In response, they release hormones and chemicals to speed up our heart rate, increase blood pressure and stimulate our muscles. Meditation is another common stress-reduction technique, allowing us to improve mindfulness and objectivity. We become more alert and responsive, which is appropriate when we’re in harm’s way.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

To escape this quandary, a number of companies are considering alternative asset ownership and operation models, whose objective is to reduce capital outlays, investment risk, or both. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

I studied cross-functional teams in industries including communications, software, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, agricultural, chemical, manufacturers, retail, utility, consulting, internet software, government, insurance, and banking. Teams should have the project’s success as their main objective.

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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. Dawn Baker at Dow is revamping leadership development offerings to ensure they mesh with their company's sustainability objectives. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

Russia’s industrialization also means that the market offers substantial opportunities in diverse B2B sectors such as mining, oil and gas, metallurgy, chemicals, light industry, and consumer durables.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In a large petro-chemical company, for example, we found a lot of de-energizing relationships — and most of them emanated from the leaders. With this objective map, they could identify where they needed to make positive improvements. The results are quite revealing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Now robots are everywhere — but they are also an object of confusion. thanks to its highly technical metal and chemical industries. At last, the computers Solow and everyone else saw around them had become visible in the statistics. It just took a while. Well, here we go again.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Followers of Lean, which is based on the Toyota manufacturing approach that made it the leader in automobile quality ( the Toyota Production System ), believe top executives need to break down strategic objectives into implications for process improvements to get everyone moving in the same direction.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

A global German chemicals company, for example, once brought a divisional team off-site for a Jamming session. The meeting room was decorated with colorful drawings and objects. Problem statements were focused on the theme of sustainability, so they picked a hotel with one of the best carbon footprints in the country.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The objective? One way to temper the impact of stock price on CEO pay value is to reduce the use of TSR in driving potential two-times payouts in performance-vested share plans, and to consider replacing a portion of the equity with long-term plans that pay out in cash.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

When the world is filled with cascading style sheets, XML, Erlang, Python, Ruby-on-Rails, Objective C, C++, Java, SQL, etc, "coding" becomes a misnomer. Understanding the chemical and material properties of ingredients is, indeed, a science. The better question is: What aspects of coding should MBAs (and university students) learn?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

Yet this type of rhetoric undermines another core objective of vision communication: providing clarity about the future. Leaders must communicate strategies for growth that employees can clearly envision. Instead of invoking abstract ideals, the most effective leaders communicate their visions using image-based words. .”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Scharpf says her challenge in dealing with scientists, academics, businesspeople, community activists and policy wonks "is always, 'How do I speak in the same language to each of these different constituencies each with their unique language and objectives?'".

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