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What Neuroscience Reveals About Creating Better Leaders In Today’s Organizations

Tanveer Naseer

To do that it has made use of imaging technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), along with brain wave analysis technologies such as quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG). This makes empathy a handy data-gathering tool that’s employed in the decision-making process.

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Crisis Management Failures in Japan's Reactors and the BP Spill

Harvard Business Review

A potentially catastrophic technological problem, an incomplete crisis response plan, misleading early information, divided private and public authority, ineffective initial actions. The possibility of a well blow-out was explicitly addressed by systems, processes and technology. Yet, neither BP and the U.S.

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Solving the Twin Crises of Energy and Water Scarcity

Harvard Business Review

Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries.

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How the Best Board Directors Stay Involved

Harvard Business Review

Maggie Wilderotter, chairman and CEO of Frontier Communications (and a member of the boards of P&G and Xerox) stresses that “it’s not just about the meetings. Donald Gogel, the chairman and CEO of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, explains that “our board members can operate like a highly effective search firm.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

They also stressed organizational learning (meaning, capturing the methods of Lean so that other parts of the organizations could adopt them). Most missionaries of the BPM religion come from a heritage in information technology. Adding another religion helped these companies embed continuous improvement into their DNA.