Terry Starbucker

JULY 6, 2014

After all, after you’ve spent so much time and effort to set up the right values and build a great culture of accountability that should lead to greatness, how do you know you’re getting there – or better still, how can you show your team you’re getting there? Separate the critical few from the trivial many.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Hospital operating rooms could go dark. He worked hard to help his team reconnect with the sense of purpose and meaning that Frank now felt. Frank reconnected his team with their vision, values, and purpose. Frank and his team had a long way to go, but they were starting to reconnect and touch hearts.

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Budgeting Chemicals Wilde Productivity 69

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.

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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.,

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ReImagine Work

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Several years ago I lead an SAP implementation project at a chemical plant. Some of my team members were shop floor employees. At one point two of my team members came to me about another team member, Jeremy (I’ve changed all names for this article). So, let’s consider how a two-way interaction can go. Jeremy: Yes.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The brain craves certainty, and when you feel uncertain, the almond shaped structure in the brain called the amygdala releases chemicals into the blood stream that you experience as fear, anxiety and doubt. Yet another reason for negativity is due to our natural and biological response to change.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2020

Overwhelming redundancy in workplace operations may not be stimulating enough for some employees. Having staff members who are trained in identifying signs of depression and other mental health issues is also a great idea to ensure you’re supporting your team. These resources may even be useful for you in times of trouble.

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How To Chemicals Environment Learning-by-Doing 76

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Research is showing that the heart can learn and send out dopamine (a pleasure chemical that influences behavior) and oxytocin (a chemical associated with the feeling of love). Most people, including myself would always associate these chemicals with the brain and nervous system. I agree that balance is key.

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RapidStart Leadership

JULY 6, 2017

The force that fires these rockets upward comes from a simple chemical reaction. Think about the mix of elements on your team: are some people prone to rapid melt down? Build in some operating space. During them, we get to experience the fun side of reactive behavior as rockets colorfully explode in the sky.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. Data and analytics represent a blurring of the traditional lines of demarcation between the scope of IT and the responsibilities of operating divisions.

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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. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

If retail operations can more reliably keep their discretionary relationships with people who have to pay for that relationship than we can with our employees, who earn their livelihood with us, we need to take a serious look at how we’re creating the environment for those relationships. Up, up, up the org chart this accountability goes.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

It is also important that your attention to being systematic be teamed with an ability to being open to possibility for new ways of doing things. If a leader doesn’t respect their team or feels as if they are superior just because they are in management level, a negative dynamic is instilled in the group.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

But there is a deeper lesson to my story that I hope will help others build exceptional, and exceptionally diverse, teams. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Most innovation teams inside large companies are set up to operate like well-oiled machines. Over the past several years, we have compared successful and unsuccessful innovation teams in a dozen global organizations. and respond to chemical signals allows these relatively simple creatures to form such complex units.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Kevin Koch – President & CEO , Koch Enterprises, Inc.,

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This approach gives managers a tool for coaching their teams to get better results. That line of thinking shuts us down, puts us on the defensive, and narrows our possibilities to rescue operations. This chemical brew fuels drive and tags it with satisfying dollops of pleasure. That became a habit he took back to work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

I’ve been in contact with Heiny and her team at Target over the last year about the program she helped build to drive product innovation and more sales. The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. So why are sustainable products surging now?

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Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The first step in putting together such a team is to identify each member of the team’s personality makeup and leadership style, so that strengths and competences can be matched to particular roles and challenges. She was at sea, however, in a more operational role. What can be done to prevent a situation like the one with Kate?

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Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Part of the problem may be in the backgrounds that companies desired: 85% of COOs had experience in operations, strategy, or finance. Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? What do you think?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

In doing research on multinational operations in the Middle East and Africa, we’ve learned that companies are well aware of how President Trump’s foreign and trade policies could affect their businesses there. more competitive prices, more localized products) and improve their risk management and operational efficiency.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Once management is on board, the sales team needs to understand the rationale behind the micromarket strategy and have simple tools that make it easy to implement. Consider the case of a chemicals company. Another might be made up of markets with similar operating cost structures.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Since I prepared that article, new developments have only strengthened the case for a 3-D future – and heightened the urgency for management teams to adjust their strategies. Continuous light interface production , or CLIP, uses chemical reactions to better control the transformation of liquids into solids.

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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. Even more important, it takes management time to align all teams, including those of the acquired businesses, to the transformation initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

Although technology is central to the exponential and abundance mindsets, much of the sustainability world remains distracted by incremental improvements to incumbent technologies, ranging from gasoline-powered automobiles to energy- and chemical-intensive air-conditioning systems. “That’s very, very important.

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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. Like Wilson, Anderson was able to lead the senior team. So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The goal of ARD is to produce denim in a sustainable way by tackling the three main ecological issues the industry faces: water, energy, and chemicals. These investors also tend to hold significant portions of the equity shares of many companies while at the same time matching assets to long-term liabilities.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

For example, a wide variety of clean technologies (including wind, solar, and hydrogen) are vying to power vehicles and cities at the same time that a wide variety of medical technologies (chemical, biotechnological, genomic, and robotic) are being developed to treat diseases.

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Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

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. She lacked experience in managing process improvement, so she hired a small consulting team to help her develop those skills.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. To best leverage worldwide creative talent, Reliance MediaWorks operates a global network of creative centers located in Burbank, San Francisco, London, Tokyo, and across India.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

General Electric’s corporate business development group (about a dozen professionals) is bigger than the entire executive team in many midsized companies. These executives understand the firm’s culture and have working relationships with the key functional and line executives who are crucial to integrating the target company’s team smoothly.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

As directors and management teams adapt, they’re bumping into limits—both on the amount of time directors can be asked to spend before the role is no longer attractive and on the scope of the activities they can undertake before creating organizational noise or concerns among top executives about micromanagement.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

This will lead to significant gaps in areas such as engineering, petrol-chemicals, utilities, defense manufacturing, education, healthcare, and air traffic control. Perhaps equally significant for managers is that the new workers — no matter how many of them there are — will operate differently than their predecessors.

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Telecommunications Chemicals Health Care Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

This transformation took time to play out and involved both displacements of incumbents operating in outdated modes and the emergence of new “feeder” roles for those aspiring to the C-suite. But, as with CFOs before them, the solution resides in CHROs and the teams that support them.

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