The Recovering Engineer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

In the process of looking over my notes and thinking through the planned events tomorrow, I started reflecting on a meeting that I facilitated for a client in Indiana last week. Quickly, in less than an hour, we listed, ranked and developed specific action plans for overcoming their biggest challenges.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 13, 2014

I don’t know all the chemical reasons exercise jars the mind, but I know the impact. Learning the True Health of a Team: Niche Consulting Offer. Learning the True Health of a Team: Niche Consulting Offer. Encouragement Leadership Life Plan Ministry' An Encouragement To A Healthier Life. The Leader’s Private Life.

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The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 3, 2010

Whether you are trying to change your behavior, your team member’s behavior, or your child’s behavior, remember that everyone has a self-control limit, and when you exceed the limit you invite failure. 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

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Later, when I was working as a research engineer in the chemical industry, I used the concept of design margin as I developed new products and worked with customers to get our products qualified for their applications. 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

JULY 29, 2010

During the workshop, I told a story I often tell about a situation in my life where, as a leader of a team, I was confronted with large scale changes that impacted me in ways that I could not change or control. If it was more negative, we needed to develop a plan to leave the situation. In my case, I chose to stay.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

You’re working on a new venture and you know you’ve got to create a plan to execute it. That process might work for conventional or ongoing business lines, but new ventures, which are less predictable, require a different set of planning and control tools. Where Did Discovery-Driven Planning Originate? Linear plans.

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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. How Frequently Should You Be Training Your Team? You should be periodically training your team about new regulations in your industry.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Are you planning to start a pressure-washing business? Surface Cleaner If you plan on cleaning large flat surfaces such as decks, driveways, or sidewalks, a surface cleaner attachment is a must-have. Detergents and Chemicals Having the right cleaning agents is crucial for efficient and effective pressure washing.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

Including the brain trust on your organizational development team. 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.” Focus on the short term and you’ll cripple any ability for your people to plan confidently for the future, for both your business and their family.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

She loved the company and the concept of Etsy, and when she discovered it was launching some new policies, she wrote to the customer service team and offered her insights as an attorney. When people innovate in their career paths, disruptive energy is generated within teams, firms, and industries. Willing, in fact, to challenge her.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Planning to do work , and usually procrastinating, instead of productively working out just-in-time solutions with just the right resources. . It implies a strong emphasis on team working and close cooperation between group s and partners. However, I would question whether a team approach is always desirable? Excellence: ?Spending

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Sending people to your health plan’s website. A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way. At NextJump , teams participate in a weekly Fitness Challenge where virtual cash rewards for the winning teams are coupled with bragging rights, creating camaraderie and social cohesion among workers.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The holiday spirit is a contagious one and when it takes over the workplace, it becomes important to also spare a moment for holiday compliance and safety amidst all the planning. If you’re starting your holiday planning early, let’s look at some holiday compliance and safety strategies to keep your employees safe and satisfied.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2018

On average, large capability gaps exist in price and discount structure, sales incentives, use of tools and tracking, and structure of cross-functional pricing teams and forums. invest in ongoing development of capabilities among the sales and pricing teams through training and tools. What Pricing Leaders Do Differently.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Although the workshop was set up professionally, the two companies didn’t plan for governance and resources to properly follow up on the generated ideas. This was the experience of the chemical company BASF and Daimler Buses. The two had teamed up to design the bus of the future.

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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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Building Personal Strength

APRIL 19, 2010

He was charging ahead enthusiastically, but I couldn’t get him to focus on the details of planning. I asked him how many teams would be playing and how many gymnasiums were available, and he brushed me off. Some time ago, I had this dream: I was in Mexico working with a local official to organize a high school basketball tournament.

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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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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Former HR Director and member of executive management team at the National Irish Bank. Fortune Magazine— top future women leaders in America.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

However, this type of progress will require more than just employing the IoT to improve emergency preparedness and response; response teams have to be ready to receive, interpret, and take action on the data. These sensors can relay information about their surroundings directly to government agencies and emergency teams.

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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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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. During the annual sales-planning process, managers determine how to invest resources to capture anticipated demand. Consider the case of a chemicals company.

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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. 2 Chemical Company, were very active.

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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. Here are a few thoughts about what you can do: Conduct a demographic risk-analysis of your team or organization. Accelerate training and transition planning.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2020

They argue that while chemical cleaning products are effective at cleaning such surfaces, it’s a highly labor intensive task to ensure they are cleaned repeatedly, especially in larger facilities. During testing, the team measured the amount of UVC light being emitted with a UVC dosimeter to ensure safe levels were used.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 12, 2018

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. To avoid it resonant leaders go to great lengths to establish clear targets, define behaviors and clearly lay out expectations for their teams.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Employees at semiconductor-chip-maker Intel recently devised a new chemistry process that reduced chemical waste by 900,000 gallons, saving $45 million annually. Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Scenario planning is as essential for strategy formulation as it is for the design of next generation technologies and industries. This class requires small teams of students to compete against each other in at least two data-rich team sports. Luck matters but so do the data-driven odds. Everybody eats.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 12, 2014

For-profit leadership teams and boards: know that impact simply can’t be mentioned on a few slides at the next annual retreat. Who within your leadership team can really describe why that desired impact matters? Who gets to define what impact is within your organization?

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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. Are there pockets of opportunity we are not capturing yet but could be? Invest for the future.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. The COO's role, we find, is driven by three factors: the company's strategy, the composition of the executive team, and the relationships between the members of the top team.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

The problem, as I described in my last post , is that six things militate against success in the role: The management team's attention shifts to other priorities. For example, Air Products set up process owners for each of the major steps in its supply chain, including plan, source, make, build, and fulfill.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

When we were aiming to close a small chemical-dependency hospital in 2013, for example, we looked hard into unmet needs in the area. I tell my senior team that they can miss their annual targets once, but if they don’t turn around their operations quickly, they won’t be here to miss them a second time.

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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. Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

He appointed a special team to create an objective, transparent method for selecting the directors. After reviewing the roles and responsibilities of each board and the natures of the new businesses, the team derived lists of the skills each board needed. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In contrast, 70% of respondents think their boards have effective processes for staying current on the company; 69% for compliance; 66% for financial planning; and 55% for risk management — although we should note that managing risks is a crucial consideration when pursuing innovation.

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