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2016 Deming Prize Winners

Deming Institute

Maruwa Electronic & Chemical (Japan). Here is a blog post on a 2006 visit to the Toyota Motor Kyushu plant by Mike Wroblewski (read the comments on the post also). Naotake Okubo, Executive Advisor, Sekisui Chemical. The Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has announced the 2016 Deming Prize winners.

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Guest Post: Four Leadership Lessons from the Gym

Lead on Purpose

Working out produces endorphins, chemicals in the brain that promote a sense of well-being and confidence. Another study from 2006, this one out of Leeds Metropolitan University in England showed that when office workers took time to exercise daily, their job satisfaction ratings improved 65%. Lead By Example.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Whited previously served as chief marketing officer for UP, led the Chemicals business, and also previously ran the railroad’s National Customer Service Center. For those in the know, the UP culture more closely resembles a Silicon Valley start-up than they do a railroad founded in 1862.

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Why Multinationals Are Doubling Down on Russia

Harvard Business Review

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. How to create growth in a stagnating market.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Facing strict regulation on chemical release and competition from flowers from Africa, the Dutch flower industry developed a closed-loop system that grows flowers hydroponically in greenhouses, lowering risk of infestation and reducing the use of fertilizers and pesticides. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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Daylight Savings Time Observations: We Tend to Go Negative

The Recovering Engineer

Here in Indiana, we just started observing Daylight Saving Time in 2006. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. So, it is still fairly well talked about when the time change happens. And, it seems to me, almost all of the talk is towards the negative.

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A Board Member’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending

Harvard Business Review

million in the 2006 off-year cycle to more than $300 million in the 2012 presidential cycle. Too typical, however, is the situation described by a senior executive at a chemical company. Experts predict it will surge even more in 2015-2016. You don’t have to look far for examples of political spending gone awry.