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BUILD AN A-TEAM: Introduction, Being the Kind of Boss People Love to Work For

Strategy Driven

APRIL 12, 2020

The Rocket Chemical Company had a small lab and just three people, but they could see a major opportunity in front of them. She is an expert on helping high-growth organizations develop high-growth individuals. LarryEmond,“2ReasonsWhyEmployeeEngagement Programs Fall Short,” Gallup News, August 15, 2007, [link].

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5 Office Etiquette to Live By

HR Digest

JULY 26, 2019

A 2007 study published in the Leadership and Organizational Development Journal by Yehuda Baruch and Stuart Jenkins of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, groups swearing into two types: social swearing and annoyance swearing. An excessive amount of smell can cause “multiple chemical sensitivity.”.

Chemicals

Chemicals Survey Stress Positioning

What they don’t teach in business school, but should…

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Favor developing general managers. There is a decline in opportunities for executives to develop general management skills to equip them for the most senior general management roles. There is an opportunity for business schools to create programs that support the development of these skills. This is due to two phenomena.

Chemicals

Chemicals Outsourcing Education Execution

Building Your Brand “Buddy the Elf” Style – Part 1 :: Women on.

Women on Business

DECEMBER 2, 2010

For others, adults, Buddy was a “chemically imbalanced” adult man who thinks and dresses like an elf running around through the streets of New York City. But let’s assume that Buddy is indeed an elf, developed and created by the North Pole to fill a need…to make toys.

Brand

Brand Press Release Discount Customer Loyalty

StrategyDriven Launches Operational Risk Management Resource Forum

Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2013

After seeing the devastation from the Texas fertilizer plant and Louisiana chemical plant explosions, StrategyDriven wanted to help industrial and utility leaders better identify, mitigate, and control their operational risks to prevent similar accidents from occurring at their facilities. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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StrategyDriven White Paper Advises Leaders on Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

After the several recent catastrophic industrial accidents within the United States, including the devastating explosions at a Texas fertilizer plant and Louisiana chemical plant, StrategyDriven wanted to help industrial and utility leaders reduce the risk of similar accidents at their facilities. Consider leaving a comment!

White Paper

White Paper Industry Risk Management Chief Operating Officer

The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 4 of 4

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Business development. My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. The process of strategy development is not esoteric. Business development. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture. Consider leaving a comment!

Crisis Management

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I Got My Strategy from Greenpeace

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

A group of us bought the company from the Armstrong Group in a buy-out in 2007. I first became interested when I watched a TV documentary on the Cradle-to-Cradle concept that was developed by the German chemistry Professor Michael Braungart (and ex-Greenpeace) and the US architect William McDonough. I'm also an owner. We did that.

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Just How Important Is Manufacturing?

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

That is because advanced manufacturing provides an important institutional foundation for learning and developing process skills and capabilities that are increasingly intertwined with core R&D in some of the industries most important to the country's economic future.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals

Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The authors then show how to best execute specific initiatives, test major project assumptions, and develop a culture that values disciplined experimentation and learning over meeting mindless and unrealistic goals. New product development is such a big piece of building new business, or so we are told. Consider leaving a comment!

Innovation

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint

How to (Gradually) Become a Different Company

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. PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To

Sustainability Matters in the Battle for Talent

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.

Metrics

Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy

There’s No Good Alternative to Investing in R&D

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. These stories are the rule rather than the exception.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate

To Find Meaning in Your Work, Change How You Think About It

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2017

A wonderful New York Times article from 2007 recounted the 20 th annual “Operator’s Challenge” — aka the “Sludge Olympics” — a competition for New York sewage treatment workers. We’d all be served by identifying more ways to develop positive collegial relationships at work.

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What they don’t teach in business school, but should…

Building Your Brand “Buddy the Elf” Style – Part 1 :: Women on.

StrategyDriven Launches Operational Risk Management Resource Forum

StrategyDriven White Paper Advises Leaders on Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents

The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 4 of 4

I Got My Strategy from Greenpeace

Just How Important Is Manufacturing?

Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

How to (Gradually) Become a Different Company

Sustainability Matters in the Battle for Talent

There’s No Good Alternative to Investing in R&D

To Find Meaning in Your Work, Change How You Think About It

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