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Overcoming the “Feedback Trifecta” to Communicate Better as a Leader

Great Leadership By Dan

Efficiency and reliability exceeded the industry's previous benchmark. Formerly the Vice President of Leadership Development for a global oil, gas and chemicals inspection company, Angela also serves as principle consultant for the firm Invested Leadership, a training provider.

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How to Get SQF Certified: The Only Guide You Need to Read

Strategy Driven

Level 2 is a fully certified HACCP food safety scheme that is benchmarked by GFSI. Generally, you must ensure that your physical building and the equipment you use pose no physical, biological, or chemical contamination risk to your final product. Generally, companies can choose from three levels of SQF certification.

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How Advanced Analytics Is Changing B2B Selling

Harvard Business Review

The service provides benchmarks and insights to ensure sustainable, cost-effective improvements in blast performance. In another old-line industry, agriculture, Monsanto has steadily enhanced its core commodity chemicals business with data and analytics-based services to expand the value elements delivered.

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Research: Stale Office Air Is Making You Less Productive

Harvard Business Review

We also changed the level of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the space by controlling the number of common materials that emit these chemicals — e.g., surface cleaners, dry erase markers, dry cleaned clothing, and building materials. For the optimized environment, we increased the amount of outdoor air brought in to the space (i.e.,

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Best Practices for Leading via Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Our study clearly shows that great leadership is a strong competitive advantage, with the top 20 BCL firms far outperforming the S&P 500 benchmark on shareholder returns. At Dow Chemicals (#19), risk-taking is not only accepted, it is encouraged, which helps the company to stay agile and innovative.

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A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning

Harvard Business Review

” Step 2: Do benchmarking. Here you “benchmark the key revenue and cost metrics in your business against the market and against firms offering the most-comparable products.” McGrath recalls the painful experience of working with a big chemical company that wanted to diversify its business.

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People Remember What You Say When You Paint a Picture

Harvard Business Review

” In more recent times, a British chemical engineer named Paul Thomas pronounced a vision “that one day we will be able to detect a previously undetectable tumour metabolising inside a human lung simply by asking a patient to breathe into a device.” The specificity of this target certainly renders it an effective benchmark.

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