Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Relationship Oriented and Goal Oriented: Developing and sustaining high-quality workplace relationships is becoming more important. I feel that the majority of good leaders can only be developed, in a sense that no specific training, educational degree or position can define their development.

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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.” Any day some horrible headline about some unethical behavior committed by an executive will cause the whole company to come crashing down.

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CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

“The fifties was the most exciting career decade of my life so far,” says Babette Pettersen, “and it looks like my options are only getting better as I turn 60.” Pettersen spent her mid-career years with Dow Corning. “Managing career cycles with flexibility and non-linear trajectories is important for us.

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Career Real Estate Learning Curve Education 8

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 9, 2019

If your answer is yes to one or more of these questions, you may have or be developing an addiction that’s tied to dopamine, a type of neurotransmitter in your brain. To put it simply, neurotransmitters are molecules that behave as chemical messengers in the brain. So, what is dopamine and what role does it play in how we act?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The answers may not be as self-evident as many executives think. Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. Most COOs in Europe are seasoned executives; they were 48 years old, on average, when they were appointed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. Comments The Buzz on Green Business in China I visited Beijing last week, speaking to a group of corporate executives assembled by a major NGO to work on climate change issues.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? He was down the road in a new career a couple years later. I’ve seen it my whole career. And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures. Ben: So you.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? He was down the road in a new career a couple years later. I’ve seen it my whole career. And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures. Ben: So you.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

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. Employees whose positions have been eliminated go through our Career Resource Center, where they’re trained for other open positions. That includes executives. So we do let some people go.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

But just four months into his new job, as a business unit leader at a large specialty chemicals and plastics manufacturer, he was struggling with the challenges of handling a global business with more than 3000 employees. The study also looked at relative levels of support for executives vs. more junior managers.

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Learning Curve Execution Competitive Advantage Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. ” So when I think about sustainability, I think of it not just through the lens of a tech executive or a responsible global citizen, but as a mother who wants a better world for her children. Andrew Liveris. We need both.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

In True North Groups , Bill and Doug provide an extremely insightful and practical roadmap for how you can create your own ecosystem for mutual support, feedback, development, and, ultimately, lifelong learning collaborators. My 13 years with Medtronic became the most important of my career. It is a very timely book.

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Open-book Chemicals Chief Operating Officer Goleman 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2012

Not only do I have a foot in the publishing world, I also am a former venture capital investor and interact regularly with the business and financial world, where there have been few ramifications of significance—whether for careers, or for social acceptance and peer respect, or for criminal records—from bad behavior.

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Ethics Chemicals Short-term Report 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable). Understanding the chemical and material properties of ingredients is, indeed, a science. Planning and successfully executing a complex meal is an exercise in project management.

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Class Education Supply Chain Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

And most of the time this comes down to how they’re designed and executed. By “total health” we mean a culture that’s supportive of career, emotional, financial, physical and social well-being – not just an occasional road race. A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Yet, less than 20 percent of C-suite executives are women and only five percent of CEOs are women. To help answer why there are not more women in the top ranks of leadership, scientists at Development Dimensions International (DDI) , the global leadership development consultancy, released two research studies aimed at finding the answers.

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Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

A fundamental problem at many American car companies is a legacy of reacting slowly, protecting executives from bad news, and focusing on cutting costs. ” Second, Keller says that for years it was considered bad for your career if information filtered up to the highest ranks.

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Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

CO2

JULY 11, 2012

Many contest entrants described how, in an effort to get unstuck, they developed new skills or discovered ones they weren’t aware existed. Not only did that give me a career, it gave me the confidence after a violent marriage. Winners of the Unstuck Contest: It came down to the wire between Maria Gonzalez and Jonathan Hamilton.

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Real Estate Learning-by-Doing Rogers Taylorism 74

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

Most companies now have more gender-balanced talent pools, especially at the early-to-mid-career levels, and are looking for ways to make sure progress continues at the mid-to-upper levels. The second phase was to attract and develop more local and international people. ” Engage men of the company’s dominant nationality.

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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. Take newspapers.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

I was once asked to facilitate in a group coaching intervention for the leadership team at the subsidiary of a large chemical company. She may have been a good coach but didn’t have what it takes to create greater strategic focus and execute a turnaround. These executives love messy situations.

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