Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. It still doesn't seem necessary to be a COO in order to take over as CEO, though.

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Hundreds if not thousands of hospitals have responded to trends such as shorter average hospital stays, fewer surgeries, a shift to outpatient and home care, and reduced reimbursements by consolidating or overhauling their operations and laying off staff. We’ve certainly had to change too. Serious accountability.

Policies 8

Policies Chemicals Bond Fashion 8

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.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

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.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. And as a company with over 2 billion users, and with 80% of our community outside the U.S., we have a responsibility to lead.

Project 8

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.

Open-book 9

Open-book Chemicals Chief Operating Officer Goleman 9

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.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Corporate Accountability Article Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Worse yet, they’ll sometimes hire different vendors to address different issues – lifestyle coaches, employee assistance counselors, case and disease management vendors, nurse lines, occupational health and safety experts, workers’ compensation specialists, disability managers, organizational development consultants, you name it.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

” Second, Keller says that for years it was considered bad for your career if information filtered up to the highest ranks. Managers coded their operations green at the first couple of meetings to show how well they were doing, but Mulally called them on it. It’s not my job.”

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Starting at zero (or negative) every time, whether acquiring a new customer, supplier, or trading partner will drive operating costs ever higher. Each of us will, no doubt, experience the discomfort of feeling "used," as with the above-mentioned entrepreneur, at some point in our careers. Long-term, this model is unsustainable.

Career 9

Career Short-term Chemicals Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

.” Hanguk was a large, fast-growing company with diversified interests spanning electronics, biotechnology, shipping, construction, and chemicals. Its most successful division, mobile telephony, was looking for a new head of software development at headquarters in Seoul. A huge step up in my career.

Case Study 8

Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8

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. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot.

Innovation 50

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 was at sea, however, in a more operational role. These sorts of questionnaire may be a bit simplistic, but they can help point someone in the right direction on a career or organizational path.

Leadership 14

Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Pepsi Refresh failed because it had no relevance to the brand’s operations or heritage. After a successful career as a corporate consultant, he became the Director of Economic Development for Rhode Island, a cabinet level position, where he saw the opportunity to put his ideas into action and create innovation at scale.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8