Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

September 20th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Every now and then, I have the pleasure of seeing how my education and early career as a bench biologist can have some connection with the work I am now doing. Most people, including myself would always associate these chemicals with the brain and nervous system. I agree that balance is key.

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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. Buddy is a human raised by elves, therefore, does he fall into the “human” or “elf” category? For some, say children (most likely his primary target audience), Buddy is an elf.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Teaches leadership to executives and emerging leaders around the world.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

They have to go to the trainings, and then report up line to their managers annually to account for why that needle hasn’t budged. 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.” At WD-40 Company, we include values as part of our talent management system.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

If a leader doesn’t respect their team or feels as if they are superior just because they are in management level, a negative dynamic is instilled in the group. At first, I think leadership is a chemical results of all features of a person. I couldn’t agree with you more, MJ, that leadership really is a lot of this and that.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Working out releases chemicals that give you a mood lift. After decades of coaching powerful executives around the world, Lolly Daskal has observed that leaders rise to their positions relying on a specific set of values and traits. But in time, every executive reaches a point when their performance suffers and failure persists.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2018

I’ve always liked mentoring and coaching people, so I approached a senior executive about moving to a management track. When your employees (and maybe even you, as their manager) aren’t allowed to grow, they begin to feel that they don’t matter. Managers would do well to remember that.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The answers may not be as self-evident as many executives think. That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

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. Besides the meeting itself, I was struck by the considerable focus on green issues in China.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 9, 2019

To put it simply, neurotransmitters are molecules that behave as chemical messengers in the brain. As opposed to the pleasure of anticipation via dopamine, these chemicals give us pleasure from sensation and emotion.” In an interview titled “ Putting Leaders on the Couch ,” management expert and psychoanalyst Manfred F.R.

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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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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. Serious accountability.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. So the plant manager didn’t understand how they could be getting such good results, if he wasn’t beating them or kicking them.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. So the plant manager didn’t understand how they could be getting such good results, if he wasn’t beating them or kicking them.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. I took a job working for the local county commissioner, Mary Boyle, and was put on a team charged with reviewing Cleveland’s solid-waste management program to make it more efficient and environmentally friendly. Andrew Liveris. We need both.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. Both boards are on to a good start — demonstrating that when a firm builds a board using a rigorous assessment of the qualities it needs to carry out its governance task, rather than personal networks, the board is better equipped to execute its functions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

As the senior HR executive in charge of managing overseas assignments, Anton Danois made a point of spending time with Streuvels Chemicals' expatriate employees and their families. But managing European chemical plants was what he knew best, not overseeing an international mobility department. She paused.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Understanding probabilities, statistics and analytics is increasingly vital to identifying and effectively managing high performing talent. Grasping how difficult, challenging and important design integration can be — and why it must be managed well — is an essential takeaway. Business education Career planning Education'

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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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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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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. The manager’s answer: “I don’t want to be a Chicken Little about this.” “The goal was to insulate the senior executives and hope that nothing happens.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The idea for these groups grew out of the growing movement to form small affinity groups to deal with everything from chemical dependency, religious study, and personal grief to book and cooking groups. My 13 years with Medtronic became the most important of my career. For many of them, the experience has been transformative.

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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. Men highly self-rate their own leadership skills and their ability to tackle management and business challenges. Give managers who fail to develop their leaders a negative consequence.

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CO2

JULY 11, 2012

Not only did that give me a career, it gave me the confidence after a violent marriage. Gary, a manufacturing manager, complained that staff don’t give an inch. Use people’s names as research shows chemicals for wellbeing built through simply using people’s handles more. I decided to go to school to become a medical assistant.

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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. This makes it near-impossible to invest the time and management focus needed to effectively adapt to a gender balanced workforce and customer base.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. In Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan challenge what you thought you knew about managing growth. How do they do it? How can the doctor get that done?

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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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