CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

When I was a chemical engineering student, they appeared in my fluid mechanics equations. The Three Questions that Successful CEOs Ask. Throughout my career, I’ve encountered bottlenecks in many forms. Later, when I worked in the oil and gas industry, bottlenecks appeared as geological obstacles to extraction. […].

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Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

Some of today's top CEOs were history, political science, sociology, chinese and music majors in college. They are leading global airline, chemical, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and financial companies, among others. And if you’re still not convinced, just remember, the CEO of Goldman Sachs is a government major.

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Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s certainly a powerful tool for building trust and credibility – as long as you remember to lead too On 20 August 1991, Hollis Harris, the then CEO of Continental Airlines, told his 42,000 employees that the company was struggling and he wasn’t sure of the path forward.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” Formerlife: CEO of Jacobs Suchard (Nabob, Kraft), Strategy/Branding Consultant. © 2011 In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership. What is the definition of strategy?

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 13, 2017

Angela Sebaly , author of The Courageous Leader (Wiley, spring 2017), is co-founder and CEO of the firm Personify Leadership , a training provider. 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.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Paul Zak, the author of The Trust Factor , has shown that “when someone is tangibly trusted by a stranger, the brain synthesizes the signaling chemical oxytocin” and “ the more trust one is shown, the more the brain produces oxytocin.” No surprise that CEOs, presidents, and movie stars have affairs.” T RUST BEGETS TRUST. Large bonus?

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 16, 2013

We apply these behavioral criteria to almost any successful person, whether it’s our CEO or our plumbing contractor. And not many people remember that Jack Welch has a PhD in chemical engineering. That’s when the GE board wanted to know if he could behave as a CEO. But sometimes we forget to apply them to ourselves.

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CEO Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2012

I know the vegetables do not have chemicals and they certainly are fresh - often an hour from garden to table. It truly is awesome. ++ I read a book - The Virtual Executive - How to Act Like a CEO Online and Offline by Debra A. Benton (author of How to Act Like a CEO ). CEO trappings come last.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2023

Born to immigrant parents in the Australian outback, he would eventually rise to the top of the corporate world, taking over in 2004 as CEO of Dow Chemical. In that job, which he held for 14 years, he won widespread credit for pushing an ambitious sustainability agenda, no easy task at one of the world’s biggest chemical producers.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 22, 2017

About Angela Sebaly: Angela Sebaly, author of The Courageous Leader (Wiley, spring 2017), is co-founder and CEO of the firm Personify Leadership, a training provider.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 27, 2013

He has worked with leading consultancies, CEOs, and senior executives of major companies including members of the Fortune 50, […]. John Butman is founder and principal of the idea and content development firm Idea Platforms, Inc.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

. “It’s easy to build a CSR program where you invest a bit of money on the side and then carry on as normal with the rest of your business, but we realized that to really support society you can’t just give money,” says Yuichi Ishizuka, President & CEO in Canon EMEA. Focus on operational efficiencies.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 25, 2016

Steve Shifman, CEO of Michelman (a fast-growing specialty chemicals company), told me the need for a learning organization is an absolute essential: “Otherwise the bell curve shifts to the right with today’s rate of change and our knowledge base slides toward the average middle.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2013

A leader needs to have people move quickly when the office is on fire or the plant has been exposed to dangerous chemicals. Beth Armknecht Miller , of Atlanta, Georgia, is Founder and President of Executive Velocity, a leadership development advisory firm accelerating the leadership success of CEOs and business leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This impacts our brain chemistry and releases cortisol (the fight-or-flight chemical) because we feel threatened, and compromises our ability to think, innovate, and perform well at work. All leaders have blind-spots (or gaps), which often go undetected for years or decades. How should we deal with it?

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 6, 2016

For example, the chemical company DuPont began as a gunpowder company, and Mitsui of Japan began as a drapery shop before it moved successively into banking, mining, and manufacturing. 3 Practices CEOs Should Adopt from this Rock Star. In fact, each of the 27 companies had changed its business portfolio at least once.

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HR Digest

MARCH 12, 2020

Recruitment specialists specialize in hiring c -suite personnel like CEOs, CFOs and people in the higher echelons of the executive ladder. These can include fire, chemical, children's safety, recreational and sports, and industries that are considered high risk such as mining, etc. Recruitment Specialist or Executive Recruiters.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Andrew Liveris, the CEO of Dow Chemical, discusses the 120-year-old company’s ambitious sustainability agenda. Liveris is one of the CEOs contributing to Harvard Business Review’s Future Economy Project , in which leaders detail their company’s efforts to adapt to and mitigate climate change.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Every time we reach what we think is the limit on what a display technology can do, along comes an industry colleague with a new chemical formulation, or the ability to bend some light or stretch some laws of physics to keep it going. Sri Peruvemba is CEO of Marketer International Inc. It’s been a fantastic ride. I can’t wait for more.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

Shrinking Profit Margins – The growing pressure on profit margins and talent challenges is felt across all asset-intensive industries, such as CPG, Life Sciences, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Mining & Metals, Chemicals, and Industrial Manufacturing. Sundeep Ravande is the CEO of Innovapptive Inc. About the Author.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Alan Mulally – Former CEO, Ford and Boeing Commercial Aircraft. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year. Non-profit CEOs. Mark Tercek – President and CEO, Nature Conservancy – world leader in global conservation.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” John Bell is a strategy consultant and former CEO of Jacobs Suchard (Kraft, Nabob). He is a contributor to Fortune magazine and a regular blogger at CEO Afterlife. “Better Seed for a Brighter Future.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Research is showing that the heart can learn and send out dopamine (a pleasure chemical that influences behavior) and oxytocin (a chemical associated with the feeling of love). Most people, including myself would always associate these chemicals with the brain and nervous system.

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Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

is a multibillionaire who started a chemical company from scratch and grew it into a $12 billion enterprise. The CEO of the company knew the most important people in the country, including the President of the United States. Leaders know that honesty and integrity are the foundations of leadership. For example, Jon Huntsman, Sr.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” John Bell is a strategy consultant and former CEO of Jacobs Suchard (Kraft, Nabob). He is a contributor to Fortune magazine and a regular blogger at CEO Afterlife. “Better Seed for a Brighter Future.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 23, 2012

It’s based on calculating scores for Good Employer (from Glassdoor.com), Good Seller (wRatings using customer evaluations of quality, fair price, and trust), and Good Steward (environment, penalties/fines, CEO compensation, use of tax havens, and society/community contributions). About 25 companies were rated “high.”

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 12, 2014

Daniel Patrick Forrester is the Founder and CEO of THRUUE. He has worked with leaders in both the public and private sectors including at Dow Chemical, Xerox, AARP Foundation, The Library of Congress, Meals on Wheels Association of America, and Verizon.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. If CEOs are going to operate for stakeholder value — rather than just for shareholder value — then their pay ought to be structured in a way that supports them doing so. Today, U.S. executive pay is structured for the latter.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

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. Patrick: November 2, 2010 at 10:06 pm For leadership, it is a very hard topic to define as an art or science. Second, confidence is also very key issue for leadership.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 8, 2022

Sarah is the former President and CEO of a wonderful company, Bottom Line Inc., Because, aside from those with serious chemical imbalances, happiness is a physiological reaction, a result of the interaction between mind and body. Sarah Hiner is the former President and CEO of Bottom Line Inc. formerly Boardroom Inc.)

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

” But many CEOs would be shocked at how poorly their sales teams execute on the strategy of consultative selling. In fact, when we look at what happens in the brain during this kind of one-sided selling interaction, we find that buyers may experience that negativity at a chemical level.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

My father, Jaya Tan, retired three years ago as the CEO of our family''s business, the Martapura Group, relinquishing control to a nonfamily CEO to ensure that the company would regain its strength and grow. As the economy improved, the company expanded into machinery and chemicals imports. He''s expecting an answer tomorrow.

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 27, 2010

So with each repetition, brain chemicals stimulate your brain cells to grow filaments that reach and connect to each other. I’ve been in the learning and development business for over 35 years, and CEO of Performance Support Systems, Inc., Youd be exhausted by 9:30 AM. since 1987.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. Whelan : Most of the CEOs did talk about policy in the interviews, but their statements were pretty vague. Future Economy. Future Thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

She didn't initiate the conversations by tugging on the professors' heartstrings, highlighting SHE's efforts to improve girl's and women's lives, but rather by challenging the scientists to help her solve a complicated new chemical engineering problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Positive comments and conversations produce a chemical reaction too. When I explained this to Rob, and told him about the chemical impact his behavior was having on his employees, he vowed to change, and it worked. Cortisol functions like a sustained-release tablet – the more we ruminate about our fear, the longer the impact.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

She had a good relationship with the CEO of a medium-sized chemical company and had done a lot of work with the customer over the years. The chemical firm's CEO asked her to prepare a bid for a new production line that the buyer needed to install quickly. Martha quoted a price of $300,000. Martha held firm.

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