Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

We know how crucial it is to having talent who love working for us and who will offer discretionary effort and innovation. We even know how to quantify all this stuff. Including the brain trust on your organizational development team. The one who really should be studying how to move that needle is, well, you.

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CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

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Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 And also The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle, How to Become a Servant Leader. How did you learn about it?

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 And also The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle, How to Become a Servant Leader. How did you learn about it?

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Sophisticated sales organizations now have the ability to combine, sift, and sort vast troves of data to develop highly efficient strategies for selling into micromarkets. Going after future opportunities at the micromarket level can seem risky, but basing strategy on old views of markets and their past performance is riskier still.

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B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2018

To help companies understand the state of pricing capabilities and how they figure into performance, Bain & Company conducted a global survey of sales leaders, vice presidents of pricing, CEOs, CMOs, and other executives at more than 1,700 B2B companies. Data-Driven Marketing. Insight Center. Sponsored by Google.

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B2B Price Survey Company 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. It’s time for them to rethink their supply-chain strategies. A shift toward protectionism.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

You will learn how to identify and prioritize your company’s full portfolio of opportunities – from new product lines to entirely new businesses. With Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita and Ian offer managers everywhere a time-tested blueprint for planning and executing a strategic growth agenda with confidence – in any market.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

I first became interested when I watched a TV documentary on the Cradle-to-Cradle concept that was developed by the German chemistry Professor Michael Braungart (and ex-Greenpeace) and the US architect William McDonough. We will phase out all chemicals deemed unacceptable according to Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020.

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Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

But data mining does not equate to developing "customer intelligence." Human behavior is nuanced and complex, and no matter how robust it is, data can provide only part of the story. This was not a huge surprise — any report can tell you the rising percentage of technology ownership among families in emerging markets.

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Trends Chemicals Marketing Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Their marketing departments. R&D and product development launch products that receive tepid responses. Marketing promotions don't resonate and can't be tied to measurable results. In particular, getting customers to market and sell for you. You need to get them marketing and selling — advocating — for you.

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CEO Airlines Marketing Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. But then more pressingly, I think, he talks about the need for system change.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2011

Maybe you can identify with a marketing professional, an MBA we'll call Sophie, who worked as a product manager in a consumer products company. Here's how Sophie described it: I don't understand why R&D kills so many of my projects when I am supposedly measured on new product development!

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Chemicals Creativity Micromanagement Wilde 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Over the last fifteen years Apple has made a series of successful market-creating—or blue ocean—moves (think the iMac, iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, the App Store, and the iPad). From the 2001 launch of the iPod to the fiscal year end of 2014, Apple’s market cap surged more than 75-fold as its sales and profits exploded.

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Productivity Products Blue Ocean Strategy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market. after chemicals). And so, even with the price premium, Michelin was the only company that had figured out how to produce radial tires profitably at scale. market in the first 18 months after their introduction. This was no surprise to the top five U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Consider Staples, the office-supplies retailer, which had tumbled from being the market leader to being a third of the new leader’s size by 1992. He has accumulated a unique mix of deep knowledge of the organization, the industry, and how to work with Stefano Pessina, the company’s executive chairman.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

But in this brief investigation by Beth Kowitt and Colleen Leahey, it''s pretty clear that having an idea and running a company are very different things — and that Wilson may only sort of know how to do the latter. Missing the "How" and "Why". Why would an industry beat a hasty retreat from a market that continues to boom?"

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Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Companies are increasingly seeing the obvious benefits of slashing energy use, and beginning to include in their calculations the considerable risk reduction from managing water well or limiting the use of toxic chemicals. is very low in the near-term). Self-interest: Species provide us medicine and sources of food.

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Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Bill George is best-known as the former CEO of Medtronic, where the company's market cap grew from $1.1 One of the areas where I think Bill has unique insight has to do with how leaders and entrepreneurs can build support structures. billion to $60 billion during his tenure. It is a very timely book.

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Open-book Chemicals Chief Operating Officer Goleman 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

A few years later, she joined a start-up called BioAmber, producing chemical intermediates using sugars instead of fossil fuels. Most companies focus on thirty-somethings as high-potential talent to be developed and accelerated with job mobility and stretch assignments – acting as if careers are made (or not) before the age of 40.

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Career Real Estate Learning Curve Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Tech experts' sage predictions had convinced me that the Mac would never make a dent in the PC market. Fortunately, there's a rich source of lessons on how to thrive in an unpredictable world, and it has been cranking out success stories for 3.5 Department of Defense now uses challenges to develop better weapons systems.

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Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 8

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. “So taking new roles is just part of their jobs and a core part of their development.”

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Learning Curve Execution Competitive Advantage Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

Entirely new business lines and markets will spring up, which will, in turn, give rise to still more innovation. In the brain, a neuron is a cell that transmits electrical or chemical information. Three developments in the last decade made deep learning viable. It learns how to spot a cat.

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Technology Software Learning-by-Doing Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

” 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.” Of course, this type of quantification is essential for business success.

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