The Recovering Engineer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

While I was in the Navy and learning to become an Engineering Officer, I learned about the specific margins that were built into both the submarine and the engineering plant to ensure safe operation. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S.

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Engineering Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Chemicals 169

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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Leadership Blog Open-book Greenleaf 221

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

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Former CEOs / Advisors.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

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.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation. Safeguard the short-term performance of the ongoing business.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Nevertheless, companies that live and die on operational excellence — such as Amazon.com, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart — must continually improve their key processes. Select process owners with strong leadership skills and develop those skills even further.

Process 15

Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

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. During the annual sales-planning process, managers determine how to invest resources to capture anticipated demand. Consider the case of a chemicals company.

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B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Many of Dow chemical's products, such as its insulation and solar shingles , are energy intensive to make. But an explosion of IT tools is making it easier for companies to get an ultra-high-resolution (and high-altitude) picture of the upstream and downstream resource use associated with their products and operations.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Energy System 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States. Yet whether and how such a policy will be implemented remains uncertain; so does its impact on exchange rates and a large number of other policies that could influence trade economics. Take the idea of a U.S. Census Bureau data.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 9

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 people are good at dealing with developments in the organization’s environment. The coach: leadership as a form of people development.

Leadership 13

Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 13

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

And also The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle, How to Become a Servant Leader. Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? How did you learn about it? We’ll teach you how to fly airplanes. We’ll teach you how to do coffee.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

And also The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle, How to Become a Servant Leader. Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? How did you learn about it? We’ll teach you how to fly airplanes. We’ll teach you how to do coffee.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

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. For example, installing a rapidly deployable flood barrier around your campus can help keep your buildings operational during megastorms. Andrew Liveris.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 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.

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Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

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. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. New product development is such a big piece of building new business, or so we are told.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

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. and the U.K.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

But Anderson, who had served as an independent director on the company’s board for several years, did this through having “tremendous relationships and credibility with the operating executives.” ” With Anderson’s help, Staples’ net profits grew more than tenfold over the next five years.

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Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Tapping into biology''s security database — which was developed by millions of species in response to extremely complex natural security problems — gives us first a wakeup call, then some practical guidance on how to keep our information secure. So how do we operate in an effectively open-source world without barriers?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Open-book Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

And I predict that deep learning will change the way people interact with technology as radically as operating systems transformed ordinary people’s access to computers. In the brain, a neuron is a cell that transmits electrical or chemical information. Three developments in the last decade made deep learning viable.

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Technology Software Learning-by-Doing Training 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. The leaders will win by integrating these new valuations effectively into their processes, products, and services.

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Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 15

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

DECEMBER 31, 2012

R&D and product development launch products that receive tepid responses. In doing research for my book , I found that companies who are attracting buyers in today's hyper-connected world are developing new approaches and competencies that focus on one thing: customers. Find your customer product developers. out of 5 to 4.5.

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CEO Airlines Marketing Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

One of the areas where I think Bill has unique insight has to do with how leaders and entrepreneurs can build support structures. One of the areas where I think Bill has unique insight has to do with how leaders and entrepreneurs can build support structures. It is a very timely book.

Open-book 9

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.

Career 8

Career Real Estate Learning Curve Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

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 Identifying even small successes out of a larger operational failure can be the most important way to improve performance in the future. billion years. It's called biology.

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Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 8

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. Pharma companies are unable to produce new depression drugs because "scientists don''t even know where to begin."

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

More than ever, it is the directors’ responsibility to determine when and how their company should engage in political activities. But do board members actually know how to provide proper oversight and help their companies navigate this perilous landscape? The 2016 U.S. Our contention is no.

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Politics Committee CPA Policies 8

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. I’ll have 25 developers reporting to me.”

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Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8