The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Hospital operating rooms could go dark. A budget doesn’t tug at the heartstrings (although missing budget targets can cause some managers to rip hearts out). He even helped the company expand its leadership development programs to include role descriptions, personal feedback, and coaching on how to strengthen spirit and meaning.

Budgeting 69

Budgeting Chemicals Wilde Productivity 69

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In other words the business is growing and changing and there is a need for increased structure to support and manage the change. The brain craves certainty, and when you feel uncertain, the almond shaped structure in the brain called the amygdala releases chemicals into the blood stream that you experience as fear, anxiety and doubt.

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Uncertainty Policies Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 255

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

After the several recent catastrophic industrial accidents within the United States, including the devastating explosions at a Texas fertilizer plant and Louisiana chemical plant, StrategyDriven wanted to help industrial and utility leaders reduce the risk of similar accidents at their facilities. Download the white paper by clicking here.

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White Paper Industry Risk Management Chief Operating Officer 61

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. I agree that balance is key.

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BPM Chemicals Emotional Intelligence Blog 185

Strategy Driven

APRIL 10, 2019

For example, if you run an agricultural business and your customers are interested in purchasing wetting agent chemicals, private label products allow you to focus your efforts on marketing while ensuring your customers receive top-quality goods from a more specialized manufacturer. Reduced Unit Costs. Unit cost is very important.

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Productivity Products Brand B2C 50

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

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. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

If retail operations can more reliably keep their discretionary relationships with people who have to pay for that relationship than we can with our employees, who earn their livelihood with us, we need to take a serious look at how we’re creating the environment for those relationships. Their supervisors are doing the same. Don’t you think?

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CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

With a conventional business that choice consistently conveyed an incredible danger since you needed to “invest” your own money before you could get something fully operational. Regularly it took, at any rate, a year prior to you could hope to perceive any benefits. Thank heavens for the internet. Get your own domain.

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How To Advertising Affiliate Marketing Chemicals 75

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. Data and analytics represent a blurring of the traditional lines of demarcation between the scope of IT and the responsibilities of operating divisions. Data and analytics embedded in IT.

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Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

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

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The realities of globalization, with increasing emphasis on emerging markets, present corporate leaders with enormous challenges in developing the leaders required to run global organizations. They hire technical specialists, local experts, and country managers from emerging markets but rarely promote them to corporate positions.

Globalization 14

Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Some companies could get a jumpstart in their industry in organizing partnerships and even positioning themselves as leaders in sustainable development using the goals as a branding anchor. Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals will improve the environment for doing business and building markets. The case is clear. of the time.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. The company has made significant efforts to improve store operations with their impressive energy efficiency work and the purchase of more solar power than any entity in the U.S. besides the military.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

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

MAY 10, 2018

This enables engineers to fine-tune a “high-resolution blast” so that it produces more predictably sized rock and dirt for subsequent loading, hauling and grinding, which together account for most of a mine’s operational costs.

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B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. Improved operational performance will result in fewer injuries. ” It worked.

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Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. We’re starting to recognize that this relatively new situation has important ramifications for how businesses operate, and we’re making some progress. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

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. For a micromarket strategy to work, however, management must have the courage and imagination to act on the insights revealed by this type of analysis.

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B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Since I prepared that article, new developments have only strengthened the case for a 3-D future – and heightened the urgency for management teams to adjust their strategies. Many of the new developments have to do with broadening the science underpinning additive manufacturing. Now we’re seeing much bigger stakes.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

The two went way back: Both had been with their German parent company, Almond Chemical, since 1999, when it first established operations in China. Since then Almond China had set up two joint ventures with local partners — the only way foreigners could do chemical business in the country. Liu nodded, not surprised.

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Case Study Chemicals Ethics Finance 11

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. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In contrast, 70% of respondents think their boards have effective processes for staying current on the company; 69% for compliance; 66% for financial planning; and 55% for risk management — although we should note that managing risks is a crucial consideration when pursuing innovation.

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

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. Even more important, it takes management time to align all teams, including those of the acquired businesses, to the transformation initiative.

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Operating margins for firms publicly listed in the US show a substantial and sustained rise. That is good news for managers and investors. In a new research paper , I tease apart the factors associated with the growth in corporate valuations relative to assets ( Tobin’s Q ) and the growth in operating margins.

Pharmaceuticals 10

Pharmaceuticals Politics Price Chemicals 10

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 do that by connecting the front line with management in a continuing dialogue.

Policies 8

Policies Chemicals Bond Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Part of the problem may be in the backgrounds that companies desired: 85% of COOs had experience in operations, strategy, or finance. What role does he or she play in the organization? What do you think?

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

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. Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

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. Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on. So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. ” Wilson was exactly what the business needed.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

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. Make the role permanent and incorporate it into overall performance management. So what conditions give process owners the best chance of success?

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Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 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. and the U.K.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

The leading executive recruitment firm Egon Zender, as part of talent evaluation at the time of Dow Chemical’s merger with Rohm and Haas in the Spring of 2009, described us as the “best CEO university” they had ever seen. This requires total transparency in the way individuals are assessed, developed, and promoted.

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Team Diversity CFO TSR 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Lack of top management support and attention . And while the R&D department can sponsor and push through a new product or technology, rolling out a business model innovation requires direct support from the top management. The board of a large chemical company we also worked with took a very different approach.

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Business Model Innovation Company Chemicals 8