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Building Your Brand “Buddy the Elf” Style – Part 1 :: Women on.

Women on Business

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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One Way To Guarantee That Your Suggestion Is Ignored

The Recovering Engineer

And it just doesn’t matter if we offer the suggestion, solution, or opinion in a way that virtually guarantees that the other person ignores or discounts our input. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. We might even have a great, simple solution to offer.

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Book Review of “Good Company: Business Success in the Worthiness Era”

The Practical Leader

Good Company is an inspiring and uplifting read for those of us working to bring about a values-based leadership revolution. Some of the 20 companies in the “low” category included Berkshire Hathaway, Exxon Mobil, News Corp, Dow Chemical, and General Dynamics.

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The Neurochemistry of Positive Conversations

Harvard Business Review

It’s somehow easier to forget, or discount, all the times people have said you’re talented or conscientious or that you make them proud. Positive comments and conversations produce a chemical reaction too. Communication Difficult conversations Leadership Managing yourself' Chemistry plays a big role in this phenomenon.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

Why shop there for tools or appliances rather than at Home Depot, Harbor Freight Tools, Kam Appliances, or some other big-box, discount, or specialty store? At the hoary age of 128, it had already beat the odds twice over when it lost its place to chemical maker LyondellBasell at close of trading this year on September 4 th.

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Case Study: The Ex-CEO Contemplates a Coup

Harvard Business Review

My father acted swiftly to replace the full leadership team, enraging my cousins and their father. My eldest uncle''s sons have also been unable to break into leadership positions. As the economy improved, the company expanded into machinery and chemicals imports. trading at a discount because of the Murdoch fiefdom?

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Further, many problems are common across industries and a solution that works for, say, the chemicals industry may be surprisingly relevant in a financial services context.