Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 16, 2013

And not many people remember that Jack Welch has a PhD in chemical engineering. That’s because none of the problems he encountered in his last 30 years at GE were in any way related to his skill at chemical titration or formulating plastics. What would they be? To be able to listen? To give proper recognition?

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Chemicals Welch CFO CEO 133

Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2011

When you feel uncertain, the amygdala, an almond shaped structure in the brain shoots out chemicals through your blood stream that make you experience feelings of fear, doubt and anxiety. When you are in the midst of change, regular communication, scheduled communication and documented promises are a must. Keep your Word.

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Mission Statement Chemicals Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 284

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2020

Train yourself using SQF documents available for free online. Once you’ve settled on a credible certification body and invited them to audit your company, they’ll focus on facility assessment and document reviews. The first step to achieving SQF certification involves learning about the program and the SQF Code.

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How To Supply Chain Document System 65

Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2013

After seeing the devastation from the Texas fertilizer plant and Louisiana chemical plant explosions, StrategyDriven wanted to help industrial and utility leaders better identify, mitigate, and control their operational risks to prevent similar accidents from occurring at their facilities. These documents can be accessed by clicking here.

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Risk Management Operations Resources Management 59

Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

He tested the effects of germ and chemical warfare agents. He didn't want to go with her to speak, but he agreed to sign a document. He met the trains and selected people for his grisly experiments. One of his pet projects was doing experimental medical procedures on sets of twins. He tortured about 1,500 sets of twins.

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EVA Chemicals Film Letter 103

Ron Edmondson

APRIL 20, 2011

These powerful chemicals give us feelings of profound joy, calmness and spiritual connection. We get as high as a kite, or gain the internal/chemical feeling of true Richness. We lift off, emotionally, and it lasts for days, sometimes weeks.

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Chemicals Stress Edmondson Participative 46

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

As we argue in a forthcoming article, in the April issue of Harvard Business Manager (the German edition of HBR), our experience of studying and documenting these failures suggests that nearly all can be traced back to a small set of traps organizations tend to step into. This was the experience of the chemical company BASF and Daimler Buses.

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B2B Innovation Company Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

This sort of collaboration has been well-documented in the B2C context (where it’s often called “crowdsourcing” or “co-creation”), but we see it in B2B companies as well. Recently, the German chemicals giant collaborated with another chemicals company.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. To begin, each of our partners has shared documentation of work they are doing to improve the future sustainability of their company. Search and explore the documents below. Marc Benioff. Chairman & CEO, Salesforce. Richard Branson. Founder, Virgin Group. Marne Levine. Andrew Liveris.

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Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

In a new paper that’s already generated much discussion, economists Ian Hathaway of Ennsyte Economics and Robert Litan of the Brookings Institution document four decades of “ Declining Business Dynamism in the United States.” Yet now it is clearly faltering. In the guitar business , too. How does this consolidation impact entrepreneurs?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The goal of ARD is to produce denim in a sustainable way by tackling the three main ecological issues the industry faces: water, energy, and chemicals. Engaging with companies to promote positive environmental and social outcomes and being able to document the impact of those engagements may well prove to be one of those differentiators.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today the company has annual revenues above $20 billion, competes in healthcare and electronics operations and derives significant revenues from document solutions. ” For Kodak, that’s the difference between framing itself as a chemical film company vs. an imaging company vs. a moment-sharing company.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2012

As has been documented in Fortune , former directors of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Washington Mutual, and Wachovia Bank resurfaced in no time on other corporate boards like Verizon, Dow Chemical, Hewlett Packard, and Nike. Few have suffered consequences and virtually all continue to lead the good life.

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Ethics Chemicals Short-term Report 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

after chemicals). To produce radials, the U.S. giants basically needed to start their companies all over again — practically nothing of what they knew about producing bias-ply tires could be reused. Almost none of their patents would be useful (the tire business was the second most research-intensive industry in the U.S

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Gratitude for help received encourages paying it forward and helping others, as Nat Bulkley and I documented in a large-scale study. In a large petro-chemical company, for example, we found a lot of de-energizing relationships — and most of them emanated from the leaders. Receiving help creates energy in the form of gratitude.

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Energy Health Care Leadership Pipeline Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

This twinned production thermostat could be instrumented to help predict the most cost-effective ways to heat critical chemicals in a production process. Provide metadata, APIs / SDKs , and documentation enabling multiple teams of multiple selves to productively collaborate. But why stop with industrial assets?

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KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Majchrzak has studied virtual projects at numerous companies , including EDS, IBM, Kraft, Motorola, Shell Chemicals, and Unilever, and has found that successful teams tend to use one important tool: an online discussion board in a shared virtual workspace. There are several advantages in doing so: Problems don't fester.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

McGrath recalls the painful experience of working with a big chemical company that wanted to diversify its business. Step 4: Document assumptions. But don’t create a document that covers today through to launch — “plan only as far out as you have knowledge,” McGrath says. Step 5: Plan to key checkpoints.

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Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

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. This elusive component is something that behavioral economists are beginning to document.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2019

The earth overshoot day , which documents how many resources the earth can resupply in a given year, is getting shorter. The practice has been so damaging to the environment that entire lakes have disappeared, thousands have died, millions are underpaid or work in forced labor conditions, rivers run bright with chemical dyes, and much more.

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Innovation Fashion Chemicals Environment 51

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

They also advise companies to use business process management software to map and document process flows and how work should be executed and to monitor performance. Chemical company Air Products has adopted nearly every approach for sustaining improvement from all four religions.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 24, 2023

Diverse impact The study’s findings were notable, indicating that immigrants generate patents across diverse sectors such as electronics, computers, medicine, and chemicals. This gap persisted even after the researchers took several factors into account, including the productivity of the deceased inventor.

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Innovation Diversity Chemicals Technology 80

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

Although buried at the back of the document, they were a searing indictment of BP prior to the explosion. What was their concept of forging a safety culture, and why did it fail? The Commission could have looked at the recommendations of BP's own accident report issued in September 2010.

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Analysis Report Operations System 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2012

Kill unnecessary document preparation. Note: I left out the sense of taste, which could be splendid at Nestle, less so at Dow Chemical.). I can't guarantee this look will scream Gordon Gekko, but it might take one chin off your chin. Have 15-minute standup meetings instead of those insufferable hour-long snooze-fests.

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ROE Gordon Incubator Chemicals 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

All the major players in the personal care product value chain — the giants of consumer products, chemicals, and fragrances — were there (as was I). But some new, more layman-friendly voices are telling the science story and explaining how costly to business a hotter world already is.

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Its genius is that rather than try to specify every single feature of our biology, it provides us with rules for adaptation—first, for chemical gradients in the womb and later for the outside environment. DNA, despite popular misconceptions, is not a blueprint –in fact, our genome contains only about 1.5

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Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

billion in subsidies included solar panels, chemicals, pipe, steel wire, wheels, wind towers, and kitchen appliances. Despite recent trade conflicts, the European Union, Japan, and the U.S. have been quietly working to develop another agreement containing rules to restrain Chinese subsidies. In recent years, U.S.

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