Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Then I imagined executing this difficult move perfectly, over and over again. Instinctively, I executed the move perfectly. It secretes chemicals that cause dendrites on the brain cells related to the skill to grow until they connect with each other in a new network. I imagined Skip on top of me, pushing me into the mat.

Skills 106

Skills Chemicals Class Learning-by-Doing 106

Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Systems drive efficiency and results. At first, I think leadership is a chemical results of all features of a person. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Independence is often required to make final decisions.

Leadership 221

Leadership Blog Open-book Greenleaf 221

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The authors then show how to best execute specific initiatives, test major project assumptions, and develop a culture that values disciplined experimentation and learning over meeting mindless and unrealistic goals. Fifteen years ago, what was a news executive thinking about? Take a doctor’s office. How can the doctor get that done?

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

The cheerleaders cite an array of heartening examples, including a $4 billion investment by Dow Chemical to boost its ethylene and propylene capacity on the U.S. manufacturing industries, including aerospace and defense equipment, chemicals, industrial components, automotive equipment, and electronics. manufacturing.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

For instance, the relative scarcity of executive policy statements about Sub-Saharan Africa (compared with, say, Mexico or China) suggests that Sub-Saharan African markets may be able to pick up the slack should new policies cause a drop in demand in the Middle East and other areas. if the U.S. This, combined with a population of 1.5

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Research by my co-authors and myself has found that firms improving their performance on industry-specific, material ESG issues outperform their competitors , and firms disclosing more information on industry-specific material ESG issues exhibit more informative stock prices and as a result more efficient pricing of risks and opportunities.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The answers may not be as self-evident as many executives think. Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. Most COOs in Europe are seasoned executives; they were 48 years old, on average, when they were appointed.

COO 11

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We designed a data center that was 38% more energy efficient and that cost 24% less to build than a traditional data center. Since then, we’ve continued to lead the way in terms of energy efficiency. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. Andrew Liveris.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 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. Consider the case of a chemicals company. Support the sales force in executing the plays.

B2B 13

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 13

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 may have been a good coach but didn’t have what it takes to create greater strategic focus and execute a turnaround. These executives love messy situations.

Leadership 11

Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

In a 10-year study conducted by McKinsey, top executives reported being five times more productive in flow. And serotonin, that feel-good chemical at the heart of the Prozac revolution, bonds teams together more powerfully than the best-intentioned offsite. It’s ubiquitous. Think about that for a moment. Let’s take them one at a time.

Environment 8

Environment Chemicals McKinsey Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

In an era of intense globalization, rapid demographic change and accelerating technological progress, the best companies for leadership recognize the value of innovation, putting it at the heart of their corporate culture and using this targeted, focused innovation to drive shareholder value and improve efficiency.

Innovation 15

Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We then virtually convened the project’s advisers for a roundtable discussion about what they viewed as the major issues raised in the interviews, and their own counsel for executives wishing to create long-term value through a sustainable business agenda. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

We also changed the level of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the space by controlling the number of common materials that emit these chemicals — e.g., surface cleaners, dry erase markers, dry cleaned clothing, and building materials. For the optimized environment, we increased the amount of outdoor air brought in to the space (i.e.,

Productivity 9

Productivity Products PPM Absenteeism 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The Supreme Court is going to host a debate next week on the efficient market hypothesis. These lawsuits have been enabled in part by the efficient-market teaching that “in an open and developed securities market, the price of a company’s stock is determined by the available material information regarding the company and its business.”

Training 8

Training Efficiency Class Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves. executive whose 360-degree performance reviews point to a brusque and alienating communication style. Those digital “selves” will shape how work gets done. Insight Center.

KPI 8

KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

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. Suzlon's head of technology is John O'Halloran, a former Cummins Engine executive who now leads Suzlon's 500-strong global R&D team out of Hamburg. facility in Cambridge Science Park.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

One of our key findings was that teams functioning more like machines – blindly following highly defined processes and execution plans — were the least effective at achieving their goals and coming up with innovations. and respond to chemical signals allows these relatively simple creatures to form such complex units.

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Improving energy efficiency standards for things like appliances and federal buildings, a worthy follow up to the aggressive auto fuel efficiency standards passed last year. The President didn''t talk yesterday about this kind of purchasing power specifically, but he (and his predecessors) have issued executive orders before.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period Energy Politics Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Other major industries, like computers, media, autos, chemicals, oil, and financial services are not far behind. Indeed, Google trends show an increase in searches for business news on “efficiency” right after 2008, but by now this interest has levelled off. IBM’s surveys of top executives have picked up on this trend.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Trends Long-term Short-term 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. They will create an advantage through superior execution.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Led by people with expertise in disaster relief, around 200 volunteers, mostly students, have fanned out in teams to visit every rescue shelter in northern Japan to identify needs and ensure that the shelters operate efficiently. Masterminding several of these initiatives is a group of people in their 30s and early 40s.

Crisis 13

Crisis COO Chemicals Transportation 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

After the 2005 explosion, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board pushed BP to focus more on safety. By contrast, a non-safety focus, such as efficiency or innovation, is associated with avoiding forgoing the opportunity to do something that is indeed appropriate, such as holding back a new product that might be error-free.

Organization 8

Organization McCombs Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Lean "senseis" (teachers) say strategy deployment, executives as coaches, and front-line problem-solving sustain improvement. All organizational levels must identify and solve problems, but senior managers must tell front-line workers why efficiency is critical at all times, and then help them remove waste and improve service to customers.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

This deficiency had been weighing on him for a year, ever since the merger had been approved by the CEO, the executive team, and the board. “As you well know, the unintended consequence is that customers no longer have any incentive to be careful or efficient in their use of equipment or materials.

Case Study 8

Case Study Price Chemicals Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Redundancy is not efficient, but it does help you solve a wide range of unexpected problems. Unilever allowed casual dress for its Ben and Jerry's executives, maintained the brand's charitable giving, and expanded its commitments to sustainability by incorporating aspects of Ben and Jerry's DNA throughout its corporate practice.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Second, a new coalition representing many of the world’s largest companies launched in September under the name We Mean Business and issued its own powerful study , offering substantial evidence of the direct business value of investing in low-carbon tech and energy efficiency.

Chemicals 9

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The Declaration itself is directional and not as specific as what Ceres and a subset of these signatories advocate for as part of BICEP’s work (like pricing carbon and aggressive energy efficiency programs). Executives at Unilever credit their ranking to the company’s known leadership on sustainability.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 8