Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

ReImagine Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I worked at a chemical plant in the early Eighties. I had my master’s in HR and was acting as HR manager at an R&D lab, with over 500 constituents. Those in charge expected me to push more employment-related tasks to employees and managers. Manage those human resources in a way they can engage.

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Resources CIO Chemicals 100

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). What this means to you So what does all of this research mean to leadership and organizations? Surely it will make our environment more pleasant.

BPM 185

BPM Chemicals Emotional Intelligence Blog 185

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Favor developing general managers. There is a decline in opportunities for executives to develop general management skills to equip them for the most senior general management roles. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. These were my top 3 recommendations: 1. Consider leaving a comment!

Chemicals 50

Chemicals Outsourcing Education Execution 50

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. It’s more than simply clumsy leadership.

CEO 161

CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

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.

White Paper 60

White Paper Industry Risk Management Chief Operating Officer 60

The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 29, 2010

Managers blame employees and employees blame managers for poor business results. I’m not suggesting that we should keep pursuing relationships that have no hope of reciprocal effort or that we continue to work in environments that are toxic or dangerous (either emotionally or physically) beyond our ability to change them.

Emotional Intelligence 131

Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Engineering FAQ 131

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 23, 2012

Good Company is an inspiring and uplifting read for those of us working to bring about a values-based leadership revolution. I can hear these old world managers (the anti-leaders) now: “that’s not the reality of how the business world works. Good guys finish last.” And everyone else is worse off.

Company 53

Company Parcell Books Review 53

The Recovering Engineer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

DISC Model Frequently Asked Questions Tags: Communication Skills , DISC Model , disc style , emotional control , emotional intelligence , human behavior , influence , Leadership Skills , parenting skills , personality style , perspective , persuasion , understanding people Guy Harris describes himself as a recovering engineer.

FAQ 102

FAQ Emotional Intelligence Engineering Self-aware 102

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

In my view, t hese assumptions plague modern business environments and need eliminati on. a leadership coach?who Breeden believes that there is a significant flaw in leaders who embrace beliefs without understanding and managing their side effects. Dopamine is our bodies’ pleasure chemical. learn ing.? .

Chemicals 186

Chemicals Creativity Cooper Learning-by-Doing 186

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 12, 2018

The results of these studies, captured from subjects operating under real or near-real conditions, has put the nature vs nurture debate on leadership to rest. Better leadership is emerging as the defining quality that governs the ability to attain positive outcomes and get the best performance possible out of teams.

Organization 267

Organization Self-aware Stress Leadership Styles 267

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. And what type of leadership will take us there? Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Co. Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Climate Change on HBR.org. by Forest L. Reinhardt and Michael W. by Andrew Winston. by Forest L.

Project 8

Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Ironically, my story is a story of overcoming my own biases about diversity—and then using these hard-won insights to build one of the most diverse leadership teams and board of directors in the world. Recognize that a diverse leadership team delivers superior long-term performance. Diversity Multinational Leadership'

Team 14

Team Diversity CFO TSR 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

Russia’s industrialization also means that the market offers substantial opportunities in diverse B2B sectors such as mining, oil and gas, metallurgy, chemicals, light industry, and consumer durables.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 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.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

What''s missing, though, is something like this: CEO Risk: Much of JPMorgan Chase''s excellent performance relative to its peers in recent years can be attributed to its Chairman and CEO, who has proved to be a uniquely valuable combination of careful risk manager and hard-driving business leader. Boards Leadership Succession planning'

Banking 9

Banking Crisis CEO Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2011

One sperm will be the first to pierce the egg's outer wall, triggering a chemical reaction that makes the egg's wall harder and impenetrable to competing sperm. In a harsh environment characterized by straightforward challenges that demanded quick responses, an indecisive caveman was a dead one.

Chemicals 15

Chemicals Uncertainty Operations Resistance 15

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. With inadequate equipment , others rushed in to save their colleagues. ” It worked.

Operations 18

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 18

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. Thinking Through the Strategies. by Hank Moore.

Crisis Management 73

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 73

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

And yet we have a canon of research and experience telling us that while mistakes always happen, it’s the environment in which they occur that really makes the difference. The manager’s answer: “I don’t want to be a Chicken Little about this.” “Then, 17 years later, we have the Columbia explosion.

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

These two unprecedented events are stark reminders that effective crisis management involving complex science and technology is wholly dependent on well-thought-out — and actively practiced — crisis response plans. government initially left many dimensions of crisis management and response to BP.

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. We know that organizations commit enormous resources and effort to talent management, so why aren''t they doing a better job? Not rising costs.

Talent Management 9

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 9

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

No matter where you stand on the issue of crying, as a manager, if you have not already, you’ll be faced with a crying employee. Managers, when faced with a crying employee, would either run away in fear or do something stupid or insensitive, or both. So what’s a manager to do when faced with a crying employee?

Chemicals 255

Chemicals Consensus Sports Follow-up 255

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

” Hanguk was a large, fast-growing company with diversified interests spanning electronics, biotechnology, shipping, construction, and chemicals. Hanguk’s leadership would be watching the project closely, because expansion to the Arab world was one of its top strategic objectives. “That’s great news!

Case Study 8

Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 21, 2011

Leadership. by John • March 21, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing • 1 Comment. The J&J folks set the crisis management standard for all others to follow—to be prepared for that inevitable day when disaster WILL strike. PS: I was the Canadian Brand Manager of Brylcreem during the demise.

Brand 140

Brand CEO Long-term Crisis 140

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

” In more recent times, a British chemical engineer named Paul Thomas pronounced a vision “that one day we will be able to detect a previously undetectable tumour metabolising inside a human lung simply by asking a patient to breathe into a device.” Of course, this type of quantification is essential for business success.

System 8

System Long-term Chemicals Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Although the ghost of the Great Man still haunts leadership studies, most of us have recognized by now that successful organizations are the product of distributive, collective, and complementary leadership. Some of these try to identify certain recurring behavior patterns considered more or less effective in a leadership context.

Leadership 15

Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 15

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. In Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan challenge what you thought you knew about managing growth. How do they do it? How can the doctor get that done?

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

How talent management is changing. Each year 40 high potential young leaders from around the globe come together and work in teams on projects like “How do we grow our business in the chemicals industry?” Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Too typical, however, is the situation described by a senior executive at a chemical company. If a company makes political expenditures, directors might begin by asking, “On what basis does the company contribute, and how do its donations affect both the company and the kind of environment it needs to thrive?”

Politics 8

Politics Committee CPA Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Directors are also consistent in their views of the key challenges to achieving their companies’ strategic objectives: attracting and retaining top talent, the regulatory environment, and domestic competitive threats top the list for directors from both parties. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8