Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

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. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. ’ Game.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

All three companies nurture and energize talent, carving out the necessary resources to invest in recruiting, selecting and growing the people who will become their future leaders. But some of the most interesting examples of innovation come from new additions to the BCL Top 20 list. Create a safe space for innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

What they found is that America's patent system only provides positive incentives for innovation in two industries: pharmaceuticals and chemicals. Anyone innovating outside of those two industries would be better off if there were no patent system at all. If my chemical compound is not covered by a patent, then I'm in the clear.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Governing boards might seem like the last place for innovation. But new strategies and structures are squarely in the board’s domain, and we have seen any number of governing boards innovating with, not just monitoring, management. Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Innovation success stories are all strikingly similar: a bright idea, supported by a zealot-innovator who sees it through. This is especially true for business model innovations — when the new idea is not a product, service, or technology but a different way of engaging with the customers and earning revenue from them.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Consider three critical mega-trends: resource constraints and rising commodity prices; climate change and extreme weather; and radical, technology-driven transparency. Resource constraints mean organizations have to use less stuff. Resource constraints mean organizations have to use less stuff. Insight Center.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Planning to do work , and usually procrastinating, instead of productively working out just-in-time solutions with just the right resources. . Many companies strive to innovate and develop fresh products and services.? Dopamine is our bodies’ pleasure chemical. Preparation: ?Planning and application. .

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

What struck me as the conversation ran from resource consumption at the top of the supply chain to end-use and consumer behavior at the bottom was the way Pepsico, C3, and other companies we discussed approach sustainability challenges from a systems perspective. David Struhs, of C3, similarly highlighted this holistic perspective.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

I’ve been in contact with Heiny and her team at Target over the last year about the program she helped build to drive product innovation and more sales. The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. So why are sustainable products surging now?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

The business remix that I see ahead will mash up the resources of companies to create new value. But mergers are not the only way for companies to mix and match resources. Or it can use alliances and partnerships to gain access to external resources without owning these resources at all.

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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. In 1970, it was January 1st, meaning that in less than 50 years we went from using resources that could be replenished, to requiring 1.7 The Rise of Sustainable Innovation. In 2018, it was August 1st.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Since the industrial revolution, we have been able to get away with relying on natural resources to raise our standard of living. But as these resources become scarcer and more expensive, we need to find new ways to create a more sustainable environment. This was the focal point of the recent Paris Climate Summit.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Two articles didn't scream sustainability until you read them: " Chemical company paints rosy picture for the future ," which opens with the question, "How can a chemical company earn more money through eco-friendly products?" Of these 5 articles, some were self-explanatory: " Nation spurs development of new, green technologies ". "

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

But I think the interesting part comes when they start to see it as an opportunity for innovations that are financially beneficial as well as socially beneficial. The result will be innovation. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. Andrew Liveris.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technologys pavilion will demonstrate "industrial energy savings and the comprehensive use of resources." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Continuous light interface production , or CLIP, uses chemical reactions to better control the transformation of liquids into solids. This technology starts with a plastic or metal powder, but instead of solidifying the powder with a laser, it uses chemicals sprayed from 30,000 tiny nozzles at a rate of 350 million dots per second.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. Regardless of your views on the who, what, when, and why of climate change, the pursuit of sustainable processes up and down supply chains can translate into immediate savings — and opportunities for innovation. Marc Benioff. Chairman & CEO, Salesforce. Richard Branson. Founder, Virgin Group.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Most companies’ value chains are heavily dependent on water and energy resources. Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. Only then will we create a future in which humanity can thrive.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

After the 2005 explosion, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board pushed BP to focus more on safety. Part of the reason for this pattern is that other priorities compete with safety for an organization’s resources, including managerial attention.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2011

In misguided attempts to boost productivity and direct innovation, managers can kill both creativity and passion — the intrinsic motivation required to stay deeply engaged in work — by destroying people's autonomy. Failing to draw on that knowledge is a lamentable waste of resources.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Companies are also experiencing risks in their manufacturing due to resource depletion – particularly water. Water has largely been considered a free raw material and therefore used inefficiently, but many companies are now experiencing the higher costs of using the resource. Fostering innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Since then, using the Net and social networking technologies such as Twitter and Facebook, people in their 20s and 30s have been collecting and disseminating valuable data; collaborating with others they have never met; and creating rescue projects on the fly as well as garnering resources for them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll be able to generate, decide what resources you’ll need, and set milestones to reach your targets. McGrath recalls the painful experience of working with a big chemical company that wanted to diversify its business.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

They frequently divert sufficient resources to participate in emerging markets. ” For Kodak, that’s the difference between framing itself as a chemical film company vs. an imaging company vs. a moment-sharing company. The right lessons from Kodak are subtle. What new opportunities does the disruption open up?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

If it were up to me, I’d put more resources into space exploration.) This may all change as China innovates and grows. That rover, Curiosity, is looking for signs of early life, while another one of our rovers checks the chemistry of rocks. We’ve been putting stuff on Mars for decades.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation. Meanwhile, before a store sees increased sales volume, the new capabilities and resources (e.g., Companies should also learn from innovators in other markets, considering how those metrics might translate to their own businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Most innovation teams inside large companies are set up to operate like well-oiled machines. The problem is that while this approach enables large-scale production, it doesn’t seem to work for innovation. The problem is that while this approach enables large-scale production, it doesn’t seem to work for innovation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Business drivers examined include: Building high-performance cultures; engaging employees; cultivating a customer-focused culture; creating alignment and accountability; enhancing organizational talent; building strategic partnerships and relationships, driving process innovation and driving efficiency. Wellins, Ph.D.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

” The world, he has argued, has lots of resources – water, energy, and so on – but we’re hampered because we can’t access it efficiently. But, he says , ultimately “technology is a resource-liberating force.” ” It could help us solve our resource constraints.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

In nature, barriers — between organic and inorganic chemicals, between land and sea, between species, between everything — have been built, tested, overcome, rebuilt, and overcome again with almost endless repetition. Organisms in nature, despite being constrained by resources, have evolved multiply redundant layers of security.

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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. We live in an integrated network on a single planet with limited resources. See 15 cool biomimicry stories.).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. chemicals, metals and mining, paper and forest products), made out worst, scoring poorly on "firing" and "leveraging diversity," and not much better on "assessing talent" and "developing talent.". chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

These leaders are recognizing that this balance drives the innovation and market understanding they need for other key business transformations. This has led to the spread of affinity groups, or employee resource groups (ERGs). Without balance, they simply won’t understand the world that’s emerging. How did he do it?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

You have one resource that is peer to the buyer: your customers. In a wide variety of industries — from computers to chemical processes to a whole range of service businesses — the source for most of the commercially successful new products is customers, not R&D. Focus marketing innovations on customer advocacy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Thanks to this extreme focus there is no need for complicated processes, expensive equipment and underutilized (and expensive) resources. Whatever the answers to these questions, we do believe that extreme focus is an often-overlooked way to innovate a business model — for startups and established companies alike.

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