The Recovering Engineer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

While I was in the Navy and learning to become an Engineering Officer, I learned about the specific margins that were built into both the submarine and the engineering plant to ensure safe operation. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. Never show again. Get Email Updates

Engineering 169

Engineering Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Chemicals 169

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

Leadership. by John • August 29, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 2 Comments. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” Unleash the power of iconic heritage brands. Leadership. In the CEO Afterlife.

Strategy 131

Strategy CEO Company Competitive Advantage 131

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” billion in sales) provides huge economies of scale throughout the operation, especially in production, fixed overheads, distribution and marketing. Unleash the power of iconic heritage brands.

Strategy 97

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 97

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” billion in sales) provides huge economies of scale throughout the operation, especially in production, fixed overheads, distribution and marketing. Unleash the power of iconic heritage brands.

Strategy 74

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

To address these needs, new approaches for developing global leaders are required: The diversity of top leadership should reflect the diversity of the firm's customers. Rather than concentrating on the on the top 50 leaders, global companies need to develop hundreds, even thousands, of leaders comfortable operating in a variety of cultures.

Globalization 15

Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 15

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 247

Organization Self-aware Stress Leadership Styles 247

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. During the past two decades it has transformed into a provider of electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical power management solutions.

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Andrew Liveris.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Nevertheless, companies that live and die on operational excellence — such as Amazon.com, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart — must continually improve their key processes. Select process owners with strong leadership skills and develop those skills even further. Give the process owner organizational power.

Process 15

Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

It''s a lawyerly, exhaustive, exhausting rundown of all the things that could possibly weigh on the earnings of a giant global bank, from regulatory changes to loans going bad to a liquidity crisis to the possibility that "one or more of its employees causes a significant operational breakdown or failure."

Banking 8

Banking Crisis CEO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2011

Of all the headwinds we face as decision-makers, the power of one overshadows all others: our need for certainty. 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. We are not hardwired to suspend judgment.

Chemicals 15

Chemicals Uncertainty Operations Resistance 15

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 24, 2012

Guest post by By Hap Klopp and Brian Tarcy , Authors, Conquering the North Face: An Adventure in Leadership: I’ve seen it a thousand times in business—rejection of an idea or a person by virtue of corporate status. The powers that be have authority, so they must be right. But many do; just no leadership talent. It’s that simple.

Chemicals 317

Chemicals Crisis Execution Fashion 317

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Drawing on our work and research with executives, students, Navy SEALs and professional athletes, we have devised a three-step approach to responding to pressure that we believe can help you harness the creative power of stress while minimizing its deleterious effects. Step One: See It. ” Step Three: Use It.

Stress 8

Stress How To Learning-by-Doing Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

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. Competition Leadership Retail' Founded in 1886 as a mail-order watch retailer, Sears was already 71 when it became an original member of the S&P 500 in 1957.

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Finally comes Crisis Training.

Crisis Management 73

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 73

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

But my youngest uncle worked behind the scenes to make sure that his sons, Fred, Roy, and Bill, were given executive positions in the operating units despite their obvious shortcomings. My father acted swiftly to replace the full leadership team, enraging my cousins and their father. Leadership Small/medium business'

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

This could describe the current situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and its six reactors. It is of even greater importance if a major act of terrorism involving nuclear, chemical, biological or cyber weapons occurs, either in private sector facilities or public spaces that impact private employers. Heineman, Jr.,

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Total investment in new power generation is a good indication of where we're headed, and for the first time renewables beat fossil fuels globally. In September, Siemens, one of the world's largest nuclear power plant suppliers, exited the business. Right now, the U.S. business continuity"). The total: 145 million euros.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. That’s a more powerful model than something that is purely transactional. She is a popular speaker and consults to senior leadership teams. ’ The companies exist to exploit existing businesses, not to create new ones.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In response to Trump’s election and his statements doubting climate change, many countries that signed the Paris climate accords in 2015 made it clear they would power on (China in particular — see story number three, below). Norway banned deforestation and both Norway and Germany moved toward banning fossil-fuel-powered cars.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8