In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” So are goals.

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Strategy CEO Company Competitive Advantage 131

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. 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. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.”

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Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

He is the author of two best-selling books on the topic: “ The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership ” and “ The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle “ We met in front of a group of students from Hope College’s Center for Faithful Leadership. So I’m sitting there, writing.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

He is the author of two best-selling books on the topic: “ The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership ” and “ The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle “ We met in front of a group of students from Hope College’s Center for Faithful Leadership. So I’m sitting there, writing.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. The company has made significant efforts to improve store operations with their impressive energy efficiency work and the purchase of more solar power than any entity in the U.S. besides the military.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

This enables engineers to fine-tune a “high-resolution blast” so that it produces more predictably sized rock and dirt for subsequent loading, hauling and grinding, which together account for most of a mine’s operational costs.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

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Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

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. Even more important, it takes management time to align all teams, including those of the acquired businesses, to the transformation initiative.

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

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. Make the role permanent and incorporate it into overall performance management. So what conditions give process owners the best chance of success?

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Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

They hire technical specialists, local experts, and country managers from emerging markets but rarely promote them to corporate positions. Global leaders must be effective in aligning employees around the company's mission and values, empowering people to lead, and collaborating horizontally rather than managing vertically.

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Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. For example, [Andrew] Liveris talked about the focus Dow [Chemical] has on great chemistry and designing new sustainable product lines and being willing to cannibalize existing products. Andrew Liveris.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Powering one 60-watt bulb for 12 hours a day over the course of a year can require 3,000 to 6,000 gallons of water — enough to fill a large tanker truck. Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries.

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Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal. Our goal is to power all new data centers with 100% clean and renewable energy, relying more heavily on wind and solar farms.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Lack of top management support and attention . And while the R&D department can sponsor and push through a new product or technology, rolling out a business model innovation requires direct support from the top management. The board of a large chemical company we also worked with took a very different approach.

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Business Model Innovation Company Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

The most frequently cited motivation was the mitigation of business risk from potential disruption of operations, supplies, or reputational damage, cited 38% of the time, followed by the motivation to adhere to industry norms of transparency, traceability, environmental responsibility, and other accepted standards, cited 27.6% of the time.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Employees at semiconductor-chip-maker Intel recently devised a new chemistry process that reduced chemical waste by 900,000 gallons, saving $45 million annually. New data shows that sustainability is an increasingly important factor in attracting and managing talent. Sustainability Talent management'

Metrics 9

Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Many business leaders are fond of the spurious Peter Drucker quote that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” Core metrics naturally acquire power in an organization, but people might not be aware of how they can bias decisions. Power by the hour aligns customers and suppliers.

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Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

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

JANUARY 27, 2014

The rise of Tata in India, Koç Holding in Turkey, and Grupo Carso in Mexico have some management thinkers contending that the conglomerate is back at the expense of the focused firm. In our opinion, which of the two is the more successful depends on the context in which the business operates. It may well reflect the power of focus.

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 8

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. Some other posts you may enjoy: A Timely Reminder Of The Power Of Empathy In Leadership Empathy in Leadership – 10 Reasons Why It Matters Are You Creating A Toxic Workplace?

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Organization Self-aware Stress Leadership Styles 247

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.

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Chemicals Uncertainty Operations Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The presenter is trying to convince senior management in your company to invest in a large, expensive project, say setting up a new robotic production line in one of your plants. We found the same to be true for chemical formulas (and other research has shown that brain scans and scientific jargon operate in a similar way).

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Press Release Participative Pharmaceuticals Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

They do so by building powerful growth engines. In everything it does, the company pays as much attention to its growth engine — its ability to manage innovation and launch consistently valuable products — as in any particular garment or device it sells. A few companies, however, do succeed in growing year after year.

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Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Sasson himself told The New York Times that management’s response to his digital camera was “that’s cute – but don’t tell anyone about it.” Why did this happen?

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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

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.

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Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 73

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. HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work. Managing Yourself Book.

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. 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

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 24, 2012

The powers that be have authority, so they must be right. What they have is the fraud of authority, the power to be a bully by the virtue of their title. If you are a leader, you must not allow them to operate under you. The embalming fluid of business is no mere chemical concoction dreamed up by heartless analysts.

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Chemicals Crisis Execution Fashion 317

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

My grandfather ran the exports, while my great-uncle managed the palm plantation. 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 would put more professional managers in key positions.

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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. 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.

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Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Most innovation teams inside large companies are set up to operate like well-oiled machines. The most successful teams, on the other hand, operated less like highly efficient machines and more like ant colonies. A powerful central mission and a loose central structure. They move in a specified direction at a predictable speed.

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Innovation Team Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

A conglomerate, by definition, is a large corporation with diversified product lines , owned and run by the same management. As many economists have argued, the burden of proof is on the company's management to show that these diverse businesses are better off together than they would be independently.

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Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. 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 January, China "seized" its rare earth metals (meaning it wouldn't export them anymore).

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Chan School of Public Health, about the major challenges of local sourcing, how companies can manage them, and what food supply chains will look like in the future. Operations in a Connected World. Shouldn’t advancing technologies, in agriculture and operations, also be able to help here? How can this be? Insight Center.

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Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). In some of these companies, senior managers were dubious about the claims.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15