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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2023

Leading Blog

Liveris, who was recently chosen to lead the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Organizing Committee and is former Chairman and CEO of The Dow Chemical Company, presents a variety of powerful tools that will enable you to tackle any problem quickly and responsively, with an eye to creating a more equitable, sustainable future. Middle manager."

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From Bud to Boss: My Audio Interview With Wayne Turmel | Guy.

The Recovering Engineer

To hear the full interview, check out From Bud to Boss at The Cranky Middle Manager. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. We spoke about a number of issues related to the transition to leadership people make when they take their first supervisory role.

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Leadership Caffeine: How to Cope With Organizational Alchemists

Management Excellence

Instead of the medieval pursuit by alchemists of a magical chemical conversion process to change one element into another, modern practitioners are focused on the magical and easy transformation of people and organizations from one level of performance to another.

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How Royal DSM Is Improving Its Geographic and Gender Diversity

Harvard Business Review

. “I’m absolutely convinced that the evolving balance of the top management team is a key factor in our success and our ability to change,” Feike Sijbesma, the 57-year-old CEO of Royal DSM, the $8 billion, global company active in health, nutrition and materials science, told me.

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75% of Cross-Functional Teams Are Dysfunctional

Harvard Business Review

As one middle manager told me, “No one was willing to go to management and say, ‘Let’s redeploy everyone, including myself, and do something else because this project isn’t working.'” The company had invested $100 million in the project, which involved three divisions.

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