Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

It’s a simple but important truth that people who feel appreciated and respected are more motivated than those who think their efforts go unnoticed. An interesting aspect about praise is the chemical reaction it causes in us. The more you thank people, the more motivation they will have and the harder they will work.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The primary motivation for this was to make a positive contribution to society, but there was also a strong belief that speaking up helped to express corporate values. For instance, chemical giant Dow has been focusing its efforts on environmentally friendly construction and industrial safety. An overwhelming 77.5%

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Tim Milburn

JANUARY 30, 2019

Rhodium is a chemical element (chemical symbol Rh and atomic number 45) listed among the most precious metals on earth (in between Platinum and Gold). It’s the motive behind what you do to you that makes it about others. You use your own example to motivate people. YOUR MOTIVE: DO YOUR BEST TO INSPIRE THE BEST.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Blue has even been said to cause the body to produce relaxing chemicals. This might make it a great accent color to add to your office space, as its captivating shade could motivate your team to provide good quality service and work as hard as they can. It is said to create a confident yet relaxing work environment.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 18, 2021

He writes, “Brain scans are showing us in new detail exactly what entices readers…Whether you’re crafting an email to a colleague or an important report for the board, you can write in a way that delights readers on a primal level, releasing pleasure chemicals in their brains.”

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The brain craves certainty, and when you feel uncertain, the almond shaped structure in the brain called the amygdala releases chemicals into the blood stream that you experience as fear, anxiety and doubt. In this way, you keep everyone motivated because they know their work matters.

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. During the webinar, I discussed a model of human behavior that helps to explain why people do what they do. The main learning point from this model is that people generally do what they do because of what they expect to happen after they do it.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 2, 2020

After all, it is not only the ethical responsibility of those in charge but shows in an obvious way that you care about your employees, something that in turn can help to keep them motivated and loyal. Reward the behaviour you want to see.

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

All week, I have been sharing my thoughts and insights on communication skills, motivation theory, leadership, team-building, and persuasion. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience.

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The Recovering Engineer

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

By triggering curiosity, two-webbed-queries also stoke motivation. One foot relates to accurate content - and the other foot motivates novel actions that result from learning facts or concepts. Will respondents find good motivation to sustain related investigations? Did the question motivate personal involvement to answer?

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

At WD-40 Company, we know that having a purpose is highly motivating. Purpose motivates people to feel part of something where they believe that they are making a difference. That’s much more motivating than saying, “I’m going to go to work today and I’m going to sell a can of chemicals.” Don’t you think?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Strategies are implemented by motivated people, and to get that, right leaders must learn how to capture the hearts and minds of those they lead. Since then, he has found leaders for corporations in chemicals and life sciences, served as an advisor to clients in industry and continues to maintain an extensive personal network globally.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 13, 2014

Somehow, to me, that seems to be a better motivation than learning to navigate the rocking chair and television remote. I don’t know all the chemical reasons exercise jars the mind, but I know the impact. Yet, in my opinion, and experience, how I feel physically almost always impacts my spiritual life.

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The Recovering Engineer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. For periodic email updates, special offers, and other occasional gifts available only to email subscribers, complete this form. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Here are some ideas to help motivate you and get you started on the break time habit, whether you have five minutes or a few hours. Working out releases chemicals that give you a mood lift. You may not be able to get away for a vacation or even a long weekend, but you can definitely take a little break. Unplug and undo. Get physical.

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Building Personal Strength

MAY 16, 2011

But earning money continued to be his primary motivator. in chemical engineering. His mother encouraged him to read and to go to college, even though no one in his family had ever done so. His counselor in high school guided him to take math and science courses, which he enjoyed. In the summer, he harvested crops.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 2, 2010

For others, adults, Buddy was a “chemically imbalanced” adult man who thinks and dresses like an elf running around through the streets of New York City. Have you taken the time to wrap your brain around what motivates your customers and what problem they need solving? Just like Santa’s nice list…he knows what you want for Christmas.

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Women's Leadership Exchange

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

If you are out of work, you need courage to get up each morning and put forth the energy and motivation to look for a job or determine what your next career will be. We can anticipate the long term affects of drinking and breathing the water and air which is infested with dangerous chemicals that are used in the fracking process.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 8, 2022

Because, aside from those with serious chemical imbalances, happiness is a physiological reaction, a result of the interaction between mind and body. Author and inspirational speaker Simon Sinek describes dopamine as the feel-good chemical released when your phone dings — Hooray, I have a message…hooray, someone responded to me.

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 27, 2010

So with each repetition, brain chemicals stimulate your brain cells to grow filaments that reach and connect to each other. When you perform a behavior more than once, your brain naturally tries to make this an automatic pattern. Because if you had to concentrate and try hard to do everything in your life, you wouldnt get anything done.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Barbara Frederickson , a psychologist at the University of North Carolina, finds that positive feelings enlarge the aperture of our attention to embrace a wider range of possibility and to motivate us to work toward a better future. This chemical brew fuels drive and tags it with satisfying dollops of pleasure.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

And serotonin, that feel-good chemical at the heart of the Prozac revolution, bonds teams together more powerfully than the best-intentioned offsite. But really understanding what makes these chemicals so powerful requires diving deeper into their impact on motivation, learning, and creativity. Let’s take them one at a time.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Since the advent of agricultural chemicals in the nineteenth century, a variety of people have warned of risks to public health and the environment, but these people largely struggled to attract an audience until the late 1960s, when organic farming, natural food stores and organic food start-ups started to gain traction. Early Struggles.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

We've all read articles bemoaning how calculators and their digital cousins have destroyed our children's motivation to memorize the multiplication tables, crippling their mental math skills for life. Recent experience prompts me to put another such burning proposition on the table: Google may have ruined our ability to estimate.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

For example, after its spin-off from International Paper, Arizona Chemical drastically changed its market approach from a drive for volume to margin optimization. Whatever the motives, though, SBOs do enable successive waves of add-on acquisitions to the initial divested business.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 9, 2019

To put it simply, neurotransmitters are molecules that behave as chemical messengers in the brain. Dopamine is associated with the pleasure and reward pathways, and the positive emotion that makes us desire what we don’t have and motivates us to go after the things we desire. In their book The Molecule of More , authors Daniel Z.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

This misalignment can undermine any motivation for allocating resources even after a successful ideation workshop. This was the experience of the chemical company BASF and Daimler Buses. The two had teamed up to design the bus of the future. All this led to a fruitful foundation for the eventual collaborative ideation session.

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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. The VP of R&D killed my new hand-held mixer three times before it was approved a couple weeks ago.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2018

Reps thus had little motivation to hit or exceed price targets on any given deal, and most were closing deals at the lowest permissible margin. The value of developing capabilities became evident to a specialty chemical producer with lackluster margins.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Wesley, a researcher at a chemicals firm that participated in our study, made clear how much it meant to him when his VP did this at a holiday celebration: "We had a wonderful Christmas celebration, during which time our VP and Director of R&D reflected on our terrific achievements over the year.".

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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. Clear, open, and up-front communication about the company’s intention and the rationale thereof is essential to keep them motivated and prevent value destruction.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

Desire and motivation are influenced by psychological, social, and cultural factors that require context and conversation in order to decode. Interpreting their meaning and the motivation behind them requires what he calls a "thick" understanding that comes from detailed observation of people's interactions and their environment.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Bob Nelson – Recognized as a Top Thought Leader by the Best Practice Institute, he has sold 5 million books on management employee motivation and engagement, including 1501 Ways to Reward Employees. Deborah Borg – Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer, Bunge Limited.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

We were motivated to do this research because energy is a vital personal and organizational resource, but research on the sources of energy have neglected a source that everyone experiences in everyday life — our relationships with others. This translates into higher work performance. The results are quite revealing.

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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%

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