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. That means he’s open and eager to serve. Buddy is a human raised by elves, therefore, does he fall into the “human” or “elf” category? Are they telling others?

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Brand Press Release Discount Customer Loyalty 215

Terry Starbucker

MAY 22, 2016

This is another installment of excerpts from my book manuscript of “More Human: A Journey To The Heart Of Great Leadership”. I booked a two-week road trip to have “town hall” style meetings with all 90 of the laid off people, right after the formal announcement was made and the letters delivered. Face To Face, Tears and Hugs.

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Letter Leadership Call Center Long-term 171

Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Systematic and Open to Possibility: The complexity of our organizations requires that you support some systemization within them. It is also important that your attention to being systematic be teamed with an ability to being open to possibility for new ways of doing things. Independence is often required to make final decisions.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

We’ve bought books, retained consultants, rolled out surveys, looked deep into the hearts and minds of the people who work for us. 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.” If you take the fear of the result out, you create a culture that’s more open to learning.

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CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Building Personal Strength

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

My favorite book on happiness is by a colleague of mine, Marty Seligman, one of the wisest people I've ever met. In his book, Authentic Happiness , he says, "Authentic happiness comes from identifying and cultivating your most fundamental strengths and using them every day in work, love, play, and parenting." And by now, I have.

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Chemicals Open-book Bottom-up Tips 95

Ron Edmondson

APRIL 20, 2011

For me, it’s a big day I’m conducting a media tour to support my new book, Today We Are Rich. One of the key points of the book is that you can give your way out of burnout. These powerful chemicals give us feelings of profound joy, calmness and spiritual connection. It’ll work then too!

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Chemicals Stress Edmondson Participative 47

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Such a question opens us up to fresh possibilities, to reflect on what matters most to us, and even what deep values might guide us through life. Contrast that mind-opening query with a conversation about what’s wrong with you, and what you need to do to fix yourself. Managers and coaches can keep this in mind.

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Chemicals Learning Curve Open-book Bottom-up 20

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. . $16

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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. . $16

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

Dow Chemical (#19) is another firm that encourages employees to move functionally and geographically to gain new perspectives on the business and build capabilities for independent thinking and problem-solving. At Dow Chemicals (#19), risk-taking is not only accepted, it is encouraged, which helps the company to stay agile and innovative.

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Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

In my book, The Rise of Superman , I examine how extreme athletes — surfers, snowboarders, skydivers, and others — have used flow to lift athletic performance to levels unlike anything we’ve ever seen before, but the much more important point is that anyone can tap this state. Action and awareness merge. Our sense of self vanishes.

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Environment Chemicals McKinsey Creativity 11

Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 10, 2017

Iron First was criticized for the accurate portrayal of Danny Rand as a rich white man (which his comic book counterpart was). I’d seen him here or there in Marvel comic books or animated series. She believed he would make things right and stop the chemicals coming out of one of Rand Enterprises plants. He freaked out.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Training Power 171

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors. China Hi-Tech Fair ready to highlight emerging industries ," which describes Chinas largest tech show going on this week in Shanghai.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

This serves as the basis for his new book, True North Groups , coauthored with Doug Baker , who led HR at Medtronic. The new book is about how to create a great personal board of directors or tribe, along with all the norms, practices, and feedback mechanisms to support your leadership (and life). It is a very timely book.

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Open-book Chemicals Chief Operating Officer Goleman 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book.

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Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Sure, people print nostalgic books and holiday cards, but that volume pales in comparison to Kodak’s heyday. As Rita Gunther McGrath describes in her compelling book The End of Competitive Advantage , in the 1980s Fuji was a distant second in the film business to Kodak. What new opportunities does the disruption open up?

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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

During one of my very first consulting assignments, a colleague and I interviewed direct reports of the Chief Information Officer of a chemical company about improving project execution. At the next meeting with his direct reports, however, he started by saying, “I hear from the consultants that you’re afraid to be open with me.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Consultative Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

The Open Automotive Alliance that Google launched this week is a reminder that twenty-first-century deals don’t always look like the M&A of old. Larry Lessig’s excellent 2008 book explains how this cultural remix creates new art. Full disclosure: I am completing a book on this very topic.). I’ll extend that idea to business.

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Restructuring Trends Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2017

The book was one of the rare instances where an economist was able to capture public imagination and focus debate on big-picture economic issues. Galbraith’s book is worth revisiting, since its subject is back in the news. That book described how big groups of large firms and large unions managed the economy.

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Power Bureaucracy Advertising Open-book 8

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 12, 2018

But it is its chemical signature of cortisol (the stress hormone) and oxytocin, a hormone that affects amongst other things, the regulation of trust and fear in the brain that is of greater interest. Resonant leaders are open, engaged, engaging, communicative, empathic and socially aware.

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Organization Self-aware Stress Leadership Styles 267

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk, in his book The Body Keeps the Score , calls this the brain’s “smoke detector.” When we perceive a threat, the amygdala sounds an alarm, releasing a cascade of chemicals in the body. Managing Yourself Book. Further Reading. HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work. Add to Cart.

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Emotional Intelligence Stress System Goleman 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Think of them as “selvesware,” analogous to recommendation engines for books to read or movies to watch. This twinned production thermostat could be instrumented to help predict the most cost-effective ways to heat critical chemicals in a production process. But why stop with industrial assets?

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KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Managing Yourself Book. Although the stress response can sometimes be detrimental, in many cases, stress hormones actually induce growth and release chemicals into the body that rebuild cells, synthesize proteins and enhance immunity, leaving the body even stronger and healthier than it was before. Further Reading. Add to Cart.

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Stress How To Learning-by-Doing Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

After dinner, CEO and co-founder Ari Weinzweig or one his managing partners will present on a particular topic, such as visioning, open book management, or the natural laws of business. In a large petro-chemical company, for example, we found a lot of de-energizing relationships — and most of them emanated from the leaders.

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Energy Health Care Leadership Pipeline Quality 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. Worthy pointed out in the book, The Shaping an American Institution: Robert E. With the coming of the automobile and national radio advertising, James C.

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

She didn't initiate the conversations by tugging on the professors' heartstrings, highlighting SHE's efforts to improve girl's and women's lives, but rather by challenging the scientists to help her solve a complicated new chemical engineering problem. Scharpf told me she recently ran an ad for SHE's first job opening in New York. "If

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Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. The common denominator was open communications with customers, where other retail centers try to stifle mention of incidents. It is a compendium book, containing quotes and extrapolations into business culture, arranged in 76 business categories.

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Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 80

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

” Each mindset requires very different types of communication — and proving that something works requires raising open-ended questions. While working on her 1989 book on GM, she shared this story that an engineer imparted: “They were having a problem with enormous warranty claims for a window washer motor.

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Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

We even have a novelty bias , wherein our brain is flooded with a pleasure chemical, dopamine, whenever we focus on something new. I tend to work from home; those who work in an open office may need to literally get up for a change of scenery for their distraction-free mode. In terms of our evolutionary history, this makes sense.

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Strategy Chemicals Project Open-book 13

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. So how do we operate in an effectively open-source world without barriers?

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Chemicals Open-book Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

But a recent report concludes that meeting the goals in just four out of 60 sectors (food and agriculture, cities, energy and materials, and health and wellbeing) could indeed open up market opportunities worth up to $12 trillion a year in less than 15 years. You’ve got to blow things open.”

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Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I first read the book over 10 years ago. The book is helpful in the way that it points to the research that has been done. If this chemical process is thrown out of balance, sexuality in the brain can easily fail to develop normally. Should a gay couple be covered by the health insurance of the employed spouses benefits package?

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Video Insurance Blog Learning-by-Doing 105

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. In total, it's about a systematic and realistic view of the world.

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Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Fenugreen , a smart startup that won the Sustainable Brands Innovation Open in June, sells sheets of paper made with natural ingredients that fight food decay – they can keep fruit and veggies from going bad 2 to 4 times longer than they would last normally. Food is too big a topic to summarize, but a few stories grabbed my eye this year.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

” In more recent times, a British chemical engineer named Paul Thomas pronounced a vision “that one day we will be able to detect a previously undetectable tumour metabolising inside a human lung simply by asking a patient to breathe into a device.”

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