Building Personal Strength

APRIL 19, 2010

He was charging ahead enthusiastically, but I couldn’t get him to focus on the details of planning. The most plausible explanation for why we sleep is that when the brain is active during waking hours, brain cell metabolism produces chemical byproducts. Subjects report dreams five times as often in this fourth stage.

Long-term 92

Long-term Short-term Hotels Bottom-up 92

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

While financial incentive programs are popular, they may not achieve long-term behavior change; instead, they may lead to resentment and even rebellion among workers. Sending people to your health plan’s website. Introducing short-term campaigns. A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Although the workshop was set up professionally, the two companies didn’t plan for governance and resources to properly follow up on the generated ideas. The inevitable lack of concrete progress degraded the collaborative innovation back to a short-term sales effort. The two had teamed up to design the bus of the future.

B2B 8

B2B Innovation Company Workshop 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. Accordingly, it has systematically published figures about the evolution of its business portfolio in terms of sales by segment (e.g.,

Company 8

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Wilson was an industry outsider (he had previously worked as a management consultant and the head of corporate planning at an airline), whom Stemberg described as a “provocateur” and an “in-your-face kind of guy.” A senior executive described to us what he termed the “rules of engagement.”

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Boards’ abilities to foster innovation clearly fall short when compared with their other activities. We also found that a focus on innovation tends to go hand in hand with longer-term time horizons. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

” Technically defined as an “optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best,” the term takes its name from the sensation it confers. And serotonin, that feel-good chemical at the heart of the Prozac revolution, bonds teams together more powerfully than the best-intentioned offsite. novel ideas).

Environment 9

Environment Chemicals McKinsey Creativity 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2018

the true profitability of the transaction after accounting for leakage in areas such as rebates, freight, terms, and inventory holding. The value of developing capabilities became evident to a specialty chemical producer with lackluster margins. the alternatives and competitive intensity in the industry.

B2B 9

B2B Price Survey Company 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Hathaway and Litan stay close to the data in this work and stop short of speculating about causes of this trend. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. So allow me. In the guitar business , too. How does this consolidation impact entrepreneurs?

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

Russia’s industrialization also means that the market offers substantial opportunities in diverse B2B sectors such as mining, oil and gas, metallurgy, chemicals, light industry, and consumer durables. This worked, because both crises were short-lived (lasting approximately 1-1.5 years) and were followed by rapid recoveries.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

With $44 billion in revenues, KP runs hospitals, clinics and health plans, serving more than 9 million members in nine states (and Washington, DC). This is, as Gerwig says, mainly about the short-term consequences of not dealing with burning fossil fuels and the changing climate. GDP and 8% of greenhouse gas emissions.

Health Care 9

Health Care Operations Supply Chain GDP 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

And while the plan will have large impacts on business, it''s not a big enough vision to meet the scale of our climate challenge. But when all the elements of the president''s plans are combined, carbon energy will less appealing relative to cleaner options. But the plan we have on the table isn''t fully up to the task we face.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period Energy Politics Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

In November 2015 Geisinger Health System launched its ProvenExperience program – a wide-ranging cultural and process reengineering initiative whose long-term goal is not just to assure the best customer experience in healthcare, but to offer the best customer experience of any industry.

System 8

System Quality Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Finally, if the immediacy of the "look out the window" method of gauging climate change didn't work for some, at least one major climate skeptic changed his tune based on longer-term data. And some initiatives didn't work out as planned. In my view, none of this is all that distressing. The total: 145 million euros. Watch this space.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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. is very low in the near-term). Self-interest: Species provide us medicine and sources of food.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

This short paper outlines how climate is “already costing local economies billions” and describes how hundreds of billions of property are at risk. But the old guard of the energy business made it clear that they aren’t planning to change. Strategy and mission start to gain the upper hand on short-termism.

Chemicals 10

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

With the support of chemical companies , more than 170 countries also agreed to phase out HFCs , the high global-warming-potential chemicals used in air-conditioners and refrigerators everywhere. Investors Focused on Climate, Sustainability, and Short-Termism. The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8