Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 6, 2016

For example, the chemical company DuPont began as a gunpowder company, and Mitsui of Japan began as a drapery shop before it moved successively into banking, mining, and manufacturing. The study’s author wrote that the “case histories repeatedly show that a sense of community is essential for long-term survival.”.

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Short-term Long-term Competitive Advantage Chemicals 150

The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

That makes some intuitive sense related to the short-term impact on our decision making. The issue is the potential to sow the seed of a pattern of decision making that could have a long-term negative impact on your relationships and performance. The issue is bigger than the one decision in front of you at the moment.

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Short-term Long-term Emotional Intelligence Self-aware 169

Center for Creative Leadership

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

It also turns on your body’s stress response, releasing a tsunami of chemicals and hormones. Try a short nap, a walk, yoga, or break to meditate. Positivity is a broad term covering many positive emotions including love, joy, appreciation, hope, serenity, and amusement. The question is, how can you develop it?

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Tips Stress Chemicals Short-term 96

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Galetti is the highest-ranking woman at Amazon and the only woman on the 18-person “S-Team” (short for “Senior Team”) that reports directly to founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Whited previously served as chief marketing officer for UP, led the Chemicals business, and also previously ran the railroad’s National Customer Service Center.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2020

The investment market dealing with precious metals has barely made the cut in terms of popularity among people, and it’s not something many people tap into, if they do hear about it, it’s mostly for either gold, silver or palladium. One of the rarest precious metals in the category today is platinum.

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Price Short-term Long-term Globalization 67

The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

That makes some intuitive sense related to the short-term impact on our decision making. The issue is the potential to sow the seed of a pattern of decision making that could have a long-term negative impact on your relationships and performance. The issue is bigger than the one decision in front of you at the moment.

Emotional Intelligence 210

Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Short-term Engineering 210

Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

After college, I joined the Career Development Program at Air Products & Chemicals. Instead, these organizations preach abandonment of sustainable success in exchange for short term wins. Experience & Culture. My fear today is the number of students working for organizations with toxic leadership.

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Career Chemicals Short-term Long-term 178

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

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.” That will kill your company over the long term. You are short-term and reaction-driven : The vision-crushing ritual of quarterly earnings is not the measure of long-term success in any organization.

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CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The 2017 hurricane season highlights the high cost of short-term decisions that have long-term and often incalculable consequence. Two weeks ago, toxic waters flooded Houston’s streets, businesses and homes; and chemical plants went up in flames. And Katrina swamped New Orleans a decade ago.

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Deming Short-term Long-term Chemicals 28

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Research is showing that the heart can learn and send out dopamine (a pleasure chemical that influences behavior) and oxytocin (a chemical associated with the feeling of love). Is this what we call chemistry in common terms? Most people, including myself would always associate these chemicals with the brain and nervous system.

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BPM Chemicals Emotional Intelligence Blog 185

Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Working out releases chemicals that give you a mood lift. Studies have shown that smiling (making the physical facial shapes and movements), whether it’s the result of real joy or just an act, can have both short- and long-term benefits on people’s well-being and health. Get physical. Dance up a storm.

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Learning-by-Doing Energy Stress Chemicals 163

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 23, 2012

Some of the 20 companies in the “low” category included Berkshire Hathaway, Exxon Mobil, News Corp, Dow Chemical, and General Dynamics. In order to do so, they must combine competitive savvy with a genuine desire to do more than maximize short-term profits or enrich a narrow circle of stakeholders.

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Company Parcell Books Review 53

The Recovering Engineer

MAY 31, 2010

He seemed to be able to keep the short-term situation in perspective compared to the bigger picture of his life and experiences. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. I noticed that the solider who had been traveling for 2.5 days to spend 3 days at home never got angry.

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Emotional Intelligence Engineering Self-aware FAQ 102

Building Personal Strength

APRIL 19, 2010

The most plausible explanation for why we sleep is that when the brain is active during waking hours, brain cell metabolism produces chemical byproducts. They're stored in short-term memory; but because they don't have a clear relation to the real world, it's hard to integrate them into long-term memory.

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Long-term Short-term Hotels Bottom-up 92

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We then virtually convened the project’s advisers for a roundtable discussion about what they viewed as the major issues raised in the interviews, and their own counsel for executives wishing to create long-term value through a sustainable business agenda. But then more pressingly, I think, he talks about the need for system change.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 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).

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

The inevitable lack of concrete progress degraded the collaborative innovation back to a short-term sales effort. As a result, it was disappointed by its supplier’s down-to-earth, short-term approach. This was the experience of the chemical company BASF and Daimler Buses.

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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 11

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The supermarket and grocery business is likely to suffer strong headwinds in the future, due to long-term shifts in consumer behavior. Although many people don’t realize it yet, grocery shopping and cooking are in a long-term decline.

Industry 15

Industry Supply Chain Long-term Outsourcing 15

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).

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Environment Chemicals McKinsey Creativity 11

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 9, 2019

To put it simply, neurotransmitters are molecules that behave as chemical messengers in the brain. As opposed to the pleasure of anticipation via dopamine, these chemicals give us pleasure from sensation and emotion.” Reward is visceral in terms of excitement. So, what is dopamine and what role does it play in how we act?

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Chemicals Content Self-aware Long-term 207

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Within a few months the CEO decided that the decision had been a mistake because the personal style of the individual in question did not fit in with the company’s culture, which generated several conflicts over a short period of time. A senior executive described to us what he termed the “rules of engagement.”

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Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

Similarly, Toyota (#11) encourages innovation by removing some of the pressure for short-term returns. 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.

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Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 16

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.

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B2B Price Survey Company 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Second, there is a time horizon problem: while in some cases increasing wages or selecting suppliers with better labor practices might bring a financial benefit in the long-term, short-term pressures on the business might make business leaders averse to making such investments.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Short-term rewards too often take precedence over the longer-term interests and viability of a company. We’ve enlisted prominent thinkers and leading CEOs who understand that sustainable business practices are in a company’s long-term interests. Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. by Forest L. Paulson Jr.

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Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

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?

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Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

I see a rise in business combinations of all kinds — not just M&A, but also partnerships, alliances, joint ventures, and consortia that stop short of being full mergers. And the long-term trends that have driven corporate restructuring are not going away — globalization, technical change, and ever fiercer competition between firms.

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Restructuring Trends Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Even companies that claim to have a long-term orientation worry about whether R&D is worth the investment. According to Williamson, a current concern among many institutional investors as well as corporations is that long-term investments in R&D have little payoff. Thus, they exhibit less short-termism.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

All of this is surprising since the health care sustainability agenda has mostly focused on supply chain issues, reducing exposure of patients and workers to toxic chemicals, green building, and general eco-efficiency. Why are they doing so much on renewable energy? Respiratory diseases: Air quality in general deeply affects health.

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Health Care Operations Supply Chain GDP 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

Even small amounts of blue light inhibit the sleep-promoting chemical melatonin, meaning that the displays of smartphones are capable of producing this effect. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of smartphones to avoid is that they expose us to light, including blue light.

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Short-term Chemicals Organizational Behavior Survey 10

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.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

At a global chemical manufacturer, the IT function has a highly educated team of fewer than 20 statisticians, operations research professionals, and PhDs to develop advanced demand forecasting models, supply chain operational optimization, and raw materials for purchasing-decision support. .” Data and analytics embedded in IT.

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Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

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. Introducing short-term campaigns. In fact, they may even do more harm than good by promoting quick fixes as opposed to long-term progress.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

But even though radial tires were far superior to bias tires in terms of durability, cost per mile, and safety – and could be sold for an attractively higher price — they presented a challenge to U.S. after chemicals). Long story short, Michelin took over 50% of the entire tire U.S. incumbents.

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

In fact, among the 65 industries and almost 6,000 companies we studied across the globe, no industry had a TSR variation that was lower than 30 percentage points, and the variation in one industry, chemicals, was a whopping 206 percentage points. But the shareholder return data over the long term make a pretty good case for staying put.

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TSR Industry Company Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2015

“All it’s doing is masking the effects of your low energy,” by blocking a chemical that tells your body you are tired. That’s because blue light from a device’s screen suppresses the production of melatonin, the chemical that tells your brain that it’s time to go to sleep.

How To 8

How To Ryan Energy Chemicals 8