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Category Archives: Business Accumen
Earning Executive Influence: Six Lenses for EHS Innovation and Payback
What if your EHS team had to earn the business before it could earn the influence? EHS leaders frequently talk about wanting greater influence with executive management. We want to be involved earlier in business decisions, have operating leaders seek … Continue reading
Posted in Business Accumen, Career Skills, EHS Management, enterprise risk management, Innovation, Leadership, Leading at Scale, Sustainable Strategy
Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, business, business-value-of-ehs, EHS Management, ehs-innovation, ehs-leadership, ehs-management, ehs-strategy, executive-influence, news, Operational Risk Management, safety management systems, safety-leadership, technology
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If Everything Still Comes to You, You Haven’t Scaled Leadership
As leadership responsibility grows, working harder and staying involved in everything stops working. Drawing on experience scaling an organization from 15 to 300 people, this article explores how EHS leaders can multiply their impact through people, management systems, governance, delegation, digital tools, and AI—and build an organization capable of making thousands of good decisions every day. Continue reading
Posted in Business Accumen, EHS Management, enterprise risk management, Leadership, Leading at Scale, operational integrity
Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, EHS leadership, ehs-leadership, Enterprise Leadership, Leadership, Leadership Scale, operational excellence, safety leadership, safety-leadership, technology
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Decision-Ready Information: The Modern Standard for Leadership in Complex Organizations
Organizations are drowning in information and starving for judgment.
My latest article on LeadingEHS.com explores the concept of decision-ready information and compares it to the classic management discipline of completed staff work.
The core idea is simple: leaders do not need more dashboards, alerts, reports, or raw data. They need information that has been interpreted, contextualized, risk-ranked, and shaped into clear options and recommendations.
This discipline matters across EHS, sustainability, operations, cybersecurity, process safety, and enterprise governance. Whether we are dealing with AIoT signals, process safety data, ESG disclosures, or operational risk indicators, the challenge is the same:
-What is happening
-Why does it matter
-What could happen next
-What should we do?
Decision-ready information converts complexity into accountable leadership action. Continue reading
Leadership 101: Positive Leaders Have a Healthy Dose of Skepticism Too
One of the greatest pleasures of leadership is seeing those you lead succeed. The more success that occurs, the better the team does. However… in dynamic and complex situations things won’t always go as planned. The experienced leader is always … Continue reading
Posted in Business Accumen, Career Skills, Leadership, Leadership 101, Uncategorized
Tagged business, Leadership, philosophy, Politics, trust
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Guest Blogger: A Word to Millennials…From A Millennial
A guest post by Scott Unruh In the EHS profession and manufacturing industries in general, we are starting to see an influx of Millennials entering the workforce. These “Young Pups” (still a nickname of mine today), are joining the ranks … Continue reading
Posted in Business Accumen, Leadership 101, Uncategorized
Tagged Millennials, personal development, Scott Unruh
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Leadership 101: Increase your Influence with Critical Questions
As a staff member on the organizational chart, many EHS Pros don’t ask critical questions of line staff at decisive moments. This is a missed opportunity to be influential during key decision making processes. By not constructively challenging the status-quo … Continue reading
Posted in Business Accumen, Leadership, Leadership 101, Serial Post
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