Monday, February 3, 2025

How a Company Changed its Leadership Mindset during a Commodities Downturn

From McKinsey Three executives at one of the world’s most unusual mining operations describe how even in a highly unpredictable context, lean management improves not just productivity, but also how people lead. Chilean mining company Sociedad Quimica y Minera (SQM) operates 19-square mile brine ponds in the remote Atacama Desert —some of the world’s largest sites for extracting essential minerals,

EQT Foundation Makes $6.2 Million in Charitable Donations in 2016

The EQT Foundation’s charitable giving in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky rose to a record $6.2 million in 2016, the Pittsburgh-based organization announced Thursday. EQT Foundation is the charitable giving group for EQT (NYSE: EQT), the Pittsburgh-based natural gas driller. The 2016 totals were higher than the $5.2 million the foundation gave out in 2015. The money went to 100 nonprofits and