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• Sue Rice, Senior Vice President,
Global Human Resources
• Neil Richards, Senior Vice President, Global Operations, Supply
Chain and Quality
• Bill Shaner, Senior Vice President
and President, Advanced Materials
Handling
• Stuart Tison, Senior Vice President
and President, Specialty Chemicals
and Engineered Materials
• Dann Woodland (formerly of CMC
Materials), Senior Vice President
and President, Advanced Planarization Solutions
As a result of the completion of
the transaction, CMC Materials has
become a wholly owned subsidiary
of Entegris, and the shares of CMC
Materials common stock, which
previously traded under the ticker
symbol “CCMP” on the NASDAQ,
have ceased trading on and will be
delisted from the NASDAQ.
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change in an era when it seems
that’s all we ever do now.
“At Kotter, we get the question all
the time: what is the new normal?”
said Dr. Ahktar. “When COVID’s
over, what is the new normal? What
is it going to go back to? What we
know now is that we’re already
living the new normal. Really the
only thing we know is that change
is going to continue to come at us
in faster and in more complex ways.
So we have to be ready to build that
change capability and navigate the
uncertainty and complexity.”
While this likely feels overwhelming to most, Dr. Ahktar saids
this also presents an opportunity.
According to Dr. Ahktar, there are
strategies and science to change that
can help us close that gap between
our fast-moving world and our
struggles to keep up.
Researchers at Kotter have identified three components
to the science of change.
The first, Dr. Ahktar
explained, involved
the neuroscience of
change and understanding how we, as
humans, biologically
respond to threats and
opportunities. Working
with this knowledge,
Dr. Ahktar said, can
help management and
organization leaders
maximize staff potential
and create lasting
change rather than
burnout.
On the neuroscience
of change, she said,
researchers at Kotter
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complex engagements, walking
alongside clients during their
transformation efforts. She is also
a co-author of the book “Change:
How Organizations Create Hardto-Imagine Results Despite
Uncertain and Volatile Times,” and
her address to the semiconductor
industry on Tuesday encouraged
new ways of thinking about and
implementing organizational
Akhtar questioned
conventional wisdom
including why we
think of North as up.
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