Andrew Liveris
The Operator
Execution, delivery and performance, gets the hard thing done.
Andrew Liveris reads as The Operator because his Dow Chemical tenure was a study in disciplined execution and unflinching accountability. He steered the company through the 2008 financial crisis without abandoning the transformative Rohm and Haas merger, restructured Dow's portfolio with precision, and delivered on commitments when pressure was most severe. Strategic intent mattered, but what defined Liveris was relentless operational follow-through, the backbone quality on which everything else depended.
“We put a strategy in place at oh five and we executed over ten years to move us back to an innovation centric company. We had lost our way, we had commoditized, we had rested on the laurels of all our previous inventions.”
“The issues of our time need to be integrated into your strategy. Knowing what your employees think, being available to them, ubiquitously communicating to get the sentiment on inequality, inclusion, environmental responsibility, digitalization.”
“Manufacturing R and D live together through prototyping and scaling. If we've lost our ability to actually make, then we start to atrophy the innovation side.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Andrew Liveris”
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