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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

Gordon Berridge: Our readers, with mining knowledge, will be will be familiar with the name Sam Walsh and Rio Tinto, but to provide a complete sketch of your background, would you please share a brief summary of your career history? I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career. On with the interview.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

From Everybody Matters which helps us to look at those we lead as family to Becoming Steve Jobs that looks at the development of a leader as a life-long process, the following books help us to do just that. Leadership BS : Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jeffrey Pfeffer Leadership BS is a compendium of human nature.

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The Big Picture of Business- Flip Sides, Second Acts and Successful Careers

Strategy Driven

It used to be said that people have three careers in them. Bacharach started his music writing career by taking 'work for hire,' tailoring songs to particular performers. The Bacharach repertoire expanded, and he developed his signature musical style, along with lyricists such as Hal David. Resources being developed.

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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Gordon R. I often engage in the MBWA behaviors and though I am not the expert that my team members are, I have stepped in to help them whenever needed, and yes, on occasion when it wasn't, but our open and respectful environment allows them to say "I got it, thanks."

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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

As a consequence of accelerating change, the old model of managerial skill development and application is no longer effective. It used to be that you could learn the core skills for a career in college and graduate school – think management, accounting, law – and then apply it over forty years. How did you develop it?

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April 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the April 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I read through this month’s Leadership Development Carnival entries, I felt a bit of the same. Others are mid-level, solo entrepreneurs, retired, or some at some other point in their careers. If so, What can we learn from them?”

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View from the C-Suite with Christine Magee, Sleep Country Canada.

Roundtable Talk

Leadership is about taking risks… When Christine and her partners launched SCC, most of her banking friends didn’t understand why she was walking away from her “promising career&#. Know the risks, but believe in yourself and don’t explain your decision to the doubters, just go do it. There was so much more.

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