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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

The company has grown through a long series of mergers and acquisitions to place itself among the world leaders in the production of many commodities, including aluminium, iron ore, copper, uranium, coal, and diamonds. Gordon Berridge: Would you please share what first attracted you to join Rio Tinto back in 1991?

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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2019

Leading Blog

The Coffee Bean : A Simple Lesson to Create Positive Change by Jon Gordon and Damon West. Analyzing 1,500 fast-growing companies from Alibaba to Zara, the Columbia University lecturer and Ogilvy global consulting partner unpacks five branding secrets. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases.

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How To Survive And Then Reset To Ultimately Thrive

Eric Jacobson

Homkesā€™ book is a timely, comprehensive, and essential read for business leaders looking to take the next step toward ensuring high growth for their companies. The book brings together more than 15 years of Homkes working directly with high-growth companies of all sizes and across a wide variety of industries.

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

Itā€™s an argument that economists such as Robert Gordon believe carries little weight, and the problem is not so much that the various benefits provided by the technologies of the 4th industrial revolution cannot be captured, but that the technologies themselves are not utilized enough. in 2013, compared to 2.5% years as recently as 1998.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

For more than 10 years now I have been helping people to develop their own Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME). They are experts on something but they donā€™t care much about the structure of the company, they lack the knowledge about planning, accounting or even human resources. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank.

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10 Technology Problems Modern Business Owners Have To Deal With

Strategy Driven

Presently, the global tech market is estimated around $5 trillion. Some of the biggest threats to your company are going to develop internally. Working with MSPs or internal security groups to develop best-practices can be key here. Some divisions of your company need more or less service than others.

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Did Trade with China Make U.S. Manufacturing Less Innovative?

Harvard Business Review

In early 2016 economists David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson published an influential paper that highlighted some of the costs of global trade. companies to become more innovative? The researchers looked at trade data from 1991 to 2007, during which time China became a global manufacturing powerhouse. innovation.