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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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Common Purpose Leadership

Leading Blog

For example: Emphasize One Goal – Gordon Bethune, CEO of Continental Airlines, recognized that his customers valued on-time performance. He set this as the measure of success for the company. In order to underscore this goal, Bethune decided to send every employee a check every time the company was first in on-time arrival.

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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. Additionally, you’ll want to educate employees on how to operate securely throughout your company at intervals, as new threats develop in the tech world all the time. I: Cybercrime.

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The “40-Year-Old Intern” Goes to Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In At the time, Goldman Sachs’ Returnship was the only thriving, return-to-work internship program at a large company. And last week J.P. In full disclosure, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, J.P.

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Five Lessons from 2010 Worth Repeating — Without Repeating 2010

Harvard Business Review

Volcanic ash, generally not on any company's worst case scenario list, disrupted air traffic for several weeks. Speaking of herds, while sacred cows can hold companies back if there is no courage to challenge orthodoxy, cows proved to be a better set of celebrity endorsers than Tiger Woods for Stonyfield Farms and their yogurt marketing.

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Resentment, Jealousy, Feuds: A Look at Intel’s Founding Team

Harvard Business Review

In time, it became – and remains, despite some bad strategic moves over the last decade – the world’s most important company (as I decided to subtitle the book). By then, it was one of the hottest companies on the planet. I decided then that this was a company I would keep at a distance.

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