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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. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2019.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

It’s about diversity of thought and understanding that good ideas come from anywhere. You Win in the Locker Room First : The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life by Jon Gordon and Mike Smith Jon Gordon and NFL coach Mike Smith describe how to transform a mediocre team into a winning one. Blog Post ).

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Why Your Creative Idea Isn’t All That Original (And That’s A Good Thing)

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Star Wars is a combination of spaghetti westerns, some Flash Gordon serials, Akira Kurosawa samurai films, mixed in with a little World War II fighter jet scenes and some Muppets. George Lucas made an incredible combination of ideas because he was consuming so many different, diverse ideas. That’s about it.

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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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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-03-18

Tanveer Naseer

Listening Is Critical in Today’s Multicultural Workplace [link] # leadership #communication # diversity #. RT @ JesseLynStoner : Why It’s Time to Rethink Your Company Brand’s Message – [link] by @ TanveerNaseer #. Minority Entrepreneurs Still Face Bias, Prof Says [link] # entrepreneurship #diversity #.

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7 Steps To Foster Emotional Intelligence In Your Team

Tanveer Naseer

Your employees also have diverse skills, talents, and knowledge that could be beneficial to your overall goals. Having employees that enjoy spending time together can help make work that much more enjoyable and lead to their hearts being more into the day-to-day work they are doing for the company.”