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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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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. Modern businesses need cybercrime deterrent solutions to maintain the security of operations. Some of the biggest threats to your company are going to develop internally. Some divisions of your company need more or less service than others. I: Cybercrime.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

More importantly, business education needs to evolve once again, revising its goals to educate leaders of the future who have a new set of skills: sustainable global thinking, entrepreneurial and innovative talents, and decision-making based on practical wisdom. Historically, business schools have so far been through two waves.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

In the late 19th and early 20th century, with modern times knocking on the door, successful businessmen like Joseph Wharton wanted to professionalize companies and legitimize working in business. The economics of operating large campuses, big faculties, and admin staff are inflating the costs of business education beyond reason.

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Why Organizations Should Embrace Randomness Like Ant Colonies

Harvard Business Review

Why are ant colonies so much better than the sum of their parts, while governments and companies are so often much worse? As Deborah Gordon, an ant biologist at Stanford, points out, “Elegant top-down designs are appealing, but the robustness of ant algorithms shows that tolerating imperfection sometimes leads to better solutions.”

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Your Next Big Idea Better Be Verb-able

Harvard Business Review

Under the leadership of Bob Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove, Intel crafted the silicon lexicon of Moore’s Law, microprocessors, and megahertz that made digital innovation exponential. Jeff Bezos has made Amazon as much an innovation verb as an innovative company. It needs to be a verb. That’s not good.

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