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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. Gordon Berridge: What do you see as the greatest leadership strength? On with the interview.

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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How Masculinity Contests Undermine Organizations, and What to Do About It

Harvard Business Review

For example, Susan Fowler’s 2017 blog about Uber detailed not only her recollections of being repeatedly harassed, but what she described as a “game-of-thrones” environment, in which managers sought to one-up and sabotage colleagues to get ahead. rogue traders in finance). Real change requires shutting down this game.

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Lots of Employees Get Misclassified as Contractors. Here’s Why It Matters

Harvard Business Review

All of these issues rushed back to mind recently when the political leadership at the current U.S. Lacking capital, truckers purchased new vehicles through financing provided by these very same trucking companies. This imbalance has not evaporated in the flexible work environment of today, nor will it in the foreseeable future.

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Google Changes the Playing Field on News

Harvard Business Review

In an environment of continued calls for renewed investigative journalism, Google was part of the problem. Thus, the whole mechanism depends on the development of a norm of cooperation among publishers, just as similar norms have developed in academia. Google has acknowledged this problem and sought to do something about it.

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How to Make Your Management Process More Agile

Strategy Driven

Agility is defined by McKinsey & Company as “… the ability of an organization to renew itself, adapt, change quickly, and thrive in an environment characterized by rapid change, ambiguity, and turbulence.” Fast-evolving business environments. 4 They Focus More on Developing Leadership Than Managing Staff.

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