N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

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. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Sensors, smartphones, tablets, wireless networks, and Big Data are starting to transform transportation and infrastructure. After extensive consultation with pilots and other experts, the FAA has proposed a rule change that might allow operational use of tablets. Photo by Andrew Nguyen. But not fast enough. infrastructure problems.

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Transportation Entrepreneur Wireless Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. He applied his specialized expertise to help this team evaluate the impact of construction-induced vibration on surrounding public transportation infrastructure. Upbeat Music Can Make Employees More Cooperative.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

They have adopted a silo mentality of departmental self-interest, maintaining rigid, top-down hierarchies that act as a barrier to cooperative participation and promote a dependency on managers. By contrast, there is little openness and cooperation in the corporate world. As a result, companies operate below their potential.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? One challenge, as you might expect, was introducing a software center that disrupted the existing GE’s power structure, which resides in its business units, such as Aviation, Healthcare, Power and Water, and Transportation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

They have adopted a silo mentality of departmental self-interest, maintaining rigid, top-down hierarchies that act as a barrier to cooperative participation and promote a dependency on managers. By contrast, there is little openness and cooperation in the corporate world. As a result, companies operate below their potential.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Hierarchical command-and-control is slow and operates less on incentives for solutions than on avoiding criticism or mistakes. It’s urgent that we move from the “thin we” of today’s current response to the “thicker we” of a community engaged for true cooperative action. Crisis management Leadership Managing uncertainty'

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