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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

with equal rotation of study in the final year of GMI’s Business Administration School, really launched my career at GM and led to my quick progression through the organisation culminating in my leading the team that restructured General Motors in Australia in 1986. I will, of course, continue with my Charity and Arts connections.

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50 Forms of Dysfunction in the Workplace

Lead from Within

Every workplace has some degree of dysfunction, of course. Unfortunately, the uncertainty of frequent restructuring actually makes problems worse. Quotas are a common practice but often not the best way to build a talented and committed diverse staff. Lack of diversity. High turnover. Hiring quotas.

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How to Plan a Great Off-site Meeting

Great Leadership By Dan

Of course, they can also be like a sentence in purgatory if not planned and run well. A restructuring? Examples of themes are innovation, change, diversity, or playing to win. This post recently appeared on Smartblog on Leadership : To start off the New Year, a lot of leaders will take their teams “off-site” for a day or more.

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Where Are All The Great Careers? Hiding Right Here.

Rich Gee Group

The best part about it is how diverse the field is – a mixture of engineering, science, computer programming, and hands-on fabrication trade skills all centered around simple trigonometric equations – it’s mostly triangles. Takes 2 years to get your education and the courses are dirt cheap and the jobs are in huge demand.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

Directly influenced by investor input, Nikon developed a restructuring plan that would carry a onetime cost of ¥48 billion ($460 million) but generate ¥20 billion ($190 million) in annual savings. Not until the restructuring was completed would Nikon pursue a growth agenda. .”

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The Vioxx Recall Tested Our Leadership

Harvard Business Review

We agreed that whatever course of action we decided to take would be based on what we believed the science said about what was in the best interests of patients. Should we restructure the organization to lower costs and at least partially offset the loss of revenue? We viewed restructuring as a last resort. billion in revenues.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

They cannot chart a future course based on a wide-eyed search for external growth: “There’s an attractive, adjacent market. Moreover, fixed assets are more difficult to leverage across diverse businesses than capabilities, and they tend to expire, become obsolete, or give way to related services. Let’s go after it.”