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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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Too Many Infrastructure Projects Go It Alone

Harvard Business Review

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. Classic leadership lessons apply. Engineering innovations lowered the cost. The company sponsored a school program for National Engineering Week and a tunnel exhibit for the neighboring Miami Children’s Museum.

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Stop Saying Big Companies Can’t Innovate

Harvard Business Review

The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps. ” The brilliant factory is part of CEO Jeffrey Immelt’s mission to ensure GE’s leadership in the industrial Internet of Things (IoT).

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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things

Harvard Business Review

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Transportation is a significant issue for this patient population.

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The Real Solution Is Growth

Harvard Business Review

The explosion of salaries on Wall Street has attracted many of the talented individuals who otherwise would have gone into research, design, and engineering occupations. This flight of talented students to work in finance harms all of us because it means that we have fewer "positive spillovers" from innovative activities.

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Why Not Take a Year Off to Work in Government?

Harvard Business Review

The program pairs start-ups with government workers to improve government services in areas including transportation, energy, data services, and the environment. When we asked our fellows, here are the reasons they shared with us: The opportunity to explore something new and find new paths to leadership. At over $140 billion, the U.S.

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To Go Digital, Leaders Have to Change Some Core Beliefs

Harvard Business Review

Real digital transformation requires transformation at a deeper level—transformation of the leadership team’s core beliefs. GM announced in early 2016 that it was going to invest $500 million in Lyft, a riding sharing, digital network of riders and drivers, as part of Lyft’s latest $1 billion venture financing round.