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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

Gordon Berridge: Our readers, with mining knowledge, will be will be familiar with the name Sam Walsh and Rio Tinto, but to provide a complete sketch of your background, would you please share a brief summary of your career history? Gordon Berridge: Would you please share what first attracted you to join Rio Tinto back in 1991?

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

What I like to refer as “positional gaps&# are best closed by listening to all sides, finding common ground and then letting the principle of doing the right thing guide the process. It is essential for organizational health and performance that conflict be accepted and addressed through effective conflict resolution processes.

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The Benefit of Dissenting Opinion | N2Growth Blog

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Do you dig-in your heels and prepare to defend your position to the death, all the while not really caring about how many casualties are incurred in the process? link] Gordon R. link] mikemyatt Wow…thanks for the thoughtful comment Gordon. Thanks for sharing Gordon. link] Gordon R. perception matters! [.]

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

After yet another painful discussion about what to do, the late Andy Grove, then Intel’s president, turned to CEO Gordon Moore and asked , “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?” ” Moore answered without hesitation: “He would get us out of memories.”

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Remembering Andy Grove, the Teacher

Harvard Business Review

I later read that Gordon Moore had said that was as likely to be adhered to as the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit. (As As usual, and luckily for Stanford, Gordon was right.). So we decided to develop a new elective MBA course called “Strategy and Action in the Information Processing Industry.”

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business Review

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. At least four proposals to reform it have recently surfaced, and USCIS has suspended expedited processing of H-1B applications. But in April, just after U.S.