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. On with the interview. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

Gordon 150

Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 20, 2016

There is a large body of research indicating the organizational, marketing and financial benefits of an equitable gender mix in management and worker-team groups. In the 1940s and 50s, women represented a small portion of higher management positions, and this trend continued forward until the mid-1960s. Shifting the Norm.

Company 100

Company Automotive Diversity Metrics 100

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? ” Management Science 56.2

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

A mid-level manager in this 5,000-employee hospital, she is leading a 70-member group on patient flow as part of a larger organizational effort. Her ability to lead and inspire — to become a change leader from her position as a mid-level manager — is helping her team produce results. I found a few defining characteristics: 1.

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 2013, we created a global Social Media Center of Expertise (CoE), staffed by about 600 people in five regions from the marketing, communications, and customer care teams, with the goal of enhancing the company’s market-based decision making (part of CEO Mary Barra’s mantra of earning customers for life ). Keep it simple.

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Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

So when we faced such a challenge at Lear Corporation, a Fortune 200 automotive supplier with 136,000 employees worldwide, we knew the odds were against us. We succeeded, but by 2013 we worried that we had taken our focus on results too far. We asked ourselves: What could we do differently?

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Resistance Long-term Short-term Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Although the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Bill of 2013 — introduced four weeks ago by a bipartisan group of eight U.S. That deal was supposed to protect America''s floundering automotive manufacturers, but it did nothing to help GM, Ford, and Chrysler become more competitive.

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Offshoring Information Technology Automotive Technology 8