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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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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

It’s a fascinating study, one that echoes my constant inquiry of the difference between success and failure. You are teaching what separates successful innovators from those who struggle. If Tesla’s ideas ultimately had more impact, then why was Edison so much more successful? Lessons from Tesla versus Edison.

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How GM Uses Social Media to Improve Cars and Customer Service

Harvard Business Review

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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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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Changing an Organization’s Culture, Without Resistance or Blame

Harvard Business Review

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 succeeded, but by 2013 we worried that we had taken our focus on results too far.

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Your Board Should Be Full of Activists

Harvard Business Review

In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom. Leadership Boards' Consider what the board of General Electric has declared as its criteria for new directors.

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Priorities for Jumpstarting the U.S. Industrial Economy

Harvard Business Review

Aquion is a modern success story for American industry. industries: 35 advanced manufacturing industries such as automotive and aerospace manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and semiconductors; three energy industries including electric power generation; and 12 service industries, from software design to telecommunications.