N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

Sam Walsh: I graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from Melbourne University and started my career in the Automotive Industry at General Motors in Australia in 1972. I started my career in purchasing; migrated to sales and marketing; moved to manufacturing, mining, and then general management in a business operating in 40 countries.

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

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

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. Nigeria’s automotive industry is booming, as international car makers are expanding their dealerships and setting up local assembly plants.

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Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

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. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

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. Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. We succeeded, but by 2013 we worried that we had taken our focus on results too far.

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Resistance Long-term Short-term Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Among their trophies in 2014 was a complete housecleaning at Darden Restaurants, the largest operator of full-service restaurants in the U.S. 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.

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Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8