N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

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? I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Throughout my own career I have made it a priority to seek out bosses, coworkers, mentors and assignments that would help me grow. The majority of individuals in leadership positions chose to wield fear as a tool to institute compliance and reinforce conformity. Some reading this may be familiar with the Jesuit order, many may not.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

We hired roughly 1,000 new employees in approximately 15 months to build our operations, human resources, compliance, and technology teams. (We We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.) The first thing we did was engage in ongoing listening sessions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

In search of answers, I studied Mocidade Alegre, interviewing people of all ranks in the organization, from dancers with no managerial authority, to the wing chiefs who cajole the dancers into compliance, to the many directors, to the school’s president. What can large corporations operating in Brazil learn from all this?

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