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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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I proposed that we scrap our existing points-based attendance system and the requirements to attend. After escaping GM, I had an opportunity to attend graduate school at MIT, to study operations management, system dynamics, and other topics. There was no opportunity for pride and joy in work there.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

This of course directly correlated to our proposal win-rate of only about 40% of the bids in our facilities related departments. We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. In reality, we were not any more expensive than others.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

GE’s talent management people, for example, play a critical role, at both the corporate and business-unit level, in filling key positions, insuring smooth successions, driving company-wide review processes, and building tools that managers can use to direct their own careers. On paper, this approach makes perfect sense.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. Our group welcomes the competition. Exceed client expectations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

For example, the power company Tenaga Nasional could send a leader with strong operating capabilities to work for several years at Malaysia Airlines, acquiring skills in turning around a troubled business. The proposal was not immediately welcomed by the companies who anticipated all sorts of problems with contracts, arrangements and equity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? Before I left Partners to join the Commonwealth Fund in 2013, we had chosen the EHR and begun the rollout of the new IT infrastructure.

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