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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

In 1994 having ostensibly completed this successfully I was transferred to the mining side of the business, in iron ore, then aluminium – running the Aluminium Product Group, back to Iron Ore to run this Product Group and then in early 2013 I was promoted to Global CEO. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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Why Adding More Products Isn’t Always the Best Way to Grow

Harvard Business Review

They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations.

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China’s New Development Bank Is a Wake-Up Call for Washington

Harvard Business Review

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. It’s stated mission is to “focus on the development of infrastructure and other productive sectors in Asia.” billion of subscribed capital) or the Asian Development Bank ($162.8