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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

with equal rotation of study in the final year of GMI’s Business Administration School, really launched my career at GM and led to my quick progression through the organisation culminating in my leading the team that restructured General Motors in Australia in 1986. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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The Language Of Leadership

Lead from Within

In leadership language: “I know that this restructuring has been hard for you. © 2013 Lolly Daskal. Character Communication Lead From Within Leadership Leadership Development Life Balance Life Skills Personal Development Workplace Credibility Ethos Language Logos Open Heart Open Mind Open Will Pathos' I’m here to help.”.

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Goldman Sachs Decides Restructuring Work Is Possible, After All

Harvard Business Review

After years of hearing that it was impossible to restructure jobs to make them more doable, guess what? According to The Wall Street Journal , when Goldman Sachs discovered it couldn’t attract and retain the most promising recruits with pay and perks alone, it woke up to the idea that you can actually restructure the way work is done.

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To Handle Increased Stress, Build Your Resilience

Harvard Business Review

According to the International Labour Organization, workers in developed and developing countries are facing increasing strain at work. Researchers at the University of Buffalo found that stressors, big and small, help us develop the skills to face other taxing or stressful circumstances in the future.

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You've Come a Medium-Length Way, Baby

Harvard Business Review

It was called "Equal Opportunity for Women Is Smart Business" but it might just as easily have been called "Management Development for Women Is Just Management Development (but with women in it)." Watch for our January-February 2013 issue, which revisits this study.). That, essentially, was the message behind M.

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For a Codependent America and China, What Comes Next?

Harvard Business Review

That was my worry during the seemingly interminable period that separated my final revisions to Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China , submitted in August 2013, and the actual publication date in late January 2014. But it’s a development that America may not be prepared for.

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When Did the U.S. Stop Seeing Teachers as Professionals?

Harvard Business Review

” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. To this end, teachers’ work has subsequently been the subject of major restructuring over the past three decades. Schools needed to function more like businesses and successfully compete for students.