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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

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? Gordon Berridge: Would you please share what first attracted you to join Rio Tinto back in 1991?

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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

You Win in the Locker Room First : The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life by Jon Gordon and Mike Smith Jon Gordon and NFL coach Mike Smith describe how to transform a mediocre team into a winning one. Best Leadership Books of 2013. It is important for the questions it raises. Blog Post ).

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The December 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Leadership at the Movies Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Then again, since leadership equals influence these days, perhaps I should offer up Gordon Gekko in Wall Street and his famous (infamous) "greed is good scenario. Wall Street Submitted by Miki Saxon , from MAPping Compnay Success : “ There are those of us who don''t go to movies or even watch them on TV.

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Brave Men Take Paternity Leave

Harvard Business Review

But research from economists Gordon B. ” However, as Gordon Dahl points out, the influence of peers — both direct combined with the snowball effect — accounts for 21% of the total increase in participation in the parental leave program from 1993 to 1999. Dahl, Katrine V. more likely, respectively, to take parental leave.”

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The Art of Irresistible Email

Harvard Business Review

Date: Friday, May 30, 2013. From: Gordon Boss, SVP Human Resources and Virginia Brown, Training Director. Date: Thursday, May 29, 2013. Clear structure and typographical signalling will boost the odds that your reader will get your message quickly and respond in ways that meet your goal. To: Blue Corp Office Directors.

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The One Thing Your Team Wants You to Stop Doing

Harvard Business Review

A third quoted Gordon Selfridge: "A boss inspires fear, a leader inspires enthusiasm.". Why, that could even turn out to be your resolution for 2013. There was an unmistakable call for appreciative, empathetic, respect-worthy leaders. Lead by example, not by rules," wrote one young man on Facebook. Stop trying to control people.,"

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The “40-Year-Old Intern” Goes to Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

In mid-September 2013, 10 professionals returning from multi-year career breaks walked into 270 Park Avenue in New York City to begin the J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In Morgan ReEntry Program. And last week J.P.

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