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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. 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. Blog Post ). H3 Leadership : Stay Hungry. Always Hustle. Blog Post ).

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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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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

So the reengineered consumption models of the sharing economy are now well poised to go mass-market, and the battle cries of Hammer and Davenport won't be necessary this time around. In 2013, corporate America will need to pay very close attention to this new paradigm.

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Reimagining Primary Care: When Small Is Beautiful

Harvard Business Review

healthcare system have taken at least one well-worn market-based path: strive for economies of scale. Thanks to lower overhead, she is able to earn a full-time salary working part time. ”It’s actually very easy to run a solo ideal medical clinic in 2013,” she said. The attempts to “fix” the U.S.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. From 1993 to 2013 the cattle herd in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest — covering most of country’s northern region — expanded by nearly 200%, to more than 60 million head. Brazil is the world’s biggest beef exporter, with 19.6%

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

It’s an argument that economists such as Robert Gordon believe carries little weight, and the problem is not so much that the various benefits provided by the technologies of the 4th industrial revolution cannot be captured, but that the technologies themselves are not utilized enough. in 2013, compared to 2.5%