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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. Pathos is the leading with open heart. As a leader, you must have an open heart to relate to others, the language of heart is passion, compassion, and caring. Your workload has tripled, and I’m sure you’re extremely stressed.

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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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The Challenges GM Is Facing, and the Reasoning Behind Its Plant Closures

Harvard Business Review

For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013. I believe a far-better path is to restructure the operations in question way before they threaten the company’s survival.

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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

We spent half a million dollars to train our people and restructure our reward systems over 10 years. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The only material differences between our campuses were geography and the quality of the leadership. They spent five times that on one lost lawsuit in one year.

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GM’s Stock Buyback Is Bad for America and the Company

Harvard Business Review

government sold off all of its GM holdings in December 2013, U.S. While the restructuring certainly helped GM return to profitability (its annual net income averaged $6.7 billion from 2010 through 2013), it would probably still be bankrupt but for the booming Chinese market. billion by the U.S. By the time the U.S. billion loss.

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To Handle Increased Stress, Build Your Resilience

Harvard Business Review

The onslaught of mounting stressors include global challenges, such as climate change, terrorism, and political turmoil – as well as personal and professional challenges, such as illnesses, job changes, and organizational restructuring. For many of us, the initial response to stress is to look for external fixes.

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