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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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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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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. We learned from our experience in culture change that having the ability to lead others to success does not happen by accident; it takes solid values, a long-term and deep commitment, alignment, accountability, and great leadership.

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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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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. Here, professionalism is a skill that can be practiced and learned over time, by anyone, with success and failure measured based on an agreed-upon objective standard.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

” In other words, Bunge views success as the result of exercise and work going hand-in-hand. And at Björn Borg, their key performance indicators have improved after Bunge was brought in as CEO : net sales increased by 27% between 2013 and 2016, and operating profits tripled. Everybody had to do the sports hour.

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What Happened When Linkin Park Asked Harvard for Help with Its Business Model

Harvard Business Review

The most successful artists in this new landscape have begun to look at new business models and new industries to strengthen their existing brands. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate. We’ve all had to adapt. Photo by Lorenzo Errico. Enter Harvard Business School.