N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

There are many so-called management gurus in today’s politically correct world who would take great exception to what I’m putting forth in today’s post. link] Gordon R. link] mikemyatt Hi Gordon: Thanks for your well wishes Gordon. Thanks Mark. They are greatly appreciated.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help avoid conflicts. Share and Enjoy: View Comments Gordon R.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 19, 2021

From Miranda Priestley in The Devil Wears Prada to Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, a bad boss makes for a toxic workplace. But, beyond its negative effect on employees individually, unaccountable managers can also cost companies tons of money. Who was the most toxic boss you worked for in your career?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

Give me real leaders who possess courage, vision, and a bias toward action, and spare me the timidity of mediocre managers posing as leaders. If change and innovation weren’t key contributors to sustainable success, and the enterprise could just run on auto-pilot, you could replace the CEO with a General Manager.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Remember the character Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street? That is, out of 1,000 managers rated, he was dead last! His profit contribution was so vast that the CEO promoted him to the company’s management committee. This should have been the apex of Mike’s young career. by Marshall Goldsmith.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

It used to be that you could learn the core skills for a career in college and graduate school – think management, accounting, law – and then apply it over forty years. The biggest challenge is the speed of change, which pressures all the management approaches we were taught in business school, particularly around planning cycles.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 20, 2011

Remember the character Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street? Out of 1,000 managers rated, he was dead last! His profit contribution was so vast that the CEO promoted him to management. This should have been the apex of Mike’s career. Michael Douglas won an Oscar for his portrayal of this rude, larcenous wheeler-dealer.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Posted by Meredith Bell at 10:11 AM Labels: assumptions , beliefs , influence behavior , Personal Stories 6comments: Dov Gordon | The Alchemist Entrepreneur said. Dov Gordon October 3, 2010 9:16 AM Meredith Bell said. October 3, 2010 3:10 PM Dov Gordon | The Alchemist Entrepreneur said. Hi Meredith, Good story.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 3, 2011

In the movie Wall Street, Michael Douglas won an Oscar for his portrayal of the rude, larcenous wheeler-dealer Gordon Gekko. Mike's score for treating colleagues with respect was dismal; in fact, out of 1,000 managers rated, he was dead last! His profit contribution was so vast that the CEO promoted him into management.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon Soup , an inspirational business fable, shares a recipe for success filled with the essential ingredients to build a winning team and create a culture of greatness. People are hungry for positive change and a fresh sense of purpose and passion.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon. A recipe for success for anyone in any position, Soup delivers the powerful message that the quality of your career, business, and team is determined by the quality of your relationships. Most managers and business leaders would agree that they feel a lot of pressure.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon. A recipe for success for anyone in any position, Soup delivers the powerful message that the quality of your career, business, and team is determined by the quality of your relationships. Most managers and business leaders would agree that they feel a lot of pressure.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

link] Gordon R. By understanding and managing the perception of others my managing our own attitudes and acceptance of others even when they don’t agree with us is vital to our ability to expand our own knowledge and skills and to be perceived as a true leader. Thanks for sharing Gordon. link] Gordon R.

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Roundtable Talk

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Leadership is about taking risks… When Christine and her partners launched SCC, most of her banking friends didn’t understand why she was walking away from her “promising career&#. Context is critical… explaining the “why&# behind decisions is crucial to helping organizations manage change.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 15, 2009

The good news is that many of these folks manage to extract themselves from what might have otherwise been mind-numbing existences and to fly to dizzying heights of success simply by insisting on being themselves. For a deeper view on this, check out the book “Orbiting The Giant Hairball&# by Gordon McKenzie ( [link] ).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

The condition is rare but, fortunately, there appeared to be several specialists both in Germany and France who had each treated hundreds of cases during their careers. So I suggested to Gordon that we go through the revolving door, come back in, and just do it ourselves.” Tap into the wisdom of your crowd.

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Roundtable Talk

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

One has to wonder what type of pressure someone like John Furlong was under and how he managed to get any sleep over the past 17 days. PS – A special leadership shout-out goes out to BC Premier Gordon Campbell for waving the Canadian flag like a maniac during Furlong’s speech and nearly taking out Harpers eye. Happy leading!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Gordon Ramsay’s Secret Ingredient to Sustained Success. .” Read More from HBX: Atlantic Records Chairman on Ensuring Long-Term Success in a Changing Industry. BuzzFeed’s CEO on the Secret to Virality. A Startup Veteran on How Aspiring Entrepreneurs Can Best Define Success.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

.” In other words, someone who stocked the dairy section was as empowered to share positivity through leaving a note on a store-wide gratitude board as was the manager. Others are mid-level, solo entrepreneurs, retired, or some at some other point in their careers. If so, What can we learn from them?”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Here's what we believe, surveying the landscape: It would take something like 1,000 hours — and maybe a lot longer — to recover from a forced career change. Obviously, you are going to have to keep doing this for the rest of your career. Especially in this job market. And you may be right.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

In 2000 we started following the careers of MBA graduates from top U.S. Our study's overall finding is clear: The problem isn't only a late-career phenomenon by which women are denied the big promotion after having advanced steadily alongside men. As Gordon M. Rather, the entire pipeline is in peril.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

I later read that Gordon Moore had said that was as likely to be adhered to as the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit. (As As usual, and luckily for Stanford, Gordon was right.). Plus he had already contributed to the business literature with his best-selling book High Output Management (1983). Here is the last one that helped me.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 2, 2013

This is a particularly important strategy for managing individual and team stress. Here''s a post I once wrote on this subject of using integrity to manage holiday stress.” 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The answers “I am not up to much” and “I have some time on my hands, actually” are not going to do much for your internal status and career. As famous management professor Henry Mintzberg has described, much of strategy is “ emergent.” Is my organization consistent with my strategy?

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

An expansion of the popular Situation Solutions Guide appendix to provide tips on how to deal with more of the predictable situations that executives will face in their career. Fresh insights from global executives on what it takes to succeed in a competitive marketplace.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

It seemed as if there was never a good time for Susie Gordon and Antonio Barile to talk. You''ve done a great job of hiring new managers, keeping our existing customers, and signing up new ones, but now we need to streamline our production and improve quality to meet their expectations. She was a great manager, a great leader.

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