N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

The company has grown through a long series of mergers and acquisitions to place itself among the world leaders in the production of many commodities, including aluminium, iron ore, copper, uranium, coal, and diamonds. This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.)

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

It’s no longer the domain of tech companies, as industries from manufacturing to finance are entering a tech-driven phase. How do we implement an agile mindset to incorporate both sides of the productivity equation? 2 They Use Advanced Technology to Enhance, Rather Than Replace, Human Productivity.

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Agility Process Management McKinsey 50

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Great leaders lead all people under their care, not just those who agree with them. As much as some don’t want to hear this, there is an “I&# in team because teams are comprised of individuals. If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best?

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Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 419

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 28, 2010

We are here to cooperate with them in a new and more productive way. It includes men, invites men as partners to rethink what we are doing to the planet, why we continue to put work ahead of family, ahead of raising the next generation, how much is enough, what really matters. We are not here to become like our men.

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 173

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

This peanut-finance system, which turned the peanuts into food for hospital patients, seems quaint, like tales from 19th century America of rural doctors taking chickens for treating chicken pox. How could cars sitting empty in employee parking lots all day be used productively, with a return to employees?

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Finance Strategy Banking Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

In low-income countries, according to World Bank data in a recent paper by the consultancy Dalberg, 43% of businesses with between 20 and 99 employees say that access to finance is a major constraint. The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and]

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Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

rogue traders in finance). blaming subordinates for any failure), undermining cooperation, psychological safety, trust in coworkers, and the ability to admit uncertainty or mistakes. Organizations rely on cooperative teamwork to succeed. The business case against masculinity contests.

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Organization Cooper Bottom-up Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Listen to the words of a finance manager in a large consumer products company, whose efforts to improve his business team's profit margins were repeatedly undercut by people in the sales department: "I learned that pricing for one of our key accounts has already been confirmed to the customer, without any prior approval or review. [.]

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Management Engineering Price Brainstorming 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

But the advent of Big Data, sophisticated modeling techniques, and robust algorithms are opening a door to cooperation and opportunities that have never been possible before. With a little creativity, CMOs can work with them to monetize that data to create new products and, in some cases, whole new markets.

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Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing. It used to be that “serving a city” meant selling a product or service directly to city governments. It also requires setting up aligned incentives between city teams and business divisions.

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Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Zaleznik chronicled how he saw American managers, influenced by the rising popularity of the human relations school, turn increasingly from the substantive work of organizations — creating products and services, cultivating markets, pleasing customers, cutting costs, and getting stuff done — to what he termed "psychopolitics."

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Management Cooper Short-term Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Investors preferred new SaaS products over product conversions and valued having a product fallback option. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc.

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Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Throughout the Western world, and increasingly elsewhere, individual performance is glorified over and above collective team efforts. For instance, midlevel managers may primarily affect their teams, but C-suite leaders can be expected to influence the majority of the organization. How much do CEOs actually matter? In the U.S.

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CEO Drucker Peer Review Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2013

It endeavors to stimulate cooperation across divisions (by repeatedly shouting really loudly that this should happen), sets up corporate shared services (which invariably are seen as a mere cost and nuisance by its divisional heads), and gives a lot of lip service to creating "cross-divisional synergies.".

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Strategy P&L Engineering Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

At the end of the day, organizations are collections of people; this means that superior organizations need more effective ways for them to cooperate and work toward a common goal. That is because, ultimately, competitive advantage comes from people, rather than products or patents. ” Research backs this up.

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Sports Management Competitive Advantage Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Diversity on your founding team will give you strength. If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market. If you are great at the finances, an early-stage Excel ninja partner probably isn't be the top priority. Different operational skills.

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How To Long-term Learning Curve Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

At the start of 2016 Google announced that it had discovered the secret ingredients for the perfect team. Perhaps more surprising, Google’s research implies that the kinds of people in the team are not so relevant. In particular, personality affects: What role you have within the team. You and Your Team Series.

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