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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2019

Leading Blog

The Coffee Bean : A Simple Lesson to Create Positive Change by Jon Gordon and Damon West. Wright answers a critical question plaguing entrepreneurs, brand strategists, marketers, and leaders: how do you grow your brand in a noisy world? Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2019.

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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 Movement Of People And Ideas Is Key To Economic Growth

The Horizons Tracker

It’s nearly a decade since Northwestern’s Robert Gordon pondered whether sclerotic innovation was causing the death of economic growth as we had come to know it. As the World Economic Forum highlights , this is especially important for developing nations that tend to import science and research rather than develop it domestically.

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First Impressions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I actually prefer to play to the middle in that I am neither understated nor overstated, but I am comfortable with who I am and my approach to the market. Share and Enjoy: View Comments Gordon R. link] mikemyatt Thanks for your comment Gordon. Thanks for stopping by Gordon. Clogston Hi, Mike.

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How Systems Engineering Can Help Fix Health Care

Harvard Business Review

When an aircraft manufacturer decides to create a new model, it doesn’t ask pilots and crew to identify the best cabin, wings, jet engines, and other parts, and then put all the pieces together. But we had to focus because the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which funded the project, wanted to ensure that we demonstrated results.

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Is R&D Getting Harder, or Are Companies Just Getting Worse At It?

Harvard Business Review

Historically, R&D has been viewed as the engine of national economic growth as well. In fact, Northwestern economist Robert Gordon, in The Rise and Fall of American Growth , makes similar arguments. The dismal outcome if Jones and Gordon are correct is that growth will decline to zero (other than for population growth).

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Divest With Care

Harvard Business Review

Dump it, dump it all," Gordon Gekko says as the tape moves against him, and a lot of corporate divestitures have this feel to it — reactive. GE's expertise at building and marketing engineered products is legendary, but media and entertainment call for different skills. GE-NBC/Universal. Gillette-Duracell.