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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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Close to 2,500 Carvana Employees Get Laid Off Over Zoom

HR Digest

Carvana aims to restructure its workforce and focus on growth in the coming year. The layoffs will mainly be for Carvana employees in operational groups as the company seeks to “better align staffing and expense levels with sales volumes.”. Image Credit: Jim Hill). Carvana Employees Layoffs.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. And there are other people who are great at following orders but cause teams to fail because of their reluctance to step up into leadership roles.

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Smart Cities Start with Smart Buildings - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DELL AND INTEL®

Harvard Business Review

As more people move to urban areas, cities face ever more economic and environmental challenges, including resource constraints, economic restructuring, aging populations, and pressures on public finances. According to Lucid, building managers can realize significant energy savings purely from operational measures.

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Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities

Harvard Business Review

This means centralizing and systematizing activity throughout your company while still fostering participation and experimentation. We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them. Adapted from. Strategy That Works. Add to Cart.

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To Seize the Future, Create a Leadership Circle

Harvard Business Review

While a natural inclination, this group is (by design) representative of current operating units and functions, which often have a status quo to defend. To start, create a diverse ad hoc team of 15–18 people from throughout the company to work together for about six months. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

“We had to train harder, measure our goals better, and become a better team,” Bunge said. It is also a matter of having fun and fostering strong bonds between team members to help them reach their goals. The ambition was to double sales and have a 90% employee engagement rate within five years.

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