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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

Gordon Berridge: Our readers, with mining knowledge, will be will be familiar with the name Sam Walsh and Rio Tinto, but to provide a complete sketch of your background, would you please share a brief summary of your career history? Gordon Berridge: Would you please share what first attracted you to join Rio Tinto back in 1991?

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The Seven Tests of A CEO

Leading Blog

Test #1 Can You Develop a Simple Plan for Your Strategy? Or as former CFO of the Disney Interactive Media Group, Bruce Gordon, puts it, “Very few people are bad at their job, but many are not as good as they must be.”. Listening is actually being alert to the whole ecosystem in which you operate.”

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Servant Leadership in Action

Leading Blog

But that is because they don’t understand that there are two parts to servant leadership: a visionary/direction, or strategic role—the leadership aspect of servant leadership and an implementation, or operational role—the servant aspect of servant leadership. To me, that’s what servant leadership is all about.”.

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Innovation Conversations with Dimension, Time, Cost

Mike Cardus

Sharing a TRIZ problem-solving tool called DTC Operator. This tool comes from this great book called TRIZICS by Gordon Cameron. I built this out on Mural; you can download the Innovation DTC operator Mural template here. DTC Operator. Generally, DTC Operator is set up for more technical problems. Video Transcript.

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7 Principles to Lead with Imagination

Leading Blog

He cites a passage from General Gordon Sullivan’s book, Hope Is Not a Method , that is particularly instructive. It is how successful leaders in business, in all walks of life, in fact, operate: by keeping their eyes on today and on the vision— always moving forward. This is a powerful book. Honest, straightforward, and insightful.

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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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The Benefit of Dissenting Opinion | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you don’t engage those who hold dissenting opinions and viewpoints in candid and open discussions you will struggle in developing to your true intellectual potential. link] Gordon R. link] mikemyatt Wow…thanks for the thoughtful comment Gordon. Thanks for sharing Gordon. link] Gordon R.

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