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Chief Procurement Officer Search: Securing Your Supply Chain Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Robust supply chain leadership ensures effective oversight and management of the end-to-end supply chain processes, from procurement to delivery. Moreover, strong leadership in supply chain management ensures cost efficiency. Technology can play a pivotal role in the initial stages of the CPO search process.

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6 Factors That Can Impact Your Commercial Business

Strategy Driven

While some of these elements are within a business owner’s control, others are external forces that require a well-thought-out strategy to manage. By preparing for these eventualities, business owners can navigate these complexities with greater confidence and agility. Equally important is training and development.

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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Ann also met with Titania Woo of The Hong Kong Management Association to discuss partnership opportunities in the region. Furthermore, Ann was delighted to be able to personally present a number of Chartered Managers and Fellows with their certificates. Learn more here.

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Saving Face: How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust

Skip Prichard

Maya Hu-Chan is a management consultant, executive coach, author, and speaker, and founder of Global Leadership Associates. More important, even if you managed to get all the spilled water on the ground back into the glass, at that point would you still want to drink it? Linda is a manager at a software company. Me neither.

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The Most Important Predictor of Sales Success

Harvard Business Review

MBA students are dutifully taught finance, strategy and operations as if revenue appeared by magic and salespeople were at best a necessary evil. Sullivan has read numerous sales books and attended conferences, but says most provide no more than a brief sugar high. They don't have what it takes.

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Identifying the Skills That Can Help You Change Careers

Harvard Business Review

It has long been widely acknowledged that legal skills are broadly applicable to all kinds of careers: business, politics, finance, even sports coaching, fiction writing, and journalism. Everywhere I turn I hear leaders stress the need for speed and agility to create a competitive edge. Confer with outsiders. Execute fast.

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The CIO in Crisis: What You Told Us

Harvard Business Review

This conversation has generated a lot of interesting conversation via blog comments, emails, and face-to-face interactions at conferences and meetings and has revealed a few more insights that should factor into our evolving thinking. The CIO must understand and execute on the differences among leadership, governance, and managing.

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