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CMI Highlights – 23 August

Chartered Management Institute

We’re delighted to announce the shortlists in the four categories of the CMI Partner Awards , which celebrate the achievements of CMI training providers and learners: Outstanding HE Training Provider of the Year : University of Exeter, University of Strathclyde, Gloucestershire Business School, Arden University. Why not share it.

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What Circuit City Learned About Valuing Employees

Harvard Business Review

In 1960, 11 years after he founded the company that became Circuit City, my father Sam Wurtzel was reading a book he couldn't put down: The Human Side of Enterprise , by MIT professor Douglas McGregor. The next morning, he called McGregor's office and asked for a meeting with him.

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How to Get an Employee to Work Faster

Harvard Business Review

A slower worker doesn’t just reduce a team’s productivity — he can also hurt his colleagues’ morale, says Lindsay McGregor, the coauthor of Primed to Perform and co-founder of Vega Factor. “Start with assuming positive intent,” says McGregor. What the Experts Say.