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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. Yet corporate leadership still lags as does the percentage of women on U.S. They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work.

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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them. Probabilistic risk managers will think about the future of how they work. Here is a simple explanation of it.

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CMI Highlights – 18 October

Chartered Management Institute

Article: CMI Highlights – 18 October Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email CMI releases new research into the impact that good management and leadership can make. 18 October View all 2023 CMI Highlights Dear all, Good management can change the world. But that’s not the end of the story.

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How to Become a Healing Leader

Skip Prichard

Businesses that are organized and managed around a noble, healing purpose are not only great places to work, they’re also beloved by customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders. This included actions like managers asking employees daily for suggestions for making their lives better. ” -Sisodia and Gelb. Redefine Success.

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Hugo Chavez Was No Outlier

Harvard Business Review

He often pointed to Simon Bolivar, Venezuela's early visionary and leader (1783-1830), as the model for his political philosophy: Latin America must achieve a united independence from foreign powers. Consider his very many nationalizations and his appointment of government bureaucrats to manage them.

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Corporate Empathy Is Not an Oxymoron

Harvard Business Review

As the CEO of a British bank confided at last year’s World Economic Forum, “We all know it’s important to be empathic, but how do I galvanize 48,000 people in my UK operations — most of whom think that empathy is for wimps? Enlightened leadership can create a more empathic culture.

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The Benefits of Poetry for Professionals

Harvard Business Review

Eliot spent a decade at Lloyd's Bank of London; and many other poets including James Dickey , A.R. Harman Industries founder Sidney Harman once told The New York Times , "I used to tell my senior staff to get me poets as managers. Dana Gioia, a poet, Stanford Business School grad, and former General Foods executive, notes that T.S.

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