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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. They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work. Her husband left his real estate firm to run her office and manage the company.

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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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How Could I Miss That? Jamie Dimon on the Hot Seat

Harvard Business Review

It's easy to assume that Jamie Dimon, the accomplished CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was simply stonewalling when he claimed that mounting trading losses in his bank were "blown out of proportion" — that he was unaware of how grave the situation really was. But I believe that Dimon literally didn't see perceive disaster unfolding before him.

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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. Management has had an image problem of late.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

The late Julian Simon (better known, perhaps, for his optimistic views about population growth and resource abundance) thought up the idea for having airlines auction off overbooked seats and persuaded the Civil Aeronautics Board, which used to regulate airlines fares and entry, to permit the idea in the 1970s. But that would be a mistake.

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The Promise of a Truly Entrepreneurial Society

Harvard Business Review

It is questionable, for example, whether many thousands of pages of regulations have enhanced the banks’ ability to carry out their core mission of funding the real economy of goods and services for real human beings. Managing the transition. The entrepreneurial society. There are indications that this is happening.

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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. ” -Tami Simon.

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