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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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Andrés Iniesta’s Farewell, and How to Make Endings Count at Work

Harvard Business Review

It was a striking image from an industry from which others often borrow metaphors: a slam dunk, down for the count, a home run, drop the ball. It is a space we all visit, more or less willingly, ever more often as working lives get longer and careers more fragmented. They are major career shifts. His working life will go on.

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The Skills Doctors and Nurses Need to Be Effective Executives

Harvard Business Review

We are witnessing an unprecedented transformation of the health care industry. Strategy guru and Michael Porter of Harvard Business School elegantly articulated this when he wrote that strategy is both what we choose to do — and what we choose not to do. It would be a shame if they did.

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Three Unexpected Ways to Help with Disaster Recovery

Harvard Business Review

But Thomson Reuters Foundation took a different tack in its response, going beyond donating to leverage its parent company's core competencies in information and the legal industry to catalyze change. They can examine the company's core operations to discover ways to help make a difference while continuing to make a profit.

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Desperately Seeking Simplicity

Harvard Business Review

I heard it in a session led by Professor Michael Porter and Dean Nitin Nohria of the Harvard Business School who were sharing a research project on declining American Competitiveness. Today, complexity has become the silent killer of profitable growth in business, and sometimes of CEO careers.

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Six Ways to Grow Your Job

Harvard Business Review

Find and follow the opinion leaders in your domain, read up on the classics , brush up on your Michael Porter. Managers who advance in their careers primarily by excelling at operational work go on doing operational work long after they could delegate those duties to other people. Career planning Leadership Managing yourself'

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Why did Jean Tirole win the Nobel Prize in Economics? Even Tirole betrays this bias.