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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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CMI Malaysia: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Well coordinated and managed, it celebrated the best that the profession has to offer. Watch the full webinar here: Event: Managing in a Disruptive Environment On 18 August, CMI Malaysia hosted our Managing in a Disruptive Environment event. We are here to serve you, the Members of the Chartered Management Institute.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Gut instincts can only take you so far in life, and anyone who operates outside of a sound decisioning framework will eventually fall prey to an act of oversight, misinformation, misunderstanding, manipulation, impulsivity or some other negative influencing factor. They make bad decisions.

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Leaders and the Learning Organization | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

Peter Senge Peter Senge is one of my favourite Thought Leaders. This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives. But suffice it to say that in an age where shared leadership is, or will become, critical, the need to understand the dynamics and functional operation of teams is pretty great.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. Many of the paradigms we learned in school and built our careers on are either incomplete or ineffective. The same thing happens in business.

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An Interview with Larry Spears, a Servant-Leadership Legend

Modern Servant Leader

Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. Larry : You know, it’s my belief, and it has also been my own experience, that there there is no place that servant-leadership cannot operate. To see that the way they’ve been functioning and operating is not a good way to be in relationship with other people.

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