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The Unspoken Role of Confidence in Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Whilst leading the organisation does often come with a title – like CEO or Managing Director – leading a group of people does not. In companies, we sometimes offer our people training in presentation skills, which help them to project confidence to others.

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CMI Highlights – 23 August

Chartered Management Institute

CMI’s CEO, Ann Francke OBE, gave her expert advice in The Times this week about planning and scheduling holidays carefully to prevent important people from being away at the same time. Outstanding Training Provider of the Year : Accipio, Challenges Catalyst and SERC.

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Steve Jobs and The Bobby Knight School of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

I believe that Steve Jobs was among the best CEOs of this generation because he created entirely new categories six times in a decade, and built the largest company market cap ever. It is the very opposite of the supportive and nurturing Theory Y management pioneered by MIT's Douglas McGregor over a half century ago.