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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

It’s less than two weeks to go until the highly anticipated CMI Women Conference on Tuesday 16 May. Plus, don’t forget you can still reserve your online place at the CMI Women conference , which will take place on 16 May. Check out our learnings from last year’s inaugural conference here.) Reserved your spot?

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Retain Talent Through a Concrete Corporate Culture

Coaching Tip

And now, reports The Wall Street Journal , many companies are launching employer-branding campaigns—designed to make a company seem like a desirable place to work—for the first time in several years. An expert in integrating workplace design and communications strategies, she is a sought-after designer, consultant, and conference presenter.

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What U.S. CEOs Should Do with the Money from Corporate Tax Cuts

Harvard Business Review

Initial reports suggest that many executives are at a loss as to what to do with the newfound cash. A few have announced year-end bonuses ( AT&T, Comcast ) or wage increases ( some retailers ). Investing in true innovation. But most have been reticent to say anything about their plans.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Panic of 1907 vs Great Recession of 2008

Strategy Driven

That is “good advice in general,” Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told attendees at the Fourteenth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference , in Washington, D.C Unregulated and a relatively new innovation, trusts were the ‘ toxic assets ‘ of the 1907 crises. earlier this month. earlier this month. "An

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

It’s not been a great year for venerable retailer Sears, which is reputed to be closing 130 retail stores and laying off more than 5,000 employees. Founded in 1886 as a mail-order watch retailer, Sears was already 71 when it became an original member of the S&P 500 in 1957.

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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Strategy Driven

The people who work in a given department all focus on the same departmental goal— advertising promotes sales, shipping moves the product, procurement buys the parts— and they report to the executive in charge of their department, who measures their performance and rewards or penalizes them according to the department’s own metrics.

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Transforming Today’s Bad Jobs into Tomorrow’s Good Jobs

Harvard Business Review

The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. But let’s say that automation really does reduce retail and restaurant employment. Work currently does not work for millions of Americans.