Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. Reserved your spot? All leaders should commit to these actions.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations. billion in the last 5 years).

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Application of design thinking to help solve myriad problems that are not typically associated with design is illuminated in a new book through vignettes drawn from such diverse realms as politics and society, business, health and science, law, and writing. Implementing a strategic technology plan. Strategic plan as jigsaw puzzle.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

P romote Participation. R eward, Recognize, and Develop. Provide training and development to help employees achieve their goals. Encourage your employees’ development. Provide employees with the latest information to enable them to set important goals. Involve employees in decision making.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Most companies make big investments in leadership development, rolling out intensive internal programs for high potentials, sending key leaders off to expensive executive education programs, or hiring personal coaches for those moving into key positions at the top of the company. ” Develop: Let them improvise. What works instead?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Rather than handpick the usual senior managers, a team called Pathbuilder was formed of a diverse group of insiders to present senior leaders with new ideas. First, and most important, by relying on the self-nomination approach, the company tapped into the hidden energy, diversity, and skills of its employees.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The right to win is the ability to enter or participate in any competitive market with the reasonably justified belief that you will succeed and create value. CDS starts with what you as a company do best – better than anyone else – and builds from that internal base of strength in making market participation choices.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

This is a perfect way to think about the way a brain develops, influenced by its surrounding people and experiences. It's also how we should think about the way the Internet is developing, and about the way our choices in how we use technology are shaping this global brain. But its success has generated a worrying backlash.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Add in more diverse identities and the disparity becomes even more apparent. According to the International Labor Organization , the global labor force participation rate for women stands at 47 percent. Low diversity could be a result of bias in hiring, unfair recruiting criteria, insufficient diversity in recruitment sources, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2016

Begin by reaching out to diverse members of your ecosystem, include them in a co-creation process from the outset, and prioritize the growth of that ecosystem as you cultivate the growth of the initiative itself – a process which one of us detailed in a previous article. Ask participants to commit something toward the initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The idea started with two Janssen employees, Annick Daems and Enrique Esteban, who were spearheading an initiative to increase the company’s diversity of thought and experience. Their proposal would solve a diversity and inclusion problem, but the impact on the company’s bottom line wasn’t clear.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Earlier this month in Strasbourg, European Commission Vice President Viviane Reding proposed a new law that would enforce quotas of 40% for women's representation on European corporate boards by 2020. Within corporations, gender diversity initiatives that are added on to the same old way of doing business cannot have significant impact.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Given their day jobs — which at academic medical centers often include research, writing grant proposals, and tending to patients — they have little time. Many of them could not handle the highly diverse projects that we wanted to support — from algorithms to apps to devices. Build a diverse team.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It serves vastly diverse populations: toddlers and caregivers, new immigrants, lifelong learners, famous novelists, and scholars. How to provide hyper-local services tailored to the diverse needs of its patrons while also upholding a consistent and high standard of service? The conversation would be neither bottom-up nor top down.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Sloan continued, "Then, I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what this decision is about.". The "control" teams were given no further instructions and told to develop as many ideas as possible.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

When an executive at global services firm UBS Americas challenged trainees to design a cost-saving strategy, one young woman proposed that the company install software that puts a computer into sleep mode after a period of inactivity. Increase workforce diversity that enables greater customer connection. Fill critical skills gaps.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Closing the Gap proposes recommendations that can be incorporated into any existing compensation system to eliminate the barriers that stand in the way of equal pay for female partners. Some of these recommendations include: Ensure there is a critical mass of diverse members on the compensation committee.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. We propose three mutually reinforcing hypotheses. Second, as LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman has persuasively argued , Silicon Valley has developed a comparative advantage in the art and science of scaling up.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

They can seek out sponsors and others to support and develop them in those roles. In our work with leadership development programs, we focus on a "small wins" approach to change. They can put themselves forward for leadership roles when they are qualified but have been overlooked.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

He has focused on a two-tier approach: the first introduces physicians to the fundamental principles of business in the delivery of healthcare, and personal leadership development, through a day a month programme spread over a year. 61% of the proposed innovation projects have had a positive institutional impact.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Our research shows that the same inclusive leadership behaviors that leverage diversity to drive innovation and market growth can enable managers to support individuals with disabilities. Offer leadership development opportunities to employees with disabilities. Provide role models.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

While my colleagues and I vehemently agree that HR’s status quo is an inhibitor to growth, it is with the same fervor that we disagree with Ram’s proposed solution. Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

If you have tried introducing a new idea into your organization or community—especially if it''s an abstract idea like sustainability, diversity, or innovativeness—you know it''s tough. It took her a year to develop her case—largely on her own time—before she started talking about sustainability in public.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

Implicit, or “unconscious,” bias against women in medicine is prevalent, affecting their hiring, promotions, development, and wellbeing. There are many solutions that have been proposed to mitigate bias and harassment, and we’re now seeing some preliminary findings that can speak to their effectiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

What we need is collaboration where tension, disagreement, and conflict improve the value of the ideas, expose the risks inherent in the plan, and lead to enhanced trust among the participants. Carve out some team development time to do these exercises before your next contentious discussion.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. To achieve those ends, we propose that business leaders support a new agenda, comprising seven areas of opportunity. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it.

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Rapid BI

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Increasingly Human Resources (HR) or Organizational Development (OD) teams are being asked to drive and deliver internal communications, but what is an internal communications plan and how do you go about writing and applying one? Internal communications Plan. Why have internal communications plans? Where are you now? Who needs what?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

We use the same methods all conferences use to find speakers: We invite people we know or know of, and we have an open call for proposals. Below are nine key steps we’ve taken to reduce bias in our selection cycle, convince people we’re serious and thus draw a more diverse group of outstanding speakers. Diversity Gender'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

He posited that “the desirability of simultaneous access to more than one habitat” and “the greater richness of edge vegetation” supported a greater diversity and abundance of species. The idea here is to exploit foundational assets in ways that were not foreseen when they were developed to support the core business.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices. What processes led to the development and delivery of a given product or service?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

House and Senate committees have scheduled hearings to consider the President’s proposals, and bipartisan Congressional leadership has asked for public comment. Medicare must continue to develop accountability-driven payment models. as compared to the national benchmark. The payment system for home care also must be revamped.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The index includes factors such as the educational infrastructure in each country, their ability to provide finance to entrepreneurs, the legal framework around business creation and development, and general ease of doing business common across both indices. Developing business skills.

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Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

Holacracy specifies a structured process known as “integrative decision making” for proposing changes in governance and amending or objecting to proposals. Member economic participation: Members contribute equitably to the capital of their cooperative. Leadership and team development challenges still exist.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

China’s Communist Party recently approved the 13th Five-Year Plan , designed to guide the country’s social, political, and economic development through the second half of this decade. What is the significance of the plan? What are the main characteristics of the latest plan? Companies need to act now.

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