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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

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. We’ve got an exclusive interview with Simon here ! Reserved your spot?

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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

In order to do that, you need to learn something about Thomas Bayes, an English clergyman, and mathematician who proposed a theorem in 1763 that would forever change the way we think about making decisions in ambiguous conditions. Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. Economist Ronald Coase proposed auctioning off segments of the electromagnetic spectrum in late 1950s, a policy idea that was later adopted in the 1990s. Here a few notable examples.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

How can we as leaders help our front-line teams take more action to innovate and improve how work gets done? The traditional, even predominant, way to form a team follows a well-rehearsed and perfectly logical flow: Develop a strategy. How can we go even faster? What can we do to get more people involved? Allocate budget for a team.

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Are Uber and Facebook Turning Users into Lobbyists?

Harvard Business Review

If a user agreed to the noble goal of free connectivity for their fellow citizens, they were directed to tell their Member of Parliament to support Facebook’s developing world program: Internet.org seeks to connect billions of people in the developing world to the internet. Rinse and repeat, over and over.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2020

Leading Blog

It proposes that the best teachers are also leaders, and the best leaders are also teachers. In this book, Kanter shows how people everywhere can unleash their creativity and entrepreneurial adroitness to mobilize partners across challenging cultural, social, and political situations and innovate for a brighter future. Blog Post ).

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