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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. Reserved your spot? You can learn more in FE News.

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Leadership and the Ground Zero Mosque

Next Level Blog

For a full discussion of the historical grounding of their positions, I encourage you to read this column by Simon Schama in the Financial Times and this one by former George W. Bush speechwriter, Michael Gerson in the Washington Post. It is also stark and interesting to see how little many people know about Muslim people.

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Restaurant Week (An elementary look at quality culture fundamentals)

Deming Institute

Guest post by David Kachoui (previously published in Quality Progress, August 2014): Director of Business Development at Natech Plastics. ” 1 He proposed that the root cause of the lack of quality lies, in part, with our educational system. Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe, Simon & Schuster, 2007, p.

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How to Overcome Poor Presentation Skills

Coaching Tip

If your operational management was in a technical area, you now have the ability to delegate the data gathering and analyzing tasks to others while it is your responsibility to educate the leadership of the organization and industry why, what and how action must be taken based upon what the analysis reports. Why is that?

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Salespeople have questions, Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

Paul, Managing your time is not the answer. If you simply go in and make a presentation to a committee, they’ll be forever lost in the shuffle of indecision, proposals, and fighting price with competitors (three of the worst, if not dumbest, elements in making a large sale). Any tips on how to stay sane while waiting for big decisions?

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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them. Probabilistic risk managers will think about the future of how they work. Here is a simple explanation of it.

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Stop Worrying About Whether Machines Are “Intelligent”

Harvard Business Review

” A second notion, proposed by Herbert Simon and Allen Newell, is of machine intelligence based on heuristics. Simon and Newell reminded us the system is displaying the programmer’s learning, not its own. The theme: Claiming Our Humanity — Managing in the Digital Age.

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