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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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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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Salespeople have questions, Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

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). Alternative Development Best Practice 1 – Reality Questions. Direct contact is not an option.

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How to Overcome Poor Presentation Skills

Coaching Tip

Executive onboarding coaching (of the newly recruited or promoted executive can turnaround this high rate of failure) by helping the newly promoted or recruited executive develop the interpersonal skills necessary to succeed at the next level.

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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. Comparing the results against the rules can lead to feedback, a mode of machine learning.

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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. You can, however, embrace uncertainty by adjusting your views as new information becomes available.