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Innovation in Complex Civic Environments

Mills Scofield

Writers as diverse as Aldo Leopold and Margaret Wheatley have been advising us for decades on how to recognize and function in complex environments – where solutions emerge based on the interactions of independent agents, and no one is in charge. Data should guide the resource allocation and actions of our collaborations.

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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Attentive to professional diversity and inclusion, we continue to collaborate among professional bodies, chambers of commerce, public sector, industries and higher education institutions on joint events of complementary relevance and membership benefits in leadership and management. Like this article? Why not share it.

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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

Create diversions when things get difficult. ’ It creates a great diversion from the real issues. He has shared the stage with prominent strategists like Michael Porter and reached out to 21,000+ leaders in 30+ countries. Relate Articles: Recommended Resources – I Have A Strategy, No You Don’t.

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Let’s Do Less Dead-End Work

Harvard Business Review

Ruchika Tulshyan is the author of The Diversity Advantage: Fixing Gender Inequality in the Workplace and the founder of Candour, an inclusion strategy firm. Resources: “ Why Women Volunteer for Tasks That Don’t Lead to Promotions ,” by Linda Babcock, Maria P. . She is also adjunct faculty at Seattle University.

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

Consider Porter's value chain. It was no small task for a corporation to get information from the point of sale to internal procurement teams to a diverse manufacturing network. The corporations with the resources to coordinate these efforts enjoyed the benefits. In today's world, you don't need to have scale to enjoy scale.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Meet the New Face of Diversity: The “Slacker” Millennial Guy. Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? Why Men Work So Many Hours. It’s Not Women Who Should Lean In; It’s Men Who Should Step Back. Real Men Go to Sleep. 7 Policy Changes America Needs So People Can Work and Have Kids. 3-D Printing Will Change the World.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

The breadth of article topics was large and the sample of rhetorical styles diverse. Prior to this article's publication, academics had talked for decades about the resource-based view of the firm. Hamel and Prahalad combined the old resource view with an emphasis on differentiation, made popular in the 1980s by Michael Porter.