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Stretch Assignments for High Potential Employees

CO2

Secure financing for a key acquisition. Convince upper management to support a proposal. Lead people from different cultures, gender, or racial or ethic backgrounds. You may not, however, stretch your team members the way you yourself were tested on your rise to your current leadership position. Description. Creating change.

Diversity 140
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Recommended Resource – Advocacy

Strategy Driven

Rather, reputation, relationships, timing, and persuasive messaging is needed to garner the attention and buy-in necessary to gain action on one’s proposals. If we had one criticism of Advocacy it would be that John’s examples are a bit too numerous and a bit too long. Recommended Resource – Finance Without Fear.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard. It could help boost pay equality Tips and tools to help you navigate the slippery slope of business ethics Lessons from Britain’s Most Admired Companies on leading with integrity Should pets be allowed in the office?

Policies 121
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The Importance of Testing in an E-marketing Campaign

Women on Business

For example, if you have an email list of 100,000 prospects, select every 100th prospect to create a test list of 1,000. Send the email you’re using now (this is your control, or “A”)) to 500 names, and send your proposed new email (“B”) to the other 500. The same idea works for e-marketing.

Marketing 162
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Guest Post: Watch Out for Flying Monkeys!

Lead on Purpose

Maintaining a relationship with executive administrators, travel, finance, sales and development can provide valuable information on travel schedules, agendas and the details that will reinforce the emergence of Flying Monkeys. Another avenue that many product management leaders fail to utilize is internal relationships.

Marketing 113
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Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms.

Harvard Business Review

.” Lastly, by looking at historical data on publicly traded companies, a team of finance professors set out to build an algorithm to choose the best board members for a given company. This work will likely become even more important as less-transparent algorithms like deep learning become more common.

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Corporations Need a Better Approach to Public Policy

Harvard Business Review

Issues bearing significantly on the business emerge not just in legislative, executive, or regulatory settings; they can also arise in litigation or transactions or adoption of ethical standards necessary to pre-empt policy proposals. They can be cross-cutting issues which impact the whole corporation (e.g., A needed a pproach.