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What Makes Six Disciplines for Excellence A Different Kind Of Business Book

Six Disciplines

” (Anita Campbell, SMB Trend Wire). ” (Gary Slinger, Slinger’s Thoughts). “Full of incredibly useful tools and charts -- all about how small businesses execute strategy.” “However, the power of this book is in how it integrates these time tested, common sense ideas into a useful whole.”

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Social Mood and Presidential Leadership

Coaching Tip

The rampant speculation of the time spread beyond the financial class, such that porters and ladies' maids had enough money to buy their own carriages. This guide will help you survive a major deflationary trend, and even equip you to prosper. Members of the clergy took part in the mania. Life savings were wiped out.

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The Big Trends Changing Community Development

Harvard Business Review

Big trends in business and society tend to march along at a measured pace. When change happens fast in some area, it’s usually because multiple trends are converging to accelerate the process. From the non-profit side, the trend is toward measuring outcomes, not process. This is what is going on now in community development.

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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Watch the full webinar here: CMI Hong Kong AGM 2022 – chair’s report The CMI Hong Kong AGM took place in October; the chair, Dr. Paulina Chan CMgr CCMI, sent this report: The theme for the CMI HK Board in 2021–22 was collaborations with International Chambers of Commerce and professional societies.

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Create Shared Value with a Trampoline Approach

Harvard Business Review

Creating shared value , a paradigm for how companies engage with society pioneered by Michael Porter and FSG, captures this trampoline mentality very well. This is laudable, but I would argue somewhat safety-net oriented, as Audi is merely joining its competitors in an inevitable trend for the automobile industry.

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How Big Business Created the Politics of Anger

Harvard Business Review

Although the impact of each company’s decision is small, this cumulative trend contributes to the growing inequality of wealth and the stagnation of middle-class earnings, reinforcing the deeply entrenched poverty of nearly 50 million Americans. And the repurchase trend has accelerated radically.

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Why Business is Stuck on Income Inequality

Harvard Business Review

Time 's Michael Elliott, who was moderating the session, then cited Chrystia Freeland's Atlantic cover story on "The Rise of the New Global Elite" and Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's HBR cover story on "Creating Shared Value" as evidence of a new mood. "I But you can't say those efforts have made a noticeable dent in the inequality trend.

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