Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Investing in management and leadership skills also has knock-on effects for productivity, says Anthony Painter in FE News and The Paradise in response to Keir Starmer’s speech at UK Finance at the end of February. Experts suggest that more than half of the productivity gap between the UK and the USA can be attributed to poor management.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

My basic feeling on the topic of CEO Term Limits can be summed-up with this quote: “ There exists a season for all things, but decisive, prudent & principled leadership never goes out of season.&# ~Mike Myatt, 2003 With the average CEO tenure hovering at an all time low anyway, who needs CEO Term Limits?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Porter then used the tools of microeconomics to craft advice for executives on how to get and hold on to that power. Game-theoretic models of industry did indeed often offer wonderfully explicit advice. But it turned out that slight changes in the initial conditions in a model might deliver wildly different advice. Since when?

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Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Air Products, Nokia, and Shell, among others, followed this advice and created top-level process owners. Air Products, for example, tripled corporate productivity (hard profit-and-loss benefits) from 2003 to 2006, and boosted operating return on net assets from 9.5% And they succeeded wildly. from 2004 to 2007.

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. I was sitting there 18-and-a-half years, getting an extraordinary amount of advice from everybody under the sun.

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