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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Mellisa Patrick CMgr MCMI, CMI’s programme development manager, attended the event to engage with potential new partners, including universities, colleges, and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) providers. We look forward to more collaborations with different organisations and insightful engagement events in the new year!

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The Skills Doctors and Nurses Need to Be Effective Executives

Harvard Business Review

Maximizing the effectiveness of physicians and nurses in these new positions, however, will require different skills than the ones they developed during their clinical training. Many clinicians manage a small operation in the form of their own clinical practice or ward before shifting to leading larger operations.

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Three Unexpected Ways to Help with Disaster Recovery

Harvard Business Review

By 1997 it had established AlertNet , originally fashioned as a private channel for aid workers and which later developed into the first global humanitarian news and information portal. They can examine the company's core operations to discover ways to help make a difference while continuing to make a profit. Take Cisco.

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Six Ways to Grow Your Job

Harvard Business Review

In today’s resource-constrained environment, many of us are delivering 120% on the current demands of our job—but devoting little time to developing ourselves further or positioning ourselves for a future move. If you’re ambitious but your job offers you limited opportunities for exploration and growth, what can you do to develop new skills?

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

In the past, economic development has prioritized big businesses. But these economic development strategies focused on big businesses, sometimes known as “elephant hunting,” may overstate the importance of large firms. This research shows that the market for middle skills operates very poorly.

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Case Study: Is a Promotion Worth Hiding Who You Are?

Harvard Business Review

Its most successful division, mobile telephony, was looking for a new head of software development at headquarters in Seoul. The division had just won a big contract with a major mobile operator in Qatar and needed to customize a smartphone system for the client’s Middle East–wide network in the next six months.