Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

Well coordinated and managed, it celebrated the best that the profession has to offer. Watch the full webinar here: Event: Managing in a Disruptive Environment On 18 August, CMI Malaysia hosted our Managing in a Disruptive Environment event. We are here to serve you, the Members of the Chartered Management Institute.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

” Of course, being a real ‘he-man,’ he would never ask for directions! A well-known line uttered by a desperate sailor in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is, “water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” Few hands go up. True to You. How are yours?

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 19, 2010

My product management focus has shifted significantly to the experience of the end users. – The Product Management Perspective: See above (and, of course, don’t get set in your ways or the change will be painful). We’re essentially changing the focus of the product from enterprise to consumer.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Over the past few weeks, there’s been a noticeable uptick in leadership and management articles focusing on the topic of how leaders can ensure that they are providing a ‘safe’ environment for all of their employees.

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CO2

AUGUST 1, 2010

Just Ask” leadership Business schools don’t teach courses on question asking, so leaders typically don’t study and analyze questions the way they would a quarterly report or a performance review. Anything the worker needed to know beyond that education could be learned on the job, from the manager. He or she is asking questions.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2016

If you anticipate a poor reference from your former supervisor, what is your best course of action? Jeff Shane is President of Allison Taylor, Inc. , He oversees matters of product development, online integration of services and attorney interaction on behalf of the company’s many clients. About the Author.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 6, 2009

Quite often much emphasis is placed on designing and developing products, and the actual launch goes unplanned (or under-planned) until it’s too late. In working and talking with driven leaders it has been shown that the projects that are most difficult to manage are usually related to new product and service launches.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

In many cases, these great products have developed into product lines, companies and even industries. Ideas need development to become strategies. The development of ideas is not an easy undertaking. In fact, most of the great ideas took a long time and a lot of hard work to develop into the useful products they are today.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Broadly engaging our people in developing innovative solutions has been a goal to which PwC has long aspired. Of course, encouraging risk-taking has to be carefully circumscribed and managed. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters. Your Most Pressing Management Concerns: What You've Told Us. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2013

Many of us still run this way, of course, but for how much longer? Most intriguing is Apple''s interest in developing wearable devices that offer users quantitative insight on movement in business and industrial settings. Frederick Taylor''s famous Time and Motion studies aimed to make factory work more scientific.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

My fellow HBR blogger Bill Taylor recently made a pitch for all of us to stop using the word “innovation” in 2014. And of course, by complexifying innovation, we’ve probably started to kill it. These are all good things, but they should be part of the normal course of business and the drive for continuous improvement.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Xerox's transition from copier and printer maker to document management conglomerate owes much to the thinking of cognitive scientist John Seeley Brown, a leading figure at Xerox's famed Palo Alto Research Center. The top shops also excel at developing their leaders. Hire for no obvious reason. Just ask young Mr. Zuckerberg about that.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Every senior executive would love to have an Allan Taylor on his or her team. For a number of years, Allan has reported to a highly visionary manager, and they made a great team. If he wants to continue his corporate climb, Allan needs to pursue two parallel courses of action. And that was the nub of Allan's problem.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Fixated on that challenge, retail chains have invested heavily in sophisticated inventory management systems. This was despite the fact that, according to the inventory management system, only 2-3% of items ever ran out before being replenished.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ). Townes, and Henry L.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The One Question Every Successful Leader Must Answer (Even Before It Is Asked) by Starbucker on February 8, 2010 The supervisor is frustrated – in his mind, he has done everything right to manage his team to a successful outcome.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

A mid-level manager in this 5,000-employee hospital, she is leading a 70-member group on patient flow as part of a larger organizational effort. Her ability to lead and inspire — to become a change leader from her position as a mid-level manager — is helping her team produce results. I found a few defining characteristics: 1.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

WILLIAM: Well sometimes I wonder myself, but I am the president of a startup university, we’re about two years old now, by the name of California Institute of Advanced Management. I said, “It’s still this amazing voice that I think keeps the discussion of management elevated at the level that it should be.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2011

Mark Zuckerberg is, of course, correct. The team has a translator, a facilitator to run the design meeting, an engineering expert with the requisite technical knowledge and — of course — a representative from top management to make sure the team's bold designs align with the firm's strategic roadmap. Of course!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

His resentment toward Fierst was obviously mellowing six months after CEO Hal Taylor, at her urging, had pressured Milanese to retire. Stay the course. So the CEO had given the HR department a green light to create a new system that would force managers to be brutally honest. Of course not," Ekdahl said. "So

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

The Situational Leadership ® framework was the product of over 50 years of pioneering research in leadership development and organizational behavior. Studies of human motivation, professional growth and development were investigated on a separate track. Did the team or group the manager led hit their productivity targets?

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

LinkedIn, of course, made headlines for its $26 billion sale to Microsoft. The concept was big for companies, too, of course; the prospect of finding people beyond the offline constraints, and even in the next city, state, or country, was a tantalizing one. Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996.

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