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The real deal on how to join a Board

Roundtable Talk

Guest panellists David Anderson (The Anderson Governance Group), Sharon Ranson (The Ranson Group) and Holly Henderson (Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation) shared their best tips and here’s a roundup for those who weren’t able to snag one of our limited seats. . Be sure you feel great about the cause. Hope to see you then. Happy leading!

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Remember Long-Term Capital Management ? It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction. The initial set of questions must always come from human beings.

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Exit, Voice, and Albert O. Hirschman

Harvard Business Review

You're a corporate shareholder unhappy with the direction management is taking. This morning I finally finished it (it's a short book, and much of it is fascinating, but I would definitely not call it a page-turner). According to a well-known manual this rule "results in perpetuating bad management and bad policies."