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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. Reserved your spot?

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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. Thus, this mindset must be deliberately developed and nurtured by senior leaders – and exemplified in their own behaviors. Risk management is now a fully-developed rich scientific discipline. What if you are in middle management and the top management isn’t fully there.

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Management Week in Review for February 18, 2011

Management Excellence

Every Friday, I share three thought-provoking management posts for the week. Fair warning: I take a broad view of management, so my selections will range from leadership to innovation to finance and personal development and beyond.

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To Lead a Digital Transformation, CEOs Must Prioritize

Harvard Business Review

Three ways to manage the digital transition are: Define where change is needed most: Digital technology affects every company differently, but it tends to create or destroy value in four critical areas of the organization: customer engagement, digital products and services, operational performance, and preparing for disruptive new business models.

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The Shape of the Meaning Organization

Harvard Business Review

Roughly, I'd suggest that they're strategy, marketing, finance, and the rest of the drear, dismal, passionless stuff that makes most of us snooze through meetings and dread the arrival of Monday morning, dilberting our joint prosperity, perpetually disappointing our ever-more apathetic customers, and gleefully embezzling from the future.

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Build Your Team Like an Executive

Harvard Business Review

These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. When you ask leaders how they build a strong management team, the answers are revealing.

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How to Innovate When You're Not the Big Boss

Harvard Business Review

In most companies there's more than a kernel of truth to these managers' complaints. At the middle management level you typically don't have the clout or resources required to make sweeping changes. "They won't let me take risks." They don't tolerate mistakes or failure.". Nonetheless, the dilemma remains.