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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

A FTER 18 YEARS on the MIT faculty, I thought I knew a thing or two about leadership. That position humbled me and taught me lessons about leadership that I still use today, some 20 years later. Back then, the vast majority of Akamai’s 100 engineering staff had been recruited directly from MIT and other top universities.

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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

CMI bolsters its presence in Australia Last month, CMI participated in The PIE Live event in Gold Coast, Australia, alongside leaders in international education. The Coronation marks a new era of leadership, vision and progress under the British monarchy. Learn more here.

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High-Paying Tech Jobs that don’t need a College Degree

HR Digest

There is a grave misconception among people that every tech jobs requires a candidate to earn a unique educational background. The educational degree for this job isn’t an important criterion. Front-end Engineer. Front end engineers are always in demand, more so as the world is now going digital. Cloud Engineer.

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Win the Race for Talent – Talent Management magazine

Chart Your Course

Internationally, in 2012 the World Economic Forum reported 10 million jobs were unfilled in the manufacturing sector alone.The world’s three largest workforces — the United States, India and China — all have chronic and growing talent shortages, particularly in science, technology, engineering and mathematics-related STEM occupations.

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The Common Unique Paths to Becoming a Change Agent

Change Starts Here

Some people start in Human Resources, either in corporate or as an HR business partner. Some take the higher education route, getting advanced degrees in topics like organization development or industrial/organizational psychology. I started my own career as an industrial engineer, focused on manufacturing process efficiency.

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A Lean Look at Value

Leading Blog

By the Lean definition, non-production activity, including IT, engineering, HR, accounting, and yes, senior management, can only provide value indirectly through their support of production. Stoller ( jacobstoller.com ) is a journalist, speaker and consultant, and author of the new book The Lean CEO (McGraw-Hill Education).

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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Yet, the question as I talked with women in the Purdue leadership program is still the age old one of how to balance it all; career, family, community, and time for oneself.