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This Strategic Pivot to Address COVID Will Help Your Business Thrive

Lead Change Blog

They had to deal with cancelled orders and supply chain disruptions, as well as employees needing more flexible schedules or being unable to work remotely due to inadequate home office setups. Apparently, operations managers were suddenly being pressured by accounting heads to justify the ROI for purchases. . Operations Day.

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Leading Change: Four Tips to Keep Your Organization Nimble During Disruption

The Center For Leadership Studies

Four Tips for Leading Through Disruption Leading change through talent shortages and disruptions in supply chain, sales, distribution or cash flow takes resilience and quick, efficient reaction. A company can be nimble in various ways. We know what it takes to create effective leaders who reliably work through disruptions.

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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. You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. But, celebrating the very best new thinking in management matters for three reasons. Second, management matters. It's a fair question.

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Job skills in demand in 2021

HR Digest

Emotional Intelligence. Hard skills can be an exhaustive list, hence we have pared it down somewhat to include technical and management skills. Brand Management. Artificial Intelligence, Deep learning. Finance special emphasis on block chain and Cryptocurrency. Supply chain management.

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Maintaining Your Focus on the Front Lines as Your Company Grows

Harvard Business Review

One founder (who has chosen to remain anonymous) recently described this problem to us: “I had brought in a half-dozen managers to help professionalize my company, but after a while I couldn’t even understand what was being discussed at our management meetings. Then our head of supply chain would do the same.

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