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Updates from the CMI Sri Lanka Board

Chartered Management Institute

Finance for the Now Normal: financial stability in the hotel industry CMI Sri Lanka recently hosted a webinar titled 'Finance for the NOW NORMAL' with Mr Nirmalan Nagendra FCMI FIH, who is a senior Hospitality Finance Professional and Consultant for KPMG. Dileepa de Silva for the completion of 25 years of membership.

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Remembering 9/11 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Hopefully their example will raise the standards of leadership in our national life. Here's link to a post of mine a couple of years ago: Dan Nigro, Rick Rescorla and the Leadership Lessons of 9/11 [link]. I had decided to go over and stay at a hotel on 9/10 in order to make the early morning meeting and beat the commute.

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IT Doesn't Matter (to CEOs)

Harvard Business Review

million records), Wyndham Hotels (600,000 credit cards), eHarmony (1.5 These and other IT-related problems aren''t rooted in technology but in leadership failings. The senior leadership needs to become literate in technology. The senior leadership needs to become literate in technology. million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. It’s a strategy that has also worked for others on the list.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, Apoorva Mehta, a former Amazon engineer and founder of Instacart, now valued at $2 billion, tried up to 20 different business models that failed before hitting the right one. Financed by VC firms. billion in a single round of equity financing, the largest private fundraising round for a VC-backed startup ever.