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Stretch Assignments for High Potential Employees

CO2

Manage a new product launch or acquisition. Lead initiatives that are highly important to the organization and entail multiple functions, groups, or products/services. Secure financing for a key acquisition. Convince upper management to support a proposal. Manage subordinate performance problems. Managing diversity.

Diversity 140
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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard. It could help boost pay equality Tips and tools to help you navigate the slippery slope of business ethics Lessons from Britain’s Most Admired Companies on leading with integrity Should pets be allowed in the office?

Policies 121
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Guest Post: Watch Out for Flying Monkeys!

Lead on Purpose

Jim’s passion is product management and product marketing. With over 20 years of technology industry experience, he has a fresh and current perspective in leading product management teams and has a gift for taking conceptual ideas and turning them into strategic reality using methods based on market sensing best practices.

Marketing 113
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The Importance of Testing in an E-marketing Campaign

Women on Business

Send the email you’re using now (this is your control, or “A”)) to 500 names, and send your proposed new email (“B”) to the other 500. This, of course, varies according to the product/service offered. For example, if you have an email list of 100,000 prospects, select every 100th prospect to create a test list of 1,000.

Marketing 162
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Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms.

Harvard Business Review

.” Lastly, by looking at historical data on publicly traded companies, a team of finance professors set out to build an algorithm to choose the best board members for a given company. This is what economists call a Pareto improvement , where one policy beats out the alternative on every outcome we care about.

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Corporations Need a Better Approach to Public Policy

Harvard Business Review

Issues bearing significantly on the business emerge not just in legislative, executive, or regulatory settings; they can also arise in litigation or transactions or adoption of ethical standards necessary to pre-empt policy proposals. They can be cross-cutting issues which impact the whole corporation (e.g., A needed a pproach.

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The Big Picture of Business: Been There, Done That

Strategy Driven

Distinctions must be drawn into three consulting categories (and percentages of their occurrence in the marketplace): Vendors sell products which were produced by others. Pro-bono community involvement is a factor because it indicates character, ethics and integrity. Let the buyer beware. Consultants Are Not All Alike.