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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.

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How to Innovate When You're Not the Big Boss

Harvard Business Review

Among other skills, he wanted to find executives who had the wisdom to know when the organization needed to be fundamentally changed and shaken up — and when the organization needed time to incorporate prior changes. In most companies there's more than a kernel of truth to these managers' complaints. They won't let me take risks."

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

In a study conducted with Google Europe , Roland Berger assessed the digital maturity of French companies, looking into three distinct dimensions: equipment, practices and uses, and organization and skills. Not surprisingly, low-skilled jobs are most threatened, but even intermediate jobs could also be affected.

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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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To Lead a Digital Transformation, CEOs Must Prioritize

Harvard Business Review

Ensuring that change sticks involves the hard work of defining new roles, adding new skills and adopting new ways of working. Mobilizing for this kind of change inevitably means shaking up the status quo and leaders themselves need to be prepared to manage the company differently. All of this has to happen fluidly and rapidly.

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How to Make Sustainability Every Employee’s Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

I have interviewed over 100 CEOs, C-suite executives, middle managers, and shop floor workers in more than 25 companies across the world to understand why most companies fail to embed sustainability in their business models and, also, what drives success among the handful that do. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Elon Musk’s Unusual Compensation Plan Isn’t Really About Compensation at All

Harvard Business Review

If, by contrast, Tesla’s target was merely a $100 billion market capitalization — frankly, a great target for most companies, as it projects a 7% return annually for the next 10 years — then investors might quickly lose their appetite to continue financing the company. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.