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Updates from the CMI Sri Lanka Board

Chartered Management Institute

Watch the full webinar here: New President elected At the recent CMI Sri Lanka AGM, a new President was elected – Professor Ajantha Dharmasiri CMgr FCMI. CMI's The Everyone Economy report covered by the Asian Times In case you didn’t see already, CMI’s Everyone Economy report was covered by the Asian Times – have a read here !

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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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Shifting Finance from Controlling to Improving

Harvard Business Review

Yet this is exactly the challenge facing leaders of the finance function who are asked to help their organization improve the way that work is done. As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. At the center is the customer.

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Deep questions: What diving teaches us about uncertainty and risk

Chartered Management Institute

Additional reporting by David Waller. This premise equally applies to the environment businesses operate in today. Human error is a very real consequence of people operating in the real world. In all sectors, tensions exist between competing pressures such as resources, finance, time and workload.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. When artisans have no understanding of their cash flows, they fail prey to spending a big percentage of their working capital, without meaning to, on non-business issues that usually cripple their operations.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

A recent Fortune article on John Reed, the former co-CEO of Citigroup, reported that a decade ago he tried to convince the newly formed Citigroup board (the result of the $70 billion merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group in 1998) to bring in a new CEO and that both he and Travelers CEO Sandy Weill should leave.

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The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable

Harvard Business Review

More on: Economy , Finance , Global business Join the Discussion | Email/Share Previous Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative Never miss a new post from your favorite blogger again with the Harvard Business Review Daily Alert email. And perhaps failing to recognize that is whats really at the root of this great crisis.

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