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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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Taking Charge of YOUR Learning

QAspire

Organizations are in a state of constant flux with business models becoming obsolete, new models emerging and new technologies disrupting businesses/individuals. Thriving in such a world means actively managing your future, learning at the speed of change, making quick sense of big shifts and responding accordingly.

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Consider: Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking in Your Organization

Leading Blog

Peter Senge, founder of the Society of Organizational Learning and senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, once observed, “Most managers do not reflect carefully on their actions.” Most managers are too busy “running” to reflect. There is always one more e-mail and it will control you if you let it.

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CMI Malaysia: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

CMI Malaysia at IET Gala On 18 February, representatives from CMI Malaysia attended the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Malaysia prestige lecture and award dinner. Well coordinated and managed, it celebrated the best that the profession has to offer. Listen to their discussion here !

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What Makes Six Disciplines for Excellence A Different Kind Of Business Book

Six Disciplines

” (David Daniels, Business & Technology Reinvention). “The approach is current and I love that it ties technology and systems with strategy. ” (David Daniels, Business & Technology Reinvention). Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). Gary Harpst is the direct opposite.”

CTO 101
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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Decisioning at the information level affords a higher degree of risk management, but are still not as safe as those decisions based upon actionable knowledge. Peter Senge addressed this dilemma in his book The Fifth Discipline and accurately discerned that sound leadership decisions are based on systemic analysis before making a decision.

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The Energy Efficiency of Trust & Vulnerability

Mills Scofield

Trust is a tool to assess and manage (reduce and/or increase) risk, depending on the situation. DMS : Trust and vulnerability are keys to “Energy Management” Not to sound too 19th or 20th Century, but trusting is efficient… and effective. Energy Management raises the issue of perfection.