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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Co-opted Board Member Ms Janice Tai also talked about her journey towards becoming a Chartered Manager and how this accreditation has empowered her career advancement in her position at an international non-governmental organisation.

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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

In every aspect of business, we are operating with mental models that have grown outdated or obsolete, from strategy to marketing to organization to leadership. Many of the paradigms we learned in school and built our careers on are either incomplete or ineffective. The Porter model of strategy isn’t obsolete.

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The Skills Doctors and Nurses Need to Be Effective Executives

Harvard Business Review

Having managed or worked with clinical leaders in care-delivery organizations, the pharmaceutical industry, and government, I have observed three skills that are critical to the success of doctors and nurses as they make the transition to management: Operations management and execution. It would be a shame if they did.

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Three Unexpected Ways to Help with Disaster Recovery

Harvard Business Review

They can examine the company's core operations to discover ways to help make a difference while continuing to make a profit. It's an approach we call creating shared value ( my coauthor Mark Kramer and FSG cofounder Michael Porter wrote about this in Harvard Business Review ). But business leaders shouldn't stop with their foundations.

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Six Ways to Grow Your Job

Harvard Business Review

Find and follow the opinion leaders in your domain, read up on the classics , brush up on your Michael Porter. Managers who advance in their careers primarily by excelling at operational work go on doing operational work long after they could delegate those duties to other people. Learn to delegate once and for all.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Why did Jean Tirole win the Nobel Prize in Economics?

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Why did Jean Tirole win the Nobel Prize in Economics?