Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A recent study by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and Oxford Economics reveals the significant impact of these programme on businesses and individuals alike. Read the full report Key Findings Management apprenticeships deliver at every level and need to be a key part of the skills mix across the UK, both now and into the future.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This new national prize a collaboration between CMI, the British Academy of Management and the Chartered Association of Business Schools celebrates impactful works, cutting-edge research and innovative thinking. What is a social enterprise? Social enterprises are not solely driven by a desire to maximise profits.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

M INTZBERG’S 20th book, Bedtime Stories for Managers , is a thought-provoking page-turner. (In The theme running through most is that managers/leaders need to get out from behind their desks and see the world from the perspective of their employees and customers. Management is not eating the eggs. That requires some explanation.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

This book empowers you to take the first step toward becoming the leader everyone aspires to work with by enhancing your leadership skills, boosting workplace productivity, and mastering innovative conflict-management techniques. Conquering Crisis : Ten Lessons to Learn Before You Need Them by Admiral William H.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 14, 2025

While 68% of executives dismiss AI’s impact, artificial intelligence already executes core management functions with unprecedented efficiency. Organizations implementing AI management tools eliminate mid-level leadership positions at accelerating rates, with projections indicating 37% of current management roles become obsolete by 2026.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 21, 2023

If your managers of managers are struggling to hold their teams accountable, dig a level deeper into the root cause This Asking for a Friend question came in from a manager of managers in one of our executive development programs. I’ve got a manager of managers on my team, let’s call her “Sue.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

What does that mean for your managers and front-line employees? I answered all their tough questions, as opposed to preparing my team managers to do so. When I stepped away, my managers did not have the experience, skills, or courage to step into that role (see also How to Be a More Courageous Manager).

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

What does that mean for your managers and front-line employees? Try it with your direct reports and then teach them how to. I answered all their tough questions, as opposed to preparing my team managers to do so. Even better when your direct reports are all amplifying and supporting your messages with their own 5×5 plan.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It celebrates impactful works, cutting-edge research and innovative thinking – from books and blogs to podcasts – that address the critical business and economic challenges of our time. Article Our extensive range of articles are designed to keep you in the loop with all the latest management and leadership best practice, research and news.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Conversely, poorly managed transitions invite uncertainty that can erode employee morale, undermine client trust, and weaken competitive advantage. For enduring success, this framework must incorporate elements that foster continuity and innovation. Cultural alignment is a crucial dimension of evaluation.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 24, 2024

While many executives pride themselves on self-reliance, this mindset can limit innovation, slow decision-making, and increase strategic risk. Yet only 31% of senior executives report feeling comfortable asking for support when facing complex challenges. Leaders who actively seek input report 40% higher team engagement scores.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Most of the organizations I’m talking to and observing during the pandemic recognize the need to up their levels of innovation and agility. It’s a lot of things, actually, but one of the big ones is whether or not the organization has created a permission structure for innovation. What’s the difference between the two groups?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

thanks for this report. a middle manager, frustrated in his current role, overlooks his long career of exciting challenges and developmental experiences. Even your direct reports don’t have to follow your leadership. It changes the game. Courtesies Aren’t Gratitude. thanks for the update. thanks for coming to the meeting.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Narrowly defining leadership restricts innovation by excluding countless points of view and modes of operating. Capacity is a leader’s ability to contain, manage, or affect change in the evolving circumstances within their role. We have opted for manager/employee alignment tools. There is no one way to be a leader.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 7, 2025

The gap in your leadership style is costing your organization millions in lost talent and unrealized potential.Recent Deloitte analysis reveals 82% of senior executives overestimate their leadership capabilities, while only 34% of their direct reports rate them as highly effective.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

In Wellbeing at Work , Jim Clifton and Jim Harter report that beginning in the late 1950s, Gallup sought to discover and quantify the difference between the best possible life and the worst possible life. If you follow this blog, it is obvious to you that this impacts relationship, creativity and innovation, energy, and trust.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

At N2Growth, we believe that fostering an inclusive environment is not just ethically sound— it’s a critical driver of innovation and sustainable growth. Organizations that cultivate environments where everyone feels valued and heard are better positioned to foster innovation, boost employee engagement, and inspire loyalty.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

With CFOs having to supervise their company’s digital activities and resolve issues outside the traditional finance function, the number of their direct reports is on the rise. This is where cloud platforms and new technologies play an essential source of CFO innovation and value-added to their business. .

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Meanwhile, organizations investing in future-focused leadership development report 34% higher adaptability to market changes. Leaders who master emerging competencies consistently outperform their peers in organizational innovation and talent retention.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Pirate innovators The report investigates how these informal disruptors transition to legality by formalizing their operations. It also examines how established firms can counter the threat of these innovators through collective lobbying and consumer education. of the total economy. ”

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And yet during times of stress, ambiguity, and change , when you need your team to be THE MOST resourceful, some managers clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow their team down. Managers brought in their own grills to cook the burgers. ” It’s tricky to be quick and clever in a scene like that.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

An orientation to something more than money and metrics is hard to find in most Wall Street analyses and reporting. Initiative, innovation, and risk-taking lose out because they tend to harm metrics. Quantitative measurements do help people manage more efficiently. 72 percent of employees saw them as a good manager.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

These leaders bear the weight of resource constraints, must consistently engage diverse constituencies, and often navigate strict regulatory and reporting requirements. Compensation models, while improving, may not always match those of corporate entities, and the need for specialized sector knowledge can restrict candidate pools.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In Game Changer , authors Michael Solomon and Rishon Blumberg report that “Tech and digitization have disrupted the very foundation of all ventures, business, government, or otherwise and in doing so have handed over controls to those who have the exceptional skills to provide efficiency and meaningful growth.”. They work well on teams.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 9, 2024

According to a recent report by the World Economic Forum, 50% of all employees will need reskilling due to technological disruption. Leaders who promote this mindset inspire employees to embrace change, innovate, and take calculated riskskey components of thriving in an ever-evolving work environment.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2019

As great as that idea sounds it is not realistic and leaders must decide what to do when one of their reports is not acting accountably. There are two significant problems with this approach to managing accountability. But there is another way a leader can manage accountability and that is by setting up their team to be accountable.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 1, 2019

To make matters worse, many leaders and managers work in organizations layered with forced hierarchies and inherently distrustful systems. Oh, sure,” your workers may think, “I’ll trust you … just as soon as you stop monitoring our e-mails, stop drug testing, or stop requiring to-the-minute time reports.” The result?

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Rich Gee Group

JUNE 10, 2024

In business, the adage "penny wise and pound foolish" often describes a short-sighted approach to cost management that undermines long-term success. This reluctance stifles innovation and prevents the workforce from acquiring new skills essential for adapting to market changes.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2019

You don't need a powerful title or a line of direct reports—you have everything you need to use them right now. Innovating Innovation : Leadership Tools For Moving Your Business Forward and Making Change Happen David Morey. Innovation is broken. The Making of a Manager : What to Do When Everyone Looks to You Julie Zhuo.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Another aspect of the challenges faced by FinTech leaders is managing teams through a series of transformations successfully. To do so, successful management of their expectations is essential. FinTech managed to do that by making financial services accessible and affordable globally.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

How to Help a Manager Who’s Struggling, Right Now by @lizkislik. Edelman Trust Report 2020: How To Build Greater Levels Of Trust from @JohnBaldoni. How to Create a Permission Structure for Innovation by @ScottEblin. Four Huge Mistakes Schools Have Made Over the Years via @GrowingLeaders. Want to understand someone?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Outstanding CROs demonstrate a talent for innovation, change management, and strategic decision-making. By managing the uncertainties of a fluctuating market, an experienced CRO guides the organization toward its financial goals. In this role, industry experience isn’t just a bonus—it’s a crucial asset.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 2, 2024

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and nowhere is that more true than in innovation. GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton That’s one of the insights I took away from InnoLead’s Q1 report on corporate innovation priorities.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

How Innovation Works : And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley. Innovation is crucially different from invention, because it is the turning of inventions into things of practical and affordable use to people. Far from there being too much innovation, we may be on the brink of an innovation famine.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 9, 2023

Inclusive society The report highlights the challenges currently facing households as they struggle to cope with rising inflation. The report reveals that while more people have access to bank accounts than ever before, the remaining unbanked population continues to face significant problems in a society that is increasingly cashless.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2019

To wit, we get stuck in old ways of doing things; we convince ourselves that change would be impossible because nobody could fix such a nincompoopish company anyway; or we fret that even if we tried to lead a change, none of the nincompoops to whom we report or work with would listen. Innovation. How do you create customer value?

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