Knowledge and Insights

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Topic: Managing Failure

How the Value-Cost Model solves the corporate existential crisis

Dr Michael Wynn-Williams introduces the Value-Cost Model, which helps to set out a company’s future trajectory

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Topic: Productivity

Leaders: what’s your main job when it comes to sustainability?

Is it more important for managers to set a sustainability vision or to empower their teams to act? Here’s what you told us…

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Topic: Personal Development

“I wanted some letters after my name”

How Chartered Manager status helped prepare Lee Long CMgr MCMI for his next steps

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Topic: Personal Development

“I’ve grown so much as a person from when I first started”

Nottingham Trent University student Ria Sharma shares how a CMI accredited-course helps her stand out

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Topic: Personal Development

“Becoming Chartered led to a new me”

Tony Stonebridge CMgr FCMI, lead subject matter expert at Wickes, shares how he caught the bug for studying – at 44 years old

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Topic: Personal Development

“Professional accreditation means that students can stand out more in the workplace”

Justine Davidson explains how NTU’s BA (Hons) Fashion Management course helps students stand out in a competitive industry

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Topic: Personal Development

Baroness Casey: “Don’t seek popularity in your approach – take responsibility”

Baroness Louise Casey received CMI’s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award. We look back at the impact she’s made

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Topic: Personal Development

“You have to keep moving forward, learning and progressing”

An opportunity at her new employer encouraged Kate Campbell-Balcombe to improve her leadership knowledge. CMI was the answer

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Highlights – 11 June

Decisions, decisions: the good, the better – and the incredibly short-sighted

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Topic: Personal Development

Which is better: chasing the dream or achieving balance?

We asked the CMI community whether it’s best to pursue a dream job or to settle for something with greater flexibility

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Topic: Employment Landscape

“Volunteering will repay you a hundred times over”

Following another inspiring Volunteers’ Week, we speak to two of our dedicated CMI regional board members

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Topic: Productivity

Why workplace wellbeing is a leadership imperative

CMI Malaysia held a roundtable discussion at the British Malaysian Chamber of Commerce, to explore workplace wellbeing.

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