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Topic: Personal Development

How to Manage a Horrible Boss

A Great Manager Can Inspire You to Take Your Career to the Next Level but an Incompetent Boss May Lead Your Career to Ruin.

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Topic: Productivity

Waitrose: long-term leadership in action?

The management changes at the top of Waitrose, highlight the significance of succession planning, and long-termism.

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Topic: Difficult Conversations

Is the Next Corporate Scandal Just Around the Corner?

With the VW scandal still rumbling on, research from CIPD warns that the next scandal could already be in the pipeline

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Topic: Employability

How To Take Control Of Your Own Career

The dreaded personal development plan is feared by many managers, but guest blogger Adrian Furnham says it is time career dev

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

How Good Management Promotes a Healthy Work-life Balance

The pressure to be a 24/7 employee is putting a strain on britain’s workers, and how good management can be the solution

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

How the Big Four accountants are shaking up traditional interviewing

How Are Leading Employers Innovating Their Recruitment Practices to Find the Best Talent for Their Organisation?

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Topic: Personal Development

How to Manage Out-of-office Workers

Flexible working patterns have been on the rise but what is the best way to manage people who are rarely in the office?

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Topic: Governance

The MoralDNA of Employee Owned Companies

Growing interest in employee ownership as an alternative to usual business models such as PLCs, LLPs and family businesses.

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Topic: Personal Development

Expert advice for new managers from CMI members

Are you a new manager just starting out in the profession? Watch CMI members giving advice on how best to approach the role.

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Topic: Productivity

Four companies that failed spectacularly, and the lessons of their demise

Failure can be rooted in bad management, misguided leadership, strategic failings, market changes or just bad luck

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Topic: Personal Development

Watch: The Curse of the Accidental Manager

Think Someone Can Be a Leader Without the Proper Training? You’re Wrong

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Topic: Productivity

Growing Your Small Business

How business schools and professional bodies can successfully support the growth of small and medium enterprises.

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