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Be an Advocate for Yourself :: Women on Business

Women on Business

o Make sure your position has P&L responsibility. Your mentor might be able to help identify and facilitate this. Create visibility and credibility for yourself in the organization. o Take on high profile projects. Identify your value proposition. What do you bring to the table? o Build and leverage these relationships.

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It's Harder than Ever to Be a Senior Executive

Harvard Business Review

The job of the senior executive is much more complicated today than it was a decade or two ago — and that trend will continue, especially if you hope to play on a global stage (which is a nearly universal condition these days for many companies). Companies are increasingly global. Here are five reasons.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 11/26/12)

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Austin, Richard L. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Complete Executive Karen Wright Harder Than I Thought Robert D. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP Leon M. Hielkema INTERVIEWS Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob [.].

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Beauty Marketers: Best in Class | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • August 15, 2011 • Branding , Marketing • 0 Comments. Notwithstanding the company’s recent ’airbrushing’ misstep in the UK, L’Oreal has negotiated through the test-of-time’s mine fields, successfully setting the brand marketing standard for the entire cosmetics industry. April 2011.

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How Can We Increase the Number of Women on Corporate Boards?

Women on Business

Getting more women on boards begins with getting more women in mission-critical P&L roles. ” Grace Lieblein, Vice President, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain, General Motors. Almost half of F500 board seats in 2011 are occupied by directors without CEO experience. It’s not lack of CEO experience.

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Silver Linings for 2012

Harvard Business Review

And I predict that leaders who get the whole story, and act on it, will reap unexpectedly better workplace morale in 2012, despite all the uncertainty and volatility of the global economic realities. If you pay attention to workplace surveys, the news sounds pretty bad. What does happiness mean? Where does it come from?

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. After Jeff Immelt threw down the gauntlet for building a global software center, GE faced significant physical, organizational, and cultural challenges.