Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I also truly appreciated some of the business practices that leadership followed that I have missed in other organizations, including ones highlighted in McCord’s book. At this meeting, employees heard from the CEO, CHRO, General Counsel, COO, CFO, CMO, and any business leaders spearheading a major initiative.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 13, 2017

Those couple of things were the leadership traits that fueled and sustained me throughout my career, through the good times and the not-so-good times. They kept the “fire in my belly” every single day I stepped into the leadership arena. What were those things?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

If you’re a business leader looking for an opportunity to have real impact on your company — and position yourself for the top job — which career path is best? That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO?

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

Certainly we know that heads of finance and HR tend to move around a lot more because the skills are very transferrable, and in fact it looks better for an HR executive or CFO to show a breadth of industry. You actually get a bit disadvantaged if you''ve been in the same company or the same industry your whole career, as an HR person.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

Effective leadership and management across these areas is possible, but not without without providing CIOs with the proper support structures and instituting necessary organizational alignment. Why Can''t a CIO Be More Like a CFO? CIOs especially need: an integrative mind. focus and vision. Exploit IT for Strategic Benefit.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

Although the brothers were effectively the CEO, COO, and CFO, they wouldn’t talk to one another for months after a fight, not even on business matters. Careers and businesses ruined. Leadership & Managing people Conflict Managing organizations' They each squandered opportunities to reconcile their differences.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

“Think about the individual’s career trajectory. “In a leadership position, you’re always going to have to deal with people’s disappointment.” In their company, the COO, CFO, and HR director make decisions about compensation together and typically grant raises only at year-end review time.

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How To COO Report Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

Some people’s careers take off, while others’ take longer — or even stall out. They do it by making bold career moves over the course of their career that catapult them to the top. We found that three types of career catapults were most common among the sprinters. John Holcroft/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

And the most-successful managers must change similarly as they assume additional or different responsibilities through their careers, moving from head of sales to COO or from CFO to CEO. As leaders, all of us will be forced to balance consistency and agility in our careers and in the organizations we serve.

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