HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2024

Employees, the very same people who spend days and months familiarizing themselves with the company, are the ones who ultimately understand the organization best. CEOs and COOs may be well-placed to steer the business where the money is, but they’ll only find the company breaking down when the wheels fall off halfway towards their goals.

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Leading Blog

JULY 14, 2017

While I was walking the Camino, I thought a lot about my career and the leadership lessons I had learned. That book, Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide their Teams to Exceptional Results (Career Press), was named a Top 20 Leadership Book of 2016. I decided to write a book about those insights.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

By Guest Author Jessica Garcia Dudek , COO Oxygen Learning. Time and time again, companies promote the highest performing individual contributors within their companies to leadership positions. Making this mental shift from doing versus leading is challenging, as being a leader requires us to develop or hone different skills.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 2, 2020

Only 37 Fortune 500 Companies are led by women. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg hit the bestseller list with this book in 2013. This book was the result of a TED talk that Sandberg gave about how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers, and she provides ample proof in the book backing up that claim.

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. Development Progress & Complicating Factors: In general, adding “date hired” will give you a better sense of employees’ developmental progress. Date Hired.

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. Development Progress & Complicating Factors: In general, adding “date hired” will give you a better sense of employees’ developmental progress.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g., CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), in the prior year).

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

2 Responses to Fast Friday with Jay Woo, COO, CAA South Central Ontario John Doe | January 4, 2011 at 3:05 PM | Funny stuff. A huge innovation that no other company has. The idea exchange is a huge internal joke. It is used about 10 employees that post ridiculous ideas constantly. Just ask Woo.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Not only do these companies typically employ fewer people than the industrial titans of yore, but they also attract the ire of officials over their tax practices and have grown insanely rich off the back of something users receive no compensation for. Accusations of economic imbalance tend to be multi-faceted.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 23, 2015

Making your High Cost Producers accountable for cleaning up their own messes and making their own decisions is the best way you can force them to develop the skills they need to be independent. Victor Prince: As the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Does your company have a COO today? Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 7, 2014

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s hugely successful Lean In complements both by providing a clear example of a leader who demonstrates in action the managerial practices that both men advocate. She is a speaker, leadership development consultant, and co-author of “ The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work ”. Schein and Daniel H.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 16, 2015

For instance, a few months ago, Mary, an EVP for Human Resources, who was dealing with the integration of people and systems after her company made a large acquisition. No one else in the company can match it. There are some brilliant people in the company we acquired who have their own ideas. Don wants this issue resolved now!

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CEO Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Have the purchasers of my company’s goods and services been satisfied with the purchases, and if not, why not? In what ways has my company rendered more service and better service than what the customer has paid for? Has my company delivered the service to customers in the greatest possible quantity that we were capable?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Most companies can claim an element of success in some aspect of CRM proficiency such as sales force automation, database marketing, development of a knowledgebase, etc., but the reality is that most companies absolutely miss the boat in harnessing the true power of CRM which is improving the customer experience.

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Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

There is a noticeable focus on “culture” lately, whether the topic is recruiting, engagement, development, retention, what have you. This (pretty long) document has evolved over the years and is often cited as an example of how that company just “gets it.” It’s all good stuff to discuss.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

However, it can become detrimental to your career if you don’t take action to dig yourself out of it, and make some sort of change. Choose one area in which to focus your development. Derek Murphy is President and COO of The Booth Company, an international provider of 360 assessments and online survey hosting solutions.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

However, it can become detrimental to your career if you don’t take action to dig yourself out of it, and make some sort of change. Choose one area in which to focus your development. Derek Murphy is President and COO of The Booth Company, an international provider of 360 assessments and online survey hosting solutions.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years. Garry Ridge – CEO, WD-40 Company. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Healthcare Leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

By any category analysis or analytical standard blogging has obviously developed into a powerful communication medium. Blogs can clearly be accretive, and will continue to add brand equity to those companies and individuals who grasp the value of social media and understand how to incorporate blogging into their social media efforts.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Know your values… as an individual and as a company. ← Fast Friday with Jody Thompson, co-founder ROWE Fast Friday with Jay Woo, COO, CAA South Central Ontario → Like Be the first to like this post. Expect change… when you expect change, you can plan for it and you will be prepared to react when times shift.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When Stephens plotted people’s attitudes and moods against the numbers, he saw that the company’s stellar financial growth was creating emotional misery in the team. For Stephens, though, love is not an abstraction–it’s the underlying motivation for everything he does as president and COO.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Over the past year we have been writing the HBR Leader’s Handbook — a primer for aspiring leaders who want to take their careers to the next level. We also explored several decades of research on that subject published in HBR; and we reflected on our own experience in the area of leadership development.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

"The most important career choice you''ll make is who you marry." This career advice from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg makes good sense based on research. Among couples, career outcomes are indeed linked to the dynamics of support and career priority within couples. Shared vision and values. A team orientation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

They''re people like Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook COO and author of Lean In ), who is advocating a big new idea from within an organization. Because people have a hard time responding to an abstract idea, the idea entrepreneur develops practices (and personally models them, too) that lead people to the idea through action.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

To convince someone to buy the company's products, Michael demonstrated how to modify their manufacturing processes and the associated cost savings. He left for another job after three years with limited new skill development and without the financial cushion he'd hoped for. Your career progression will rest on your accomplishments.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

If you look at some of the companies with the strongest results and the best reputations, you’ll find that servant leadership is at the heart of them. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So why is it not more common?

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

If you look at some of the companies with the strongest results and the best reputations, you’ll find that servant leadership is at the heart of them. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So why is it not more common?

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 13, 2017

After all, I had earned it, having just finished a 28 year run as a CPA, cable company VP of Operations, football stadium project manager, VP of Development for another cable company, and finally, a cable company SVP of Operations. Leaders need to love to solve problems driven by this curiosity.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Last year I decided it was time to shake things up at our investment management company. When the CEO does depart, companies find themselves lacking leaders who are experienced in critical aspects of the top post. Juj Winn/Getty Images. Research suggests that organizations and their boards are poorly prepared for CEO transitions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

A few months ago, I got two pieces of fantastic news at the same time: I had a unique opportunity to start a company, and I was expecting my first child. Launchpad is a phenomenally successful class that challenges students to launch a company in ten weeks. My boss was right; Sandberg's talk transformed my thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Second, board service is an avenue for an executive to gain access to unique knowledge, skills, and connections, so firms actively use external board appointments as a way to groom and develop executives. Reed has also said that sitting on the board of another company is “ better than an M.B.A. increased by over $300,000.

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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. Attuned to the times, he or she has a stronger chance to uncover and release a company’s latent potential.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

And on the rare occasions when you do land an interview, you stumble over questions about what you’d bring to the hiring company and why you’re the perfect fit. Career Transitions. Leaving a Stable Job to Create Your Dream Career. But for the most part, recruiters aren’t calling. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

Consumer-facing (B2C) companies like these and many others have long realized the power of online digital networks to address the questions or issues of their customers. As Bernard Hours, the former COO of Danone, put it, “On the internet, a brand has to become a person, to listen and to answer questions.” Open integration.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

You''ll also see a real difference between first-time CEOs and people who''ve been a CEO before, especially if that first-time CEOs is coming from outside the company. Either you couldn''t develop an insider, or the external environment has shifted enough that you need someone who can come in and really drive transformational change.

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