Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Here are some of the things that were done in this “bad” culture: Quarterly all company updates: Every quarter, the executive leadership team would hold a virtual “all hands” meeting – at corporate, it was live; in other locations, it was broadcast on our internal channels.

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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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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Stuart Oliver: Entrepreneur, Interim CIO, Technology COO, Strategist, » Blog Archive » To blog or not to blog [.] Mike Myatt from N2Growth has this interesting blog entitled “To blog or not to blog“ [.] link] Swiecki’s Blog » Tech-blog Carnival Edition 2 [.]

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. Let’s look at how a couple of job hunters I’ve worked with, an administrative assistant and a C-suite executive, translated their notes into effective résumés. Expand from U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

That''s why Elizabeth started out one notch lower, with the office of the Chief Operating Officer, "because that secretary knows everybody," she says. Her goal wasn''t actually to score an interview with the COO, which was probably unlikely. Career planning Managing yourself' Finally, you have to be willing to seize opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

I wasn’t planning on retiring for at least another five years, but I wanted to watch how effectively my team could execute some of my more important functions. I had taken one step toward this two years ago, when I named one partner president and another chief operating officer.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

What to make of the confluence of General Petraeus resigning as head of the CIA and Christopher Kubasik , vice chairman, president, and COO of Lockheed also resigning — both for having affairs — within days of each other? Maybe that is because of more public scrutiny and the operation of social media.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2017

In the early stages of his career he decided he had to speak up about malpractice he had witnessed. ” Even with the consequences so brutally apparent, this executive felt so strongly that speaking up was the morally right choice that he could not have lived with himself had he stayed silent. ’ So I did desist.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

New research by RHR international shows which executives incoming CEOs are likely to replace, and highlights some differences between first-time CEOs and more seasoned chief executives. Every good seasoned executive will do two assessments of people. So they need to have the right person in that COO role.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

When looking to hire a new CEO, corporate boards of directors are increasingly bypassing C-level executives and appointing less seasoned leaders. They are still looking for chiefs with the traditional attributes of intelligence, integrity, and stamina—traits that have defined great executives for decades.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

At age 41, I am where I want to be in my career: running my own sales-training business, with enough clients lined up that I can probably live comfortably for the next several years. And I’m teaching him what it takes to build and run a business — from finances to operations to projections. odla3D/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

Career Transitions. Leaving a Stable Job to Create Your Dream Career. Let’s look at how to do this by analyzing the resume and LinkedIn profile of a startup marketing executive. Combine big-picture thinking with rigorous execution.” Then add the more detailed bullet points to fill in those stories.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Marne Levine is the COO of Instagram (Facebook, Inc.). When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. Future Economy. Mission-Driven Sustainability. Andrew Liveris.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We operate in a business landscape driven by an obsession with youth. I am convinced that one senior-executive colleague never achieved his full potential because he simply looked too much like a conservative banker. For instance, would a woman with spiky orange hair land a COO job? I should know. Translation: he looked old.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg called the deck the most important document ever to come out of Silicon Valley. Leaders who successfully implement unlimited vacation policies operate in companies that are already high in trust. The slide deck itself was viewed over 11 million times, and newspapers around the globe picked it up.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The keynote speaker was Sheryl Sandberg, famous both for her role as Facebook COO and for her advice to girls and women to “ Lean In.”. If you can “connect people and cascade excellence,” better ways of operating have the best chance of taking hold. What does this have to do with scaling? What is in it for them?

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

He was down the road in a new career a couple years later. I’ve seen it my whole career. A couple of weeks ago, there was this operations officer and I said to the COO, “You gotta fire this guy. You haven’t been appreciating people for the last 20 years of your career? So they no, they actually terminated him.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

He was down the road in a new career a couple years later. I’ve seen it my whole career. A couple of weeks ago, there was this operations officer and I said to the COO, “You gotta fire this guy. You haven’t been appreciating people for the last 20 years of your career? So they no, they actually terminated him.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

What follows is a short recap of some of the best bits from this year’s commencements, as related to business and career success. Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, speaking at City Colleges of Chicago. In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2016

But viewing reference checks as a formality is a mistake, according to Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job. His first call was to Jane’s former direct supervisor, the COO of her previous company.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

“Work is often an antidote, a space where you can forget about what’s happening and operate as a functioning adult rather than feeling helpless in the face of these events.” . “I was overwhelmed by the tsunami of death, and work was very much a solace for me,” she says. Principles to Remember.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

I’ve recently been thinking about this with regard to how leaders can be more strategic, able to effectively execute the core of their business while remaining open to trends in the market and adapting to meet them. Complement this organization model with operational process. Are you doing so today?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Take these two tweets: “First full day as Twitter COO tomorrow. ” —Dick Costolo, the night before he joined Twitter as chief operations officer. A well-executed appropriate joke makes you seem more confident, more competent, and higher status. Even if they laugh, will they really think the joke is funny?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

These larger companies, once considered pinnacles of career opportunity, have become employers of last resort. At several financial services firms , for example, business units whose employees reported speaking up more had significantly better financial and operational results than others.”

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