Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, Deborah Sweeney, the CEO of MyCorporation, learned early that she should never settle for less than her best. Marina Lau, a senior marketing manager at JotForm, says one of her key mentors provided all sorts of practical advice, but it was all built on a foundation of creating a strong sense of inner confidence.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 10, 2011

Your employees with a secure attachment style will accept your support, but they are less likely to need it because they probably have a very well developed and healthy support network, both at work and outside of work. Is Your CEO A Narcissist? Leadership attachment style evidence-based management personality simmons'

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P&L Organizational Behavior Stress Resistance 88

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The L-word makes hard-nosed managers squirm. These are the same managers loudly pronouncing goals of higher employee engagement and increased customer loyalty. These managers use lots of “leader-speak” about vision, values, engagement, or caring but their rhetoric is heartless and empty.

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Airlines P&L Collins Leadership 53

Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

There is a noticeable focus on “culture” lately, whether the topic is recruiting, engagement, development, retention, what have you. At this meeting, employees heard from the CEO, CHRO, General Counsel, COO, CFO, CMO, and any business leaders spearheading a major initiative. It’s all good stuff to discuss.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, Deborah Sweeney, the CEO of MyCorporation , learned early that she should never settle for less than her best. Marina Lau, a senior marketing manager at JotForm , says one of her key mentors provided all sorts of practical advice, but it was all built on a foundation of creating a strong sense of inner confidence.

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Mentor Quality P&L Hammer 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

One of the challenges of being a CEO is that you rarely are asked to choose between a wrong or right answer. CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Manage costs — or add value?

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Have you noticed that general managers are scarce these days? But in many large companies, the only true general manager is the CEO. Everyone else, whether in the C-suite or in the senior management ranks, runs a piece of a business or a support function. At one time general managers were at the center of the action.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 6, 2024

Sixty-nine% of managers say that they’re often uncomfortable communicating with employees 1 and 91% of employees feel their managers lack effective communication skills. Situational Conversations leans into the human element of leadership,” said Suzie Bishop, VP of Product Development at The Center for Leadership Studies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Face facts: Most boards invest heavily in executive assessments, exposing chief-executive candidates to C-suite responsibilities and checking their P&L performance — while simultaneously scanning outside prospects. Thompson, the former CEO of Symantec, leads its search committee, and he is joined by Steve J.

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CEO Committee P&L Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

This question was at the heart of a recent study we conducted that is forthcoming at the Academy of Management Journal. Specifically we studied whether or not board service increased an executive’s likelihood of receiving a promotion, becoming a CEO, and/or receiving a pay increase. ” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L.

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Execution P&L CEO COO 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team.

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P&L Agility Fashion Media 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

Since Steve Jobs' resignation as CEO at Apple last week, there has been much concern, discussion , and hand-wringing in the business world. But other companies have managed to thrive long after the departure of their talented founders (GE, IBM, Procter & Gamble, HP until recently). Place product experience first, not P&L.

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P&L Supply Chain Retail COO 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2012

Editor's note: This fictional Management Puzzle dramatizes a dilemma faced by leaders in real companies. Like HBR's traditional case studies, HBR.org's Management Puzzles are based on academic research into business problems. Cespedes and Benson P. I can't believe the CEO actually likes this plan," she said.

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P&L Management Chemicals Case Study 12

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

CEOs face countless decisions. While the obvious decisions that CEOs need to get right involve strategy and competitive advantage, too many executives delegate away three critical decisions that they need to own: decisions about goals, resource allocation, and people. The brilliant decision-makers look at the runway ahead.

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P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

With former CEO A.G. She holds the Ernest L. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. Why is P&G making this move, now? But note how P&G did it. Asking A.G.

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P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Imagine if managements, boards, and investors adopted them: we could restart our economy, energize our business school curricula and create prosperity for our children and grandchildren. In all but seven of these 45 years, Berkshire beat the S&P. Berkshire's talented managers get the P&L independence to run their own businesses.

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Letter P&L Net Present Value Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

That means churning through data to find insights that others haven’t seen and then developing the organizational capability to act on them faster and better to drive above-market growth. Deborah DiSanzo, the CEO of Philips Healthcare, was once a CMO. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution. Who has P&L authority? Second, they’re specific enough to help senior management make trade-offs. It includes accountabilities.

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Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

CEOs and boards still generally view technology as a cost. Some CEOs are still in denial, and time is against them — the longer it takes, the more dramatic the needed transformation and the higher the risk.” ” This engagement between directors and management starts with the permission and knowledge of the CEO.

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CIO Committee Technology P&L 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

In today's economy, where the fast growth of emerging markets outpaces America and the developed world, if you haven't gone global yet, it's time to get moving. One of the biggest challenges they face is how to manage a diverse group of people across a broad geographic scope. The agenda was always the same, and it was a marathon day.

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P&L Globalization CFO Operations 15

Coaching Tip

MARCH 29, 2017

"When they get to own a P&L or become the CEO, in many cases executives are rusty at strategy or have never even been given a set of tools to set strategy," says management consultant Tim Lewko. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. Build decision-making speed by having a single starting point.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 18, 2019

Ruthless prioritization serves you—the CEO, the general manager, the team owner, the person on the hook for the P&L of your business. It takes courage and conviction to develop and follow one. They’ve had to look at 100 good ideas and take 99 of them off the table in favor of the excellent one.

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Brand P&L Delegation Loyalty 197

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

Corporate behemoths — like IBM and its innovation jams , 3M''s open innovation efforts and Procter &Gamble''s connect + develop programs — are constantly looking for ways to cost-effectively leverage their scale while safely exploring potential innovation opportunities. Many of these initiatives enjoy some success; most do not.

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Innovation P&L Company Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The leader, desperate to get in control of the situation, pushes the team to develop “the answer” so that he or she can tell the organization. Organizational Development BOOK. We know of one reorg where everyone thought the CEO’s e-mails were going out to the whole organization. ” Excerpted from.

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P&L Open-book Organization Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

” I love this quote from L. Evolutionary science tells us that our fancy brains developed not while we were lounging but while we were working out. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. Move and exercise.

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P&L Sharpe Hotels Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. The first one I'll focus on is Akamai. Akamai: The Present. How did Akamai do it?

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P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Just in case you’ve forgotten, a manager in a matrix organization has two or more upward reporting lines to bosses who each represent a different business dimension, such as product, region, customer, capability, or function. The executives in charge of the various groups sit together naturally in the top management team.

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Organization P&L Report Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

Our understanding of how organizations think and act doesn’t always make this distinction between the interests of the enterprise and its managers. CEO, President, COO (Top Dogs): These highest order decision makers are the big picture thinkers. ” Fair enough: Exxon does want to find and sell more oil.

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P&L Due Diligence CIO COO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

We conducted a 10-year study, which we call the CEO Genome Project , in which we assembled a data set of more than 17,000 C-suite executive assessments and studied 2,600 in-depth to analyze who gets to the top and how. The path to CEO rarely runs in a straight line; sometimes you have to move backward or sideways in order to get ahead.

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CEO CFO P&L Career 8

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. They rate lower than direct reports, direct managers and the participants’ self assessments. Why is that? What do you wish your peers would do on a regular basis?

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Bottom-up Short-term Executive Coaching Open-book 177

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2018

You need to add the word ‘no’ to your management vocabulary.” The single best tool I have found to help unlearn the yes-man ways of a startup CEO is a single-page document we call our MSPOT. I had made the decision to refocus all of our product development, sales, and marketing efforts on the marketing director.

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P&L Strategy Press Release Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

It always irked Ekdahl when she spoke for the CEO like that. "He His resentment toward Fierst was obviously mellowing six months after CEO Hal Taylor, at her urging, had pressured Milanese to retire. So the CEO had given the HR department a green light to create a new system that would force managers to be brutally honest.

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Case Study P&L Performance Review Review 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Tommy was a director and Jane was the Midlands regional sales manager for Egan & Sons, a supplier of doors and staircases to Westmid for 63 years. Enlisting several younger financial managers, he made the case to the executive director, Wilfred Hammond, who approved the hiring of a consultant with extensive experience in ABC.

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Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. The greening of the supply chain. Watch this space.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

We talked to 24 current and former not-white-male CEOs , who spoke candidly about what they faced as they built their careers and how they developed inclusive organizations. And we''ve got advice about how to sell your ideas to women , in a world where there are growing numbers of women with P&L power.

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P&L CFO Self-aware Globalization 12