Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Humanizing Leadership Mentors. During the book writing process, I reflected on the multitude of individuals who graciously shared their time, words, wisdom, and encouragement with me along my personal leadership journey. How they showed up as leaders and how they engaged was critical to my leadership development.

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Angela Roberts is the Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. 6 Leadership Qualities All Life Science Executives Should Master. Money Reserve. Money Reserve is not just one of the largest private distributors of U.S. Roberts has put an enormous amount […]. Related posts: E.S.G. 2020 has arrived with a Bang!!

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The N2Growth Leaders25 Awards are considered to be the Oscars of professional excellence for Board and C-level executives. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2012

If you’re in charge of your organization’s training, talent management, succession planning, or HR function, when’s the last time you talked to your C-level executives about leadership development? Within the last few months - I talk to our C-level Execs on a regular basis about leadership development. Pick one answer: A.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2020

” And I lost a job as an executive because of it. I lost my job as a chief operations officer because, as I said earlier, I was seen as tactless and overly direct. Executives and managers who do not hold people accountable alienate high performers and lower team performance. Negotiate a family charter.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 21, 2013

General Motors named Mary Barra to be the next chief executive officer (CEO). Park Geun Hye took office as South Korea''s president. Catalyst’s research and insights reveal a strong business and financial case for advancing women to leadership. Janet Yellen is lined up to run the Federal Reserve. said Ilene H.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 4, 2024

The rocket company, SpaceX fired eight employees wrongly for a letter as per the National Labor Relations Board, raising concerns about the chief executive. I am hopeful these charges will hold SpaceX and its leadership accountable for their long history of mistreating workers and stifling discourse.”

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 30, 2021

Over the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to coach the members of a couple of different corporate senior leadership teams. The coaching approach I use for leadership teams is a lot like the one I use for individual leaders. A proactive way to start the day! She uses the time for both longer term and short-term thinking.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 15, 2023

On Wednesday, Cruise fired nine executives, including its chief operating officer and chief legal and policy officer amid an external investigation led by law firm Quinn Emmanuel into the accident and Cruise’s response. C ruise layoffs 2023 There has been many layoffs at GM Cruise in 2023.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 15, 2014

At the time we were writing this piece, Chris was stationed at Kabul, Afghanistan as the Chief of Staff/Chief Operating Officer for the NATO Air Training Command. Follow these five simple ground rules and your new leadership challenge will be off to a great start. What about your successor?

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LDRLB

JULY 27, 2012

Neil Nicoll, President and CEO of YMCA warned us in Finding Leaders for America’s Nonprofits: Commentaries that, “Until [we] become much more intentional about development of internal talent, we are doomed to an ever-growing leadership deficit.” Companies need to change the way they are sourcing leadership talent.

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 25, 2013

Meeting with a Chief Operations Officer of a Health Care Organization, whose team I have been consulting and coaching. michael cardus is create-learning.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 25, 2017

As she grasped for answers, Facebook’s chief operating officer reached out to a business school professor. After her husband died suddenly, Sheryl Sandberg grieved, as anyone would. What she did next was a little more unusual, and very much in the Silicon Valley spirit of problem-solving.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

"While the global population is largely gender balanced, men hold eighty-five percent of senior leadership positions in public companies," states Melissa Greenwell , author of the new book, Money on the Table: How to Increase Profits Through Gender-balanced Leadership. Identify and communicate criteria for successful leadership.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 12, 2020

Former Chief Operating Officer of Pinterest, Françoise Brougher, has filed a lawsuit against the company alleging gender discrimination and wrongful termination. The company’s executive board is entirely made up of men!

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It had earlier set an ambitious target of taking a quarter of Japan’s auto market, but to achieve that, the chief executive had said that the old way of making and selling cars would no longer suffice. Under his leadership, Ghosn said, the struggling automaker would return to profitability in a year and halve its debt a year later.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Pawel Motyl – Formerly CEO Harvard Business Review Poland, noted speaker, consultant and executive coach, author Labirynt Sztuka podejmowania decyzji. Liz Wiseman – Bestselling author of Multipliers, Thinkers 50 Top Ten Leadership Thinker 2015-17, Winner of the ATD Champion of Talent Award. Ayse Birsel – One of the Inc.

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Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The proper formulation and execution of the company’s future and the plans to achieve that future lie in the ability of the Manager(s) to develop Strategic Plans. His services were invaluable to our Agency.” - Tara Vogel Chief Operating Officer at Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Buffalo Inc. “I THIS WILL FIX THAT.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC and NTE Solutions partner to provide energy industry executives and managers with asset lifecycle management and regulatory compliance advisory services. This partnership will create a more complete set of offerings that efficiently serve diversified generation utility executives.”

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

. “Many of today’s significant industrial accidents are preventable, the byproduct of human errors made when safety was subordinated to other priorities,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Download the white paper by clicking here. About the Authors.

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LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

SHAWN: I’m Shawn Hunter, and well, what I do, my day job is I’m an executive producer for Leadership Solutions, for Skillsoft, and so to that end, I travel around the world with colleagues, and we track down really interesting people. People who are on the edges of innovation or leadership or management. That’s it!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Jay Woo , CAA South Central Ontario’s Chief Operating Officer offered up this piece of advice: “Stay connected to your front line.” Share this: This entry was posted in Communication and tagged best leadership advice , Jay Woo , leadership lessons , PowerRoundtable. Happy leading! Bookmark the permalink.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

In my executive coaching practice, I help clients transform their attitude about stress. The third-generation CEO of a family business, my client experienced severe stress as his executive team (comprised of older family members) lambasted his every decision about how to run the company. Develop strategic leadership skills.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

At Salesforce.com, Rajani Ramanathan is the chief operating officer across the products and technology division. Now two years after publishing this research and assessing hundreds of additional executives, we find that, on average, managers are utilizing just 66% of their people's capability.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

I can’t prove that my cerebral palsy has played into that, but the fact is, you never see executives with physical disabilities in the industry.” But teaching managers to display inclusive leadership behaviors is just the first step. Offer leadership development opportunities to employees with disabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

A recent post by fellow HBR blogger Gill Corkindale illustrates how dysfunctional or outdated organizational designs can make it difficult for managers to operate effectively. As today's executives struggle with the fallout of a globalized economy, they are likely to make their organizational structures even more complex.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

I saw this play out when debriefing with the Chief Operating Officer of a $20 billion global company. I watched this happen in a leadership team meeting as the heads of marketing and sales tried to resolve a common stalemate. But what they saw was a neurotic plea for affirmation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

One senior leader at a professional services company, whom we’ll call Bronwyn, made the move from client-facing partner to chief operating officer. Take the program officer at a youth focused nonprofit whom we’ll call Maria. She had nowhere to move up internally unless the executive director moved on.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Consider the case of director Frank Whyte (as we’ll call him): “You show a 3 percent increase in productivity,” Whyte snapped at the executive vice president of the largest division of a very successful consumer-goods company and likely CEO successor. The executive was in the middle of a routine presentation to the board.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” This suggests that the problem of too little strategic leadership may be as much a function of doing as of thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

This 20 th century system essentially has leadership establishing objectives for managers to achieve. For example the principle of “respect for people” means leadership respects caregivers enough to develop a system in which caregivers have control to change processes without management involvement.

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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 16, 2011

In 2009 Tony Scibelli, Vice President of Human Resources and Operations at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare learned that the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer were going to launch "relationship-based care," a comprehensive cultural change program to focus doctors' and nurses' attention on patients and their families.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Executives have begun to understand that to build a great business, companies need a larger goal, one that transcends the traditional bottom line. When I was the chief operating officer at Delta Air Lines, I remember once being asked, “What are you going to do about our morale?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Whether they''re pitching to a customer in an office, brokering a peace deal at Camp David, or arguing over curfew at the kitchen table, negotiators are people trying to persuade other people of their point of view. At the start of my leadership development programs, I ask people for examples of "negotiating with yourself."

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