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5 Most Important Leadership Competencies for Function Leaders

Center for Creative Leadership

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. The leaders surveyed rated themselves in terms of their effectiveness in the 13 critical leadership competencies.

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The Rise of the COO

Harvard Business Review

Does your company have a COO today? Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing. Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks.

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To Blog or Not to Blog?

N2Growth Blog

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought.

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How Twitter’s Leadership Drama Explains its Success

Harvard Business Review

And it’s a far cry, he asserts, from the version that the company and its current leadership have repeated to the press. The path to value typically requires a change in leadership, not because VCs are somehow nefarious, but because they recognize that different stages of a startup require different kinds of leaders.