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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. From a list of 13 leadership competencies for leading the function, here are the Top 5 that emerged: Executive communication.

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5 Leadership Lessons I Learned by Walking the Camino de Santiago

Leading Blog

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. He holds an MBA in finance from the Wharton School.

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Interview with BlogHer Co-Founder and COO Elisa Camahort Page on.

Women on Business

I interviewed the co-founder and COO of BlogHer.com , Elisa Camahort Page. Elisa was kind enough to share a lot of great tips to help bloggers leverage BlogHer.com to promote their blogs, learn and grow.

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First I Launched My Company And Then I Had To Start Learning About Managing A Product.

Strategy Driven

So after spending much of my 20s working in finance and real estate, and then going to business school, the right opportunity sat in front of me. For a few years, this process worked well for us, and I took it on my own shoulders to grow in my knowledge first and then my role and leadership to include more. Real estate, 2.

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Saving Face: How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust

Skip Prichard

Maya Hu-Chan is a management consultant, executive coach, author, and speaker, and founder of Global Leadership Associates. As an executive coach and leadership consultant, I’ve worked with leaders around the world. It is so essential to their leadership, but it is also counterintuitive sometimes. Maya Hu-Chan.

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Female Leadership on the Decline in Canada :: Women on Business

Women on Business

found that the number of women in top executives positions in Canada has fallen over the past year from 37 women in the highest-paying executive jobs in 2006 to just 31 in 2007. One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g.,

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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? The answers may not be as self-evident as many executives think. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing. Appointing a COO is a recent trend on the continent.

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