Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

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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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2011

Simon Cooper, president and COO of Ritz-Carlton says the best reason to rid an organization of mindless hierarchy is to provide scriptless service : employees deciding on their own how to make guests happy. That’s real leadership.” This requires trust at all levels and a different view of real leadership, says Kurtzman.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

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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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Are you looking for the top leadership experts to follow in 2015? Maybe you need a leadership development expert or public speaker. Whether you need a leadership and management expert for yourself or your team, you’ll find someone great below. of the Center for the Development of Evangelical Leadership @GCTS_Charlotte.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. Technology trends. The importance and value of leadership training and coaching came out clearly in the survey results.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Authority on new technology and communication. Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

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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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Just goes to show what great leadership can do! Our first meeting was spent on articulating the benefits of the program and how to get buy-in from the Executive Team. With the first engagement complete, our next step is to decide whether we need to make any program changes and report back to the executive team. I was optimistic.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

This was no accident…it took hard work, careful planning, and extreme attention to detail with a focus on execution…This example is exactly how a great customer experience is created. Most companies do not fully execute their CRM initiatives and when they do they are product focused. Thanks Scott. You definitely nailed it.

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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 [.] Most of you who have been following this blog know that I’ve been an a strong evangelist of social media, and perhaps even more so of blogging for several years now.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

He had to ask her four more times, including once on a conference call with the whole executive team, before she finally relented. We shouldn’t execute programs that don’t serve the business. 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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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Simon Sinek @simonsinek / Author and consultant on inspiring leadership / In a nutshell: Know WHY you’re doing what you’re doing “Share one’s passion and purpose as you inspire others” “Hire people who believe what you believe – and they will work for that belief. “Strategy is not a powerpoint. Skip to content Home Welcome!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

political system, the business world has no rules requiring that every leader have a backup, or that every corporate chief executive has a chief operating officer. Consider whether Apple would be flourishing today had the late Steve Jobs not appointed Tim Cook as COO well before his fatal illness. Unlike the U.S. Except for one thing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

The topic in the Executive Committee meeting turned to Europe. The technology company, Alentix*, was doing well and growing annually at the rate of about 15%. I looked around the room at the silent senior leadership of Alentix, all of whom had privately complained to me about Jean''s performance in recent weeks.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

That founder himself booted from the CEO role later on by VCs, only to watch the company’s initial CEO return to the day-to-day operations alongside yet another chief executive, who joined well after the founding. And it’s a far cry, he asserts, from the version that the company and its current leadership have repeated to the press.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

When I do get a name, it often differs depending on who I asked—a marketing executive points to one person, while finance identifies someone else. It is time to connect these groups, elevate analytics to a strategic corporate practice, and assign executive leadership to oversee it. Information & technology Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. Some CIOs become CIO-Plus-COO or CIO-Plus-Head of Shared Services. CIOs who do great things in leading IT soon gain extra responsibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2011

Christine Lagarde, French finance minister, said that digital technologies would drive 5.5% While not taking credit for Arab Spring , Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, noted that Facebook should be thought of not in terms of 500 million users but many more millions of overlapping communities based on mutual interests.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Wilson went on to be COO of The Gap Inc. But Anderson, who had served as an independent director on the company’s board for several years, did this through having “tremendous relationships and credibility with the operating executives.” A senior executive described to us what he termed the “rules of engagement.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

Effective leadership and management across these areas is possible, but not without without providing CIOs with the proper support structures and instituting necessary organizational alignment. Chief "Innovation" Officer: Looking for disruptive technologies to drive innovation. Today''s CIOs must learn to balance all of these personas.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Given the shortage of talented executives, how can companies attract the best and brightest? What do executives look for in new employers? To answer these questions, we surveyed several dozen senior search consultants at a top global executive-placement firm in 2010. Platform and track record. What is its reputation?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

When my publication, Innovation Leader, surveyed 198 senior innovation executives late last year, in partnership with the consulting firm Innosight, we found them using two different kinds of measures. The first was the difficulty in creating a set of metrics that are aligned with what senior leadership actually cares about.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Marne Levine is the COO of Instagram (Facebook, Inc.). Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

A survey that we conducted earlier this year, of 319 executives around the world as well as 12 CEO workshops with leaders of over 100 of the most promising growth companies, indicates that the most troublesome challenges cluster in four areas. Just think of how fast MySpace lost the social networking business to Facebook.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

They''re people like Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook COO and author of Lean In ), who is advocating a big new idea from within an organization. Al Gore created the Climate Reality Project Leadership Corps to bring his ideas about environmental sustainability to people around the world. Career planning Entrepreneurship Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Not long ago, I attended the “Forever Green Leadership Gala” in Menlo Park, a fundraiser for The Girl Scouts of Northern California. 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.”. What does this have to do with scaling?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She is also Chair and Director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative. She wrote the HBS cases on the P&G/Gillette merger, and when she teaches those cases, frequently invites P&G executives to her class. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School. She''s an expert on strategy, innovation, and leading change.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

But “planning for your maternity leave is an opportunity to demonstrate to everyone that you’re in the game,” says Carol Walker, president of the consulting firm Prepared to Lead, which trains young executives. patent agent and a liaison between technology and the intellectual property office,” she explains. Know your rights.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Just ask the executives at Uber, Twitter, Fitbit, and Snapchat.) Sponsored by DXC Technology. Everyone on the leadership team has a role to play in making this pivot. Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, speaking at City Colleges of Chicago. Jill Abramson, former executive editor of The New York Times, speaking at Wake Forest University. True leadership isn’t about giving orders… Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, speaking at Campbell University Law School.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A. Willing to Take Chances.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Executive education students at Harvard Business School. HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both.

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