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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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Underinvestment in Technology This was the main root of their problem. Because Southwest Airlines seems to have the worst, most outdated operating technology in the industry. Failing technology. Company COO, Andrew Watterson, explained their scheduling software could not match available crews with planes quickly enough.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 23, 2012

Jill Abramson, Executive Editor, New York Times – Media. Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook – Technology. Secretary of State, United States – Politics. Dilma Rousseff, President, Brazil – Politics. Melinda Gates, Co-chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – Humanitarian.

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Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 2, 2020

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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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

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. State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving.

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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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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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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

Technology trends. When we work with C-suite executives and with senior teams in our organizational practice, we often hear concerns about the disconnections between the current organizational culture and the needed culture to implement the future-proof strategy,” our COO David Altman says.

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

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. Ken Pedersen, COO. I was optimistic. Joel Basgall, CEO.

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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. Instead, he decided to abide by the same corporate travel rules that every other executive in the company abides by.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Teaches leadership to executives and emerging leaders around the world. Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Global Debt Registry (MHR). Corporate Executives. Former Executive VP and Head of Strategy & Transformation at TMB Bank.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Coordinating the infrastructure, technology, and messaging in a way that appears seamless and fluid to the customer is, to be blunt, a logistical nightmare. Executives focus on optimizing discrete touchpoints rather than improving the complete customer experience. The CMO and COO are the natural partners for turning this around.

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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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The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Lobo, the high integrity executive we met in Chapter 4 who was demoted after a year as COO, even though from an objective standpoint the company met an aggressive set of revenue and product launch targets. In hindsight, Harry understands that the CEO’s expectation of 15% growth because “the technology was so great” was not rational.

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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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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

1,304 103,000 79 6,016 Marshall Goldsmith Business, Leadership Internationally known Executive Coach, bestselling author of What Got You Here Won''t Get You There and MOJO! Tweets with occasional assistance from the Fellows at the Forum for Growth & Innovation. Father of 3 kids. Husband of 1 wife. Be Irresistible. Evelyn Spiro, R.N.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

When technology, access, information and how consumers buy changes, so must management.” ← Fast Friday with Jay Woo, COO, CAA South Central Ontario The Value of a 3rd Opinion – Part 1: finding and working with a Mentor → Like Be the first to like this post. RoundtableTalk Where ambitious leaders meet. Ctrl.Alt.Del.

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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 13, 2012

Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products. These questions will confront executives within and outside IT for the remainder of the decade as corporate governance extends to IT expenditures. Shadow IT has been freshly-labeled "departmental IT.". How do we change this?

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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

MARCH 12, 2012

I am convinced that one senior-executive colleague never achieved his full potential because he simply looked too much like a conservative banker. Digital technology, one of the world's fastest-growing and most lucrative sectors, is popular with consumers of all ages. For instance, would a woman with spiky orange hair land a COO job?

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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. Do you see your CIO as a senior executive colleague or just a leader of the technology function?

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

I asked several tech startup founders, community managers, and users for any lessons learned on how startups can successfully transition their early adopters, who are used to feeling like VIPs, to technology that reduces hand-holding. Here are three principles they work by as their startups continue to scale from high-touch to high-tech: 1.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

That’s why, after years of operating without support staff (it’s been just me and my COO), I’ve recently hired a 24-year-old, Morgan, and given him the title of Director of Execution and Evolution. Stop playing catch-up with technology. I told him his job is to help me grow my business and my mind.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

But what really fueled #GivingTuesday was not technology tactics or whiz-bang applications; it was a mindset built around four principles, ones that can apply to many organizations seeking to use social media to create change. Rather than setting out to execute an initiative, we focused on growing a movement.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

In February, President Obama issued an executive order aimed at protecting critical infrastructure, adding the administration''s voice to those of Congressional members and corporate leaders in the national conversation on cybersecurity. Every C-level executive has a role in stemming the tide of cyber-attacks.

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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. One type is what we call “activity” metrics, which show that you’re busy stoking the boilers of innovation.

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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%. The Executive Committee meeting at Alentix is a perfect example. But its European division was struggling. It had been five years since the region turned a profit.

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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. Sure enough, the company’s growth soon warranted yet another shift, and the board put COO Dick Costolo in the CEO role.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Marne Levine is the COO of Instagram (Facebook, Inc.). Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. My husband was one of the earliest investors in alternative energy technologies in the U.S., Many tech executives have started sustainability-oriented philanthropic organizations.

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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

MARCH 25, 2013

But what really fueled #GivingTuesday was not technology tactics or whiz-bang applications; it was a mindset built around four principles, ones that can apply to many organizations seeking to use social media to create change. Rather than setting out to execute an initiative, we focused on growing a movement.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Since then, using the Net and social networking technologies such as Twitter and Facebook, people in their 20s and 30s have been collecting and disseminating valuable data; collaborating with others they have never met; and creating rescue projects on the fly as well as garnering resources for them.

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