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. They run business units and geographic regions.

Self-aware 83

Self-aware Leadership COO Influence 83

HR Digest

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Vincent Chee: I am working with our COO Roni Gross and Director Naomi Hung to determine Bevel’s timeline within 6-months, 1 year and 2 years. We have managed to identify strong potential in young professionals across a variety of diverse professional backgrounds. .

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Diversity PR Long-term Short-term 52

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? That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 11

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. The CMO and COO are the natural partners for turning this around. If it’s all about the operations then you lose sight of the customer. But getting it right pays off.

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COO Planning Metrics Call Center 8

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 [.] Mike Myatt from N2Growth has this interesting blog entitled “To blog or not to blog“ [.] link] Swiecki’s Blog » Tech-blog Carnival Edition 2 [.]

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Authority on new technology and communication. Non-profit CEOs.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Prior to his current (and second) stint as CEO, Harry was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of a technology company in Silicon Valley I’ll call “ScorpCo*”. It took Harry years to make changes, and he had the support of the board to make it happen. Wall Street rewarded the company for making its numbers. Harry was demoted.

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Chief Operating Officer COO Short-term Long-term 40

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

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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CEO COO Learning-by-Doing Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We operate in a business landscape driven by an obsession with youth. 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? I should know. Consider the industry. She was bracingly blunt.

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COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on. Wilson went on to be COO of The Gap Inc. So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Marne Levine is the COO of Instagram (Facebook, Inc.). When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. My husband was one of the earliest investors in alternative energy technologies in the U.S., Future Economy. Mission-Driven Sustainability.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Watch Your Mouth Sheryl Sandberg and Anna Maria Chávez on 'Bossy,' the Other B-word The Wall Street Journal Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and her Lean In organization want to ban the word "bossy" when it''s used to describe assertive girls and women. Crisis management Information & technology Technology'

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McGregor Information Technology Crisis Management COO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

Zabeen Hirji, CHRO at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), grew up in retail banking and operations management roles before moving into HR. She changed industries from private equity investing to technology; she changed geographies by moving from New York to San Francisco; and she changed functions from M&A and investing to HR.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Despite having a full plate of client projects, she signed up to work on a massive survey to understand the concerns of chief operating officers. I never realized that we have behavioral economists on staff who can apply psychological and cognitive research to help clients with technology implementation projects.

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Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Consider Nissan’s “Vision Zero” which aims for “zero traffic accidents involving Nissan vehicles that inflict serious or fatal injuries,” according to COO Toshiyuki Shiga. Even tactical operational goals can be transformative. But it’s also very good for the business.

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Goal Transportation Automotive COO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

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.”. If you can “connect people and cascade excellence,” better ways of operating have the best chance of taking hold. Managing yourself Networking Personal effectiveness'

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Mentor Advice COO Self-aware 8

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. So the plant manager didn’t understand how they could be getting such good results, if he wasn’t beating them or kicking them.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. So the plant manager didn’t understand how they could be getting such good results, if he wasn’t beating them or kicking them.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

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. Williams, who previously had sold Blogger to Google, later took the reins and managed the company for two to three years.

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Succession Leadership CEO COO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

And after several fruitless meetings with the COO, the HR chief, and industry consultants, he’d decided that he needed to investigate the issue himself. But not ever as fast as the manager wants!” ” “Where is the manager?” The manager says I’m the only one she trusts with the toilets.”

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Case Study Airlines COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Let’s see what happens when we connect them rather than manage them — that is, focus on the links rather than the nodes. We normally think of people as something to be managed.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

Lafley has been out of P&G for 4 years, which in this age of rapid change can include several waves of volatile external change — economic, geopolitcal, technological (social media) etc. But it''s also important to note that A.G.

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P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Her story is not only an inspiring one of adapting self-help narratives and neuroscience to "trick" her own mind; it’s also a tale couched in almost a century of management thinking about who can and can''t be a leader. Managing yourself' News and World Report).

Charisma 8

Charisma Hamel Bureaucracy Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Heins, the new CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), has been plucked from the company's relatively obscure COO position to fill the giant shoes of two longtime co-CEOs as they depart at the behest of angry investors. Is it Apple's consumer appeal, or the declining influence of corporate IT managers? The company could merge with Dell.

Strategy 14

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

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.

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COO Wireless Ryan Chief Operating Officer 15