Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 18, 2016

People ask me all the time for advice — I frequently answer questions on Reddit, Quora, and LinkedIn to a mix of executives, business owners, and job seekers. What is size of P&L I should run? Do you have an example of how you help executives at major companies reach their professional goals?”

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P&L Tools Bottom-up Skills 150

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. Helping People Change : Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth by Richard Boyatzis, Melvin L. Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P. It is made possible with a quality that we spend a lifetime acquiring: self-awareness.

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Books Leadership P&L Learning-by-Doing 236

Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Bachelder is a passionate restaurant industry executive serving as the CEO Popeyes® Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. Focus on people before P&L. He’s also the Vice President for Leadership Development at Chick-Fil-A. Becky Robinson and the Weaving Influence team pulled together a great webinar on Servant Leadership.

Blanchard 100

Blanchard P&L Greenleaf Leadership 100

Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Bachelder is a passionate restaurant industry executive serving as the CEO Popeyes® Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. Focus on people before P&L. He’s also the Vice President for Leadership Development at Chick-Fil-A. Becky Robinson and the Weaving Influence team pulled together a great webinar on Servant Leadership.

Blanchard 100

Blanchard P&L Greenleaf Leadership 100

Women on Business

DECEMBER 28, 2010

o Make sure your position has P&L responsibility. Develop your web of influence (key stakeholders, decision makers, influencers, connectors) to assist you in reaching your goal. o Develop your subject matter expertise through social media, community organizations and board positions.

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Press Release PR Mentor Discount 239

Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 5, 2019

By Michael Lee Stallard and Katharine P. Lacking sufficient levels of connection is associated with poorer cognitive performance , impaired executive control and self-regulation , lower levels of self-rated physical health , substance abuse , depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation. We’ve come to expect it. A Heavy Load.

P&L 150

P&L Stress Self-aware Human Needs 150

The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) still matters as does the P&L (profit and loss statement) and the deadline for 2021 projections (who can imagine?!) Targets and goals that were adjusted now loom large as year-end approaches. is just around the corner.

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Emotional Intelligence Self-aware P&L Leadership 98

Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

There is a noticeable focus on “culture” lately, whether the topic is recruiting, engagement, development, retention, what have you. In the high potential development program, we took participants to other locations and gave them a chance to learn more about a new business unit. It’s all good stuff to discuss.

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CFO P&L Call Center COO 58

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

So why would a busy executive agree to sit on a board? Why is there is a cottage industry of executive search firms focusing on “reverse board searches,” where they proactively work to place executives on outside corporate boards? What do executives gain from serving on boards? increased by over $300,000.

Execution 9

Execution P&L CEO COO 9

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The L-word makes hard-nosed managers squirm. They’ll often use another L-word — leadership — in complete ignorance of how their loveless “bottom line” orientation is rooted in pessimism and fear. Fear of criticism, fear of failure, fear of getting caught, or fear of speaking up. ” Ya gotta love it!

Airlines 53

Airlines P&L Collins Leadership 53

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The job of the senior executive is much more complicated today than it was a decade or two ago — and that trend will continue, especially if you hope to play on a global stage (which is a nearly universal condition these days for many companies). That's one reason that job rotation is more common than ever as a development tool.

Execution 15

Execution P&L CFO Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team.

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P&L Agility Fashion Media 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

When one of Apple's design teams was tasked with developing a DVD-burning software program for high-end Macs, developers spent weeks putting together a plan. Place product experience first, not P&L. Jobs considers P&L to be a distraction. He focuses on the details relevant to the customer's experience.

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P&L Supply Chain Retail COO 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Together, standing meetings should synchronize the entire organization in a meeting cadence that executes strategy and delivers results. In the consumer products company I mentioned above, one interviewee told us, “People would get to meetings 30 minutes early to make sure they sat near the executive they wanted to be seen with.”

P&L 12

P&L How To Finance Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

The best executives understand which ones they need to focus on and which ones they can delegate. While the obvious decisions that CEOs need to get right involve strategy and competitive advantage, too many executives delegate away three critical decisions that they need to own: decisions about goals, resource allocation, and people.

P&L 8

P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She holds the Ernest L. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. Why is P&G making this move, now? P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people.

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P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact. This has spurred re-thinks that include changes to key executive relationships. Consider Intel, which began eyeing Big Data’s potential to quantify marketing’s contribution to revenue in about 2010.

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Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

These are the executives who run discrete businesses and control all of the resources associated with them. In fact, for many chief executives I've recently worked with, the first real GM job that they had was CEO! Have you noticed that general managers are scarce these days? But today no one gets that experience.

Management 13

Management P&L Incubator Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Should you take a more targeted approach, with a short-term executive education program? As an adjunct professor for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business , I’ve taught multiple classes for degree programs, as well as executive education offerings. Start by looking at the job you’re aiming for. Learning.

P&L 8

P&L Education Learning-by-Doing Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

I often hear this question when I visit companies and speak about how to make an innovative idea less terrifying to high level executives. Such as a biomarker initiative, the development of a traceable substance that detects a specific disease, which is now underway. “This seems like pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking.

Innovation 11

Innovation P&L Short-term Company 11

Coaching Tip

MARCH 29, 2017

"When they get to own a P&L or become the CEO, in many cases executives are rusty at strategy or have never even been given a set of tools to set strategy," says management consultant Tim Lewko. Align executive team so members are working on the same page of issues. The two of them cannot be disconnected.

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Process P&L CEO Execution 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

In today's economy, where the fast growth of emerging markets outpaces America and the developed world, if you haven't gone global yet, it's time to get moving. [For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.]. But going global is easier said than done — especially for smaller companies.

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P&L Globalization CFO Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

Corporate behemoths — like IBM and its innovation jams , 3M''s open innovation efforts and Procter &Gamble''s connect + develop programs — are constantly looking for ways to cost-effectively leverage their scale while safely exploring potential innovation opportunities. Many of these initiatives enjoy some success; most do not.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L Company Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Instead, chief executives are often presented with two “right” answers, but one is slightly worse. CEOs must be agile and adaptive, operating from a mindset of continual anticipation and appraisal in order to make timely investment decisions and oversee speedy execution.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

All too often companies misunderstand the value of their cybersecurity teams and underfund their development. It’s not uncommon for our executives to acknowledge our team’s accomplishments during company-wide presentations. This enables developers to quickly and effectively write code that is more secure from the start.

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Team P&L Engineering Cost 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Face facts: Most boards invest heavily in executive assessments, exposing chief-executive candidates to C-suite responsibilities and checking their P&L performance — while simultaneously scanning outside prospects. Thompson, the former CEO of Symantec, leads its search committee, and he is joined by Steve J.

CEO 8

CEO Committee P&L Charan 8

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. Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Language is food for the mind.

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P&L Books Definition Strategic Planning 56

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Who has P&L authority? Insight center. Sponsored by the Brightline Initiative. ” he asked.

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Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

But even as these old ideas remain in use (and indeed, are still taught), management as it is practiced by the most thoughtful executives evolves. Townes, and Henry L. Gantt – developed theories that emphasized efficiency, lack of variation, consistency of production, and predictability.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Most businesses don't even know what's going to be required in two or three years," says Joseph Weintraub, a professor of management and organizational behavior at Babson College and co-author of the book, The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business. Focus on learning and development. Principles to Remember.

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P&L Committee Career Case Study 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

My experience with Target should bolster anyone's case that you can be a committed A-player executive, a good parent, an attentive spouse, a healthy person with time for hobbies — yes, hobbies! David is a VP who is accountable for a multi-billion dollar P & L business. I'm developing better team leaders around me.".

P&L 9

P&L Long-term Learning-by-Doing Team 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

” I love this quote from L. Consider my friend John, the former chief executive and chairman of a top professional services firm, who is now active in several remarkable social initiatives. Evolutionary science tells us that our fancy brains developed not while we were lounging but while we were working out.

P&L 8

P&L Sharpe Hotels Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Generally speaking, executives are compensated for things under their control: moving projects along, the stewardship of a P&L, and for the company hitting financial targets. Bonuses are awarded for moving programs along, some of which could have started years before this executive’s arrival.

Incentives 8

Incentives Pharmaceuticals Crisis P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

I look around and see that my male colleagues have P&L responsibility and most of us are in staff roles. They can seek out sponsors and others to support and develop them in those roles. In our work with leadership development programs, we focus on a "small wins" approach to change. It would be easier, I was told.

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Education P&L Constraint Participative 9