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How To Lead Through Personal Tragedy

Lead Change Blog

In 2015, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s husband died unexpectedly. What culminated in the time afterwards was an incredible story of leading while suffering a personal tragedy. The enormity of being in leadership itself can be stressful.

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Top Leadership Experts to Follow in 2015

Modern Servant Leader

Are you looking for the top leadership experts to follow in 2015? Now, here’s the list of the top leadership experts to follow in 2015: Name Category About Follower Ratio (1:x) Twitter Followers Twitter Following Facebook Followers Amy Jo Martin Digital Media, Sports NY Times Best Selling Author & Founder of @DigitalRoyalty.

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Title Liberation

N2Growth Blog

Edward Kiledjian wrote an article on this subject in 2015 called “The era of title inflation is upon us” He argues that a job title should be a realistic reflection of your position. We live in a time with jobs, roles and responsibilities which were unimaginable even ten years ago. Titles have also grown, bigger and bolder.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

We anticipate that in the 2015 ranking there will be more Chinese representatives but that these will also be drawn from academia. Among the other women in the top 50 was Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and author of the 2013 book Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead ; and former Oracle executive Liz Wiseman.

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4 Moves Smart Leaders Make to Get Better Team Results

Great Leadership By Dan

Victor Prince: As the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the U.S. Victor is co-author of Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide their Teams to Exceptional Results , (Career Press, July 2015) which is now available at Amazon.com , Barnes & Noble and other retailers.

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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

” Voluntarily led response to 2015 flooding of School of Design building. Meghna has been COO of a small market research company since she earned her MBA several years ago. She backed up these general statements with a specific example of “resolving unexpected issues in a timely manner.”

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Outsider CEOs Are on the Rise at the World’s Biggest Companies

Harvard Business Review

It was hard to be more of an insider at The Walt Disney Company than COO Thomas Staggs. ” There are several reasons why the top job is increasingly going to outsiders when boards have time to plan for succession, which was the case for nearly three-quarters of CEO hires from 2012 to 2015. and Canadian CEOs in the study.)

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