Leading Blog

MARCH 5, 2021

Bush and Barack Obama, Mike Hayes, says Never Enough is about aiming for excellence, agility, and meaning in everything we do. Never Agile Enough. Agility is about awareness and being flexible enough to do what needs to be done to get the desired outcome. What plays into agility is knowing how to think.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 16, 2020

And Maya Hu-Chan’s new book, SAVING FACE: How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust is full of ways for leaders to: Increase your positive influence. As an example of how to save face, I often share the story of Jeff, the finance director of a multinational company. Soon, the company’s COO planned a meeting with Jeff and his team.

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Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 2, 2020

Functional leaders typically manage groups of more than 500 people, have budgets in excess of $500M, and are often on a shortlist to be COO or CEO. Engagement, understanding the enterprise, vision, innovation, executive presence and approachability, self-awareness, learning agility, and leading globally are still vitally important skills.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

I’ve recently been thinking about this with regard to how leaders can be more strategic, able to effectively execute the core of their business while remaining open to trends in the market and adapting to meet them. I’ve begun to view this as the ability to hold two specific traits in balance: consistency and agility.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Some point to politics in the C-Suite, especially to competition between the COO and CFO. If the COO launched a large, cross-functional improvement program, the CFO would underfund it. Just about everyone in the company agrees the culture is dysfunctional, with various layers to the problems. They blocked each other's progress.

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Company COO CFO Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

Lafley and Bob McDonald worked as a team during the 2000s; when Lafley scored his major successes, McDonald was by his side as vice chairman and then COO. Will having one person in those three roles make P&G more agile? But it''s also important to note that A.G. That''s been a hot topic this week.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

” Here’s how to create an environment that maximizes each of your colleagues’ strengths and temperaments and ensures that everyone’s needs are met. Case Study #1: Talk to your team members about how they prefer to work and learn. Educate yourself. She now emails the introvert on her team agenda items beforehand.

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