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Baldheaded Leadership

Lead Change Blog

She was the chief operating officer of a large company, and this was the leadership conference for her company. I was there as a keynote speaker, and her “message to the troops” came right before my closing remarks. She had been going through chemotherapy for breast cancer and was utterly bald. no wig and no hat.

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How to Humanize Leadership

Leading Blog

Humanizing leadership creates the glue that holds the fabric of a human system together, and the elasticity, bond, and effectiveness of the glue is determined by the overall relationship welfare of the organization. This attitude is a prerequisite for innovation and growth. Relationships Make the Difference.

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The Imperfect Balance Between Work and Life

Harvard Business Review

In contrast, Sandberg, whose own career as Facebook chief operating officer is presumably pretty demanding itself, has used numerous public speeches to urge young women to keep their ambitions high and find a job they love before they have children , so they will want to keep the job while growing the family.

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True North Groups: A Conversation With Bill George

Harvard Business Review

The original four members of the group attended a three-day retreat; it built some strong bonds that we wanted to continue. They gave me the encouragement to go back to Medtronic, where I had turned down three times the opportunity to become president and chief operating officer. for the past 36 years.