In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

To most of us, mentors are people of experience and knowledge who help the less experienced advance their careers and/or their education. In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. Strategy.

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Mentor Advertorial Kotter Hamel 228

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Co-opted Board Member Ms Janice Tai also talked about her journey towards becoming a Chartered Manager and how this accreditation has empowered her career advancement in her position at an international non-governmental organisation. Don’t miss Ann Francke OBE’s top five takeaways from the trip here.

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Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Women are expected and asked to do thankless tasks — order lunch, handle less-valued clients — more than men, and research shows that doing those tasks slows down our career advancement and makes us unhappy at work. We talk about why we wind up with so much office drudgery and how to get some of it off our plates.

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P&L Porter Download Career 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

It is a space we all visit, more or less willingly, ever more often as working lives get longer and careers more fragmented. They are major career shifts. There will be one last World Cup, a career epilogue in Japan, and new chapters after that. It is common for people to change jobs over a dozen times in their lives.

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How To Career Porter Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Strategy guru and Michael Porter of Harvard Business School elegantly articulated this when he wrote that strategy is both what we choose to do — and what we choose not to do. One CEO with whom I have worked remarked that physicians and nurses run the risk of losing their clinical identities as they develop into executives.

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Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I heard it in a session led by Professor Michael Porter and Dean Nitin Nohria of the Harvard Business School who were sharing a research project on declining American Competitiveness. Today, complexity has become the silent killer of profitable growth in business, and sometimes of CEO careers.

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Competitive Advantage Porter Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15