Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

Art summarizes, “For all of us, the need to help our firms navigate change while doing the same in our careers defines our level-up challenge.” Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted The 16 Ways to Improve Your Work Performance in 2017. Susan explains, “Potential mentors are all around you.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Ethics 150

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. Even in the most well-oiled CEO succession processes, one piece is almost always missing: preparing the current CEO for the next phase in his or her career. We studied the post-CEO careers of 50 Chief Executives in the Fortune 500, and interviewed 13 of them.

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Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

A good boss provides encouragement, development, mentoring, and support, while also being fair, constructively critical, and helpful in integrating employees into high-performing teams. This is a boss you remember for years, one who has a lasting impact on your career.

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Supply Chain CFO Performance Review Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

” Most working parents look to their networks of mentors, coworkers, and professional contacts for advice on balancing the competing demands of work and home. Invest significant time in training and mentoring a junior colleague so they can run the budget meetings without you. ” “Hire more help!”

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Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

Personal objectives might range from the sublime (adopting a child, writing a book, reconnecting with a disenfranchised family member, starting a non-profit) to the prosaic (running a 10K, coaching a child’s soccer team, volunteering as a mentor.) Ten years later, he was the global CFO of his firm.

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CIO CFO Crisis Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Just the Job!: Ask someone you can trust to be candid — a mentor, an external coach, or someone in a learning-and-development or HR role. Address career blemishes. Career planning Hiring Job search' Smart and Fast Strategies to Get the Perfect Job , agrees.

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How To Reputation Case Study Career 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

In careers and the workplace, this means that credit or blame for performance is likely to be assigned to an individual more based on his or her perceived character, personality, intentions or efforts rather than on the situation, context, opportunities or constraints within which that individual is working.

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Human Capital Constraint Politics Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

He was the CFO of their company, a software start-up with about 75 employees. “Honestly, if you could get past the, uh, personal situation here, you’d be a great mentor for her.” Nothing happened that first night. Yes, Brad had flirted. Yes, Elizabeth had flirted back. They’d had more than one drink.

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Case Study Conference Hotels COO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

I’m no different: I’ve spent my career helping executives succeed, either through coaching and development or assessments of their strengths and opportunity areas to identify the development work they need to do to take their careers to the next level. C-suite leaders are at the apex of their careers.

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Henderson Career CEO Execution 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

And the most-successful managers must change similarly as they assume additional or different responsibilities through their careers, moving from head of sales to COO or from CFO to CEO. As leaders, all of us will be forced to balance consistency and agility in our careers and in the organizations we serve.

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Agility Balanced Scorecard COO CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

We talked to 24 current and former not-white-male CEOs , who spoke candidly about what they faced as they built their careers and how they developed inclusive organizations. And we''ve got advice about how to sell your ideas to women , in a world where there are growing numbers of women with P&L power.

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P&L CFO Self-aware Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The initiatives adopted by organizations to advance women tend to include mentoring programs, networking, coaching, increased maternity leave, child care benefits, and flexible work options. Brett (not his real name) was the CFO of a major multinational. Examine Your Own Assumptions. But he did.

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Team Diversity Company Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Stybel, a career management and board adviser and an executive in residence at Suffolk University’s Sawyer Business School. But your career can get sidetracked if you don’t treat people in a dignified way.” Presiding over layoffs is a “distasteful part of management that many people fear,” says Laurence J.

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How To Case Study Letter Reference 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As described in Lead The Work , he had an expansive career with Shell that spanned 25 years but unlike many top leaders in the company, he had a break in service at the top of his career. Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

Men’s dominance at Kleiner Perkins is evidenced by the fact that men earn five times as much as women, according to testimony by its CFO. Studies have found that women who experience discrimination early in their careers tend to distance themselves from other women.

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