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Can better management and leadership nurse the NHS back to health?

Chartered Management Institute

Deputy chief operating officer Rachael Birks CMgr FCMI gets involved and calls a swift impromptu meeting to find a suitable bed within her orbit at North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust. On arrival, I'm greeted warmly by genial chief operating officer Ben Richards CMgr FCMI.

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If They Won’t Change, You’d Better Move on!

Marshall Goldsmith

If I’ve learned one thing over my 35 years as an executive coach, speaker and author, it’s this: change has to come from within. Not long after this revelation, I was asked to work with Harry, the chief operating officer of a large consulting firm. It can’t be dictated, demanded, or otherwise forced upon people.

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

Pawel Motyl – Formerly CEO Harvard Business Review Poland, noted speaker, consultant and executive coach, author Labirynt Sztuka podejmowania decyzji. External Coaches—Cohort 1. David Peterson – Pioneer executive coach, head of coaching at Google, author Development FIRST and Leader as Coach.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S.