First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 1, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Karen Ho (Chief Operating Officer, Broadway Technology) written by Jessica Titlebaum (Chicago) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Whatever the case, women are snubbing the tech industry from an early age which leads to the gross misrepresentation in professional careers. Just like band camp or summer camp, there is now “hacker camps” that are geared toward teaching kids how to think analytically about tech related problems. Role Models Needed.

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Women on Business

MAY 24, 2012

Instead of saying “I want to be in a management position” say “I want to be Chief Operating Officer or the VP of Sales” Decide why you want to win and what the accomplishment would mean to you. If you want that promotion do not think about Jims career path at all. Make your goal specific.

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leaderCommunicator

MAY 20, 2014

While I wasn’t at the speech, I think Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg accomplished that recently in her commencement address to the nearly 2,000 graduates of the City Colleges of Chicago. For example, what was your first career experience? Posted online, the full speech gave me goose bumps.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 12, 2020

Former Chief Operating Officer of Pinterest, Françoise Brougher, has filed a lawsuit against the company alleging gender discrimination and wrongful termination. “The company is steered by men with little input from female executives,” she said in the post.

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Talent Anarchy 1

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

To trust means we believe the other person will behave and/or operate in good faith. I have never, in my 23-year career, heard of a team who has “too much” communication, or from a team who believed the communication was “too good.” To trust means we believe the other person has done the best he/she could. Communication.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Sometimes they’re so high functioning that they don’t even realize they have symptoms of anxiety until they take time away from the office. This week, host Morra Aarons-Mele speaks with Alyssa Mastromonaco, former White House deputy chief of staff and former chief operating officer of Vice Media.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

MARCH 24, 2014

She peels back the curtain on what goes on in women’s heads and in organizations to prevent women from advancing their careers and taking on more leadership positions. She’s been the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook since 2008, and before that was with Google during its start-up years.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 23, 2015

Victor Prince: As the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the U.S. Victor is co-author of Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide their Teams to Exceptional Results , (Career Press, July 2015) which is now available at Amazon.com , Barnes & Noble and other retailers.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

To facilitate the learning and development of your employees, and with it the growth of your organization, you need to understand where your employees are presently in their career development and what tools and resources they’ll need to begin the next stage of their growth.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 15, 2015

Not long after this revelation, I was asked to work with Harry, the chief operating officer of a large consulting firm. I believed the clients when they said they were committed to changing, but I had not drilled deeper to determine if they were telling the truth.

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CEO Insider

MARCH 16, 2023

The OCEAN test is a personality test commonly used for the career sector. OCEAN is an acronym for Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. These five factors are basic for those looking for new employees to work for them. We could say these are some important soft skills.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

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.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

” Stephens joined Marco’s Pizza in 2004 when it was a successful but regional chain operating 110 stores in three states. Now, he’s the president and chief operating officer for Marco’s (and was featured earlier this year on CBS’ Undercover Boss ). ” Raise others up.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Mike Sursock – Head of Operations Group at Baring Private Equity Asia.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Jay Woo , CAA South Central Ontario’s Chief Operating Officer offered up this piece of advice: “Stay connected to your front line.” A piece of simple advice, but it’s amazing how few senior leaders walk that talk.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

This plagues everyone, but especially women who are candidates for high-powered careers. A woman executive who doesn't drink coffee never learned how to make it, thus saving many hours of time over the years while never being forced into coffee-service role early in her career. Not exactly your typical job.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. In the global economy, can analytic practitioners be hugely successful in their careers while going unnoticed?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. Function as Administrative Officer, well beyond Administrative Assistant job description. Initiated contact with Director, staff, students, and faculty to minimize disruption of department’s operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

As organizations run leaner and flatter, your ability to move up can stall much earlier in your career because, simply put, there’s no place to go. So what should you do when you reach that plateau and you’re only midway through your career? This is true whether you work for a corporation, nonprofit, or public agency.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

I had taken one step toward this two years ago, when I named one partner president and another chief operating officer. What should other CEOs of small-to-medium companies consider, as they move toward the next stage of their careers? While five years might seem like too long a runway, it rushes by very quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2017

In the early stages of his career he decided he had to speak up about malpractice he had witnessed. The Chief Operating Officer of one of the world’s biggest banks described the environment that fostered the culture that enabled the Libor and related scandals: “It all begins with the organization’s biggest lie.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. Virtually every company we spoke to relied on nonprofit intermediaries to find candidates who had committed to training programs or apprenticeships in both hard and soft skills for the chance of stepping onto a career ladder.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Even though self-awareness — knowing who we are and how we’re seen — is important for job performance , career success , and leadership effectiveness , it’s in remarkably short supply in today’s workplace. Sven Krobot/EyeEm/Getty Images. Here, power differentials are a factor.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm. Despite having a full plate of client projects, she signed up to work on a massive survey to understand the concerns of chief operating officers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Yet, we find, individuals with disabilities frequently encounter workplace discrimination, bias, exclusion, and career plateaus—meaning their employers lose out on enormous innovation and talent potential. And they are more likely to have their ideas endorsed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

And a great potential source of talent with the right skills are professionals who change career lanes — people with experience and training in accounting, finance, human resources and strategy who leave corporate jobs to follow their passion to have a social impact. About 75% come from the private sector.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

That''s why Elizabeth started out one notch lower, with the office of the Chief Operating Officer, "because that secretary knows everybody," she says. Career planning Managing yourself' The CEO — the public face of the company — is bombarded with requests.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Conscious movements provide Millennials with all three elements—to give back an issue they care deeply about, to connect with peers and to build their careers, all at the same time. A good example here is Lean In, a conscious movement launched by Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

” Over her long career, her empathetic ways have been put to the test. Sandra Slager, chief operating officer at MindEdge, an online learning platform for companies and colleges, says that whenever she works with a challenging colleague, she reminds herself to “assume the best” about that person.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

Eventually, the former chief operating officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston was brought on (pro bono) to oversee the collection and control systems and work in concert with Bank of America to create a robust system for processing payments. Careers get established. Constituencies build up.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

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. My 13 years with Medtronic became the most important of my career.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

” Famously, in 2013, Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and a billionaire, published a book in which her advice for working women was to tell them to “lean in.” Monitor promotions and career advancement. The fallacy of meritocracy in male-dominated organizations is well-documented.

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Cooperperson

OCTOBER 21, 2019

” -Peter Curcio, Chief Operating Officer, Arrow Security. A must read for anybody looking for success in either their personal life or career. . “Ellen is genius in understanding personal and organizational challenges and providing just enough guidance and hints to help you find your own epiphany.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

” —Dick Costolo, the night before he joined Twitter as chief operations officer. Even when executed successfully, they don’t confer a boost to your perceived status or competence, and when unsuccessful they can do serious harm to you and your career. Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Ten days after her husband died unexpectedly while on vacation in Mexico, Sheryl Sandberg returned to work as chief operating officer at Facebook. What are the most important tools or techniques you used to integrate an intense, demanding career with sudden single parenthood? I still do that today.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 23, 2013

“EQ has quickly become a global movement that’s helping companies large and small rebuild trust internally to make its employees happier and more productive, which in turn impacts the overall ROI,” said Joshua Freedman, chief operating officer for Six Seconds and the chairman of NexusEQ, a global conference taking place this summer at Harvard. “We

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