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. Along the same vein as the media not portraying women in STEM positions, women lack role models in the tech areas. Role Models Needed. That is not to say that potential role models are lacking.

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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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Talent Anarchy 1

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

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.” Finally, leaders need to make information available to their teams in a variety of mediums; this communication is vital to building a relationship that grows and adjusts in a positive way.

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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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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

I was amazed when more than 12,000 people applied for the 15 positions. 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.

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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.” And believe me Woo does not like being given any information that is not extremely positive. 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. Some pundits posit a polarizing argument about the prospects for work-life integration between Princeton's Anne-Marie Slaughter and Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg. Slaughter went public with her decision to leave a top-ranking U.S.

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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. How do you use your résumé to tell stories that match those new positions’ requirements? How do you use your résumé to tell stories that match those new positions’ requirements?

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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

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. The goal is to train 20 to 30 employees with disabilities annually with a 50% conversion rate to full-time positions.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2018

I had taken one step toward this two years ago, when I named one partner president and another chief operating officer. I’ve also been inspired by what my colleagues in similar positions are doing. What should other CEOs of small-to-medium companies consider, as they move toward the next stage of their careers?

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

How working women are kept from positions of influence and power is by now well-documented by scientists and journalists alike. ” 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.”

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Cooperperson

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The power of positivity and determination is immeasurable.”. ” -Peter Curcio, Chief Operating Officer, Arrow Security. A must read for anybody looking for success in either their personal life or career. What an incredible story. Puts what’s important in life in perspective. Inspirational on all counts!

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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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