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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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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

The Key to Business and Career Success. Allow your direct reports to share a contrary point of view. Create opportunities for all employees – not only your direct reports – to talk with you. Walk around the office or factory floor. Those who are toxic are not trusted by their peers or direct reports.

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Women, Invest in Yourselves

Women on Business

Guest Post By Mary Kinney, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of Ginnie Mae, a cornerstone of the U.S. For me, pursuing my career in financial services has always factored into my new year’s resolutions. According to a new research report by Catalyst, women held 14.3 2) Sit at the table.

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Time For Women to Compete

Women on Business

A report by the National Bureau of Economic Research details a study showing that women, when told they would be judged on performance and bonuses based on their performance against another coworker, would typically not apply for that job. If you want that promotion do not think about Jims career path at all. Make your goal specific.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Galetti is the highest-ranking woman at Amazon and the only woman on the 18-person “S-Team” (short for “Senior Team”) that reports directly to founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.

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

Marshall Goldsmith

Not long after this revelation, I was asked to work with Harry, the chief operating officer of a large consulting firm. He was habitually disrespectful to his direct reports, driving several of them away to work for the competition. I interviewed his colleagues and direct reports, even his wife and teenaged children.

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Fast Friday with Jay Woo, COO, CAA South Central Ontario.

Roundtable Talk

Jay Woo , CAA South Central Ontario’s Chief Operating Officer offered up this piece of advice: “Stay connected to your front line.” Amazing given that all it does is report sales as early as, wait for it, the next day. A piece of simple advice, but it’s amazing how few senior leaders walk that talk. Just ask Woo.

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