Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

By Guest Author Jessica Garcia Dudek , COO Oxygen Learning. Time and time again, companies promote the highest performing individual contributors within their companies to leadership positions. We once had a client whose senior leader defined leadership as redoing his employees’ work and giving them credit.

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CEO Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Friday, December 17, 2010 Do and Grow Rich First a holiday coupon for my readers. I like to know more about your career change. Regardless of how great your leader (or CEO or COO) is, I find that the message is misinterpreted between the Execs and senior Managers. Hi Jim, I'm back.it

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 25, 2010

He cooed when they kissed his face or stroked his cheek, and when they cooed back, he opened his mouth into a wide, joyful O. Next post: Why Your Good Leadership Isn’t Great. How To Pick Yourself Up After You Fail. How To Survive In A High Performance Workplace. How To Make Wonderful Mistakes.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

” CNN wrote, “SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell described the ‘No A **e’ policy in a commencement address last year, saying, ‘These kinds of people — a s — interrupt others; they shut down or co-opt conversation; and they create a hostile environment where no one wants to contribute.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Since my compulsion is to look at most things from a leadership angle, here are a few lessons I've learned so far from the practice of yoga that seem to apply to the practice of leadership.   Over the past two months, I’ve seen how my capabilities vary from one day to the next.    Leadership lesson learned?

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 23, 2015

Like smart investment managers, smart people managers figure out how to shift their investment of time and energy from some parts of their portfolio so they can invest more in other parts where there is more potential for improvement. Victor Prince: As the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the U.S.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

For Stephens, though, love is not an abstraction–it’s the underlying motivation for everything he does as president and COO. Ask yourself: “What do I love about my business and how do I show it?” His career took off partly because of his hard work, but also because others believed in him and gave him a chance.

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Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Whether or not you think Netflix is a company you want to emulate (and there are those who question some of their tactics ), Powerful outlines some very relevant points about how to be intentional about the organization your building – from the culture to employee engagement. All hope is not lost, though.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

You engage your employees through leadership, coaching and training. CEOs/COOs are looking at the wrong data…they look for trends while or after they happen, not searching for clues before they happen. An engaged employee leads to engaged customers. Kelly [link] mikemyatt Hi Kelly: Thanks so much for the great comment Kelly.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Jay, Merv and Andrea shared their lessons on how to lead when times are tough and when times are booming. Don’t go it alone… reach out for support through peer groups, coaches and other experts who can help you build your personal resilience and support you in your leadership. Create frequent opportunities to interact with your team.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Blogs can clearly be accretive, and will continue to add brand equity to those companies and individuals who grasp the value of social media and understand how to incorporate blogging into their social media efforts. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2012

John Lees, a career strategist and author of How to Get a Job You'll Love , says that people rarely get to re-negotiate the terms until after two years on the job. Maybe it's someone you trust inside the organization, a career advisor, a search consultant, or contacts in the same industry.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

There’s an old story about a tourist who asks a New Yorker how to get to the storied concert venue Carnegie Hall and is told, “Practice, practice, practice.” Over the past year we have been writing the HBR Leader’s Handbook — a primer for aspiring leaders who want to take their careers to the next level.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. 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. Collaboration is not a style. Amy Jen Su.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

It can be disheartening and demoralizing when your boss tells you things he shouldn’t, says Annie McKee, founder of the Teleos Leadership Institute and a coauthor, with Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis, of Primal Leadership. ’” Here are some ideas for how to respond to an indiscreet boss. Change the subject.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg called the deck the most important document ever to come out of Silicon Valley. That way the message is clear that taking vacation won’t hurt your performance review or career prospective. The slide deck itself was viewed over 11 million times, and newspapers around the globe picked it up.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

“Part of running a 21st-century company with a 21st-century work force is establishing systems that allow for women to go out and return from maternity leave with minimal impact on the company or on their careers,” says Joan Williams, founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

John Lees, the UK-based career strategist and author of How to Get a Job You Love , agrees that it’s important to do further “due diligence” on the company and its people to make sure it’s a place you want to work. Brad also “had a rich, strategic conversation” with the COO.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Most managers do, says Dick Grote, performance management consultant and author of How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals. “As a manager, you’re starting with an impressionist painting of how people are paid and whether it’s fair,” she says. “Think about the individual’s career trajectory.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

If you’re a business leader looking for an opportunity to have real impact on your company — and position yourself for the top job — which career path is best? That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

The two big corporate leadership names in the news this week — Steve Jobs and Larry Page — have something big in common. The common factor in all their careers is adult supervision. Few young founders have logged enough career time to have risen up through ranks and learned to lead a vast enterprise confidently.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, has been speaking out a lot lately about subtle dynamics that hold women back from reaching senior roles in business. As a result, we don't plan ahead; we don't walk in with a strategy about what kind of comment to place and how to make sure it has impact.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Yes, the billionaire COO famously leaves work at 5:30 to have dinner with her kids, but that much-publicized factoid obscures the true demands of her job. Finally, in these cultures, the supervisor is actively engaged in supporting women’s careers. In the least supportive departments, these obstacles are accepted as the status quo.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

Career Transitions. How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. Leaving a Stable Job to Create Your Dream Career. You’ll show how you’d improve their organizations, based on what you’ve done in the past. He used the generous 2000-character summary section to tell the story of his career.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

Although the brothers were effectively the CEO, COO, and CFO, they wouldn’t talk to one another for months after a fight, not even on business matters. Careers and businesses ruined. Even better than knowing how to get out of a conflict that is spiraling downwards, however, is knowing how to avoid the seven stages of conflict.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2016

Here’s how to make meetings more effective over the summer. Estimate how long you think a meeting, or task, will take, and then cut it in half. Every leadership team and business area needs yearly and quarterly off-site retreats away from the constant distractions and demands of running the day-to-day business.

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The Idolbuster

APRIL 30, 2013

Mother With Child by Mzacha via rgbphoto Face hidden to protect her career? Collins wrote a first person account of his life before coming out, and how he feels now. But there are many people who are living in the closet, hiding their authentic selves at work for fear that it will impact there career. What closet are they in?

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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. How to Create an Exponential Mindset. As we know, buggy whip makers and telegraph companies must evolve or die. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

After working in a fast-growing company as COO, he accepted an offer from venture capitalists to start his own company. In leadership positions, this leaves colleagues feeling like collective efforts are being used to increase a single narcissist leader's ego, rather than a team's shared goals. A chief executive had a dilemma.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

So in writing my new book , I set out to find well-known people who have practiced, wittingly or unwittingly, the skills for integrating work and the rest of life and who could not only show that it can be done, but help teach us all how to do it. As COO of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg has been redefining what it means to be a leader.

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