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Even “bad” cultures get some things right

Surviving Leadership

At this meeting, employees heard from the CEO, CHRO, General Counsel, COO, CFO, CMO, and any business leaders spearheading a major initiative. I cut my teeth on corporate America there and have carried those lesson with me throughout my career. Lesson: You want employees to learn how a business makes, saves, and spends money?

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Serving on Boards Helps Executives Get Promoted

Harvard Business Review

” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L. ” To test our idea that board service would help advance the careers of executives, we created a sample of roughly 2,140 top executives in S&P 1500 firms from 1996-2012. Yabuki, who was the COO of H&R Block Services Inc in 2003. increased by over $300,000.

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The Fastest Path to the CEO Job, According to a 10-Year Study

Harvard Business Review

Some people’s careers take off, while others’ take longer — or even stall out. They do it by making bold career moves over the course of their career that catapult them to the top. We found that three types of career catapults were most common among the sprinters. John Holcroft/Getty Images.

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Headhunters Reveal What Candidates Want

Harvard Business Review

The answer turns out to be far more nuanced than mere wealth accumulation and career advancement. He offered an example: “I recently recruited a VP Sales and Marketing from a well-known consumer technology company to be the president and COO of a small but fast-growing smart-grid consumer technology-products company.