Women on Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Christina Shi is the Chief Operating Officer at Nike, Inc. and when you look into her progress and career path she brings a whole new meaning to the company slogan of “just do it”. Through her career, Christiana has taken a lot of risks. From then on, she followed the rule of “I ask for what I need.

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Power McKinsey Chief Operating Officer Career 205

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

As far as this is concerned, we believe that some of the following advice could help you to no end in this circumstance: Consider Investments. For some, this may mean gaining extra qualifications to become more of a shu-in for a particular career path, acing the interview process. Your Own Operation.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

So if your company operate on a tight budget, don’t hesitate to hire a graduate. And they tend to set high career goals. They clearly understand that their theoretical knowledge is not enough to build an outstanding career. Are you looking for an employee, who will be able to travel a lot? Cheap labor force.

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Insurance Travel Follow-up Operations 56

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

After the AGM, members enjoyed a dinner together, followed by a networking session. The discussions explored various issues, challenges and opportunities facing managers and leaders across a diverse set of areas – technology and digital, travel, business and the regional economy. CMI members always see more.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

These silos are staffed with legions of “tenured&# COBOL and C++ programmers, as well as &# tenured&# IT managers overseeing the operation. Walking into these organizations is often like traveling back in time 20 years. You see tenure is not synonymous with loyalty, but rather is more often a measure of compliance and survival.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I used to pride myself on how few hours of sleep I would get, thinking that it gave me a competitive edge in business if I stayed up half the night working. I follow 6 principles on a daily basis, which I know has made a significant impact on my career success. The fifth principle I follow is standardization of my attire.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Rich Gee Group

MAY 3, 2020

During this past 20 years, colleges have spent billions of dollars to build up the Grand Illusion. If colleges are to resume operations in the fall, it will not be normal as they wish it to be, but rather, it will begin to reflect college-in-the-new-normal. If this were to occur, massive lawsuits would follow.

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Planning Compliance Education Cost 195

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 6, 2012

I once heard Tom Peters saying that if you are a business traveler, you learn the most not from the corporate executives but from the cab drivers. No matter the arena, business, political, religious or role models in general, the operative question these days is ‘What were he/she/they thinking’. I experienced it first-hand!".

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

I profiled Wooden as a role model who we can all learn from in my book Fired Up or Burned Out. In John Wooden’s honor, I’m posting the following excerpts from my book: Connection and the Legend So often in life, good things bloom from the seeds of hardship. On their way to the tournament, the team bus stopped for meals.

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Follow-up Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hotels 360

Talent Anarchy 1

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

I recently travelled out of town with the man I am dating. Notwithstanding the giggles and eye roll that followed that question, I pondered the word “relationship.” Trust is another big word that’s critical to good relationships; it’s also the one we most frequently screw up. Communication.

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Chief Operating Officer Energy Maturity Commitment 106

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 8, 2017

As SVP of Operations, I approached my first visit to the field after his death with a great deal of trepidation. I’ll never forget how, in 1994 when I was looking for a job, he found my resume in his stack of papers, and personally picked up the phone and called me, inviting me to come to his office in suburban New York.

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Leadership Bottom-up Metrics Mentor 192

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

I followed up with the authors to learn more about their leadership philosophy. A Vanity Fair feature article chalked it up to a “cutthroat culture that (allegedly) drove bankers to fraud.” There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest. How they show up informally. What happened in between?

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Analysis Tips 100

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

I was recently asked the following question: “What is the difference between CRM and CEM, or is there any difference between the two? Howard Schultz is known to show-up at various Starbucks locations and stand in line to order a coffee to measure the quality of his experience.

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Blog CRM Management Brand 304

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Photo Credit: Unsplash Are you thinking about starting up a small business from your home? Home-based businesses are a great way for busy people to take more control of their careers , but starting your own business can be intimidating. Factor in start-up costs, daily expenses and taxes into your budget.

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Tips Franchising Cost Travel 95

Terry Starbucker

JULY 23, 2018

I started my career as a certified public accountant –because it was the fastest way to a professional paycheck. So I ended up sitting at my desk one day, totally and utterly lost. Then, a Breakthrough… How did I end up here, a high-paid valet to the bossman, chained to a desk? 6 ) Showing up more often.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing COO Follow-up 181

QAspire

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Thoughts on Project Leadership and Choices I love project management as a subject not only because it gets so much work done, but also because project management manifests how people operate. Are you the right example for your team to follow? Have a Great Monday! Thanks Tanmay.

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Project Leadership Directory Quality 126

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

When you have a team looking up to you for guidance and instruction, it’s important to remain consistent in the way you lead. Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. John Purkiss ​"I help people to transform their businesses, their careers and their lives."

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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. military base. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Great Quotes: Gems from Subroto Bagchi on Leadership I have always enjoyed reading thoughts of Subroto Bagchi , one of India’s most well known and respected leaders from the IT industry who operates as a “Gardener” and Vice Chairman at MindTree. Read the reviews here and here ).

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Quality Blog Management Self-aware 120

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

September 20th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Every now and then, I have the pleasure of seeing how my education and early career as a bench biologist can have some connection with the work I am now doing. In addition, there is evidence that some sensory information is sent directly to the heart before it even travels to the brain.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 29, 2008

Set up frank conversations to find out what they would like to be doing, and what drives them to do their best. Also, be sure to find out if anything about their job situation is frustrating them, such as too much travel, difficult colleagues, or not enough challenge from day to day. Fixing a business or product in trouble.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 14, 2015

I stopped at the gas station just outside the airport with my credit card in hand to stock up on water and snacks – I never ate the airplane food, so my “lunch” on these days was usually a salty and not-so-healthy bag of corn chips, washed down with one of those bottled lattes. We had well over 800 miles to clock together. And antelope.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. Researchers have only recently given serious consideration to the topics of followers and followership.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

This quote by Henry Van Dyke sums up time best, “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” Our careers are a means to an end and if we’re lucky, it’s a means to happiness and joy because we love what we do!

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Press Release Fraser Discount PR 182

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 18, 2010

The sun was coming up outside the window and had cast series of light and shadow over the autumn red and yellows of the trees in the yard. I fired up the macro lens on my little point and shoot and prepared to find some tiny bits of color amongst the fallen brown oak leaves in the yard. Time to grab the camera and head outside!

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

Commitment, passion, attention to detail, discipline, service above self, honor, integrity, perseverance, compassion, the ability to both lead and follow, to execute with precision, and the ability to adapt, improvise, and overcome are representative traits possessed by successful military leaders. I Think Not.

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Leadership Gordon Blog Brand 284

CO2

AUGUST 1, 2010

The worker rarely knew more than their boss about how the business worked, since the boss had held and succeeded in most key jobs on his or her way up the organization. As you move up the ranks of an organization or migrate up the ranks by job transfer, you will end up leading people that do things you cannot possibly understand.

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Management Executive Coaching Leadership Strategic Planning 79

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

A s a preview into these learnings, following are the three foundational questions asked to each interviewee: “What have you learned in life that you would pass on to your younger self.” I challenge the crowd to remember what it takes to lead, follow, and mentor and the impact it has on the organization.

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Globalization Leadership Conference Diversity 276

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Some of the efforts cast out into the marketplace stir up action. Follow some basic ground rules to best focus the time and resources you have: Know what you need. So, in teaming up with those who can do what I can’t, they might need what I do. So many intelligent women just don’t speak up! Mine your backyard.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

He’s a National Guardsman from South Carolina and was two months into his first tour in Afghanistan when an IED blew up the vehicle he was riding in.    When I met her, she walked into the room on crutches and stood and talked with me for 20 minutes about her career with the Army and her plans for the future.

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Blog Executive Coaching Open-book Hotels 146

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Folks need to understand you are really no different than them, you are just at a different place at a different time along your career path and therefore have a different role right now. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

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Blog Self-aware Trout Learning-by-Doing 172

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

To avoid burning up entirely, the space shuttle needs to maintain a proper reentry angle as it travels through the atmosphere, and it needs to wear a protective coating of heat tiles. Taking an occasional brief call during a vacation is easy on your traveling companions if you're focused and in the moment the rest of the time.

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Travel Follow-up Commitment Mentor 13

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. ” An edited version of our conversation follows: HBR: In light of such a sudden life change, why should Sandberg resist pressure to dial back professionally?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A recent Fortune article on John Reed, the former co-CEO of Citigroup, reported that a decade ago he tried to convince the newly formed Citigroup board (the result of the $70 billion merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group in 1998) to bring in a new CEO and that both he and Travelers CEO Sandy Weill should leave.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

The slide deck itself was viewed over 11 million times, and newspapers around the globe picked it up. Leaders who successfully implement unlimited vacation policies operate in companies that are already high in trust. Shortly after the unlimited vacation experiment, Netflix leaders shortened the travel and expenses policy considerably.

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Company Policies Game Theory How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

Networks are essential for collaboration , innovation, and career development. It also tends to be internal, operational (not strategic), and historical, an artifact of the executive's past work history and not his or her future possibilities. Follow up with them afterward. Find out who reads it and how far it travels.

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Travel Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

We talked to David Lawee , vice president of corporate development at Google, about how he got to where he is and the role that luck has played in his career. What follows are excerpts of Lawee's remarks. For the most part, I've traveled an entrepreneurial career path. Head vs. Heart. Entrepreneurial Lessons: Going Big.

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