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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Many of the successful managers and professionals who come back to business school at mid-career are looking for more than honing their leadership skills. Many are stuck in their careers. Career planning Managing yourself' They’re looking for direction and support for the changes they long to make in the near future.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Women are expected and asked to do thankless tasks — order lunch, handle less-valued clients — more than men, and research shows that doing those tasks slows down our career advancement and makes us unhappy at work. We talk about why we wind up with so much office drudgery and how to get some of it off our plates.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

But how to keep educating ourselves is a complicated question. Do you really need to learn everything about corporate finance — or do you just need some accounting basics to help you get a better grasp on reading a P&L? We all know that in the modern economy, we can’t just stop learning. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

This trait was wonderfully illustrated by a senior vice president in a telecoms company who recounted how a regulatory ruling had just wiped several millions dollars from his bottom line. His only thought was how to make up the shortfall. Insiders are good-humored.

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How To CEO P&L Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2011

To generate ideas, run electric current through your brain: Research subjects who received electrical stimulation of the anterior temporal lobes of the brain were 3 times more likely to come up with the fresh insight needed to solve a difficult, unfamiliar problem than people in a control group, according to Richard P. Chi and Allan W.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 29, 2017

"When they get to own a P&L or become the CEO, in many cases executives are rusty at strategy or have never even been given a set of tools to set strategy," says management consultant Tim Lewko. Plan: How to implement and achieve decisions? Decide: What are the key products, markets, and capabilities? Ask the Coach .

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

In this post I describe a couple of case studies from Target executives who have been experimenting with creative ways to integrate the different parts of their lives — and how they're teaching others to do the same. David is a VP who is accountable for a multi-billion dollar P & L business.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. Relationship building has resulted in greater effectiveness and personal satisfaction in my position and career. Thanks for the reminder of how to function.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

We talked to 24 current and former not-white-male CEOs , who spoke candidly about what they faced as they built their careers and how they developed inclusive organizations. And we''ve got advice about how to sell your ideas to women , in a world where there are growing numbers of women with P&L power.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

And that is the issue of how to effectively manage a multi-generational workforce. 2), (3), (4), (5), (6) Take, for example, the point that’s often made of how Millennials are more likely to leave their job if they don’t feel a sense of connection or purpose as compared to workers from the Gen-X and Boomer generations.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

You will learn how to identify and prioritize your company’s full portfolio of opportunities – from new product lines to entirely new businesses. Your career depended on that business going forward, and the numbers that mattered had to do with the performance of that business, not with Sony as a whole.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Growth is the goal. The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Build is an incredible opportunity to learn how to start, grow, and exit a business from someone who has been through it all.

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