Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting deficiencies. Mansharamani illustrates how in a very real sense we have outsourced our thinking to a troubling degree, relinquishing our autonomy. When leaders and aspiring leaders seek out advice, they're often told to try harder.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

This plagues everyone, but especially women who are candidates for high-powered careers. She thereby imposed on everyone her experience in a high-burnout job demanding extensive international travel and a commute between Washington and New Jersey. Slaughter went public with her decision to leave a top-ranking U.S.

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Chief Operating Officer Belief Systems Micromanagement Outsourcing 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

I really do think the company''s at a stage where it could benefit from having an operations person running it. He was always home by 5 PM, did all the grocery shopping and cooking, and made a point of never traveling on weekends. Alessandra, Bottoni''s head of operations, had sent her some revised process sheets.

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Case Study Gordon Course Learning-by-Doing 8

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. What are the most important tools or techniques you used to integrate an intense, demanding career with sudden single parenthood? I delegated, I simplified everything, and I leveraged IT.

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Chief Technology Officer Travel Chief Operating Officer Long-term 8