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The Rise of the COO

Harvard Business Review

Does your company have a COO today? Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing.

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

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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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

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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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business Review

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. They are then reviewed by the company’s Manufacturing Leadership Council.

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The Future Economy Project

Harvard Business Review

Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. And what type of leadership will take us there? Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Co. COO, Instagram (Facebook, Inc.). Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Climate Change on HBR.org. by Forest L. Marc Benioff.

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Here’s Why Strategy Chiefs Succeed or Fail

Harvard Business Review

The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on. Wilson went on to be COO of The Gap Inc. the danger that the newcomer will clash for political or personality reasons with members of the leadership team).