In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2012

Those walking the talk are on Fast Company’s list of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies. Fast Company’s list ( [link] ) includes three old economy companies – Siemens AG (founded 1847), Southern New Hampshire University (founded 1932), and UPS (founded 1907). What repels innovation at old economy companies?

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Businesses and companies now need to rethink how to manage post-covid work trends like their remote workforce, hiring policies, skills, and experience needs. The greatest change seen is in remote work operations. Only 12% want to return to full-time office work, and 72% want a hybrid remote-office model moving forward. .

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

"We think every industry is going to be rebuilt around social engagement," Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said. Facebook already helped spur a new crop of videogame companies designed around interacting with friends, Ms. So far, Facebook's key battleground has been in online marketing. of the U.S.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Guest Post By Mary Kinney, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of Ginnie Mae, a cornerstone of the U.S. percent of executive positions at Fortune 500 companies and 16.6 The report also shows that more than one quarter of Fortune 500 companies have no women in executive roles.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

"While the global population is largely gender balanced, men hold eighty-five percent of senior leadership positions in public companies," states Melissa Greenwell , author of the new book, Money on the Table: How to Increase Profits Through Gender-balanced Leadership. High-potential women often operate under the radar.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

By showing your employees that you care about what matters to them and want them to be successful in their efforts, it makes it easier for them to care and to be invested in what matters to you and your organization because they see that you’re not just a team or company, but a community gathered around a shared purpose.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

“Companies in which leaders at every level nurture a culture where employees can develop a sense of ownership in what they do are the companies that excel.” There is one universal principle that determines the degree of success of all businesses: Be the preferred provider to your markets. ” -Stan Silverman.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC and NTE Solutions have announced a partnership that will expand energy services to clients and prospects of both companies. Asset management and operational programs improvement. Greg Gaskey Named StrategyDriven Enterprises Chief Operations Officer. Risk management and compliance.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The financial situation for Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Company could not have been more dismal in 1998. The company had chalked up losses in seven of the past eight years, and it was now paying a billion dollars annually just to service its $19-billion debt. A new strategy was required. But so far he had not.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

The ABU was set up as a centralized profit center with ambitious targets and with direct reporting to the chief operations officer; most often, similar units are organized as cost centers with no specific targets. Targets and accountability. Rigorous assessment of results. Communicating with strategic goals in mind.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Protecting a company''s critical information is a value proposition. Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. So who''s responsible for information security in your company?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Many organizations suffer from a tragic pattern: The chief executive officer launches a new change program with great fanfare and intentions, only to shelve it a few years later with little to show for great expenditures of time and consulting fees. But this wasn't the only improvement initiative to peter out in the company.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Last year I decided it was time to shake things up at our investment management company. When the CEO does depart, companies find themselves lacking leaders who are experienced in critical aspects of the top post. I had taken one step toward this two years ago, when I named one partner president and another chief operating officer.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

She distilled the notes about her many accomplishments into an overview of the 10 years in her current role: Keep University’s School of Design (eight graduate programs) running flawlessly for Director, other staff, faculty, and students — during routine operations and emergencies. into multiple global markets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

It's a critical topic for many companies. I bet many readers have had a project shut down or seriously altered because of corporate fears of cannibalization — the idea that a lower prices product might eat away at the market of a higher priced one. It's a unique product that's attuned to the needs in the market.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Take this anecdote: Our innovation consultancy recently played host to a rather unusual job interview when a candidate came to us after selling his company, a premium brand of Cachaça (the Brazilian liquor). The offering should at once communicate the candidate's individuality and appeal to a broader market.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

The third-generation CEO of a family business, my client experienced severe stress as his executive team (comprised of older family members) lambasted his every decision about how to run the company. With this newfound focus, the CEO harnessed the team’s knowledge and motivation to grow the company. Apologize and express gratitude.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Gap is joining a growing corps of large companies that are turning to an overlooked pool of entry-level talent: the 5.5 The strategy offers them a rare trifecta: It’s good for the company, youth, and society. The strategy offers them a rare trifecta: It’s good for the company, youth, and society. Across the U.S.,

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Jay Woo , CAA South Central Ontario’s Chief Operating Officer offered up this piece of advice: “Stay connected to your front line.” A huge innovation that no other company has. A piece of simple advice, but it’s amazing how few senior leaders walk that talk. Just ask Woo.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

After years of observing individual struggles to achieve work-life balance — and of enlightened companies to provide it — I've concluded that one major hurdle is artificial images of perfection. You can have it all. It just won't all be perfect. This is especially true in the U.S., Not exactly your typical job.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

I''ve been researching what allows companies to be successful even when their competitive advantages are short-lived — a phenomenon I call transient advantage. As Rudy Lobo, their Chief Operating Officer explains, at the very moment the company goes after an opportunity, it simultaneously considers what it will take to exit it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

But our work with a community of senior executives in the Bay Area suggests that today’s market leaders are following the advice of Yogi Berra: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” When it comes to digital engagement, many companies feel they have to choose either transactions or relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

I saw this play out when debriefing with the Chief Operating Officer of a $20 billion global company. I watched this happen in a leadership team meeting as the heads of marketing and sales tried to resolve a common stalemate.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Not only do employees with disabilities comprise a large talent pool, it’s a remarkably innovative one: 75% of them report having an idea that would drive value for their company (versus 66% of employees without disabilities). Companies also need to create a culture of support and inclusion by doing the following: Provide training.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

In our own work, we see an increasing number of professionals who start out in the corporate world, work for a time in social enterprise, and then return to a for-profit company. The goal, says CEO Tom Rippin, is "to develop people who can operate equally well in commercial and social enterprise environments.".

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Their son-in-law (married to their eldest daughter) had recently been named chief operating officer. The business—a regional construction company with a special expertise in building waste chemical and water treatment plants—has never lost money in its 30 year history, and it''s grown steadily.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

It not only prevents great ideas for change from being implemented, but also sometimes causes a company to do downright dumb things. Take, for example, the chief executive of a Midwest industrial company I worked with. The problem was that it was the pet project of his chief operating officer, and everyone knew it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address. On Monday she’d been feting T&T’s employees in acknowledgment of the company’s fiscal-year performance. But she had to stay strong; she had a job to do.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

The CEO — the public face of the company — is bombarded with requests. That''s why Elizabeth started out one notch lower, with the office of the Chief Operating Officer, "because that secretary knows everybody," she says. Next, it''s important to understand their time constraints.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The Big Four are: The Chief Executive Officer: your inner Dreamer. The Chief Financial Officer: your inner Thinker. The Chief Operating Officer: your inner Warrior. She wants them to explain plans to safeguard global markets in light of changing American economic policy. I want action."

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. So find them, ask questions, and let them help you.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Erica Jackson, chief marketing officer of the Mendoza Marathon Corporation, had risen early to watch people line up to register for next year’s event and expected an enthusiastic crowd. Alan Kurtz, MMC’s chief operating officer, was standing off to the side, and she moved to join him, but a racer intercepted her.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

First, unlike a traditional office, coworking spaces consist of members who work for a range of different companies, ventures, and projects. We consider ourselves as much a hospitality company as we do a workspace provider. So what are the implications for traditional companies?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

My father, Jaya Tan, retired three years ago as the CEO of our family''s business, the Martapura Group, relinquishing control to a nonfamily CEO to ensure that the company would regain its strength and grow. In the 1970s he pushed the company to expand into palm oil and helped create a chain of food stores. The situation is simple.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Bill George is best-known as the former CEO of Medtronic, where the company's market cap grew from $1.1 They gave me the encouragement to go back to Medtronic, where I had turned down three times the opportunity to become president and chief operating officer. billion to $60 billion during his tenure.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 23, 2013

EQ has quickly become a global movement that’s helping companies large and small rebuild trust internally to make its employees happier and more productive, which in turn impacts the overall ROI,” said Joshua Freedman, chief operating officer for Six Seconds and the chairman of NexusEQ, a global conference taking place this summer at Harvard. “EQ

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