In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2012

So much has been written about business innovation this past year. Those walking the talk are on Fast Company’s list of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies. Are we to deduce that innovation is the domain of new economy and early-stage life cycle businesses? These innovators love playing rocket man.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 26, 2015

In this competitive marketplace, an organization’s ability to innovate by staying ahead of the competition and delivering products that command the market’s attention is more important than ever.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 8, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind Jocelyn Glei, Editor Innovating Analytics: Word of Mouth Index- Use the Next Generation of Net Promoter to Increase Sales and Drive Results […].

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 25, 2013

Meeting with a Chief Operations Officer of a Health Care Organization, whose team I have been consulting and coaching. What would you subtract from the questions? How would you simplify the questions? michael cardus is create-learning.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Marissa Mayer is currently Yahoo’s president and CEO after being a key spokesperson for Google, and Sheryl Sandberg is currently the chief operating officer of Facebook and is also on the board of directors. However, there is a major difference between where women succeed in STEM industries and where men do.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Still, in the year that Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg published " Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead ," women everywhere made impressive economic and political gains. Diverse business leadership and governance are correlated with stronger business performance, employee engagement, and innovation.

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CEO Insider

MARCH 14, 2023

I was a young entrepreneur with big dreams and even bigger ambitions, and—despite the economic challenges—I saw an immense opportunity in cloud technology as a transformative innovation.

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CEO Insider

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To address these issues, we must look to innovative solutions, such as those […] The post Making Government More Like Amazon Through Estonia’s Blueprint appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine. Copyright CEOWORLD magazine 2023.

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Women on Business

MAY 24, 2012

They tested leadership skills from development to problem solving to innovation etc. Instead of saying “I want to be in a management position” say “I want to be Chief Operating Officer or the VP of Sales” Decide why you want to win and what the accomplishment would mean to you.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 9, 2023

Other research shows that businesses with a collaboration strategy were twice as likely to outgrow their competitors, while their collaborating employees saw gains in efficiency, quality of work, innovation, and overall job […] The post The 3 Key Blockers to Collaborative Communication appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

This is the key to innovation and learning from failure – where we enable our employees to get things done while providing them with the time and resources to understand why some measures worked and others failed so that they can be better prepared the next time around.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Mike Sursock – Head of Operations Group at Baring Private Equity Asia. Feyzi Fatehi – Inc. Kevin Koch – President and CEO of Koch, Inc.,

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

From change management, change initiatives, change innovation, managing change, implementing change, leading in change, and change discipline, we have all been through CHANGE! It’s a billion-dollar industry and at the top of everyone’s mind and the tip of everyone’s tongue… CHANGE.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

billion into Nissan, but in return it required more than 36 percent of the company’s ownership and a commitment from Nissan to appoint Renault executive Carlos Ghosn as Nissan’s chief operating officer. Renault agreed to infuse $5.4 Reprinted by permission of Wharton Digital Press. About the Authors.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. Be proactive.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

These days, you're as likely to see "innovative" on any given job description as you are to see "strong communication skills" or "team player." But how do you hire innovators ? What exactly are you looking for , and more importantly, how do you identify the ability to innovate ?

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The level of waste our book supply chain produces each year is environmentally unfriendly and inefficient to a fault. Some readers have embraced the convenience of ebooks, but the majority of readers still prefer the familiar feel of a paperback or hardcover book in their hands. There is just something comforting about the smell of […].

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LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

People who are on the edges of innovation or leadership or management. We’re here to chat about Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes. I had this interview once with this guy who is this chief operating officer of this great big organization. Sometimes they’re researchers or scholars.

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Feedback sessions should be the highlight of a leader’s day. Your employees are getting fed up with feedback. That, at least, is the takeaway from one recent Gallup survey, which found that only 26% of workers believe that feedback actually helps them improve their performance. Clearly, things aren’t working the way they should. At most […].

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 21, 2021

Many times the terms personal brand and professional brand are used interchangeably, but there is a difference. As leaders, it’s important to recognize the difference and be intentional about supporting the pursuit of either or both for your team.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 29, 2021

Women’s issues aren’t just for women, they are issues for business, for men and for society, yet the minute they are framed as ‘women’s issues’ or even the more neutral ‘gender’ issues, there is a tendency for whole swathes of people, mostly men, to disengage. They think it’s all over Many men seem to think […].

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CEO Insider

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

If you transport yourself back to high school physics for a moment, you might recall Newton’s First Law – an object at rest stays at rest. No matter how aerodynamic an object might be, it still requires an external force to set it in motion. In the physical world, the forces that set an object […].

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CEO Insider

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A toxic leader is someone that hasn’t learned the correct leadership style to maintain a successful team, damages the well-being of their employees, and fails to contribute to a positive culture. Unsurprisingly, these toxic leaders can deeply impact the employee experience. Here’s how to retrain them for the better.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

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. The case illustrates how information technology, innovatively, insightfully and courageously deployed, can change the structure of an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In 2009 Tony Scibelli, Vice President of Human Resources and Operations at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare learned that the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer were going to launch "relationship-based care," a comprehensive cultural change program to focus doctors' and nurses' attention on patients and their families.

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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. Equally adept at managing people and operations.

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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. He makes up “success&# stories constantly.

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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. Communicating with strategic goals in mind.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

One senior leader at a professional services company, whom we’ll call Bronwyn, made the move from client-facing partner to chief operating officer. She was able to build on the analytics and change management insights she had brought to clients to help strengthen her own organization from the C-suite.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. Despite having a full plate of client projects, she signed up to work on a massive survey to understand the concerns of chief operating officers. You and Your Team Series. Collaboration. Amy Jen Su. Celia de Anca and Salvador Aragón. Kevin Kniffin.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

It may seem odd to use a dystopian world as a model for an office workspace, but that’s just what Citi did. One of the biggest benefits of the more-open space is innovation. The color-coded “neighborhoods” are in smaller sections of the larger space, enabling a sense of belonging, and also fostering a healthy sense of identity.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

It may seem odd to use a dystopian world as a model for an office workspace, but that’s just what Citi did. One of the biggest benefits of the more-open space is innovation. The color-coded “neighborhoods” are in smaller sections of the larger space, enabling a sense of belonging, and also fostering a healthy sense of identity.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It teaches young people the dress, demeanor, and collaboration skills expected in a professional setting as well as the technical skills for careers in IT, operations, finance, sales and marketing, or customer service. A study conducted by Innovate + Educate , which uses research-based strategies to address the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

As Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook noted in Apple's recent analyst call, there did appear to be some of that going on. There probably isn't a clearer recent example of this than Apple's iPad. But that effect was more than offset by Apple using iPad to introduce people to its products.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to innovation in cities, people often think of building clusters and innovation districts to attract new businesses and shift policies to favor entrepreneurship. Innovation in this case, and many others, requires invention. City innovators have to move fast before it does. But that took time.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

” Faced with hard choices, innovators find ways to transcend the tradeoffs. It’s no coincidence that the Chief Algorithms Officer at Stitch Fix was formerly head of data science for Netflix, and its Chief Operating Officer, Julie Bornstein, was formerly CMO at Sephora. Size and speed.

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