First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Julie Greenwald, chairwoman and chief operating officer of the Atlantic Records Group.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC and NTE Solutions partner to provide energy industry executives and managers with asset lifecycle management and regulatory compliance advisory services. Risk management and compliance. Project development and management. Asset management and operational programs improvement.

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Energy Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer Compliance 57

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

The Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches ‘pay it forward’ project is officially in full swing, and I am excited to announce the next cohort of coaches who will join me in Phoenix in June! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn.

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Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

. “By fostering an organizational culture that puts safety-first, executives and managers create a workplace environment where errors are recognized and proactively corrected before they result in a material event.” StrategyDriven Risk Management Forum. Risk Management Best Practice 4 – Risk Quantification.

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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. In the elevator business, you can be hugely successful and highly profitable by going unnoticed.

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In all of the loud and necessary debates over how to reform health care in the United States before it bankrupts the country, there is one element that has been continually overlooked: the management systems employed by hospitals. This 20 th century system essentially has leadership establishing objectives for managers to achieve.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > We’ve found in our research that clarifying what collaboration is (and what it isn’t) and gaining firsthand experience with one or more collaborative projects is the only way to combat these common apprehensions. Contribute to someone else’s project. Collaboration.

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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. The most common transgression is procrastination, in failing to charge the next generation of managers with more responsibility. 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

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. This setup fosters focus on high-yield projects, actionable analytics, and speed of execution.

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Company Chief Operating Officer Incentives Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

So here’s how she made sure her résumé attracted the attention of hiring managers when she started applying for chief administrative officer (CAO) positions. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance. Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Go well beyond job descriptions.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

People who are on the edges of innovation or leadership or management. We took it online, we built learning management systems to make it accessible. 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. That’s it!

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Chief Operating Officer Innovation Learning-by-Doing Books 60

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

I saw this play out when debriefing with the Chief Operating Officer of a $20 billion global company. The project costs had ballooned, and the direct report was emotionally frayed. The project costs had ballooned, and the direct report was emotionally frayed. ” You and Your Team Series.

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Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Chief Operating Officer Goleman 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

But often, managing the business gets short shrift. Their son-in-law (married to their eldest daughter) had recently been named chief operating officer. In particular, we looked at which projects the family regards as having been very successful--and which ones were not considered successful.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Strategic Planning Project 8

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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Human Resources Chief Operating Officer Ulrich Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Indeed, corporations like Kraft, consider role rotation standard for building well-rounded leaders , and actively invite promising line managers to take on staff jobs and the reverse. One senior leader at a professional services company, whom we’ll call Bronwyn, made the move from client-facing partner to chief operating officer.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

The best managers find creative, diplomatic ways to make contentious decisions without engendering resentment. Take, for example, the chief executive of a Midwest industrial company I worked with. Projections back then showed that after two years of solid investment, the venture would generate healthy profits in the third year.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

How do they manage from one wave of transient advantage to another? 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. The Regus Group, Ltd. , What''s their secret?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

” Or we might tempt them with something like “You’re looking for projects that you’ll be proud to share with your friends and family.” ” We then direct potential employees to pages that showcase our accomplishments and our company culture to help applicants envision themselves working for us.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

A few years ago, the chief operating officer launched a customer quality initiative to improve six core processes and assigned executives to "own" each process. For example, employees wanted more transparency and say in project prioritization. Executives also want quick wins, so they scope projects to be done in a year.

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Company COO CFO Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” Having risen through the supply chain ranks, she spent most of her time reacting to operational missteps and customer complaints.

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Supply Chain Chief Operating Officer Execution Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

To find out, we interviewed several coworking space founders and community managers, and surveyed several hundred workers from dozens of coworking spaces around the U.S. First, unlike a traditional office, coworking spaces consist of members who work for a range of different companies, ventures, and projects.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Hiring, managing performance, and firing. Soon, the list of topics grows more serious, and turns to work: My plate is completely full, but my boss just asked me to start a new project. The Big Four are: The Chief Executive Officer: your inner Dreamer. The Chief Financial Officer: your inner Thinker.

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