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

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Plant Maintenance and Operations. About StrategyDriven.

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APRIL 24, 2013

. “Utility leaders must find cost effective ways to replace aging assets, transfer knowledge to a new generation of workers, release currently unavailable capital, and optimize strategic operations and maintenance programs,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s Chief Executive Officer. About StrategyDriven.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

.” “An effective safety culture is far more than slogans and posters,” continues Greg Gaskey, StrategyDriven’s Chief Operations Officer. ” Nathan and Greg authored Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents based on their decades of experience managing nuclear and industrial complex operations.

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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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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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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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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

I had taken one step toward this two years ago, when I named one partner president and another chief operating officer. In addition to the media, I have taken on a project to generate awareness of our firm as majority-owned by women partners. While five years might seem like too long a runway, it rushes by very quickly.

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LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

I had this interview once with this guy who is this chief operating officer of this great big organization. I travel quite a bit in the different operating units. You make the prototype, you take the first step, you contact some people, you assemble the project. SHAWN: Totally, that’s it! That’s it!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Initiated contact with Director, staff, students, and faculty to minimize disruption of department’s operations. In her summary section, she highlighted accomplishments that show she can grow startups and alleviate their common pain points: Chief Operating Officer.

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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 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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

” But at a time when work is more and more team-oriented and projects often require intense collaboration, “you have to find a way to connect and build a bridge” with even the most irritating people. Compliment the person on an idea they raised in a meeting, or offer to help out with a project. We could work together.”

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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. Launch several management initiatives, including the creation of a high performance culture, the establishment of targets for total customer satisfaction, and a re-vamp of the financial and project management systems.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

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. They then work on that "religiously" (as he says) to take as much risk as possible out of any projects before making a commitment to them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

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. As Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook noted in Apple's recent analyst call, there did appear to be some of that going on.

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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. You can accomplish this on the job, by seeking out a mentor or volunteering for special projects; and off the job through formal leadership training.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

More than half (58%) said they were expected to know details about work and projects they believed were beneath their level, and more than half also felt they were involved in decisions that those below them should be making. This suggests that the problem of too little strategic leadership may be as much a function of doing as of thinking.

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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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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

JUNE 4, 2012

Projections back then showed that after two years of solid investment, the venture would generate healthy profits in the third year. The problem was that it was the pet project of his chief operating officer, and everyone knew it. So what did this CEO do about the COO's pet project?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2015

” Teaming involves fluid, collaborative, interdependent work across shifting projects and with a shifting mix of partners, often across organizational boundaries. The solution to these problems is to shift focus from the structure to the activities of teamwork — what I call “teaming.”

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

This Internet entrepreneur and business executive is currently the Chief Operating Office at. Sheryl was also the former Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, where she launched Google’s philanthropic. Here current projects include. Sheryl Sandberg. arm, Google.org.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

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. The Chief Operating Officer: your inner Warrior.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

The chief operating officer (COO) meets with direct reports during the week on the floor. We need to trade our dozens of pet projects and strategic initiatives for a few key metrics. A discussion ensues to determine what problems have been identified in the last day or two and what is happening to address those problems.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Aside from the type of work they’re doing – freelancers choosing projects they care about, for example — the people we surveyed reported finding meaning in the fact that they could bring their whole selves to work. ” Spending time away from the office at a coworking space can also spark new ideas.

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Rajesh Setty

MAY 3, 2012

No, not asking you to be the chief operating officer. A few are project examples are listed below: 1. Kickstarter | Creating a platform to bring many cool projects to life. On a lighter note, another option is to wish for others to change and you know what that will result in. A better alternative. Go to step 2.

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