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Elevating Operations: The N2Growth Approach to COO Search

N2Growth Blog

The role of a COO is crucial in ensuring the overall success of any organization. The COO’s influence extends far beyond mere operational management. Yet, finding the right COO is not a mere process of filling a vacant executive slot.

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Saving Face: How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust

Skip Prichard

Maya Hu-Chan is a management consultant, executive coach, author, and speaker, and founder of Global Leadership Associates. More important, even if you managed to get all the spilled water on the ground back into the glass, at that point would you still want to drink it? Linda is a manager at a software company. Me neither.

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43 Best Leadership Books to Skyrocket Your Career

Miles Anthony Smith

Even if you manage to find what appears to be solid leadership advice, does it actually help you advance your career and become a better leader? shares the secrets to how executives and managers can become the leaders their company needs. When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Daniel H.

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Top Leadership Experts to Follow in 2015

Modern Servant Leader

Whether you need a leadership and management expert for yourself or your team, you’ll find someone great below. HBCU & #Gonzaga Alumna 1 2,873 1,988 Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence, Personal Development The Official Twitter Account for Emotional Intelligence Author, Daniel Goleman.

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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. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Being a Good Boss in Dark Times

Harvard Business Review

If you’re leading a team or an organization, how can you help manage the emotional culture of the people you’re responsible for? I had an opportunity to explore that a few days ago when I spoke with a Derek, the COO of a large, publicly traded company based in the Midwest, the day after yet another tragedy.

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The Right Way to Check Someone’s References

Harvard Business Review

Begin by saying something like, “We are seriously considering Mary to be a project manager here. For instance, “Nancy doesn’t have a lot of experience managing people”—how do you think she’ll do as a supervisor? She will have to deal with tough deadlines and tight budgets,” he says.