Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

One of the most common leadership development questions that I hear from executives is, "Why does succession planning feel like such a waste of time?" Here are some of our thoughts on how to make leadership succession a more relevant process in your company. She has always been in an engineering role.

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Planning Efficiency Succession Tips 118

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Does your company have a COO today? Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing. Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

In a world in which men dominate leadership roles, should we focus on changing the systems and structures that favor men at women’s expense? Shana Novak/Getty Images. Or should we emphasize the tactics individual women can use to get ahead? Our research explored this question.

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Engineering COO Participative Tactics 11

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

reprinted with permission from DDI's Directions newsletter): Leadership is a craft. in your organization were as passionate about leadership. have met many interesting people this way, including the COO of McDonald’s, the. engineers, pilots, sales managers, marketers, teachers, and bankers. Wellins, Ph.D. There is a.

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Film Leadership Human Resources COO 280

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

And it’s a far cry, he asserts, from the version that the company and its current leadership have repeated to the press. The path to value typically requires a change in leadership, not because VCs are somehow nefarious, but because they recognize that different stages of a startup require different kinds of leaders.

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Succession Leadership CEO COO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm. Collaboration is not a style.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

She suggests “immersing yourself in your topic area” by regularly attending industry conferences, enrolling in a class or specialized certification program, or taking on a leadership role in a relevant professional organization. With Jeff Wald, the president and COO, an analytic thinker, she started with the metrics.

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Influence How To Case Study Learning-by-Doing 20

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

Leslie Perlow did a fascinating study of engineers doing software development and observed them frequently using their time in ways that could only make it more difficult to meet their aggressive deadline. Saying you can't do it all is not a failure of leadership, it is effective leadership.

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COO Collins PR Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Not long ago, I attended the “Forever Green Leadership Gala” in Menlo Park, a fundraiser for The Girl Scouts of Northern California. The keynote speaker was Sheryl Sandberg, famous both for her role as Facebook COO and for her advice to girls and women to “ Lean In.”. What does this have to do with scaling?

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Mentor Advice COO Self-aware 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The year before, prompted by all this, Lumiscape’s leadership had decided to pivot from a sales model to a subscription model. The board had unanimously approved the proposal from Cameron and his COO, Stacy Hamiko, to shift to that strategy. “Higher! .”

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Case Study Business Model CFO Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Consider how Nest is networking its thermostats, smoke alarms, and cameras to create home security solutions, or how Caterpillar and GE are each networking their equipment and engines to save millions in maintenance costs. Everyone on the leadership team has a role to play in making this pivot.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, speaking at City Colleges of Chicago. True leadership isn’t about giving orders… Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, speaking at Campbell University Law School. Sometimes the hardest part is just getting started. Sometimes big dreams can be overwhelming. Well the good news is you don’t have to.

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Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

The person in charge of online banking might want a different offering than the person leading the branch offices, just as an engineering head might want a different set of product features than a manufacturing VP. COO Mark Fields now runs this mechanism. Execution Leadership Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

My research has shown that there are ways for everyone — from the managers of sales teams, to executives in government agencies, to computer engineers, to florists, to coaches — to achieve professional success without always having to sacrifice the things that matter in their personal lives.

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Succession COO Career Politics 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

HP culture at that time was very engineer-dominated, and relatively male-dominated. As HP’s first female CEO, Fiorina just didn’t connect well with the engineers. She never took the time to develop rapport with individual employees, and therefore never got buy-in or support for her initiatives.

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