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5 Most Important Leadership Competencies for Function Leaders

Center for Creative Leadership

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. They run business units and geographic regions.

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The Rise of the COO

Harvard Business Review

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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To Blog or Not to Blog?

N2Growth Blog

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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How One Family Business Found Its Sweet Spot

Harvard Business Review

Their son-in-law (married to their eldest daughter) had recently been named chief operating officer. The family asked us to review the COO''s strategy for the business as part of its corporate governance process. We moved the discussion away from the COO''s strategy to the performance of the business. So what is the next act?"

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Building a global platform to be COO

Rajesh Setty

Being that kind of lucky would be ideal but you can rarely engineer that because in general, free riders will be a majority force. A better alternative would be to build a platform to be COO. No, not asking you to be the chief operating officer. COO that I am referring to here is “creating overwhelming obligations.”

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How to Capture Value from Collaboration, Especially If You’re Skeptical About It

Harvard Business Review

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. 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.

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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business Review

Franklin was in the business of designing, engineering, and manufacturing climate control systems for cars and SUVs. She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. As CFO, Noelle was, of course, concerned about the numbers.