Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Take Sheryl Sandberg, COO at Facebook, who took it upon herself to help women attain leadership roles in business, wrote a book about how to do it, Lean In, and started a foundation to promote it, Leanin.org. . * * * This post is by Andy Cunningham. They were willing to die for it. Often it is about changing the status quo.

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Leadership COO Commitment Education 161

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 15, 2016

You’ve been up to your ears in the details of planning and developing new product features yourself or with your partner, but now you have too many growing management responsibilities to do as much of that. As the leader - in whatever form that takes for you (CEO, President, COO) - set the vision, expectations and culture.

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IPO COO Dunning Delegation 120

Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2016

I’m a big fan of scaling up innovative ideas and making sure they have as much impact as possible. I like to explain entrepreneurship as seeing the world the way it ‘ought’ to be and creating products or services to make that a reality. Question 4: Is your products first experience excellent? About the Author.

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Venture Capitalist Critical Success Factor Entrepreneur COO 50

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Org charts can be arranged by function, process, product, market, customer, geographic, matrix, or a combination approach. Seeing these connections and implications may remind you of the need to be an active learner as a leader (not a finished product). . These charts tell a more interesting and complex story.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Org charts can be arranged by function, process, product, market, customer, geographic, matrix, or a combination approach. With the PEAK model, leaders can learn just how much they are inclined to seek Perspectives (Innovators), Evaluate information at hand (Judges), take Action (Directors), and increase Knowledge (Professors).

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

Issues frequently address development of high functioning teams, retention of talent, innovative process mapping, interpersonal and intergroup conflict, coaching of leaders, and facilitating behavioral skills to increase organizational and personal effectiveness. Interested in your organization or team having a success story?

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Team Building TRIZ Succession Team 94

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

This is because most CRM platforms measure customer interactions solely upon product purchase history and preferences. As should be obvious, this set of metrics is biased not only to product centric data, but also toward historical data, and does not take into account experience or forward looking trends & preferences.

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Blog CRM Management Brand 304

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2020

The founding team is vitally important to the success of any startup, and indeed, some studies argue that the founding team are more important to the success of the startup than the product itself. Who would be CFO or COO? ” Entrepreneurial team formation. Who would be CEO?

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Team Entrepreneur COO CFO 85

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Design by 12GrainStudio Leadership Solutions Focus in Practice Wednesday, November 03rd, 2010 Posted by: mike Working with a leadership team of 5 people including the COO of the organization. Powered by WordPress. People started to say, we are already doing all these things, we are there. Now we just continue to build upon you success!”

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Leadership COO Team Building Active Listening 125

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Last month, we learned about Geneca's journey into creating a culture of innovation within the company. Cone proclaimed in 2010 that “cause marketing as we know it is dead” “Slapping a ribbon” on a product, website, or advertisement was now perceived as inauthentic. Ken Pedersen, COO.

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Ryan PR Project B2B 130

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Stuart Oliver: Entrepreneur, Interim CIO, Technology COO, Strategist, » Blog Archive » To blog or not to blog [.] Mike Myatt from N2Growth has this interesting blog entitled “To blog or not to blog“ [.] link] Swiecki’s Blog » Tech-blog Carnival Edition 2 [.] I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

"We were too busy being strategic to do something obvious," said Mr. Harish Bhat, the COO of the Time Products division of Titan Industries Limited. While the innovation program has largely been a success, Bhat noted there have been some bumps along the way. "We Expect some failures.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist RACI Market Segmentation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Paul is an old friend who, until his recent retirement, worked as a senior scientist at a pharmaceutical company, where he managed a group of innovative researchers. Shortly after the best practices meetings, the COO visited Paul's location to see how the alignment was going.

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COO Short-term Pharmaceuticals Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Meghna has been COO of a small market research company since she earned her MBA several years ago. She’s done just about everything a COO can to grow a company and is now eager to apply that expertise to startups in a different industry — wind power or alternative transportation, such as bike sharing. Expand from U.S.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

They created an excellent product in record time, in time for launch in the 2009 holiday season. But then the CEO zeroed in on volunteer champions who stepped forward to realize the vision through innovations in products and customer relationships. He started a snowball rolling.

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Execution Strategy COO CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

What to make of the confluence of General Petraeus resigning as head of the CIA and Christopher Kubasik , vice chairman, president, and COO of Lockheed also resigning — both for having affairs — within days of each other?

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Welch COO Constraint CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

When I later became head of McKinsey Asia, he helped me see that I had to hire a solid COO to work with me—which substantially increased my leadership effectiveness in that bigger role.” Foster innovation and learning to sustain your team (or organization) and grow new leaders. Focus on measurable results.

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Skills McKinsey COO Handbook 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

Second, in each case, the five years preceding Jobs' departure saw a revolutionary and innovative transformation of the company. In the mid-80s, Apple had been through a cycle of innovation in personal computers that culminated in the Macintosh, establishing the dominant design for user interactions on computers.

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COO Innovation Price Cost 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Building a new product or service in itself is not adequate, even if it’s a brilliant innovation. Second, who will be willing to pay a premium for your product or service? Is the thing that differentiates your product critical to the customer? First, what specific problem are you solving?

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Entrepreneur Core Competence COO Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Over the past year, we hosted current or former leaders from each of these retailers at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and all four talked about a corporate culture of setting high expectations and creating conditions that encourage employees to innovate. In return, Costco gets better productivity.

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Retail Merchandising Incentives COO 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Consider Nissan’s “Vision Zero” which aims for “zero traffic accidents involving Nissan vehicles that inflict serious or fatal injuries,” according to COO Toshiyuki Shiga. Rethinking products and how you talk to your customers at the same time is systemic thinking at its best.

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Goal Transportation Automotive COO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products. CEOs remain reluctant to invite CIOs to the executive table, insisting that IT is a cost center, not the innovation incubator it could be. Shadow IT has been freshly-labeled "departmental IT.".

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2018

Hiring a new person is an opportunity to do something differently than before — to innovate. There are a lot of roles a CFO can play, but when the COO said to me, “I want to hire someone to tell everyone what they can’t spend,” I realized he wanted a henchman. How can you solve a knowledge gap?

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Learning Curve Management CFO Delegation 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She''s an expert on strategy, innovation, and leading change. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. But new products or categories that might be in the pipeline don''t spring up overnight.

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P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

” Another common misconception is that collaboration is cross-selling, the practice of suggesting new services or products, usually under another colleague’s purview, to an existing client. To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. Collaboration is not “cross-selling.” Collaboration.

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Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The CAO should be under an executive that naturally spans all of the business units that have analytical needs, such as the Chief Strategy Officer, the CFO, and the COO. However, if the CAO reports to the CMO, then other business units such as product development or customer service might not feel that they get equitable treatment.

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Company COO Information Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

This comes at a significant financial and productivity cost to all organizations, as demonstrated by research in corporate settings : Onboarding an external hire can cost up to twice the departing executive’s salary, and the time it takes for an external hire to become productive is twice as long as for someone hired from within.

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Development Mentor COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

It's true that Apple's success in the last decade has been built on a remarkable string of innovations, which seems harder to "codify." Even more important, Jobs (who can't program) brought the perspective of a passionate and non-technical customer into the design, the look and feel, and the excitement of Apple products.

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P&L Supply Chain Retail COO 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The CAO should be under an executive that naturally spans all of the business units that have analytical needs, such as the Chief Strategy Officer, the CFO, and the COO. However, if the CAO reports to the CMO, then other business units such as product development or customer service might not feel that they get equitable treatment.

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Company COO CFO Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

When considering the promotion of a relatively junior executive to the position of CEO, boards can have the candidate tested and prepared by ensuring an appointment as president, CFO, or COO. A fast-track CEO succession should be the product of a deliberate strategy, not of desperation.

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

His energy and emotion accelerated innovation and execution across the company. "I''m The COO of a software firm, he had had a horrible relationship for years with Ron, a key product development VP. When he got excited about something, no matter what, he was going to make it happen. I''m upset. I''m responsible. I apologize."

COO 12

COO Energy Tactics Motivation 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

Some CIOs become CIO-Plus-COO or CIO-Plus-Head of Shared Services. Others gain new responsibilities in strategy, M&A integration, or innovation. You need to create a compelling digital vision, coordinate digital investments, drive appropriate synergies, build a clean technology platform, and foster innovation.

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CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

And your organization loses out as you make compromises with the loudest person in the room, lose the diversity of thinking that’s critical for innovation, or stop producing the best solutions. I’d love to discuss how you could share your concerns in the most productive way possible.”.

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Self-aware COO Constraint Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

The Mississippi-born former IBM salesman, FedEx COO, and CEO of AT&T Wireless and Netscape Communications argues that funny sayings, especially if they involve animals, stick with people in a way that PowerPoint strategy slides usually don’t. If it works, it’s a product. If people hit on it, it’s a product.

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Advice Management CAPEX Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Even my hometown can’t get our products right , Cameron thought as he chased Graham over to the playground. The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships. “Higher! .” “Good idea. Not with all the potential.”

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Case Study Business Model CFO Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

That shift has created an increasingly commoditized product and service environment. Digital has removed barriers across sectors, even in old-line businesses known for “sticky” products, such as telecom and insurance. That’s a major missed opportunity according to Ian Ewart, Head of Products, Services & Marketing at Coutts. “I

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11