HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Why are leadership training programs the need of the hour for transitioning managers? If you were looking for a sign that leadership training and development opportunities are highly beneficial for your organization, you have impinged at the right juncture.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

His organization had been struggling for four years with an initiative to expand into a middle market, where the customer base was attractive but much smaller than the company's traditional one. Projections back then showed that after two years of solid investment, the venture would generate healthy profits in the third year.

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COO Chief Operating Officer CEO Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

“You get more done and you advance the projects you care about and are responsible for,” which means “you’re more likely to be noticed, get promoted, and receive raises.” Take steps to develop expertise by attending conferences or taking on a leadership role in a professional organization.

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Influence How To Case Study Short-term 20

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Our president also now handles the negotiations with our IT providers, and our COO fully manages the compliance process and the preparation for marketing presentations. In addition to the media, I have taken on a project to generate awareness of our firm as majority-owned by women partners.

CEO 9

CEO Organization Chief Operating Officer Media 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline. Market share, cost reductions, and profit margins of new businesses are examples of impact metrics. Number of projects in the innovation pipeline. stage to the next. Alignment can take a while.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The board’s challenge is to decide what deficits it can live with (usually because they can be compensated for by the rest of the leadership team), and which two or three criteria are non-negotiable must-haves. This process is usually enhanced with the departing CEO’s involvement, as long as the board shows leadership.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

” Yet business leaders who took the CHRO role, including Quinn, report it is the most impactful role in their career, and many would not accept an organizational leadership position that didn’t come with the CHRO role. The live event could have failed in many ways; the safe thing to do would have been to back off the project.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

In the next round they were asked what to do next: Should they switch R&D projects in midstream, or pour more money into the original strategy? Her perceptive interpretation of this behavior was that, while an action that prevents problems goes mostly unnoticed, pulling a flailing project from the fire garners plenty of attention and rewards.

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COO Collins Strategy PR 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Consider Staples, the office-supplies retailer, which had tumbled from being the market leader to being a third of the new leader’s size by 1992. Wilson went on to be COO of The Gap Inc. the danger that the newcomer will clash for political or personality reasons with members of the leadership team).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

They''re people like Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook COO and author of Lean In ), who is advocating a big new idea from within an organization. Al Gore created the Climate Reality Project Leadership Corps to bring his ideas about environmental sustainability to people around the world. Career planning Entrepreneurship Leadership'

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Entrepreneur Career Merchandising Collins 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The board’s challenge is to decide what deficits it can live with (usually because they can be compensated for by the rest of the leadership team), and which two or three criteria are non-negotiable must-haves. This process is usually enhanced with the departing CEO’s involvement, as long as the board shows leadership.

CEO 8

CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As a VP of sales and marketing for Becker-Birnbaum International, a global consumer products company, Aliyah knew she needed a talented marketing director to support her division’s portfolio of 34 products. As the COO made another well-deserved toast to Anne, Aliyah thought back to her interviews with Ed and Molly.

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Case Study White Paper Analysis Brand Management 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

and the open market­ (Does a person doing this job in another company get similar pay?). “Just because someone’s killed themselves on a special project doesn’t mean they deserve more. “In a leadership position, you’re always going to have to deal with people’s disappointment.”

How To 8

How To COO Report Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

It can be disheartening and demoralizing when your boss tells you things he shouldn’t, says Annie McKee, founder of the Teleos Leadership Institute and a coauthor, with Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis, of Primal Leadership. Case Study #2: Stay positive, and offer a new perspective on circumstances.

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How To COO Due Diligence Katz 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Erkan Malas was FDM Turkey’s COO, and from the start he had chafed at Sena’s appointment and approach. “The projections look mostly good, as we expected,” Ahmet said. “The market research from Capital is promising. “True, but he might have a point on this one, Sena. . ” Hard to Keep Up.

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Case Study CEO Banking Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

“Is it market factors? ” Try to “project forward,” he says. Brad also “had a rich, strategic conversation” with the COO. .” Then “just chat. Ask, ‘What are you working on at the moment? What are you hoping to achieve? And what gets in the way?’” The economy?

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How To Incubator Due Diligence Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

“One, you have to replace the talent, and in a time of tight labor markets, that’s a very hard—and very expensive—endeavor,” explains John Sullivan, an HR expert, professor of management at San Francisco State University, and author of 1000 Ways to Recruit Top Talent. What the Experts Say.

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Case Study Learning-by-Doing Team Long-term 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

JANUARY 4, 2017

I’ve recently been thinking about this with regard to how leaders can be more strategic, able to effectively execute the core of their business while remaining open to trends in the market and adapting to meet them. Markets demand that companies and people adapt and change constantly.

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Agility Balanced Scorecard COO CFO 15

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.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

We conducted a 10-year study, which we call the CEO Genome Project , in which we assembled a data set of more than 17,000 C-suite executive assessments and studied 2,600 in-depth to analyze who gets to the top and how. Within nine years, after a stint as COO, he landed his first CEO role. Messy situations cry out for strong leadership.

CEO 8

CEO CFO P&L Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

More than half of the vital perspectives we heard expressing dire concerns about company practices, leadership behavior, confusion over strategy, resentment over unfairness, or fear about the future had never been voiced to leaders who had the power to act upon them. Corporate executives spent months trying to nail down a new market strategy.

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