Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

A radiotelephone operator (RTO) carried the 20-pound radio and talked on the field commander’s behalf—the reason: enemy snipers looked for signs to identify the leader as their first target. A great leader knew to only employ as much leadership as was needed to influence the outcome. Here are three keys to naked leadership.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

In addition, you’ll get a hands-on taste of the natural world with experiential learning opportunities such as the Southeastern Oklahoma State University program that tests students’ data-driven leadership. In addition, you’ll explore different types of leadership styles to find the one that works for you.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

However, four main steps are proven to be effective: Step 1: Leadership alignment. Step 4: Operations alignment. Failed transformations represent a considerable setback and widen the gap between a business and its customers. Step 2: Culture alignment. Step 3: Strategy alignment. And why is that?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2022

Janet Dell is President and COO of Freeman, where she leads all Freeman business operations across the globe. She is a dynamic and empathetic leader who has succeeded by putting people first in the process of transformational leadership. Her dual-role leadership made a tremendous impact on strategy and performance.

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Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 2, 2020

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. From a list of 13 leadership competencies for leading the function, here are the Top 5 that emerged: Executive communication.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 21, 2011

Robert Herbold, former COO of Microsoft, says that lack of courage is what destroys companies. In example after example, what is holding companies back is consistent, courageous leadership. I think we are seeing too much of this core issue and what we end up with is operational complexity and lack of innovation and forward momentum.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2019

There’s an opportunity for leadership in that experience that is generally overlooked. It’s a generally accepted leadership competency, working with individual team members, one-on-one. To that now familiar leadership style it’s time to add team leader as team coach: the ability to work with the team as a whole.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2011

With such a diverse clientele, employees cannot simply operate by choosing from a limited number of preselected solutions to guest requests. That’s real leadership.” This requires trust at all levels and a different view of real leadership, says Kurtzman. Kurtzman notes, “Leadership is not coaching.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 5, 2021

His wide-ranging experience—as a Navy SEAL, a White House Fellow, Chief of Staff and COO at Bridgewater Associates, and Head of Strategic Operations at Cognizant Technologies, among other roles—made his insights even richer. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 23, 2018

Leadership is one of my life’s great passions – and I’m pleased to share with you my journey (in three parts in 3 weeks) to what I consider to be the heart of great More Human leadership – the success trifecta. Along the way I learned SO many things about leadership, because I had the honor of actually DOING it.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. This will be centered upon skill(s) based development and co-creation of a shared structure for discussions at a leadership level.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

To read more success stories check out Team Building Stories and the Exponent Leadership Stories. Team Building & Leadership Success Stories. Developing a leadership training program and increased trust in the competence of leadership. The process ended with the creation of an internal Director Leadership Program.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Meeting with frontline employees helped inspire the Scripps Leadership Academy, a year-long program for 25 managers at a time. It begins with a Q&A with Van Gorder, and promotes discussion and understanding throughout the leadership ranks. Leadership Tip: Hold open, no-holds-barred feedback sessions with your team.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

First off – strive to change your leadership mindset. Recognizing that we can choose whether or not to engage in certain behaviors is the first step toward changing your leadership mindset. Derek Murphy is President and COO of The Booth Company, an international provider of 360 assessments and online survey hosting solutions.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

First off – strive to change your leadership mindset. Recognizing that we can choose whether or not to engage in certain behaviors is the first step toward changing your leadership mindset. Derek Murphy is President and COO of The Booth Company, an international provider of 360 assessments and online survey hosting solutions.

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. Communication/Leadership Style. These charts tell you where employees currently are, but not where they’ve been or where they’re going next. Potential Successors.

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. Knowing the communication/leadership style of your coworkers can help you better utilize their skills and contextualize their input. 4.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Jay Woo , CAA South Central Ontario’s Chief Operating Officer offered up this piece of advice: “Stay connected to your front line.” Share this: This entry was posted in Communication and tagged best leadership advice , Jay Woo , leadership lessons , PowerRoundtable. Bookmark the permalink. "Cool" is a moving target.

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Scott Mabry

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Recovering the joy of leadership. That first official leadership role. The only preparation I had for my first day at work was powering through a timeless classic in leadership literature titled, “25 Ways to Avoid Being a Terrible Manager”. Do you remember your first or best leadership experiences? The excitement.

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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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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Meeting with frontline employees helped inspire the Scripps Leadership Academy, a year-long program for 25 managers at a time. It begins with a Q&A with Van Gorder, and promotes discussion and understanding throughout the leadership ranks. Leadership Tip: Hold open, no-holds-barred feedback sessions with your team.

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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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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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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 23, 2015

Victor Prince: As the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the U.S. Today, Victor is a consultant and speaker who teaches strategy and leadership skills to clients around the world. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Victor Prince helped build a new federal agency and led a division of hundreds of people.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

You engage your employees through leadership, coaching and training. The focus of these short-sighted bean counters incorrectly place cost savings ahead of the customer experience. In short, most CRM practitioners have traditionally assumed an internal (inside-out), operationally centric approach to customer management and strategy.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Vincent Chee: I am working with our COO Roni Gross and Director Naomi Hung to determine Bevel’s timeline within 6-months, 1 year and 2 years. We have shown that we can operate remotely and have sensitivity to that as a firm. The HR Digest: What are some short- and long-term goals for your position with Bevel?

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CO2

JULY 25, 2011

Gary Carter, COO of the company that produces “American Idol,&# says that producers who break the rules do so at their own peril. Gary Carter Bio: Gary Carter is chief operating officer of FremantleMedia, one of the largest international creators and producers of entertainment brands in the world, including “American Idol.”

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Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I also truly appreciated some of the business practices that leadership followed that I have missed in other organizations, including ones highlighted in McCord’s book. At this meeting, employees heard from the CEO, CHRO, General Counsel, COO, CFO, CMO, and any business leaders spearheading a major initiative.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

” Stephens joined Marco’s Pizza in 2004 when it was a successful but regional chain operating 110 stores in three states. Now, he’s the president and chief operating officer for Marco’s (and was featured earlier this year on CBS’ Undercover Boss ). Clearly, his leadership by example had paid off.

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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 [.]

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 13, 2017

After all, I had earned it, having just finished a 28 year run as a CPA, cable company VP of Operations, football stadium project manager, VP of Development for another cable company, and finally, a cable company SVP of Operations. They kept the “fire in my belly” every single day I stepped into the leadership arena.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

The concept of "two-in-a-box" leadership has been examined extensively over the past few years. One of the most thorough discussions is in the HBR article The Leadership Team: Complementary Strengths or Conflicting Agendas. We create leadership teams not only for our top jobs, but for every management position in the company.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

This 20 th century system essentially has leadership establishing objectives for managers to achieve. For example the principle of “respect for people” means leadership respects caregivers enough to develop a system in which caregivers have control to change processes without management involvement.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

I just took my company through an acquisition and found that even the smallest operational change can have a significant negative impact on both employees and customers. Maintaining quality customer experience, we found, requires a mix of expert individuals and operational processes. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

That founder himself booted from the CEO role later on by VCs, only to watch the company’s initial CEO return to the day-to-day operations alongside yet another chief executive, who joined well after the founding. And it’s a far cry, he asserts, from the version that the company and its current leadership have repeated to the press.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

The problem was that it was the pet project of his chief operating officer, and everyone knew it. The COO's argument, year after unprofitable year, was "Oh, give us another twelve months and we'll be in the black.". In this company, the COO had been there much longer than the CEO.

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