Lead Change Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

Let’s consider James, the COO of a mid-size production company that was impacted by the pandemic. As COVID-19 numbers began to climb up in the United States in early March, James contemplated with the other leaders the possibility of postponing their expansion projects. Case Study: Attention in Manufacturing.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 16, 2020

Soon, the company’s COO planned a meeting with Jeff and his team. The COO walked in. The COO broke the tension with one sentence: “I don’t care about the theft.” The COO said, “I only want to know that you plan to review the process and fix it. Jeff returned to his job with renewed energy.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 6, 2011

I was contacted by a COO of a mid-size manufacturing plant. The COO Nikhil recently promoted Jackson from Production Manager to General Manager of Production. The climate of the Executive Meeting was aggressive and often times the executives would become engaged in passionate discussions about the plants future and current projects.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

By Guest Author Jessica Garcia Dudek , COO Oxygen Learning. This also wasn’t a scalable model because he was trying to be involved in every project. Books Business Coaching Career Leadership Skills Women Work life coaching COO lead leadership mobile reference guide performing promote sports team team of people'

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Leading Blog

JULY 14, 2017

Since the Camino, I am more thoughtful when I start a new project to look for lessons from the past. He has 20+ years of experience in corporate and government leadership, including positions as COO of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, strategy consultant with Bain & Company, and marketing executive with Capital One.

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Roundtable Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Here’s what happened: I’ve been selected as one of 50 out of 400 coaches across north america to be part of this very cool, very high-profile but very top-secret leadership project. Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, gives a great TED talk on why we don’t have more female leaders. It’s definitely worth a view.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

APRIL 22, 2012

From a simple checklist, a spreadsheet, mind-mapping software, project management software, or software designed for goal tracking. Todd Nielsen has extensive leadership experience as a CEO, COO, President, & Vice-President of companies in the IT & Telecommunication industries. I use software called Goal Enforcer.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

He coached many others including Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, Dan Rosensweig, CEO of Chegg, John Hennessy, former President of Stanford University, and Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook. Peer relationships are critical and often overlooked, so seek opportunities to pair people up on projects or decisions. Pair People.

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Projects-With-Purpose: Bringing a Community Volunteer Program to Lif e Chatham and Geneca teams at work. Each project is completed within 48 hours, consisting of both personal and company release time. Our First Project. Last month, we learned about Geneca's journey into creating a culture of innovation within the company.

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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. So I asked, “I am sensing reservations of our time together lets discuss this.”

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HR Digest

AUGUST 2, 2020

Women gaining more power to lead, green-light projects, and innovate does not come at the expense of men. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg hit the bestseller list with this book in 2013. The president of the NYC Chapter of the National Organization of Women Sonia Ossorio, says this book is a must-read. by Sheryl Sandberg.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

To do so, we have created the Future Economy Project. COO, Instagram (Facebook, Inc.). According to the Risky Business Project , the cost of the damage done to property and infrastructure by storms along the U.S.’s And at Harvard Business Review, we want to lead a discussion about how to make that happen. Marc Benioff.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2019

Physical and mental healthcare the most important components for long term success at anything, especially the highly stressful project of building a successful business. Entrepreneurs also report being more likely to have “worried a lot” — 34% vs. 30%. About the Author.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

These people are very much the poor relations of the tech world however, recruited to projects via platforms such as Mechanical Turk or Appen, and often paid a pittance for their labor.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Marne Levine is the COO of Instagram (Facebook, Inc.). Learn about the future economy project. Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. This interview has been edited and condensed.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Look for projects and areas that can be improved. ← Fast Friday with Jody Thompson, co-founder ROWE Fast Friday with Jay Woo, COO, CAA South Central Ontario → Like Be the first to like this post. Jay, Merv and Andrea shared their lessons on how to lead when times are tough and when times are booming. Bookmark the permalink.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 23, 2018

I was hired by a multi-millionaire entrepreneur to be the COO of a 600,000 customer cable company. There was a string of failures in a big project I was involved with, and the “bossman”, with all those “boss” traits, took it out on me. I did that for 5 years, and then fate intervened. But this time, there was no success to cling to.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. 100 COACHES. Corporate CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

The family asked us to review the COO''s strategy for the business as part of its corporate governance process. The COO had proposed a new growth strategy, and the founder and his wife, in private, were wondering if the new COO was up to the job. After the discussion of about 15 projects, patterns began to emerge.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Wrote The Happiness Project & Happier at Home (both New York Times bestsellers). Project Manager at @courtinnovation. The Leaders'' Leader 2 142,000 65,600 280,924 Gretchen Rubin Personal Development Writing Better than Before, about how we make & break habits-really. Chief evangelist of Canva. https://www.canva.com/.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Meghna has been COO of a small market research company since she earned her MBA several years ago. Meghna made clear that her expertise is an excellent match for COO roles in startup businesses in many different industries struggling to compete with incumbents.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

Projections back then showed that after two years of solid investment, the venture would generate healthy profits in the third year. The problem was that it was the pet project of his chief operating officer, and everyone knew it. In this company, the COO had been there much longer than the CEO.

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Rajesh Setty

MAY 3, 2012

A better alternative would be to build a platform to be COO. COO that I am referring to here is “creating overwhelming obligations.” ” COO = Creating Overwhelming Obligations. A few are project examples are listed below: 1. Kickstarter | Creating a platform to bring many cool projects to life.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > We’ve found in our research that clarifying what collaboration is (and what it isn’t) and gaining firsthand experience with one or more collaborative projects is the only way to combat these common apprehensions. Contribute to someone else’s project. Collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Half are C-Suite level executives, meaning that they serve as CEO, CFO, COO or the board of directors at a company. These executives attribute participation in athletics to qualities like a commitment to bringing projects to completion and greater abilities in motivating others.

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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. As a project consultant with Northland Communications , keeping a connection with the cable/broadband industry.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Leadership Training Programs Impact The Organization As the President and COO of BetterManager , John Topping emphasized that leadership development brings wide-ranging benefits that positively impact the entire organization.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Finally, even large projects can be broken up into what a banking client of mine calls "human bites." Such projects may ultimately be significant in scale, but have been scoped into discrete units of delivery. As CIOs pitch new IT projects and their teams undertake delivery, cost and effort estimates can vary wildly. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Perhaps a customer pushed for a steeper discount than you wanted to give, or a potential client went with a competitor’s approach to a project. Sebastian Dupéré, the head of a Montreal-based steam cleaner company with sales in six countries, knew that his COO was one of his most valuable employees.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

The chief operating officer (COO) meets with direct reports during the week on the floor. If there has been a rash of medication reconciliation errors, for example, the COO will ask questions in a way to coach her subordinate to understand the problem more deeply.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

I repeatedly hear from young entrepreneurs that, as fund managers come in, they introduce too many controls for cash flows, income projections, budgeting, risk analysis, financial modeling – the list is endless. As AngelList COO Kevin Laws points out , “The business model exists to serve the mission, not the other way around.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Since then, using the Net and social networking technologies such as Twitter and Facebook, people in their 20s and 30s have been collecting and disseminating valuable data; collaborating with others they have never met; and creating rescue projects on the fly as well as garnering resources for them.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Unless it's what you want to do, there's no reason to dial back at work long before the baby comes, or to start planning for a diminished role, says Facebook COO Sandberg. Kate Cochran, the COO of Vittana, had a two-year-old when she decided to take a position with a startup nearly a decade before Sandberg's talk. "I

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

For example, employees wanted more transparency and say in project prioritization. Some point to politics in the C-Suite, especially to competition between the COO and CFO. If the COO launched a large, cross-functional improvement program, the CFO would underfund it. They blocked each other's progress.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

With its CEO preparing to retire with a mixed legacy, the board at first generated a list of fifteen things at which the new leader should excel, ranging from expanding into new markets, to driving a Six Sigma-based culture of operational excellence, to getting a major facility project back on track.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

That’s because as organizational structures become more fluid and reporting relationships become more project-based, the very notion of what constitutes a particular role within an organization is being rethought and revised more often.

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