Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The CFO update in particular was excellent – we learned how the company measured financial success, how to read a basic P&L, and what variable costs employees could help control in their jobs. I cut my teeth on corporate America there and have carried those lesson with me throughout my career.

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CFO P&L Call Center COO 58

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Many of the successful managers and professionals who come back to business school at mid-career are looking for more than honing their leadership skills. Many are stuck in their careers. Most of the “Harrises” I meet have great and large operational networks consisting of mostly internal contacts. Get visibility externally.

Career 8

Career P&L How To Mentor 8

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. Leaders who operate in this mode lose their peers in no time flat. Relationship building has resulted in greater effectiveness and personal satisfaction in my position and career.

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Bottom-up Short-term Executive Coaching Open-book 177

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team. Here are five: Commit from the Top.

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P&L Agility Fashion Media 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Formal degree programs excel at general education: an MBA, for instance, gives you a little bit of everything you might need as a leader, from finance to marketing to operations. In my first book, I profiled Joanne Chang , who started her career as a management consultant and ultimately became a prominent restaurateur. Learning.

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P&L Education Learning-by-Doing Finance 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

This video speaks to the culture that is prevalent in more workplaces than any of us would like to admit, workplaces that operate on the basis of positional power with an undercurrent of fear. And, over the course of my career, I have also occasionally done some of these things as well. I have seen them.

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Video P&L Blog Long-term 44

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Another well-known problem is that if you are a P&L leader in a publicly traded firm, you pay dearly for missing quarterly targets and don’t get dinged at all for failing to invest in the future. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. Directness. When the U.S.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

I look around and see that my male colleagues have P&L responsibility and most of us are in staff roles. In one manufacturing company, a task force learned that leaders tended to hire and promote people, mainly men, whose backgrounds and careers resembled their own. It would be easier, I was told.

Education 8

Education P&L Constraint Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

One CEO told me she was considering firing her CFO because he consistently ran his monthly financial report by the Operations VP before showing it to her and, as she realized, was letting the Operations VP unduly influence when revenues and expenses were recognized. Insiders tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty.

How To 8

How To CEO P&L Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Every manager has a P&L that he or she is responsible for," he says, "and while we don''t make sharing rooms a hard and fast rule, it''s our sense that when people have their own budgets and ownership for their profits, they''ll continue to operate that way.". It Can Be Good for Business.

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Hotels Conference Policies Travel 8