Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 11, 2025

Adam has spent much of his career in the education, arts and voluntary sectors. Since September 2024, he has been chief operating officer at Diversity Role Models, a charity that promotes acceptance of individual differences and aims to end bullying in schools. Hes also passionate about team development and empowerment.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. Be proactive.

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Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 137

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. In the global economy, can analytic practitioners be hugely successful in their careers while going unnoticed?

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

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.” A huge innovation that no other company has. A piece of simple advice, but it’s amazing how few senior leaders walk that talk. He makes up “success&# stories constantly.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Blog Advice 28

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm. To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. You and Your Team Series. Collaboration. Amy Jen Su. Celia de Anca and Salvador Aragón.

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Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. In her summary section, she highlighted accomplishments that show she can grow startups and alleviate their common pain points: Chief Operating Officer. Expand from U.S. into multiple global markets.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

As organizations run leaner and flatter, your ability to move up can stall much earlier in your career because, simply put, there’s no place to go. So what should you do when you reach that plateau and you’re only midway through your career? This is true whether you work for a corporation, nonprofit, or public agency.

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Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Finance Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.

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Compliance Chief Operating Officer Survey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Conscious movements provide Millennials with all three elements—to give back an issue they care deeply about, to connect with peers and to build their careers, all at the same time. A good example here is Lean In, a conscious movement launched by Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer.

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Chief Operating Officer Globalization Entrepreneur Power 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. Virtually every company we spoke to relied on nonprofit intermediaries to find candidates who had committed to training programs or apprenticeships in both hard and soft skills for the chance of stepping onto a career ladder.

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Organization Chief Operating Officer Education Software 8

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Telisa Yancy – Executive vice president and champion of customers, employees, growth, and innovation for American Family Insurance.

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Executive Coaching Human Resources CEO Magazine 70

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 5, 2025

Scaling up introduces complexities that require innovative approaches to meet employee expectations and maintain operational stability. Moreover, losing key employees can result in a loss of institutional knowledge and weaken the organization’s ability to innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to innovation in cities, people often think of building clusters and innovation districts to attract new businesses and shift policies to favor entrepreneurship. Innovation in this case, and many others, requires invention. City innovators have to move fast before it does. But that took time.

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Bureaucracy Banking Chief Operating Officer Policies 8