Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 11, 2025

He shares how becoming Chartered helped him develop his approach to leadership. Adam has spent much of his career in the education, arts and voluntary sectors. Blog This is a space for people to stay up-to-date with all the latest knowledge, opinions and commentary on management and leadership topics from some industry leaders.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The Key to Business and Career Success. It takes effective leadership with the right tone at the top and leaders who will nurture the right culture to build the organization needed to become the preferred provider to your markets. “Trust among the leadership team is paramount to the success of their organizations.”

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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Your Voice of Encouragement

MARCH 24, 2014

She peels back the curtain on what goes on in women’s heads and in organizations to prevent women from advancing their careers and taking on more leadership positions. She’s been the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook since 2008, and before that was with Google during its start-up years.

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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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Chartered Management Institute

JULY 5, 2024

After a career working in multinationals as a programme manager, Denis Lindsay’s dad offered him this provocation that would change the course of his career. Without CMI, Denis says his career would have turned out very differently. But his father wasn’t the only influence.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 12, 2020

Former Chief Operating Officer of Pinterest, Françoise Brougher, has filed a lawsuit against the company alleging gender discrimination and wrongful termination. Pinterest is aimed at women, and according to the latest statistics from the company, it has 400 million active monthly users, mostly women.

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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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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 ). ” Raise others up.

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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. Happy leading! Bookmark the permalink.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

” Famously, in 2013, Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and a billionaire, published a book in which her advice for working women was to tell them to “lean in.” In achievement-oriented domains, women rate themselves no lower than their male counterparts in leadership-related dimensions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. 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. Collaboration is not a style.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Even though self-awareness — knowing who we are and how we’re seen — is important for job performance , career success , and leadership effectiveness , it’s in remarkably short supply in today’s workplace. Sven Krobot/EyeEm/Getty Images. Here, power differentials are a factor.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

I had taken one step toward this two years ago, when I named one partner president and another chief operating officer. What should other CEOs of small-to-medium companies consider, as they move toward the next stage of their careers? While five years might seem like too long a runway, it rushes by very quickly.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Cultivating compassion for these kinds of colleagues, however trying they may be, is a good place to start, according to Rich Fernandez, the CEO of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute. ” Over her long career, her empathetic ways have been put to the test. Here are some pointers. Reflect. . We could work together.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Yet, we find, individuals with disabilities frequently encounter workplace discrimination, bias, exclusion, and career plateaus—meaning their employers lose out on enormous innovation and talent potential. But teaching managers to display inclusive leadership behaviors is just the first step.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 25, 2017

As she grasped for answers, Facebook’s chief operating officer reached out to a business school professor. After her husband died suddenly, Sheryl Sandberg grieved, as anyone would. What she did next was a little more unusual, and very much in the Silicon Valley spirit of problem-solving.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Then Ayse asked us to describe what made us think of them as heroes.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The new book is about how to create a great personal board of directors or tribe, along with all the norms, practices, and feedback mechanisms to support your leadership (and life). They gave me the encouragement to go back to Medtronic, where I had turned down three times the opportunity to become president and chief operating officer.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 5, 2025

Scaling up introduces complexities that require innovative approaches to meet employee expectations and maintain operational stability. Leadership plays a crucial role in fostering an environment where employees feel valued, engaged, and motivated to contribute to the company’s success.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 23, 2013

A growing body of evidence shows that the ability to be smarter with ones feelings is tied to improved leadership, effectiveness, relationships, decision-making health and well-being; all of which help higher emotional intelligence (EQ) leaders create greater economic and societal value. “EQ John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership.

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