Leading Blog

MARCH 21, 2011

Robert Herbold, former COO of Microsoft, says that lack of courage is what destroys companies. Management that doesn’t confront problems and make the necessary tough decisions to change, typically ends up with a culture focused on pride in the past and the protection of old procedures. In What’s Holding You Back?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

I interviewed the co-founder and COO of BlogHer.com , Elisa Camahort Page. Elisa was kind enough to share a lot of great tips to help bloggers leverage BlogHer.com to promote their blogs, learn and grow. Take a look when you have a few minutes.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 8, 2018

Back in 1987, when I was hired by Jack Kent Cooke at the ripe young age of 27 to be the COO of a cable TV company, he wasted very little time to initiate me into the world of executive management. Over my career I figured out that too much complexity in an organization, and too much data, can hamper the doers.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 11, 2025

Blog: As a manager, I want my team to flourish Written by Caroline Roberts Friday 11 April 2025 Share Share to LinkedIn Share to Facebook Share via email Adam Werlinger CMgr MCMI, our Chartered Manager of the Week, first encountered CMI via the governments Help to Grow scheme. He said he wanted to become a COO.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Middle Manager: The traditional hierarchical management structure is giving way to more agile, decentralized models. Advances in communication technology and the growing emphasis on employee empowerment are reducing the need for middle management roles. These changes are evolving the traditional role of the COO.

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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. Leaders need to love to solve problems driven by this curiosity.

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Leading Blog

JULY 14, 2017

While I was walking the Camino, I thought a lot about my career and the leadership lessons I had learned. That book, Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide their Teams to Exceptional Results (Career Press), was named a Top 20 Leadership Book of 2016. I decided to write a book about those insights.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

and when you look into her progress and career path she brings a whole new meaning to the company slogan of “just do it”. Through her career, Christiana has taken a lot of risks. She started as a management consultant working for McKinsey & Co. I think people overestimate career risks.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

have met many interesting people this way, including the COO of McDonald’s, the. engineers, pilots, sales managers, marketers, teachers, and bankers. Society for Human Resource Managers have established standards and certification. prime minister of agriculture for Thailand, and Patch Adams, the physician who. I have met.

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CEO Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

I like to know more about your career change. Regardless of how great your leader (or CEO or COO) is, I find that the message is misinterpreted between the Execs and senior Managers. Ive authored a Time Leadership Audio CD, book and eBook ; "How to use the Secrets of Leadership for Time Management".email Happy holidays.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Do Leadership Books Really Help Advance Your Life and Career? Even if you manage to find what appears to be solid leadership advice, does it actually help you advance your career and become a better leader? shares the secrets to how executives and managers can become the leaders their company needs.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 29, 2015

I had a lot to learn, since he had plucked me from the accounting ranks to be the COO of a cable company at the ripe young age of 27. What was amazing at the time was how little I really knew about leadership.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Upon graduation, gaining a comprehensive understanding of the business environment will open up many career options and increase your earning potential. In addition to entrepreneurship-specific careers, you may find jobs as research and development specialists, general managers, and sales representatives.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% found that the number of women in top executives positions in Canada has fallen over the past year from 37 women in the highest-paying executive jobs in 2006 to just 31 in 2007. which is down 4% from 30% in the prior year.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 23, 2015

Like smart investment managers, smart people managers figure out how to shift their investment of time and energy from some parts of their portfolio so they can invest more in other parts where there is more potential for improvement. Some leaders shy away from managing their Passengers because it is uncomfortable.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

It happens to us all whether we are presidents, students, managers, baseball players, or stay-at-home parents. However, it can become detrimental to your career if you don’t take action to dig yourself out of it, and make some sort of change. It’s not a bad thing to admit you’re in a rut.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 2, 2020

Who better than these two to give advice on how to move forward in a men’s world as they draw upon their experience in the male-dominated Marines, making it one of the best books for new female managers in male-dominated office spaces. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg hit the bestseller list with this book in 2013. by Sheryl Sandberg.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

It happens to us all whether we are presidents, students, managers, baseball players, or stay-at-home parents. However, it can become detrimental to your career if you don’t take action to dig yourself out of it, and make some sort of change. It’s not a bad thing to admit you’re in a rut. Just remember, it really is all in your head.

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Roundtable Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, gives a great TED talk on why we don’t have more female leaders. Filed under: Career Management , Leadership Tagged: Career Management , COO Facebook , Sheryl Sandberg , Why there aren't more women leaders , women in leadership. It’s definitely worth a view.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The more mature you get, the better you get at managing ego.” “In Management is not a science, it is an art.” Challenge will be to manage them!” When technology, access, information and how consumers buy changes, so must management.” Time for a re-boot on how we manage and think about business.” Ctrl.Alt.Del.

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The Idolbuster

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I’m happy with how things have turned out, but sometimes I wonder if I should have been more like Sheryl Sandberg, COO at Facebook, who used to hide her 5:30 departure to take care of the kids. Successful Upward Management: The matter of fact way that I did not answer emails in the evening. It pissed him off, and rightly so.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Senior management reviews the ideas and responds to questions raised. By staying connected to the front-line (not just your management direct reports), you get the unfiltered information, perspectives and insights directly … rather than through the layers of the management rinse cycle. Happy leading!

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 23, 2018

I started my career as a certified public accountant –because it was the fastest way to a professional paycheck. I was hired by a multi-millionaire entrepreneur to be the COO of a 600,000 customer cable company. Manages to an end, not a cause. I used to tell my managers that we weren’t paid by the word. Is a disabler.

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The perceived need to learn something new is inversely proportional to the rank of a manager. Be sure to take into account if the employee has had to switch roles multiple times, though, or make huge changes in order to accommodate different managers’ expectations. That’s really short-sighted. What story does your org chart tell?

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2010

for themselves, their organizations, their careers, their lives. I am a healthcare system COO and yoga teacher, and teach two classes a week for the employees at our organization. Taking care of the physical body, mind, the spirit is what I often look for when someone indicates they want to affect some real change.

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Seeing these connections and implications may remind you of the need to be an active learner as a leader (not a finished product). “The perceived need to learn something new is inversely proportional to the rank of a manager. These situations can stifle typical developmental-progress trajectories. That’s really short-sighted.

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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? That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

. “We take people who have not been involved in the formal economy and provide them with the appropriate training and move them into full-time and formal work,” Wendy Gonzalez, Samasource’s President and COO told me recently. As such employees often have career opportunities within the company.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

” CNN wrote, “SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell described the ‘No A **e’ policy in a commencement address last year, saying, ‘These kinds of people — a s — interrupt others; they shut down or co-opt conversation; and they create a hostile environment where no one wants to contribute.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Share this: This entry was posted in Change Management , Crisis Management , Leadership , results , Stress and tagged Andrea Garson , Jay Woo , leadership lessons , managing in successful times , managing in tough times , Merv Hillier. Bookmark the permalink.

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Roundtable Talk

JANUARY 2, 2011

1 Undercover Boss has WM COO Larry O’Donnell shovelling *bleep* February 2010 2 comments 2 Is Your Boss a Psychopath? ← Second Cup ex-CEO leaves a bitter taste Captain Owen Honors: no honour in this career debacle → Like Be the first to like this post. Bookmark the permalink.

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2024

In an exclusive Q&A session with Paige Ross, Global Head of Human Resources at Blackstone, we gain profound insights into the world of talent management and employee development within one of the world’s leading financial institutions. In this role she oversees human resource management globally for the firm.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 27, 2023

As with much in life, the researchers believe that a problem shared is a problem halved, and having a discussion about work-life balance with employees can help managers get more out of their team because they can co-create solutions to the inevitable challenges that are presented during this unprecedented time.

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Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

At this meeting, employees heard from the CEO, CHRO, General Counsel, COO, CFO, CMO, and any business leaders spearheading a major initiative. I cut my teeth on corporate America there and have carried those lesson with me throughout my career.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2016

By limiting the time, you increase your productivity, maximize efficiency, and implement a more highly profitable system of time management. The day has come to elevate your meetings and your role in them, and to use meetings as a tool to take your company and your career to the next level. Consider a Retreat. About the Author.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

For Stephens, though, love is not an abstraction–it’s the underlying motivation for everything he does as president and COO. His career took off partly because of his hard work, but also because others believed in him and gave him a chance. And it’s what drives his success and keeps him motivated when times get tough.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2024

CEOs and COOs may be well-placed to steer the business where the money is, but they’ll only find the company breaking down when the wheels fall off halfway towards their goals. Suppose they are looking for an opportunity to switch to another team to advance their careers, again. What project have you enjoyed most at the company?

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