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? Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing. Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Christina Shi is the Chief Operating Officer at Nike, Inc. 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. I think people overestimate career risks. What options are you creating for yourself?”

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Power McKinsey Chief Operating Officer Career 205

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.” 2 Responses to Fast Friday with Jay Woo, COO, CAA South Central Ontario John Doe | January 4, 2011 at 3:05 PM | Funny stuff. The idea exchange is a huge internal joke.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Blog Godin 28

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Whereas most of the workers recruited via platforms such as Mechanical Turk operate as independent contractors, at Samasource, they are full-time employees with salaries and benefits. This means they have to go beyond insecure gig work and offer people the trappings traditionally associated with a career.

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Notice in the example I’ve provided below (which is organized by function) how the CEO has the COO promotion ready, and the COO has two possible candidates (both the CFO and the VP of Operations) and has chosen the VP of Operations. Many of the folks have hope of future possibilities and promotions.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Notice in the example I’ve provided below (which is organized by function) how the CEO has the COO promotion ready, and the COO has two possible candidates (both the CFO and the VP of Operations) and has chosen the VP of Operations. Many of the folks have hope of future possibilities and promotions.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 23, 2015

Victor Prince: As the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the U.S. Victor is co-author of Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide their Teams to Exceptional Results , (Career Press, July 2015) which is now available at Amazon.com , Barnes & Noble and other retailers.

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Team Micromanagement Chief Operating Officer COO 120

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

CEOs/COOs are looking at the wrong data…they look for trends while or after they happen, not searching for clues before they happen. The focus of these short-sighted bean counters incorrectly place cost savings ahead of the customer experience.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

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. Derek Murphy is President and COO of The Booth Company, an international provider of 360 assessments and online survey hosting solutions. It’s not a bad thing to admit you’re in a rut.

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Leadership Open-book COO Short-term 114

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

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. Derek Murphy is President and COO of The Booth Company, an international provider of 360 assessments and online survey hosting solutions. It’s not a bad thing to admit you’re in a rut.

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Leadership Open-book COO Short-term 109

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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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. I did that for 5 years, and then fate intervened. Now, I just needed an opportunity.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing COO Follow-up 181

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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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Stuart Oliver: Entrepreneur, Interim CIO, Technology COO, Strategist, » Blog Archive » To blog or not to blog [.] Mike Myatt from N2Growth has this interesting blog entitled “To blog or not to blog“ [.] link] Swiecki’s Blog » Tech-blog Carnival Edition 2 [.]

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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. Initiated contact with Director, staff, students, and faculty to minimize disruption of department’s operations. Meghna has been COO of a small market research company since she earned her MBA several years ago.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

And the most-successful managers must change similarly as they assume additional or different responsibilities through their careers, moving from head of sales to COO or from CFO to CEO. Complement this organization model with operational process. As we know, buggy whip makers and telegraph companies must evolve or die.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

That''s why Elizabeth started out one notch lower, with the office of the Chief Operating Officer, "because that secretary knows everybody," she says. Her goal wasn''t actually to score an interview with the COO, which was probably unlikely. Career planning Managing yourself'

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COO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate Welch 8

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. But in recent years, as I’ve become more involved in business development, client relationships, and managing the complexities of operating our company, I have had less time for researching new investment ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2017

In the early stages of his career he decided he had to speak up about malpractice he had witnessed. The Chief Operating Officer of one of the world’s biggest banks described the environment that fostered the culture that enabled the Libor and related scandals: “It all begins with the organization’s biggest lie.”

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Power Chief Operating Officer Politics COO 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

At age 41, I am where I want to be in my career: running my own sales-training business, with enough clients lined up that I can probably live comfortably for the next several years. And I’m teaching him what it takes to build and run a business — from finances to operations to projections. odla3D/Getty Images.

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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. Despite having a full plate of client projects, she signed up to work on a massive survey to understand the concerns of chief operating officers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

You actually get a bit disadvantaged if you''ve been in the same company or the same industry your whole career, as an HR person. Insiders are much more likely to replace the COO, for instance, while outsiders are more likely to replace the CFO. So they need to have the right person in that COO role.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg called the deck the most important document ever to come out of Silicon Valley. Leaders who successfully implement unlimited vacation policies operate in companies that are already high in trust. The slide deck itself was viewed over 11 million times, and newspapers around the globe picked it up.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Take these two tweets: “First full day as Twitter COO tomorrow. ” —Dick Costolo, the night before he joined Twitter as chief operations officer. Even if they laugh, will they really think the joke is funny? Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power.” “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The keynote speaker was Sheryl Sandberg, famous both for her role as Facebook COO and for her advice to girls and women to “ Lean In.”. If you can “connect people and cascade excellence,” better ways of operating have the best chance of taking hold. What does this have to do with scaling? What is in it for them?

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Mentor Advice COO Self-aware 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

When considering the promotion of a relatively junior executive to the position of CEO, boards can have the candidate tested and prepared by ensuring an appointment as president, CFO, or COO. Placing the candidate on a corporate board will help him or her gain experience interacting with directors.

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We operate in a business landscape driven by an obsession with youth. For instance, would a woman with spiky orange hair land a COO job? One former advertising executive and desperate-to-be-perceived-as-young contemporary of mine owns and operates a successful social networking consultancy. I should know. No and no.).

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COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Marne Levine is the COO of Instagram (Facebook, Inc.). When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. As we have seen with Facebook and many other global companies, business can drive change through their operations, supply chains, and partnerships.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

Career Transitions. Leaving a Stable Job to Create Your Dream Career. Here’s how he labels himself: “Start-Up Builder * Brand Strategist * Marketing Head” And below is how he summarizes his career accomplishments, clearly communicating what he’d bring to a new position. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

John Lees, the UK-based career strategist and author of How to Get a Job You Love , agrees that it’s important to do further “due diligence” on the company and its people to make sure it’s a place you want to work. “Ask if you are able to move into other functions and other roles as your career progresses.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

He was down the road in a new career a couple years later. I’ve seen it my whole career. A couple of weeks ago, there was this operations officer and I said to the COO, “You gotta fire this guy. You haven’t been appreciating people for the last 20 years of your career? So they no, they actually terminated him.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

He was down the road in a new career a couple years later. I’ve seen it my whole career. A couple of weeks ago, there was this operations officer and I said to the COO, “You gotta fire this guy. You haven’t been appreciating people for the last 20 years of your career? So they no, they actually terminated him.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

What follows is a short recap of some of the best bits from this year’s commencements, as related to business and career success. Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, speaking at City Colleges of Chicago. In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

As the boss, your goal is to have all your employees operating at their peak level of energy, efficiency, and motivation—which can be a challenge when it comes to leading a team comprised of introverts and extroverts. How do you manage these vastly different personalities and work preferences?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

These larger companies, once considered pinnacles of career opportunity, have become employers of last resort. At several financial services firms , for example, business units whose employees reported speaking up more had significantly better financial and operational results than others.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2016

But viewing reference checks as a formality is a mistake, according to Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job. His first call was to Jane’s former direct supervisor, the COO of her previous company.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

Although the brothers were effectively the CEO, COO, and CFO, they wouldn’t talk to one another for months after a fight, not even on business matters. voting versus non-voting shareholders), participation levels (owner-operators versus passive owners), gender, and generations (senior versus next). Careers and businesses ruined.

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