Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. Drawing on her twenty-year career as an advisor to the C-Suite, Davey shares real-world examples and practical tools you and your team can use to handle even the most contentious conflicts as allies?instead Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 18, 2016

What is size of P&L I should run? I’m not saying you need to be an expert in all areas — although you should have leveraged each one during your career. If you’ve been a doer (worker-bee) during your career , you need to ramp up your interpersonal communication skills. Speaking engagements?

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Because of negative stereotypes, several research studies have shown that older workers receive lower ratings in job applications, performance appraisals, and access to career development activities. Today 55 percent of the U.S. workforce is 40 or older. But is there any empirical support for the relationship between age and job attitudes?

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

” –Franklin P. N A T I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R. . “The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.” ” –Wole Soyinka. “Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.” ” –Paula Abdul.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) still matters as does the P&L (profit and loss statement) and the deadline for 2021 projections (who can imagine?!) Targets and goals that were adjusted now loom large as year-end approaches. is just around the corner.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 29, 2017

"When they get to own a P&L or become the CEO, in many cases executives are rusty at strategy or have never even been given a set of tools to set strategy," says management consultant Tim Lewko.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 5, 2019

By Michael Lee Stallard and Katharine P. To begin to appreciate the emotional demands people in healthcare routinely face, read this eloquent article by oncologist Dr. Martee L. It is customary for your doctor to ask you how you are doing when he or she enters the exam room. We’ve come to expect it. A Heavy Load.

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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. Relationship building has resulted in greater effectiveness and personal satisfaction in my position and career. My answer was simple, “Because I like the results.&#

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. It is a must-have for every HR and L&D pros’ library and toolkit. ” 10.

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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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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

And, over the course of my career, I have also occasionally done some of these things as well. Maybe it isn’t tangible like a chair or a P&L Statement, but it is most certainly observable and most definitely impacts performance. They are disturbing to me because I recognize them. I have seen them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Knowing and communicating your career goals is challenging for even the most ambitious and focused person. In today's work world, careers take numerous twists and turns and the future is often murky. You have to clarify for yourself what you aspire to do with your career before you can communicate it confidently to others.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Selling needs to be a part of every woman's career tool kit. After all, sales experience feeds the types of line jobs — where individuals have P&L accountability — that are a pipeline to the C-suite. When we hear a woman say that sales is outside of her job description, we always beg to differ.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

These lower-income shoppers think like savvy CFOs and are willing to pay more for categories that provide a usage benefit as well as a variety of economic benefits for their own "household P&L.". Lower income shoppers are also willing to pay more for categories that they see as an investment in their careers and future income.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In others, they lack the critical experiences or skills required to take the next step, such as an international assignment, high-risk project, or major P&L responsibility. But we also found that these traits are not synonymous with proactive career management. And they need to do so early in their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Women are expected and asked to do thankless tasks — order lunch, handle less-valued clients — more than men, and research shows that doing those tasks slows down our career advancement and makes us unhappy at work. Kolb and Jessica L. Guests: Lise Vesterlund and Ruchika Tulshyan. Could you take notes?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

I've written about the rising significance of soft skills, including in the March 2011 issue of HBR (coauthored with Kevin L. The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources. And for many people they're harder to learn.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2018

With it, we articulate our M ission, the constituencies we S erve, the P lays we’re going to run this year, the plays we are going to O mit, and how we will T rack our progress. The single best tool I have found to help unlearn the yes-man ways of a startup CEO is a single-page document we call our MSPOT.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

As a result of this shift, career paths today are less geared towards filling the few remaining general management positions, and instead focus on functional specialization. As one of my clients advises his mentees, " Declare a major and stay with it."

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L. ” To test our idea that board service would help advance the careers of executives, we created a sample of roughly 2,140 top executives in S&P 1500 firms from 1996-2012. Reed has also said that sitting on the board of another company is “ better than an M.B.A.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

He was comfortable making smart bets to position IBM for decades-long growth, such as creating the Emerging Business Organization to incubate new businesses and shield them from P&L pressures. As he concludes his career, he leaves his successor, Virginia Rometty, with an iconic giant poised to dominate its industry for decades to come.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

We talked to 24 current and former not-white-male CEOs , who spoke candidly about what they faced as they built their careers and how they developed inclusive organizations. And we''ve got advice about how to sell your ideas to women , in a world where there are growing numbers of women with P&L power.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

David is a VP who is accountable for a multi-billion dollar P & L business. She's reminded me that each new job is bigger and more demanding so it will be critical to continue to get better and better about managing my time and calendar as I develop throughout my career.". But changing those norms isn't easy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Rather than helping individuals recognize what key career experience they have (or lack), they accept fees for polishing resumes, promoting the use of buzzwords, and emboldening people without sufficient qualifications to believe they are ready for board positions.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

The answer turns out to be far more nuanced than mere wealth accumulation and career advancement. One said that some candidates look for “a genuine culture of care, which often comes across in the interview process”; a sign of such a culture is the “understanding that spouse and children have a place in a career.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2011

To generate ideas, run electric current through your brain: Research subjects who received electrical stimulation of the anterior temporal lobes of the brain were 3 times more likely to come up with the fresh insight needed to solve a difficult, unfamiliar problem than people in a control group, according to Richard P. Chi and Allan W.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

Some people’s careers take off, while others’ take longer — or even stall out. They do it by making bold career moves over the course of their career that catapult them to the top. We found that three types of career catapults were most common among the sprinters. John Holcroft/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Do you really need to learn everything about corporate finance — or do you just need some accounting basics to help you get a better grasp on reading a P&L? 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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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.". Cutting costs Human resources Organizational culture'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Who has P&L authority? And since people ultimately make all the difference, your operating model should define how you manage the assignments and career paths for your difference-making talent. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day. It includes accountabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

In my experience, a low intolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty derails more executive careers than a lack of technical competence. The five traits that emerged from my CEO interviews were found in both men and women, and in executives with P&L responsibilities and those with functional responsibilities.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

L-R): Anthony Horton, Chris McCarthy, Stephanie Neal In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a startling confession: the architect of ChatGPT, a revolutionary language model capable of holding nuanced conversations and generating creative text formats, often struggles to sleep.

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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. Career planning Managing yourself' They’re looking for direction and support for the changes they long to make in the near future.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

With the Boomer generation staying in the workforce longer due to declining retirement savings and increasing cost-of-living expenses, organizations are not only having to deal with three different generations of employees working together, but also the impact of a slowdown in the rate of upward career movement for younger workers.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 18, 2020

This is something I have encountered on numerous occasions in my career as an innovator. This characteristic – the ability to be surprised – is something that the innovator should strive to maintain throughout his or her career. According to the Epic , Gilgamesh is told by the gods that “[l]ife, which you look for, you will never find.

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