HR Digest

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In his previous position, Boatwright had reported to the CEO directly about the specifics of managing the 125,000 employees and 3,600 restaurants. Prior to taking on his COO role at Chipotle, Boatwright spent 18 years at Arby’s Restaurant Group in various leadership positions.

Positioning 52

Positioning COO Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer 52

Strategy Driven

APRIL 10, 2020

So after spending much of my 20s working in finance and real estate, and then going to business school, the right opportunity sat in front of me. So I set out to hire a COO who could. years, I have been a stakeholder in the success of our product management, not the leader. Real estate, 2. Marketing, and 3. Over the past 3.5

Real Estate 85

Real Estate Productivity Products Company 85

Skip Prichard

JUNE 16, 2020

Maya Hu-Chan is a management consultant, executive coach, author, and speaker, and founder of Global Leadership Associates. More important, even if you managed to get all the spilled water on the ground back into the glass, at that point would you still want to drink it? Linda is a manager at a software company. Me neither.

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COO Self-aware How To Long-term 113

Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g., which is down 4% from 30% in the prior year.

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Press Release Discount PR Directory 113

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

In addition to entrepreneurship-specific careers, you may find jobs as research and development specialists, general managers, and sales representatives. You’ll learn about critical topics, including financial management, marketing, and business planning.

Supply Chain 106

Supply Chain Entrepreneur COO Career 106

Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 2, 2020

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. They run business units and geographic regions.

Self-aware 83

Self-aware Leadership COO Influence 83

Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2019

5) Time-Management: You should have an awareness of time, value, and desired results when planning meetings, events, or activities. Your time management is crucial to productivity and successful decision making. As you better manage your time, you will be more aware of your own productivity and results you are generating.

Entrepreneur 67

Entrepreneur Productivity Products Long-term 67

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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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 15

Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2019

Christopher Grey is the co-founder and COO of CapLinked , and enterprise software company offering an information control and risk mitigation platform for the sharing of confidential or sensitive documents and communications outside of the enterprise.

Self-aware 57

Self-aware Entrepreneur COO Banking 57

HR Digest

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Vincent Chee: I am working with our COO Roni Gross and Director Naomi Hung to determine Bevel’s timeline within 6-months, 1 year and 2 years. We have managed to identify strong potential in young professionals across a variety of diverse professional backgrounds. .

Diversity 52

Diversity PR Long-term Short-term 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

CEO/COO teams or "Office of the President" arrangements can offer great strengths, but may also introduce some sizeable risks, as Stephen A. We create leadership teams not only for our top jobs, but for every management position in the company. Instead, we were adding managers and creating intentional redundancies.

Team 19

Team Leadership COO Software 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

So here’s how she made sure her résumé attracted the attention of hiring managers when she started applying for chief administrative officer (CAO) positions. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance. Manage and evaluate performance of work-study students and graduate assistants.

COO 15

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

Supply Chain 17

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

In many cases, integration efforts can take up so much time, energy, and attention that managers and employees are distracted from their day-to-day roles. All too often, poorly managed systems migrations — or uncoordinated actions — can lead to miscommunications with customers. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

Operations 13

Operations Brand Ryan COO 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward. increased by over $300,000.

Execution 13

Execution P&L CEO COO 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business. Rebuilding the entire crew while flying the plane is never easy, especially at the altitude Uber has achieved and its desired rate of speed.

CEO 14

CEO Energy IPO COO 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Williams, who previously had sold Blogger to Google, later took the reins and managed the company for two to three years. Sure enough, the company’s growth soon warranted yet another shift, and the board put COO Dick Costolo in the CEO role. These shifts are the stuff of truly riveting journalism, but aren’t surprising.

Succession 9

Succession Leadership CEO COO 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

A 2012 industry survey asked top hospital leaders (CEOs, COOs, and others) what was necessary to improve the patient experience. Councils have assisted with redesigning waiting rooms, providing advice on improving the admission guide, and helping managers better understand communication needs in the hospital.

Health Care 14

Health Care COO Operations Storytelling 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

. “If all you’re thinking about is saving face, you’ve already made the negotiation and its aftermath into a battle,” says Margaret Neale, the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business and coauthor of Getting (More of) What You Want. So you didn’t land the big client.

COO 8

COO How To Long-term Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Once the business cycle shifted, however, and the focus of the role was more about managing a team and driving organic growth, he struggled to adapt. After working with a coach, a CFO realized that she was not particularly good at, nor did she much enjoy, managing people in a large, globally dispersed finance team.

360-Degree Feedback 8

360-Degree Feedback Execution Real Estate Executive Coaching 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Education crowdfunder DonorsChoose.org, which finances classroom-based projects, is a good model of success. He was promoted to COO within two years. Senior management encouraged the employee’s creativity and coached her on how to implement her idea. That promo code is now the leading driver of new donors.

Development 8

Development Mentor COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

To stitch it all together meaningfully, CMOs are increasingly expected to act as general managers with P&L or shared/shadow P&L responsibility that drive revenue growth. That helped account managers focus their pitch on the client’s business issues and build rapport. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

P&L 14

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 14

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

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

I repeatedly hear from young entrepreneurs that, as fund managers come in, they introduce too many controls for cash flows, income projections, budgeting, risk analysis, financial modeling – the list is endless. As AngelList COO Kevin Laws points out , “The business model exists to serve the mission, not the other way around.”

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Core Competence COO Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

This career advice from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg makes good sense based on research. Just as lack of consensus around finances can doom a marriage, lack of support from one''s spouse can effectively sink a career. Career planning Gender Managing yourself' "The most important career choice you''ll make is who you marry."

Career 8

Career COO Conference Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Aubrey Merrin, the store manager, met him at the door. "Mr. Aubrey had transferred from the Coe's up in Flowing Wells, where he'd been the store manager for 10 years. When Stan started as an assistant manager in 1984, the same year Coe's went public, Terry had expected him to work harder than everyone else to prove his worth.

Case Study 13

Case Study Marketing Real Estate Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

That’s why, after years of operating without support staff (it’s been just me and my COO), I’ve recently hired a 24-year-old, Morgan, and given him the title of Director of Execution and Evolution. And I’m teaching him what it takes to build and run a business — from finances to operations to projections.

CEO 8

CEO Learning-by-Doing COO Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

These are important traits, but it’s equally important for managers to stand down and listen up. In 2004, Mike Colwell was promoted to manage a team of five directors, all of whom he’d worked with previously. When his managers came in, the various electronics on his desk created distractions and interruptions.

How To 8

How To Case Study Charan Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

He led the finance team. She reported to the head of sales, who reported to the COO, and she and Brad rarely interacted at work. They managed to keep the fledgling relationship secret for three weeks. But the main reason management wants Claudia there is so she can see what you do up on stage. Brad: Fun night.

Case Study 8

Case Study Conference Hotels COO 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

I was so confident in her idea that I convinced my former university professor husband to act as COO for the start-up, and we invested not only encouragement, but cash. Notwithstanding the fact that print journalism was already on the wane, I thought she had a good idea for an underrepresented topic in the women's lifestyle space.

Due Diligence 15

Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 15